Our Year In Pictures...Well most of it

Get ready for a picture overload. (: Also, the pictures start with this Christmas first because I forgot blogger loads them backwards.

I am totally in love....

with my nephew!

It's he the cutest! He also happens to be the most good natured baby ever (I'm not biased or anything).

And speaking of cute, last night Parker told me that he wanted to marry me when he grew up. I was tucking him into his fort (because it's so much more fun than sleeping in a bed) when he said it. I smiled and chuckled a little and he gave me this "I'm serious, mom" look. What a sweet kid. (:

Parker's Kindergarten Graduation

Parker graduated from Kindergarten on May 20th 2011! I was so proud! I might have even cried a little bit. (: He's just getting so grown up. He worked really hard this year and learned so much. He had a super fanstatic teacher that he and I both loved and lots of good friends to play with. He even rode the bus home everyday with some of the older girls in our neighborhood. I told him that I could drive him home but he really wanted to ride the bus. That's my boy. Super independent. Everyone came to see him graduate. All of the grandmas and grandpas and even aunt Jamie, uncle Adam, and baby Steven. It sure made Parker feel loved. He's not entirely sure he wants to be in 1st grade next year but I think he'll warm up to the idea this summer.

Easter 2011

The kids had fun hunting for eggs at my dad's house.


This was the best I could do for Easter pictures before church on Sunday.


Parker won this huge chocolate bunny from his bus driver. He was pretty excited. (:

The rest of 2010

For anyone who may still be checking this blog, here are a few pictures of what we spent the last few months of 2010 doing...

Labor Day

On Labor Day we went to the plane museum at Hill Airforce Base and then to the Ogden Dinosaur Park. The park was sort of Parker's holy grail. Life-sized dinosaurs everywhere. He was in heaven.

Our Trip to Moab

Last week we headed out to Moab on a little family vacation. We got to hike around in Arches National Parker and Cayonlands National Park. We even camped (for one night). We aren't brave enough to do more than that with the kids. One night is enough. The second night we got a hotel room (my idea, very smart). Parker was in heaven running around everywhere and climbing on everything. Makenna wasn't so sure and wanted to be carried a lot. It's so gorgeous out there! We are lucky to live in such a beautiful part of the county. On our way back home we stopped at the dinosaur musuem in Price. We had the whole place to ourselves! We even took some pictures of "snuggle duck". For those of you who don't know him, he's been Makenna's best friend basically since birth. He goes everywhere with her. Even throwing him in the wash is a big deal for Makenna and it always involves tears. He's pretty much had the yellow loved off of him, his legs are coming apart, and his beak has had to be repaired several times but he's Makenna's favorite thing. Of course, he came on our trip and we decided to snap a few shots of this important memeber of our family.(: