Some Randoms...

Last weekend there was a huge parade and gathering for the Ducks football team since they had such an amazing season. We headed down to check out the festivities!

This is Parker's favorite sitting position. A future track star? Hurdles?

And thanks to cousin Claire for my awesome dress!

Parker now loves blueberries...obviously.

We all went out bowling last weekend...I think we have a future league bowler on our hands, Parker loved it! Well, she loved all the lights and brightly colored balls...so we'll see if it develops into something or not!

This was attempt #4 of trying to get them both to look at me at the same time...Aaron's just as bad, if not worse, than Parker.

A Good Start to 2011!

Happy New Year! New Year's Eve was a nice, low key, fun evening. We went out to dinner with friends downtown and Parker was such a trooper. She just chilled and eventually fell asleep in Aaron's arms. She must of been exhausted from her big meal she had before we went out!

New Year's Day was spent brewing Aaron's first batch of home brew! An Irish Red Ale. We can't wait to try it out!!

Parker is officially getting her first tooth in! You can sort of see it popping through on the bottom. So far it doesn't seem to be bothering her all that much, let's hope it stays that way!

Christmas 2010!

This year for Christmas my family all came out to Eugene...even Jaime surprised us all (except Aaron- he knew!) by flying in on Thursday night. It was a great long weekend filled with a lot of presents (Parker has an entire new wardrobe), cooking, board games and hanging out!

I bought Aaron a home brew kit (finally- he says, he's been wanting one for a few years). So Friday he is going to start brewing his first batch!

Aaron got me a fisheye lens for my camera! Jaime, Dave, Aaron, our friend Bill and I started off Christmas Day by hiking up Spencer's Butte! Great way to start off the day, didn't feel so quilty eating all that turkey, ham, stuffing, mashed potatoes and pie that evening. Grandma Sue and Parker spent the morning going through her pile of new clothes she scored!Parker couldn't wait to get out of her Christmas dress...she's a casual type of girl!
I gave Aaron a bean bag toss game! A friend of mine made the boards but we still needed to make the bean bags. Aaron took to the sewing machine with the supervision of Sue. Parker fully enjoyed watching Daddy sew!
We were a little down after everyone left so we decided to change in to our tutu and cheer up!

5K

I did it. I ran my first ever organized race! A 5k up in Portland called the Holiday Half. It was a blast! Aaron and Parker ran it with me, as well as our friends Mike and Rochelle. Our friend Annie ran the half marathon. All in all it was a great way to spend a Saturday morning. Parker did great during it! Aaron pushed her in the stroller and she just looked around smiling the entire time. Whew!

Here comes Annie down the home stretch!All finishers! Parker is wiped out after her big run.

Football and Squash

Living in Eugene you can't help but become a Ducks fan. Our football team is heading to the BCS championship! It's quite the big deal here...so for the final game of the season Parker wore some special shoes and we had a bunch of friends over to watch the big game!This is our friend Kristena and her little girl Starra...Parker and her will be best friends!Parker is now old enough to start trying new foods! So far we've tried carrots, bananas and pears. All of which she pretty much likes. Then one day we tried squash. The pictures speak for them selves.She actually threw up right after this, but I will spare you that pretty picture! So on to happier things, like....tub tub time!

Rice Cereal, Thanksgiving and a Tree

This is a series dedicated to how much Parker loves rice cereal...

Thanksgiving 2010!! This year we had all the Thanksgiving festivities over at our friend's, Niall and Ali, house. Aaron prepared the turkey and it was his best one yet!

Parker loves tin foil...

This year there were 16 1/2 (Parker) of us at the great feast. All together everyone is either from North Carolina, North Dakota, Minnesota, Vermont, California, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Connecticut and Oregon

On Black Friday I got up at 4:30am (well Parker got me up), picked up a friend of mine and we headed to Best Buy lookin for a deal. And I found one and bought the camera I really wanted! These are all pictures taken with the new cam. Love it!

On Saturday we went out on our annual "Tree Hunt" for our Christmas tree. Parker loved getting out up in the snow!

This is the one! A little sparse, but we'll take it

Once we got it home we started a fire, turned on the Christmas music and started decorating. I LOVE Christmas season!

Polar (aka Whitey) LOVES the Christmas tree! As soon as we were finished decorating it, this is where he curled up and fell asleep.