Summer Fun

Tim and I have both had lots of stuff going on this summer. After getting everything moved out of our house in Washington, I went on a trip to Florida with my mom to see her family, while at the same time, Tim flew out to Vermont to do his residency week for his graduation from Norwich Univeristy's MBA program. As of August 17, he will be completely done with all MBA course work!!!!!! After both of our trips, Tim flew out to Washington for a month for work. He was there over the fourth of July, which turned out great. Kelly came home and his girlfriend Amy came up to Oak Harbor so we could all meet her. Kelly definitely snagged himself a great girl, she was liked by all. Now as the end of the summer is nearing, we are very excited to be closing on our new home in Missouri tomorrow and will be even more excited when the movers bring all our stuff to the house on Friday...let's hope nothing is missing or broken. (Always my biggest fears with movers.) Below are some of the pictures of our fun times this summer.

Update time!

Okay, so a lot has changed in our world in the last few weeks. I finally moved out to Missouri on July 26. Tim was at the airport to pick me up and then scadaddle over to the rental car place to pick up a rental car since the Jetta is in transit and hopefully here soon! My first few nights here we stayed at an Extended Stay America. I would like to refer to this place as the ghetto motel. I had stayed there a few times before with Tim, but never really realized how bad it was. Poor guy got eaten alive by bugs a few nights before I got there. He looked like he had the chicken pocs. Poor guy.

On July 31, we closed on the new house, and officially became home owers again. We do love the new house though, so it is well worth it. Although, we are still waiting on the sod to be put into our yard. The dirt has either been too wet, or then the weather is too hot for the sod people to put down sod. I figure if it is going to stay right near 100 degrees outside I would rather them wait so I don't have a mondo water bill.

The movers came last week on Friday to bring all our stuff. Now, my next question is: Why if something is brought to the attention of the packers that it is a high value item is it not packed more carefully??? Two of my high valued item articles have been either damaged or broken? Which of course irritates the heck out of me, because stupid things I could have cared less about making the move were packed better. Although, I must say that the cheap Walmart entertainment set that Tim bought before I even met him finally bit the dust with this move...I was estatic about that! I swear, it was the cheap piece of furniture that would never break for a long time.

Now, I am officially a house wife, but hopefully not for long. I have a job interview on Monday with a dentist in a neighboring town. So, until then, I am getting all the odds and ends done, as well as unpacking. Today I have the ADT guy coming to install our new security system, as well as the blind lady coming to measure blinds for our house. Tim is busy working, finishing up his last two weeks of school, as well as in the process of joining an adult softball team

Bumbo

I took Parker to get his picture taken today and then he spit up all over his shirt, so he hung out shirtless for a while today. Look at that belly! On another note, he has finally taken a little bit to his Bumbo chair. It used to be that he would scream his head off the second we put him in it. Now, he plays for a little bit before getting fussy. We are making progress!!!

CONGRATS Timmy!

Tim ran his first full Marathon today in a time of 4 hours and 36 minutes. It was the St. Louis Rock and Roll Marathon. He feels good, although a little sore from the run. Parker and I went down to watch him finish, along with our friends the Caseys. Sugar Ray was the end stage band playing, so we all got to listen to them.

Parker did not think waiting for daddy to finish the run was so much fun.

Pumpkin Patch

We took Parker to the pumpkin patch last weekend with some other friends and their kiddos. Parker had a blast running around like a crazy kid. Above is us on the hay ride and below is Parker actually being cooperative for a picture with the pumpkins.

Parker and Baby Brayden

Our friends Dan and Lauren came over for dinner Friday night with their new little guy, Brayden. Parker absolutely adores baby Brayden and is all over the poor little kid. He gave Brayden hugs and kiss, and would go up to him and tickle him. Parker even loved his baby car seat, and decided he needed to sit in it and play in it. Brayden was born May 8, so he is exactly two years and a few days younger than Parker.

Oh yeah, Parker even held baby Brayden. This is his first time holding a baby all on his own, and he was a champ at it!

Parker's Birthday Party

Opening his first present.

Getting ready to sing Happy Birthday.

He got his Buzz Lightyear and Woody toys and couldn't have been happier!

Yeah! He got a turtle sandbox from Aunt Susie, Uncle Ron, and Hopie. I had the same one as a kid.

Easter

Some Randoms

One afternoon, Parker kept pulling his bibs out of the drawer and insisting I keep putting them on him, until he had all the clean bibs we had on. This is the result.

Double Trouble!

Goofing around.

Playing with daddy.

Back Splash

Tim and I had our back splash put in in the kitchen finally this past weekend. This is the view of the side of the kitchen.

Here is the main part.

...and here is the rest of it.

Parker Update

He is finally starting to actually look at the camera once in a while and say "cheese" to me! Granted, he has his milk cup dangling from his mouth, but hey, it is a start.

I was watching our neighbor's eight year old daughter on Friday, and Parker snagged her DS. He just liked pushing the buttons. This expensive little toy kept him entertained for quite some time.

Reading with daddy.

Some days the weather is actually nice enough to go outside and play in.

Blowing bubbles with daddy. He loves to have the bubbles floating over, and then he likes to say "Pop! Pop! Pop!" which he got from one of his Sesame Street books.

Where's Parker?

Peek-a-boo! Here he is!

Graceland

I have been wanting to go check out Graceland for a while now. Since we are only about five hours away, Tim and I decided to go a few weekends ago. So, we left Parker with our friends the Caseys overnight, and headed on over to Memphis. We stayed at the Heartbreak hotel, and toured entire mansion, which wasn't as big as I expected, and got to see all things Elvis. There was a car museum dedicated to his cars, and fashion museum with all of his clothes, and his two planes were open for tour. It was a pretty neat tour, something I can now check off my bucket list for sure.
It was insane the amount of gold and platinum records Elvis has received. There were walls upon walls lined with them, and he is still receiving them since his records are still selling.

In front of the famous pink caddy!

A few randoms...

Parker likes to climb in the lego bucket, but refuses to let the milk cup go.

He likes his sit and spin, but still has some trouble figuring it out.

Here he is pushing his toy. Notice the milk cup dangling from his mouth...anyone noticing a trend with Parker and his milk cup?

I just couldn't resist taking a picture of this cutie pie!

The Zoo

Last week, a few of the neighbors, Parker, and I all went to the St. Louis Zoo. I have now learned that I will become a member there, because Parker loved it so much. His favorite part was the children's zoo, but he enjoyed the other parts as well, especially the Primate House. He loves monkeys! He also liked seeing all the turtles and snakes in the reptile house. If you ask him what the snake does with his tongue, Parker will stick his tongue in and out.

This is when Parker saw his first big animal of the day. I believe it was the rhinos.

Playing on the jeep with Hayden in the children's zoo.

Petting the guinea pigs.

All tuckered out from a hard day of playing at the zoo.

Papa, Papa, Papa!

Tim's parents came to visit a few weeks ago, and Parker was all about Tim's dad. Although we referred to him as Grandpa Ron, Parker quickly decided he was going to call Ron Papa. So, Papa it is! Tim and I got a kick out of Parker and Papa playing together, and how Parker would just crawl right up next to Papa at the dinner table. I love the above picture, because you can see the smile on both of their faces as they were playing with the train.
Parker loves reading books! Here he is reading with Papa, but he also had several books that grandma read him as well.

Tim, his parents and Parker.

One of the many times Parker crawled up next to Papa to eat.