Kangaroo Time with Da Da, Pool Time, Camo Time!

Saturday morning, I woke up to make a bottle so my mom could feed Parker before she left. Then I went back to bed when they left town... when I woke up around 10:30 to feed Parker again, this is what I woke up to.

This is - without a doubt - my awesome, incredibly blessed life... in a picture.



Jack loved having an empty spot in the bed when I got up :)

Saturday afternoon, we headed to the pool after Park's 2:00 feeding. We got up there around 3 and about 4:30, we started to hear thunder... before we even got a chance to get Parker in the water! Poor baby :( He really enjoyed his time underneath the clubhouse deck where it's shaded - and a nice fan right above him for his entertainment and to keep him cool :)

Hey mom!

After pool, time, we had bath time! Even though he was in the shade, I still lathered him up in sunscreen so a bath was inevitable! Last week, we got this sweet robe from my friend Laurel! It is his only robe and he loves it :) How precious is he? This is taken in our kitchen sink - a.k.a. Parker's bathtub.

See my tongue!

Sunday, we found out we would be getting a visit from Chris' sister and her husband, Amy and Jeffrey! We THOUGHT Campbell (Camo) was coming, too so we dressed Parker in his camo for Camo! Well they tricked us and didn't bring Campbell :( But we had a fun time hanging with A and J anyway! Sunday early afternoon, Whit, Doug and Kayley came over for some crock pot barbecue I made overnight. YUM!

Douggie hanging out with the babies :)

AND - one quick note - I don't know what I would do without my awesome cousin living in my neighborhood! My sweet cousin Caitlin and Rena moved in a month or two after us - about 5 houses away from us! And we have FULLY taken advantage of them.... Cait's come over to let the dogs out for me one afternoon when I was running late. They have made me dinner on one of my night's without Chris. AND - on Sunday morning when I woke up to find that my crock pot had turned itself off overnight - YIKES! - Caitlin comes to the rescue when I call her early in the morning (well around 10:30) to see if she had a crock pot I could use! Well - Chris walks down to get it and about 2 seconds after he walks in the door - our crock pot decides to turn back on - WEIRD! Anyway - EVERYONE should have a cousin as a neighbor - it's pretty awesome! :) THANKS CAIT AND RENA!

And here is a video of Parker THIS morning before I left for work. Chris always feeds him his morning bottle cause I've gotta hit the road for work. But I normally wake him up right before I leave and it is by far my most favorite time of day! He is so sweet :)

Nana and Hoppy Visit - AGAIN!

Parker JUST saw his Nana and Hoppy last weekend, so you can imagine his surprise when we find out Friday afternoon that they are coming AGAIN! Talk about a last minute trip! :)

Parker went to the doctor - AGAIN - on Friday because his eye was starting to swell up again and let out a whole bunch of yucky white gunk. It's not infected - thank goodness - but the doctor did give us some drops to keep it from getting infected since his little hands are constantly rubbing his eyes.

ANYWAY - last night - we took Nana and Hoppy to Cinco after the doctor's appointment. Here are a few pix of us at Cinco.

FIRST POOL TRIP WITH KAYLEY!

Last night after dinner, Parker and Kayley got together at Whit's neighborhood pool! Park's been to our neighborhood pool several times, but it's always in the heat of the day and we keep him under the shade in his stroller. But last night, he was able to hang out in the water for the first time! It was Kayley Lane's VERY FIRST trip to the pool and she wasn't too sure. But she got used to it in plenty of time and splashed lots of water in Parker's face - which he of course loved - and today he has an awful eye infection... Hmmmm.... maybe no more pool visits until next summer :)


Best friends - Cousins - At the Pool :) Check out Kayley's sassy bikini!

The Appenfelder Family!

Mommy and the P-ster! Only our precious little boy could sport the seersucker bahthing suit :)

Whitney introducing Parker to the water!

I think the pool wore them out just a bit!

Kayley was OUT!

Nose Hair Trimmers!

Some cute pictures I got over this past weekend!

Kayley's a grabber! She wouldn't let go of her tub!

My neice, Kayley, after her bath :)

Parker just being his precious self!

Whit and Kayley at our house on Sunday afternoon - Kayley is trying on her new sundress that matches a shirt her daddy got, too!

Kayley and Parker playing on the floor on Father's Day.

Kayley trying to walk...

My parents dog, KC, trying to stay cool!

Doug - enjoyin his father's day on my couch!

Nana and Parker hanging out on Father's Day at our house.

On Saturday, we drove up to Dahlonega and ate at the Smith House! YUM!

The Appenfelder's at The Smith House!

The Smith House - in pictures - TOO MUCH DELICIOUS FOOD!

A random picture I took Friday afternoon in front of Whitney's house - I can't remember the last time I saw a hot air balloon! I was excited - Chris thought I was dumb.

And if you're curious as to why the title of this post is "nose hair trimmers", that is because Parker got his father nose hair trimmers for Father's Day :) What a sweet little boy!

Baby Shower # 5!

Saturday was the 5th and final baby shower of my BridgePointe Church friends! Sarah is due in August! Yay! All the babies are almost here!!! Here are some pix from her shower! YAY FOR SARAH and her baby girl - whose name is yet to be told!

Rachael - due in July - Coty and Diane!

Sarah and Chelsea - you can't even tell S is preggers - not fair!

The watermelon baby carriage!!!!!!!!!!!! I love making these :)

The Spread...

So funny that my good friend from college Laurel (sorority sister and co-worker at Ga Tech) knows Sarah, too! Her husband and Sarah's husband are great friends - it was fun to see her and catch up! HEY LA!

