st. george/president's cup

valentine's day

Valentine's Day is not really a "lovers" holiday when you have little kids. It's more of a Class Party/Exchange Valentine Cards with friends day. Which is totally fine with us. Tim hates Valentine's Day anyway. He thinks that he's such a "hopeless romantic" that he doesn't need commercialism dictating when he will give his woman flowers or chocolates. I think he just uses that as an excuse to get out of celebrating the holiday.  I love any excuse to celebrate.  Either way, we always have a traditional Valentine Breakfast complete with red food and gifts for the kiddos.  Then we send the boys off to school with their Valentine's to exchange and I make last minute preparations for class parties.    
  

We did some fun Minute To Win It games in Payton's class this year.  The kids had a lot of fun!

Check out my friend's "daughters" box (pretty sure she did all the work)...name the movie?!  Loved it!

After a long day of entertaining kids and sorting through all the love notes after school, Tim, the hopeless romantic that he is, succumbed to the holiday and surprised me with some yummy perfume and this sweet gesture.  Ahhh, maybe it is still a "lovers" holiday after all!

six months old

These faces pretty much explain it all.  He loves to eat, chew on things, smile, play with his toys and hang with his brothers.  Nobody can get him to laugh harder than his big brothers.  He loves them!  Crew has been healthy and happy.  He is 27 inches long (75th percentile) and 16 pounds (40th percentile).  He loves to sit up on the floor and play with toys.  He does not love his stomach so he refuses to roll over.  The only time he will roll over is if you put him on his stomach.  He is such an easy going baby and is just happy to be along for the ride, which is a blessing because that is usually what he is doing all the time!

parker's 7th birthday

Parker, Parker, Parker knows how much I can't stand Sponge Bob Absolute-Nonsense-No-Redeeming-Values-Whatsoever Square Pants, but insisted and-there-was-absolutely-no-talking-him-out-of-it this was the party for him.  Of course, being the nice mom that I am, rolled with the theme and tried not to roll my eyes at the constant mention of that name for a few weeks.  We sent out "Message In A Bottle" invitations to his friends and turned our basement into "Bikini Bottom."  I have to say that it ended up being a super fun party.  Parker has so many awesome friends and they all get along so well!  It was such a fun afternoon of celebrating.

Parker's actual birthday was on Sunday.  We made him a poster and decorated his room.  He loved the surprise when he woke up!  We had a fun little birthday party with our family before church and then we celebrated with our extended family after church. 

We love our Parky-Park-Parkerson so much!  He is an absolute joy in our family.  He is our little peacemaker.  He is an amazing big brother and takes such good care of Crew.  He adores all little kids and has so much fun with his little cousins.  He is fun to be around.  He loves to play.  He does awesome cartwheels.  He is a fantastic soccer player.  He is very good at video games and building lego sets.  He loves school and reading.  He is so accepting and loving of everyone.  We could go on and on about all the things we love, but you get the point.  He's pretty much awesome!

Happy Birthday Parker! 

junior jazz

We had another successful junior jazz season...