Blessed.: BridgePointe Friends

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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Journey's Party!

Our sweet friends, Coty and Jeffrey Melvin, are adopting a precious boy from Ethiopia! (Jeffrey is Chris' old room mate who actually married us!) There was a surprise party for them in Woodstock last weekend so we spent part of our awesome sunny afternoon celebrating with them - the very special day that is coming soon when they bring their son home from Africa! They will name their son, Journey. You can go here to see their blog about their adoption adventures. We are so happy for them and can't wait to meet Journey soon!

Park's friend, Aislynn who was born just a week or two before he was, was also at the party and they were super cute together :) This reminds me of a "first awkward date" picture.

Holding hands :)

Everyone wore their "adoption" tees we bought to help support the Melvin family!

Beautiful Kim and baby Aislynn!

He felt like King of the World on top of this rock!

Football time! And just for the record - he will never be allowed to play football.

Chris and Parker with Jeffrey!

When we got home - we spent the evening on our back porch playing with Park's new sand and water table he got for Christmas! It was the first day warm enough to play with it! He's now obsessed and wants to always be outside playing with it! :)

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Welcoming Baby Will - SOON!

My sweet friend, Kaci, is pregnant and is expecting ANY day now! Very exciting. Kaci and I went through our first pregnancies together (along with the rest of the Fab Five) and Kaci and I actually work together now too, so you can imagine we have become pretty close. Anyway - I was thrilled to go to her baby shower a few weeks ago to celebrate her baby boy joining the family soon! Kim was able to come as well and bring Aislynn so we got the 3 Muskateers together again. They are so funny. Here is a collage of all of them together over the past 2 years. You can click on the picture to see it in full size. These kiddos are precious together.

A few weeks after Kaci's shower, Kaci had to have some tests done so Emma got to spend the night with us! Parker and EG are so cute together - they had their own little conversations going the entire evening and into the next day :)

STORY TIME WITH DADA!

They were cracking each other up in the car :)

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

The Fab 5 - From the beginning

I had the awesome opportunity go to through my pregnancy with some awesome Christian ladies from our old church in Woodstock, BridgePointe Church. At first - it was just Kaci. Then Kim. Then me! HOW AWESOME! Because our due dates were within a month or so of eachother, Kaci, Kim and I really formed an awesome friendship through advice/complaining/exhausting emails from the very beginning of our pregnancy - and we keep them going even now! During our pregnancies, we were going through the same things at the same time. And now, our little ones are going through the exact same stages at the same time. It is so fun to keep up with one another and know what everyone is going through! It's hilarious to read back through emails from the pregnancies complaints - then to our baby blues that we encouraged one another through - now to how we are all dealing with the inevitible TEMPER TANTRUMS that have so awesome-ly graced our offspring. I can still remember the few days after Parker was born when I couldn't stop crying, and I was really worried that something was wrong with me - when Kim and Kaci came to my rescue and we all talked through what we were going through - which helped me get back to normal after having Parker. So - anyway! A few months after we all found out we were pregnant, we found out Rachael and Sarah were pregnant, too! We have ALL gotten together throughout our pregnancies AND throughout the past year and a half of our little one's lives! It's been a blast and I look forward to the MANY more years of pictures of all the littles ones!

Kaci is already working on the next round - but I think we will sit this one out :)

No more babies for awhile for us!

In the beginning - there were 3 :)

Then there were 5!

Parker and Emma Grace only live a few miles apart so they got to meet when Parker was only a week old!

Friday, October 15, 2010

Melvin House of Fun

A few weeks ago, we took the long trek over to Woodstock to visit our awesome friends, The Melvins. They are in the process of adopting a baby from Africa and they had this money-raising garage sale a few weeks ago that we couldn't go in person - but don't you worry - I shopped my heart out. Coty sent me pictures of different areas of the sale and I picked out what I wanted! That is my kind of garage sale shopping! Needless to say, I am dunzo with Christmas shopping for Parker - nothing like USED toys that cost pennies :) AND I got to help the awesome Melvins raise money to help them through their adoption process! I also got one thing for ME!

I luh-HUV this lamp!

Anyway - we actually had a great time visiting with our awesome friends thanks to their JUMPY HOUSE! Yes - they have a jumpy house IN their house! It folds up into this little tiny cube but when you unfold and plug in - voila! - you have a jumpy house! They got it as a gift but it cost like $150 and I'm thinking one may be in need in the future. NOTHING has EVER kept our child occupied and HAPPY for so long - and also tired him out completely for an enjoyable ride home :)

Parker, Riley and Rowen in the best invention ever :)

Ro and Park

How he got out of the jump house!

Monday, September 14, 2009

Lake Martin Weekend Video

For some reason the video isn't working all the time on the post below so here is a link to see the video....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vlo3jMjLZE

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Labor Day @ Lake Martin!

It's taken me all week to get this video together! I work on it 5 minutes here and there - normally while I'm feeding Parker in the evenings! But I finally got it together!

Last weekend, our sweet sweet friends, Chelsea and Noel, invited us to Chles' parents lake house in Alabama. And I cannot even begin to tell you how much fun we had. We hadn't had something that resembled a vacation in over a year! You could say this was a much needed few days away :)

You know you have some friends that LOVE you when they invite you, your kid, AND your two dogs! :)

Check out how much fun we had!

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Parker's Angels!

Parker and his little girlfriends had a play date last Saturday! Here they are when they were about 3 weeks old, 5 weeks old and 7 weeks old.

Emma Grace (oldest), Aislynn (middle) and Parker (youngest).

And here they are this past weekend! Same order - but EG is a little more than 5 months, Aislynn is about 4.5 months and Parker is 4 months. And is it just me - but does it look like Parker is a COMPLETELY different child? He looks NOTHING like he used to! Maybe I got him mixed up with another baby at the doctor or something.... Hmmmm...

Tummy time! Park, Ais and EG

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

BUSY WEEKEND!

Parker being the little man he is... just chillin' in his glider :)

Hey mom! May I help you?

On Saturday we had a few of our friends and family come over to celebrate my big birthday - 26! Jac helped me blow out my candles. Don't know what I would have done without him! Not sure if he blew them out with spit or air :)

Parker and I at my birthday party... bless his little heart... he got stung by some sort of insect at the party so I was a bit worried most of the day... He's fine now though! :)

My sisters and I - in matching bathing suit cover ups! Yes - we are this dorky. Whitney - the oldest - with Kayley. Ashley - the middle - with Jac in her arms and Miller in her belly - and Me - the baby - with my baby Parker.

Me and my VL friends - me, Stephanie, Jen and Christy.

Me and Chris with our precious Parker.

Parker with his Aunt Jessica at the pool.

Me and Whit with the kiddos in the pool.

Sweet Caroline, Chuck, Charlie and Brian.

Hey Kay Bird!

Jac trying to play with Kayley's raft toys...

Jac kissing Parker :)

The first thing Jac ever asks me - WHERE'S PAH-KAH?

Friday night, we got some Braves seats through my work - and they are awesome! They are 8 rows up from home plate. We had such a great time! My sister, Ashley and her husband, Joey and their son, Jac came to the game, too. This is me and Chris in front of Ashley's seats.