Happy Easter

We had a fun week with Janelle and Meredith here and then after we got sick it kinda went downhill. Court got in on Friday and we had a fun time hanging out with him too. We enjoy the time we get to spend with our families and though it might be frustrating at times because you can't stand what some of them do, say or act, you smile and bear it and try to have fun. :)

Saturday after the last session of Conference for church, we got together with Court, Janelle, Meredith, Mom, Kari and Matt and dyed Easter Eggs! It was so fun! Here are pictures from this weekend.

Parker is set and ready to go!
Look at that...
So far so good!
Mom helped Parker. She would cup her hands around the cup and Parker would throw the eggs in the water. Mom's hands were dyed blue by the time we were done!
Meredith putting on stickers.
Oh Meredith!
Court, Mom and I dunno who else shrink wrapped the pictures around some of them and then Court got to dye one of those.
Hard at work!
Parker didn't get a nap...can you tell...
So tired...
Look at our eggs...
Aren't they pretty?
Miss Meredith
When we finished, Parker was ready for a nap!


The Easter Bunny Came!!

Meredith's Loot
Parker's Loot
Aunt Squirt helping Parker check out what the Easter Bunny Brought him...
Look at that...
He can climb up and down most furniture including Mom's bar height kitchen chairs (we discovered that today)
Time for the Easter Egg Hunt...Look I found one!
Meredith found lots...
Parker found about a 1/3 of what Meredith found, but no biggie! He doesn't care!
Still looking for eggs...
What's inside the plastic ones? (the Easter Bunny hid plastic ones with candy and the wooden ones that he hid for us when we were little)
What's in it dad?
Sup...
I told Meredith to sit in the chair so she wouldn't fall and this is how she reacted...
She was a little happier to see chocolate!!
See...
Parker Little Buddy
Yum! Chocolate! She gets it from her momma!!
Meredith got a lot of hair bows...
Meredith's eggs...
Checking stuff out....
Parker likes to pick on Aunt Squirt and never go to her, I suppose today he was feeling giving and decided to give her a short chance to hold him...

We hope everyone else had a wonderful Easter weekend as well!

No Good When We are Both Sick

Adam started feeling a lil under the weather Wednesday night as we headed to bed. I woke up Thursday feeling a lil under the weather myself. Needless to say we both stayed on the couches all day and did nothing. (I won't go into any detail for all of you how sick we really were - but let me just say you don't want whatever is going around and you wouldn't have wanted to be us.)

Mom ran to the store for us and picked up 7up, crackers and Powerade. I think I was finally able to take a sip or two of 7up around 6pm last night but I didn't want anything to do with food. Poor Parker had been eating Cheerios and Goldfish all day (not that he minds).

Mom came back to the rescue and picked up Parker to feed him dinner for us. I felt bad that I couldn't take care of Parker. I don't like not being able to take care of my little boy. She kept him about 3 hours for us and I slept while he was gone. Luckily we have a good little boy that plays well and doesn't need us to entertain him! If it had only been me sick or just Adam sick, we probably could have taken care of him. But since it was both of us it was a little hard. Thanks Mom and Uncle Matt and Aunt Squirt and whoever else helped with Parker!

Houston Zoo

Tuesday Adam randomly took off work for a personal day to spend time with us! haha - I think he really wanted to rest, but instead we headed to Houston to the Zoo with Janelle and Meredith. Awna D let us borrow her car so we could fit two car seats and 3 adults comfortably. P.S. The Houston Zoo is quite expensive. $11 for adults and $8 for like 2-12 or something like that. Luckily Parker was free, but still! Somebody loves us enough to have given us money for the tickets-Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! (Tip for $2 off each ticket stop at a Fiesta Grocery Store and buy them there...)

Welcome to the zoo!!
Parker was excited for his first trip to the zoo!
Our tickets!
The map, Janelle, and Meredith's tickets!
Look at all the animals dad...
Sea Lion

Zeebra

Janelle and Meredith
They had a playground and slide for the kids! They loved it.
These are for Hunter!


Racoon - playing dead maybe? :)
Bald Eagle
Parker did not want anything to do with the eagles nest until...
he spotted the eggs!
Meredith's Turn
Do you see the turtle?
Weird looking bird
Parker liked the sea otters


You could go through the meerkat tunnels and pop your head up in these dome things. Parker wouldn't go up, but Meredith did as long as Janelle was with her.

Do you see the bat on the right side of the fruit?
Meredith got to brush a goat.
Parker got to pet a goat
Aunt Squirt is envious of his long eyelashes.
Meredith was ready for a nap...
The carousel fixed her right up though.

The bear looked mad!
Check out how big their horns are!
Okapi - half zeebra, half girafee - not really but google it...you'll see
Look Dad...Look at that one...
Elephants!
Can you tell it was past naptime? :)
Giraffe
Giraffes
Leopards

We had a lot of fun!