Parker's Birthday Party

Last Saturday we had a little birthday party for Parker. It was so much fun. I love birthdays!! I can't believe he is one, it is just crazy! We had a few friends come over and swim and have a BBQ, all in all it was a really fun day!

I found this cake in a book and couldn't wait to make it for Parker. I think it turned out pretty good, except that I ran out of frosting so the bottom isn't as covered as I would like, but you get the idea.


Here we are singing happy birthday to him. I don't think he knew why he was getting all the attention, but learned to like it fast!

Mmmmmmm.......cake!

After all that yummy cake!

Janalee loved eating cake. Everyday she asks me if she can eat some cake! We kept finding her sneaking some of the candy off the cake when she thought we weren't looking.


He got an Ernie doll and loves it! He carried it around most of the day and likes to go to sleep with it now, how cute it that!!

Aaaaawwww....Ernie, we love you!

Janalee gave him a bouncie ball, which they both love(and fight over)! Can you see how excited he was to get this! He LOVES balls!

The Simmons Boy's Birthday

So today was the men in my life's birthday!! I can't believe Parker is one year old already, time is sure flying by!! I think it is so fun that Shaun and Parker get to share a birthday together!

Shaun and Parker had fun opening their gifts!

He got a little people plane from mommy and daddy! Both kids love this and were excited to play with it.

Poor Janalee was having a hard time understanding why she didn't get gifts too. Luckily Grandma saved the day and sent this awesome new princess bathing suit. She is in love with it and started stripping her clothes off as soon as she opened it. She even went to bed with it on!


So Parker loves soda cans and thanks to daddy has at least one to play with every night! Tonight he was carrying this one around from the flip thingie.(don't worry folks it was taken away as soon as this picture was taken-he didn't choke on it)

For our aniversary last week I got Shaun some kabab racks- so we made kababs tonight and they turned out pretty good, if I do say so myself. I think we will be putting this gift to good use this summer! P.S. we love grilling

Here is Shaun getting his corn ready to put on the grill- sadly all but one got burnt to a crisp. Does anyone had a good way to grill corn? We are in need of some help!

Beach Party!

We all went over to the beach today and had a blast! Janalee had been talking about it all day and so excited to get there. She kept asking us "where the beach, I can't see it!" too funny! She ran right into the water as soon as we got there. Parker who loves the water, was very excited to get in too. Once he got in though he was a little scared of the waves. He stuck pretty close to either me or Shaun from then on and didn't want to go too far out.


Parker was a little tired I guess and sat and snuggled with Shaun for almost 10 minutes. It was so cute!!!


Janalee was having a blast running in and out of the water and digging in the sand and making piles of sand and then distroying them!


Shaun and Janalee spend most of the time building a wall up so there was a little pool of water for Parker to play in so the waves wouldn't get to him.


It was a really fun day at the beach!! As soon as we got home Janalee was asking to go back. She doesn't quite understand the concept of later sometimes :)

Zoo party!!

So we went to the zoo today because Shaun has this week off. It was so fun! I love the Jacksonville zoo, it is too awesome! We had so much fun! Sadly I forgot the camera:( Anyway, they have a little kids water park and Parker was in kid heaven!! He loved walking under the water and letting it pour all over his head, Janalee only wanted to get her feet wet! They both had lots of fun there! Janalee loved looking at all the animals. Her favorites were all the birds. We would be like "look Janalee, the elephants!" and she would say "wow, look a bird!" hahaha-well at least she found the birds really exciting. hehe Parker loved looking at the animals too, but he also loved people watching! We had so much fun!!!
It was such a hot day that we had to come home and get in our pool!! I love our pool!!! So do the kids! Janalee is getting pretty good at "swimming" with her floaties. Parker just wants to play in the pool all day! We will be spending a lot of time this summer in the pool!
Anyway, we will hopefully have some more fun times to share with you all later this week! I love when Shaun is on vacation!!!

Easter and more

Janalee loved decorating eggs. She really wanted to put her whole hand into the dye, but we were able to keep everything but her fingers out. I think she loved eating them the most!

Here they both are hunting eggs! Easter was so much fun now that Janalee is older and understands more!! She had fun opening her Easter basket and Parker's and mom and dad's too. haha Shaun hid some Easter egg outside around the house and she loved running around looking for them. It was so cute!! Even Parker got in on the action. So much fun :)



I can't get them both to smile at the same time!!





Janalee loves to sing!! Since December she has been singing jingle bells all the time, but now we have moved onto Cinderella haha! She is even making up her own songs as you can see in this video. Too much fun!


Parker is cutting his teeth. For a while there he only had one top tooth, it is pretty cute if I do say so myself!


The other weekend we went to the zoo. We bought a zoo pass since Janalee loves going so we can go whenever and not have to wait in line, woo hoo. (that day there were like 300 people outside of the zoo waiting to get in.)
We found the kid play area and Janalee and Parker were in kid heaven!!!! They both loved the slide. I think Janalee went down it like 30 times in a row before we forced her to leave.


She was so cute on this thing. She sat in the middle and was pointing to each girl and would ask "What your name?" My little social butterfly there :)

We also found the petting zoo. Janalee loves the animals!!

phone photos

I finally learned how to get pictures off my phone-thanks Shaun. So I thought I would share some of them with you all. A few weeks ago we went to a bowling party with some of the other people from the hospital that Shaun works with. Janalee loved it. Every time she rolled her bowling ball down there, she would turn around with a big smile on her face and proclaim "I did it!" So cute!!!


(Sorry about this being blurry, I was holding Parker so my hand was shaking a little. Just imagine it not blurry, aren't they cute!)



Parker got a hold of the frosting from a cupcake there. He loved his first taste of frosting, yummy!



Here is some pictures from taking the kids to the mall play place. Parker was impressing everyone with his walking. Ya, my kid is awesome :) Of course I couldn't get Janalee to hold still long enough to take a picture- she was running around like her crazy self. got to love her though!





Last week we went to the park because the weather was so nice. Janalee found some girls to follow around the playground. The girls decided to go on the little mile walk loop that is there at the park, so of course Janalee had to go with them. She had to hold both their hands almost the whole time, too cute.



P.S. I have no idea what the fleshy looking thing in the corner is, because it couldn't possibly be my finger-hehe

March already!!

So, I am starting to get really bad at posting here for my 3 readers. haha, I will improve. It has been really busy here, Parker is walking around most of the time. He is trying to climb on things already! Crazy!!!!! I found him trying to scale a folding chair at church the other day, luckily he had only made it the first rung on the chair.

This Sunday I dressed Parker too stinkin cute!! My mom found this tie and I thought I would try it on. He looks so grown up in it!!! I can't believe he is 9 months now!! He didn't even play with it at church, what a good boy. Janalee was dressed cute as always-could she be anything else :)- but I couldn't get her to stop moving long enough to get a clear picture, they all turned out fuzzy! Crazy girl :)

I think we wore Shaun out this weekend, hahaha!

I made these curtains because my dear children and dog have destroyed our blinds!
Before

After

They aren't perfect, but not too bad for someone who can't sew very good and didn't have a pattern. Don't look to close though, or you will see how bad they are, haha.
Well, Shaun will have anther vacation week here at the end of the month so hopefully we will have something exciting going on to show you all.