Happy Mother's Day!

What is a mother

A heart that can hear

every unspoken need,

Wisdom to know

when to quietly lead,

Hands that reach out,

always helping and sharing

A mother is caring!

Eyes that reflect

every joy that you find,

Arms to encircle,

but never to bind,

A talent for making

the most out of living

A mother is giving!

A voice that can soothe

or inspire or delight,

A smile that keeps shining

when things don't go right,

An angel God sends us

from Heaven above

A mother is nothing but

caring, giving and love.

Happy Mother's Day to all of you wonderful mother's!!!

We hope you all take the time to relax and enjoy your day.

You deserve it!

Go Parker Go

Parker these days loves to push anything that will move. He recently discovered he could push our ottomon around the house. I decided to see if I could get a ride while he was playing this game. As you can see he didn't mind a bit. I'm sure you are thinking now, is she lazy or a genius?

Hard At Work

Sorry it's been awhile since I've posted. We've been hard at work here building a deck onto the house. For years we have had a "lovely" concrete slab back there that we have called our patio. We decided a few weeks ago we had had enough of the dirt coming in the house from the dogs as well as the roughness of the concrete. So we built a deck. It's taken 2-3 weekends because we built it from scratch and we had a few postponings from rain. Wally put in alot of HARD labor. I helped during Parker's naps and once he went down for the night and our neighbor Ryan helped out some as well. I can happily say that we are about 95% done. We just have a spot Wally needs to customize to allow for our chimney to be emptied and then we just have to buy stuff for the deck. Yeah! We had a patio set that we've had for about 5 years and well about a month ago the wind lifted our umbrella and when it came back down it turned slightly and shattered our glass table. I'm not so sad though because I really wanted a new one. We weren't sure what the dogs would think of the deck either since they prefer to lye in the cool dirt if they can find a patch. Copper was particularly funny as we were working so I snapped some pics. of him.

Please don't take away my dirt!!!

Pretty, pretty please!!!
It's so hot and now that I don't have any dirt I must hide under the grill cover
The Deck!

Pool Time

Last weekend it was warm enough to bring out the Walmart pool :) Yes we had been working on the deck but as you can imagine when Parker wakes up from his naps I can't help much with the deck anymore. On this afternoon, Chase came over to play in the pool with Parker while Beth and I supervised. Ryan graciously helped Wally the rest of the day with the deck. His help was greatly appreciated.

Even Hurley wanted in on the action

I'm So Cute!

This is one of my new favorite pics so I had to share. No he is not quite walking in case the picture is misleading however he can stand alone for a few seconds and will walk if you hold just one of his hands. It'll be soon.

Apples Please!

Parker loves to eat and as you can see loves apples. He really wanted a taste of my apple this day so I cut off the skin and he went to town.

A Bath In The Sink?

We decided to give Parker a bubble bath in the sink for a change so we could get the bubbles nice and high. He had a good time however he soon discovered he could stand up in here too. What are we going to do with him?