Cocktails and Canvas

After Sienna's birthday party, I headed down to Cocktails and Canvas for a girls night with my sister, her college roommate and neighbor.  We were supposed to go and paint THIS cross.

Well - the first thing the painting instructor told us to do was paint a circle on our canvas.  Um.  I can't draw a circle.  So I didn't - and I started my own little painting.  None of us were really crazy about the cross she was doing anyway - so we all did our own little thing!  And I think they all turned out fabulous! 

Whitney and I with our paintings....

My, Kari and Rachel's crosses.  Keep in mind - nearly EVERYONE else's painting in the class was similar - we were the odd one's out!  But we had a blast and I have a cool new painting to put somewhere in the house.

Whit putting the finishing touches on her painting.

Weekend on the Farm!

We spent the weekend on THE FARM with Chris' brother, Jeff and his family (Leigh Ann and their son, Griffin, just a few weeks older than Parker!)

Aren't they a handsome pair?

I think this is the best smile we got from Griffin all weekend!  And it's OF COURSE in the same picture that Pman looks like a goober....

G-man is ON THE MOVE!  P-man on the other hand is not... Griffin is ALL OVER THE place and has perfected the army crawl!  Parker supposedly rolled all over the place for the nanny last week but I have still yet to witness it.  He is VERY content being in one place - all the time.

G and P

G-man wasn't too happy about another baby in his exersaucer... P-man, however, LOVED having new toys to play with!

Papa and Griffin!

Uncle Scott with P-man

P loves his Uncle Scottie!

Papa, G, P and Mimi - you can see the AWESOME view out of J and L's back porch... it was SO nice to get out of the city for a few days :)

Cute babies...

Hey - what did I do?

Taking a close look at Parker's eye - then looking up to Papa for some wisdom on how to correctly gouge his attention-stealer cousin's eye out...

I love tongue pix!

Presh Boys!

Best Buds!

Jeff and Lan's dog, Max, was NOT happy about Uncle Scott being in his chair... he stayed like this for about an hour until Uncle Scott got up and Max immediately claimed his spot!

So - since Parker discovered he can ROLL - he insists on laying on his tummy to sleep now.  It makes mommy a nervous wreck - but it makes for a VERY happy baby Parker!

Early Sunday morning with Uncle Jeff.

Papa with Perfect Parker.

Jeff and Griff-o-pot-o-mous...

THE ENTIRE REASON we came to visit Jeff and Lan was to be at Griffin's baby dedication at their church! 

Scott and Chris with Pman after church...

I was taking pictures around the house trying to find some good ligthting to take a family picture.... and I just thought this picture was pretty even though it doesn't really show anything.... but it does show you the awesome details in their home.  I love the column, the arches and the door!

More picture testing.... also decided I would post this because it shows the pretty kitchen... and a pretty Lan :)

The family in attendance for the dedication!  Parker REFUSED to look at the camera. We had it on auto timer and it took 4 pictures in a row.  In between every shot, Parker would look at the camera, THEN right before each flash he'd turn his head! 

The Other Hull Family!

Papa and Mimi with their grandsons!

The Boys....

Both of the Hull Families :)

The T Family - Double Stroller - Sitting Up!

I've blogged about the T's for quite some time now - they are my precious second Atlanta family.  I began babysitting for them my 2nd year at Georgia Tech when their Aunt Annie (my Phi Mu big sis) graduated from GT and moved away!  Sad for Annie - lucky for me - because I got to become part of the T family :)  Love them!  This totally makes me feel old but Abbie - in the first few pictures - was like 9 months-ish when I began sitting for her! 

Abby got a hold of my camera and took some pix of us!  She did a great job at centering for a girl her age (I can't say exactly because I honestly can't remember how old she is... I think she'll be 7 next summer.)  She also took some pictures of our car seat, some plants around the house, the kitchen booth and also a self portrait of her which turned out to be her teeth only :) I won't include those for you enjoyment - but you can imagine!

I must say that in the picture below I was looking very hard for the diapers in our DIAPER BAG that Chris packs every morning.  Well - whoopsie - he forgot to pack diapers so Parker was in the same diaper on Tuesday from about 3:00 when Chris picked him up from the nanny's until about 8:30 when I got home... awesome parenting here...

