Just for fun...

Happy almost Thanksgiving!! Here are a few pics just for fun...

Old MacDonald's Farm

Aunt Kelly (and Tess) babysat Parker so that mommy and daddy could have a night out and celebrate daddy's 30th birthday together. Since the weather was gorgeous, she bravely loaded up all four kiddos and took them to Old MacDonald's Farm for a FUN-filled day of feeding animals, riding on a train and playing in hay! It was Parker's own little version of heaven and, according to Aunt Kelly and all of the picture updates I kept getting, he had a BLAST! I was sad to miss being there, but mommy and daddy sure enjoyed our night out together!

More spaghetti, please!

Well, he has finally discovered the deliciously fun (and insanely messy) to eat childhood staple of spaghetti! We had it the other night for dinner, and he LOVED it. Slurping up noodles and making an awesome red mess made this just about his favorite dinner food yet. I wouldn't say that it has taken over for Mac n Cheese as #1, but it's definitely close! Of course, for mommy's sake of cleaning his face, hands, clothes AND kitchen...I can't say we will be eating it very often!

SURPRISE!!

I pretty much have the best husband in the world.  Scratch that.  I DEFINITELY have the best husband in the world, and since I love him so much and he works so insanely hard for our family, I wanted to do something really special for him for his 30th birthday.  We might live in Katy, but I know his heart belongs to Fort Worth and that he misses his family and friends there more than he'd ever admit....so I decided that he should be with all of them for his 30th birthday celebration.  After a month or so of planning and scheming with his wonderful mom, we finally came up with a plan to *hopefully* surprise him with a birthday party at their beautiful home in Aledo.  And it actually WORKED!  He was totally surprised and loved getting to visit with all of his old high school and college friends that he hadn't seen in quite sometime.  His parents are pretty much, no, scratch that, DEFINITELY some of the most selfless people I've met and the party (margarita machine and all!) was a hit all because of their awesome hospitality!  And I think the slideshow his dad made with all of the awesome/embarrassing/super cute pictures helped too.  Not only did we have a surprise party, but we also had a family birthday party too and got to spend some good quality time with his Uncle Chris, Aunt Jayne, cousin Taylor, and Mimi and Aukey B.  Oh, and Parker loved every bit of his Aledo weekend too!  

 His PawPaw started a MASSIVE obsession with one tiny little word: RIDE.  Parker now automatically associates PawPaw with Ride and literally says it everytime he sees PawPaw or hears his voice.  

 Tyson's old fish camp co-chair partner, Lauren and her baby, Caroline.  It really made his day to see her again and to finally meet her baby!

 Sweet cake!

 Happy 30th, baby!!!  I LOVE YOU!

 It's blurry, but a goodie!

 She's a cousin who might as well be a sister, and I think you can see why! :)

 Just eating some waffles and having breakfast with PawPaw and Gigi!

He's just itching to get outside and play in that gorgeous yard any chance he gets!

  Aaaaand...he's off!

 I know his Gigi will love this picture of his sweet little neck! ;)

 Come on, Mom!!  There's so much to see!

 Man, that's one good-looking kid!

 He loooooves playing with PawPaw!

 Gigi bought him his very first t-ball set and daddy showed him how to play. 

 He decided he was done hitting the balls and instead, just wanted to take both of them to explore.

 Precious moments.

 There's a really neat park by PawPaw and Gigi's that we've always wanted to take Parker to, and since it was such a beautiful day, we decided it would be the perfect Sunday morning outing.

 Daddy decided the park was fun for him too.

 This is the man I love.

 Such a cute picture.  He was having SO much fun!!

 All of that fun kind of tuckered him out...because once Tyson sat on this swing with him, he immediately layed his head on his daddy's chest.  Which was quite possibly the sweetest thing ever and made his daddy's day!

 And then, he wanted some snuggles with Gigi and I think it was almost enough to make her melt.

 So. Precious.

 Bathtime!

 We waited a little too long to get a picture with Mimi...since he had such a FULL day, he was exhausted and not at all in the mood to say cheese!  He certainly did love getting to spend time with her though!