Happy 1st Birthday

Oh my gosh, my little baby is 1.  I feel like it was just yesterday that my little peanut was born and Laramie and I were starting this new adventure of parenthood together.  A year later, we are busier than ever trying to keep up with our busy little guy.

This past weekend, we had Parker's birthday party.  Friends and family were invited and we had a great time.  Of course, I totally went overboard on the decorations, but loved doing it!

He had a great time opening up all his presents, or more like, he enjoyed pulling out all the tissue paper out of the bags or ripping the paper off the boxes.

Now came the cake smash.  As a mom, you have this picture perfect vision in your head on how this is going to go.  Your child is going to love the cake, dig into it, smear it all over their face and there will be frosting everywhere.  Sounds like a reasonable expectation right?  Well, lets just say the cake smash was a complete failure!!!  Parker hated all the frosting in his hands and just cried.

After some calming down and clean up, we finally got him to enjoy a cupcake with only a little bit of frosting.

Today is Parker's actual birthday.  Laramie and I took the day off and spent it playing with Parker.  We played with all his toys that he got at his birthday party and he opened up a few more that we had for him and then had some cupcakes.  

Happy 1st Birthday Buddy!  We love you lots!

Mr. Parker

I got Parker's 9 month pictures this weekend, so I thought I would share some of my favorites.  OK, maybe a lot of my favorites :)

We got some family photos done as well, so I could have some to pick from for the Christmas card.  I love these outside ones!  It was kind of a blustery day, but Parker did great and loved all the leaves!

And still my all time favorite out of all of them…

9 Months

October 21st marked Parker's 9 month birthday.  I'm finally getting around to getting them all posted.  Its been so much fun to watch and look back at how much he has changed over the past 9 months. 

Not Impressed!

He sat still for approximately 10 seconds.  This…

Eventually…

Turned into this…

So much for the chair.  Oh well, at least I got some quick pictures.

Fall is Here

This weekend was full of fall activities.  We just stayed at home all weekend, but man did we get a lot done. I made about six apple crisps and a big batch of cinnamon apple sauce from all the apples that Parker and I picked last week at a co-workers house (thanks Julie)!  Meanwhile, Laramie worked on the outside of the house.  He got all the leaves raked up and mulched and the yard looked perfect.  However, it only took one day before the yard was full of leaves again and looked like he hadn't done anything the day before.

But, before Laramie mulched up all the leaves, Parker asked Dad if he could play in the leaves.  Boy did he LOVE them!

We had a great weekend!  I was relaxing but at the same time we got a lot of stuff done.  Hopefully there are a few more weekends like this ahead before it starts getting cold.

Corn Maze

On Sunday, Laramie headed out to Seattle for work, so Parker and I went up to Eden Prairie to hang out with my sister Brittany and nephew, Kellen.  They moved up to MN about two months ago and we haven't been able to have a play-date yet!  So Sunday was the day!

We headed down to Shakopee to Sever's Corn Maze.  The place is huge.  They have pumpkins, a corn pit, petting zoo, giant slide, a huge corn maze and many other activities for kids.  We attempted the corn maze, but after getting into the maze and actually looking at the map, we looked at each other and decided we could easily get lost in this, so lets just do a quick loop and say we did it (it's our little secret.)

The corn pit was quite interesting.  It was literally this giant area full of shelled corn that was about 2-3 feet deep.  Brittany was the first brave one to go in with both the kiddos.

Parker was cool with the pit.  I was pretty impressed that he didn't start eating the corn.  There was only once where I had to grab a small corn cob out of his mouth.  Yuck!!!  Kellen, however, was not the biggest fan of the pit.  Every time he tried to stand up, he would just sink and he did not like that!

I think this trip was more for the Mom's than it was for the kiddos, because lets be honest, there wasn't much to do there for an 8 month old and an 11 month old, but we still had a great time.  We used the time for some good photo ops :)

Oh Kellen!  That's all I can say to that one!

They had a small pumpkin patch of pre-picked pumpkins, so of course we used that for some good photos.

"This is the pumpkin I want Mom!"

We had a great time and decided that this will be an annual trip each fall.  It was great to hang out with my sister and her little boy.  I can definitely see more play-dates in the near future.

Happy Fall Everyone!

8,7,6

Parker turned 8 months today.  My little peanut is growing up too fast.  Here is some pics from a mini photo shoot this evening…

 

 Now that I am going through these, I believe that I forgot to post his 6 & 7 month photos so here you go!

And finally 6 months...

He is just too cute for words!  We love our little peanut!