Park wearing some gold medal Abby wanted him to wear... she said he was #1!

Luke and "State Park" as he likes to call him :)

My sweet Mag Pie :)

So beautiful :)

Since October has finally begun to feel like October again - mid to upper 80s - we tried out the double stroller with Nanny Julie yesterday!  It was a sort of success!  Kayley likes to reach over and grab Parker's belt thing and sometimes she misses and grabs his nose or eye or ear... Parker isn't too fond of this.

Last night was one of THOSE nights.  This entire week, it's been raining every morning and my normal 45 minute to one hour commute has turned into a 2 and a half hour commute every morning... I've been running off of about 4.5-5 hours of sleep and we just planned too much in too few days so Parks has been a little on the "off schedule" mood.  Yesterday when I finally got home around 6 and I after I fed him - it was near 7 pm and so much needed to be done.  Before I began to get started on things, I prayed that God would give me strength and that he would  help to keep Park occupied for at least 30 minutes so I could get dinner started, clean the kitchen up, get his bath ready and also pin up some curtains I got on clearance yesterday for $12... and as always - God is good!  :)  I got most of this done while Parker sat up ON HIS OWN for about 30 minutes and played in his pack-n-play.  This is the first time he's sat up by himself for this amount of time (the most he's done it in the past is about 2 minutes!)  When I finally finished everything, he just looked so precious I had to take a picture :) 

Precious big boy!  (Playing with another toy we stole from Aunt Whitney's house!)

Last minute Saturday with Mimi and Papa

A few weekends ago, Chris and I woke up on a Saturday morning and were just so busy playing with Parker we totally forgot to eat breakfast ourselves!  By 11 am we were both starving and our normal tradition of making homemade waffles or pancakes was pretty much not going to happen due to our lack of eggs, milk, flour AND sugar in our house.  I desperately needed to go to the store but had been lagging behind in my coupon-ing and I REFUSE to go to the store without coupons.. it's like throwing money out the window.  So - Chris and I did something we hadn't done in YEARS... literally.  We treated ourselves to a Cracker Barrell brunch.  Wow.  It was awesome.  Mama's Pancake Breakfast and Mama's French Toast Breakfast were throroughly enjoyed by the Hull family... and Parker even enjoyed it later... which I was worried about while I stuffed my face with the awesome goodness of eggs with cheese, sausage, grits, biscuits with jelly, 4 huge peices of french toast, butter and the most sugar-y syrup you can find anywhere.  Yum. 

WELL - on our way to Cracker Barrell, we decided to call Chris' parents to see what they were up to... and lo' and behold... they were about 30 minutes away from Atlanta! 

(Mimi and Papa are the most random people - by the way - that like to decide on a whim to drive 4 hours up to Atlanta and then stay for 12 hours then go back home to pick up pine cones in their yard.) 

ANYWAY - we were THRILLED to know they were coming and I got to delay my shopping trip for a whole nother day!  :)  After stuffing our faces, we rushed back home to let the pups out then drove down to Chris' sister's house where they were.  We had such a fun day hanging out and Parker got to hang out with his precious cousin, Campbell Anne!  They haven't really seen each other but a few times since Parker was born so it was fun to see them together :)  Here are some pix to document our day!

Mimi and Parker cuddling before bedtime.

Campbell and Parker cuddling...

Mimi, Campbell and Parker playing

Chris and Campbell dancing - precious.

Aunt Hillary and Campbell (aka Squrimy Wormy)

Campbell thought Parker's carseat was a great recliner just her size :) 

(Mental note to me - lose 5 lbs of upper arm fat immediately.)

Hey Park, let me grab your ear real quick...

It only took 25 tries to get them both to look in the general vicinity of the camera...  They were busy taking turns grabbing each others ears apparantly...

Campbell being precious :)

Papa and Campbell playing in her favorite roller coaster toy - I am sure this is really safe.

Parker and Dada checking the score of the game before we headed down to see Mimi and Papa .

Here's a video of Uncle Chris and Campbell Anne dancing... so cute!