Friday, July 31, 2009

Chris New Toy

Chris bought a new bike Honda VTX1300R.

The first injury with the bike. I was getting on to take the picture above and burned my skin off my leg on the exhaust. It hurts really bad. It is so hot outside, Chris will not be riding it very much until it cools off.
Gavin had fun at the store and had to get on every bike and 4-wheeler they had.

Monday, July 27, 2009

Gavin's Swim Lesson's

Gavin only has one more day of swim lesson’s left. He is one of the best in the class. I have had many of the other parents ask how old he is because he is so much better than the rest of the kids his age. He has no fear of the water. He will jump right in the water. I think its all that swimming at Mike and Amy's pool in the past. They worked on the front stroke and floating on their back. (He is the only one that can float on the back, the rest cling to the instructors). I do think that he gets board in class, but he loves to swim before and after class. His favorite thing to do is dive down in the water for toys and LOVES to wear his goggles. My favorite thing about swim lesson’s is getting one on one time swimming with Brody or having Brody go to grandma and grandpa’s so I can do water aerobics while he is in class. Brody has finally started to love the water. The first of the summer he hated it and would cry now he is running around bouncing, dancing to the water aerobics music and just having fun (and drinking lots of water). He doesn’t like to go in the deep water were he can’t reach the ground and Gavin only likes the deep end so we have problems both swimming together.
Yes Gavin's shorts are on backwards, he can dress himself.
Brody loves to copy Gavin in everything he does. Brody is just getting so big, I love that sweet boy. Remember to turn off the music at the top because the best part is Brody making the gun sound.

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre

The family went to a play The Jungle Book they feed us Lunch buffet style Pizza, Hot Dogs, Hamburgers, Salad, and Dessert. I was not excited to pay $16.00 for Brody, but from looking at him he seemed to enjoy the play. Gavin liked going to the play and really enjoyed it, he said he liked all the animals, Tiger, Bear, Snake, Panther, Ape, and the boy (Mowgli). Near the end he got tired but wanted to go again. We love when Grandma and Grandpa come to enjoy time with us and help with kids. We ended up changing dates from a Friday to Saturday. We had really good seats, but when we had to change we were on the very back table. But even the table in the back ended up being really good seats to see and they kids ran around the back when they were done eating so it ended up working perfect.


Grandma and Grandpa watching the kids run around in the back before the show started.
The play from the eye's of Gavin. He took these pictures and also a picture of the floor and picture of his tub of ketchup. But I deleted them off the camera guess you might have wanted to see.
I think we will go back again. They are doing Frosty the Snowman at Christmas time, The Little Mermaid in spring and Charlotte's Web next summer. We will probably do Jack and the Beanstalk at the Hall Theater which starts in Sept and goes through Nov. I hope Amy still wants to go, if she ever gets back from vacationing by then.

Sunday, July 19, 2009

July Visit from Sym, Josh and Girls

Visit from Symony
Remi is such a doll. You would think we could share the genders, but more than likely she will get all the girls and I will get all the boys. Maybe that's ok Remi has quite the personality that I don't know if I could handle. If I do have a girl on our next and last attempt maybe having 2 old brothers she can have less girl drama. I am starting to get used to the idea of only have 3 boys, maybe because thats what we are going to have. Sorry that probably sounds like I am pregnant, but I am not. I have to get things like that planned around our vacations can't have a baby while we are planning on being gone.
One of many fights over Remi's bike.Wow time flys when you are having fun. Funny story about the fireworks. I bought a box of assorted fireworks to do with the kids. We keep planning on doing, but the kids always got tired before it was dark outside so we keep putting off. Gavin did some pops of the 4th but that was the extent. Finally we planned to go to Grandma and Grandpa's and do fireworks. When we got there we didn't have anything to light them with and so Chris ran down to the gas station. While he was gone I was taking the wrapping off the fireworks and Gavin got into the box and sent off a firework. Which made us all jump. After he did that I realized the whole box was confetti filled poppers. They all had strings that I thought you had to light, come to find out ALL of them you pull the string to set off the fireworks. These type of fireworks would not be fun to wait until it was dark so we waited for nothing. It ended up being a great pack for Gavin because he loved to do the work of setting off the fireworks.

Brody is so cute!It is hard work to make those popper fire works go.
Why not just climb in the pool with your clothes on!
After the fireworks.

Gavin had to get in if Brody gets in at least he takes his shirt off.Remi watching the fireworks from inside at the door. I don't know why it was not even scary with having no fire. Grandma and CheyaneBrody always putting things in his mouth.
Look how happy he is filling his big belly.
After Gavin got the poppers to go he had to blow the smoke. We went out to eat at a fun restaurant called YC MongolianGrill.
Remi and Gavin
The kids played in the splash park at the mall while Symony and I went shopping. I would complain of the heat every time we went out of a store. I complained lots more of the heat and how hot it is. You would think she had lived here for 2 and 1/2 years and I was visiting.
Gavin and Cheyane
Gavin loves playing with little kids.
Gavin is always having fun playing at Jeepers.
This was Brody's favorite thing to do. He loves to play basketball and he makes it in about 1 in 5 not bad for 18 months.

This is the beloved bike of Remi's that all the kids fight over. You would think my kids don't have toys. Brody liked to ride the bike side saddle.



Other happenings at the Parkers. I had thought about doing a foriegn exchange student. I thought for sure we were going to, but Chris has changed my mind again. We are working on getting a modification on our house, I am hoping that works out. We have been getting things ready for Hawaii if you have any advice please let me know. We are staying on the North Beach. Chris has been looking at buying a motercycle he will probably get one this month or next month. It is the Honda VTX1300R it will be nice that he can drive in the car pool lane and be able to leave work without having to wait for people when he car pools. We will pay a lot less in gas. Bad things are he could easily die by crazy Arizona drivers hitting him on his hour drive.

We are planning on staying home for Thanksgiving and Christmas if anyone wants to come visit then you are more than welcome. The weather will be wonderful. The plan is to go up to Utah and visit in the spring and July.

Thursday, July 2, 2009

My Boys

This might be a weird post, but I have been enlarging a bunch of Gavin's pictures because I didn't do before. I want to hang old pictures on the wall because I already know what they look like now. So last month I had both of their baby pictures and I just changed to put the following Halloween pictures up. When I go to the store people always say how much alike they look. In my head I think they look nothing alike. So I was going to see what everyone else thought. Do they look alike? Can you tell the difference between Gavin and Brody or is that just a mom thing?
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The Halloween picture A. Gavin is 14 months, picture B. Brody is 9 months. In the second set of pictures this is first smiles. A. is Brody and B. is Gavin. Brody's picture is probably a little late for a first smile. I wasn't constantly taking pictures like I was with Gavin. Gavin's picture was his very first real smile lucky shot.