Parker Smiles

Check out our precious chunky smiley baby! :) XO-Hillary

New Videos and Poor Baby Thighs!

Here are a few cute videos we took of Parker this past weekend... again... they are probably pretty boring to everyone except us :) Sorry!










And yesterday, our POOR POOR baby had his immunizations and he got 2 shots and an oral vaccine. Our doctor is a genius because instead of giving him all 4 of his shots, they have combined 2 of the shots into ONE, and they made one of them into a liquid that tastes like honey! So - what we thought was going to be 4 shots - quickly turned into only 1 needle stick in each thigh. He absolutely screamed his head off but only for a few minutes and then he fell asleep and pretty much slept for several hours after that. However, when he woke up ready for his 7:30 feeding, he was like a volcano erupting and I have never heard the child scream like he did last night. His face was BRIGHT red and his was screaming so hard he was choking. Poor baby! We called the doctor and they took nearly 40 minutes to call back and by this time he had calmed down a LITTLE but we were definitely still worried. After chatting with the nurses for 20 minutes, she decided to have us talk directly to the on call doctor. The doctor said to definitely give him some Tylenol and how much to give him and how often. After the Tylenol, he had his last bottle beautifully and then he fell right to sleep and slept his normal 8-9 hours through the night! Well, after he put him down, we were chatting in our living room and I was reading over our discharge papers we got from the office and we are so dumb. The discharge papers said exactly what to do if your child got cranky, how much Tylenol to give him, how often, and what symptoms to look for. Oh well - we just made our sweet little one wait it out a little longer than he should have - poor thing! Anyway - here are his pictures of his double whammy at the doctor :) Poor little innocent baby thighs!

I don't know why this is up side down - but I don't feel like taking the time to fix it:)

This picture is of Parker after his ONE MONTH appointment and he got just the one shot. Check out the differences in these little thighs!

Late 20's

So - one month from today (July 18) - I will be turning 26. Which I am beginning to realize sounds much older than 25. 25 - you're in your mid-20s. 26 - welcome to your LATE 20s people!



So funny - one year ago - I had a total melt down with Chris one afternoon. I was about to turn 25 and I had a mini mid-life crisis. I was worried that if we didn't start trying to have kids soon, I would get too old and then have problems getting pregnant. I was worried that I was 25 and he was 27 and we still weren't even close to being able to buy our first home. I was scared that I was 25 and he was 27 and he still wasn't done with school. Of course - none of this really prompted us to start trying for kids... we definitely were not ready for kiddos yet... we had a perfect little check list in our minds that we wanted to check off one by one before we started to try to have a baby. Well - God just took that perfect little check list and tore it into tiny peices and threw it in our faces!!! Because literally - one month later - we found out we were pregnant. Another 2 months after that - we purchased our first home. And last week - we paid Chris' 2nd to last tuition EVER to Southern Poly State University. It's getting close! Yay!



So - besides turning 26 and officially making my way into my late 20s - I am pretty confident in saying that I have nothing to worry about or be scared about this year. All the things I was silly enough to worry about last year - I finally gave them all to God - and he gave me the most perfect little baby - the most wonderful home - and an incredible husband who is the absolute hardest worker ever who is NEARLY done with this school career! :)



"Don't worry about anything. Instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all He has done." Phil. 4:6

DOUBLE CHINS :)

Last weekend, Mimi and Papa came to stay with us! The entire family had been in Waycross the week before, but Chris and I opted to stay home in order to get some MUCH needed rest and to keep Parker on his AWESOME schedule of sleeping through the night that we VERY much LOVE :) Getting off schedule for us means losing lots of sleep.... Not good :)

Here is Parker with the stuffed puppy my manager at Ruth's Chris got him! How cute! I SO wish I would have gotten a picture of him with this 2 months ago - Parker was SERIOUSLY so small - you could barely see him when he was cuddled with the dog!

Saturday night, we went out to CINCO with Mimi, Papa and my sister and her family :) This is me and Kayley Lane - the one thing she and Parker have in common is the double chin! I never thought double chins would be so precious!

Mimi and Papa with Parker inside the Gelato place!

The Appenfelder Family!

Us with the Hulls :) Yes - I am totally burnt in this picture... Chris and I went to the pool for a few hours BY OURSELVES on Saturday while Mimi and Papa watched Parker James. Well - it was 3:30 and we were only going for an hour and I guess I remembered to put sun screen on my face, but I did not on my chest, arms, legs. And yes - I paid the price of stupidity. Ugh...

Oh and I just thought this picture was hilarious... this is all the milk I have pumped and saved in our freezer since April. Now that my milk supply is getting on the low side, we are having to reach in and use a few frozen bags a day! I am SO glad all that pumping is finally paying off! I was organizing it in our freezer last night so that we could be sure we were using all the oldest milk first. And it is seriously piled 10-15 stacks high here - unbelievable...

New Videos of the Parkster!

I'm sure you'll all find these incredibly boring :) Sorry!

Our little smiley burrito!

Parker LOVES getting all bundled up in his Snuggle Me every night :) We call him our little burrito!





Parker LOVES his floor activity mat from his little girlfriend Miley Lenzen!

Sunday morning, we just stayed in bed and waited for Parker to smile at us!

While we were playing with his squeaky blocks on Saturday, Parker found his foot! His foot was way more interesting for a few minutes :)

Buddie has such a hard time staying away from Parker's squeaky toys :) He looks miserable.
All day on Saturday, Jack sat in this spot trying to catch the flies that have found their way in our house :) I think he was successful a few times!