Monday, February 14, 2011

happy val.

happy valentine's day from the kiddos.  (and me, even though i am not in the picture.)



here is what we did for d's valentines this year.  he really liked them. i had to stop telling the kids to make fists in the picture above, because now, taking a valentine picture means putting your fist up in the air.


ps.  i love you j.  you are my fav.

Friday, February 11, 2011

ellen has been dressing herself lately...

please note that it was 20 something degrees on this morning...

this picture was taken before she found some white tights and put them on over her pants, but under the lsu legwarmers.
i am not complaining, because at least she is dressed.

Friday, February 4, 2011

my latest project

you know, the one i started in october and finished in january?  that one.

so, i saw this idea on a couple of blogs that i read (i will be glad to share which ones if you want to know, just don't want to have any weirdo mommy crafter searchers ending up on my blog)  i've seen them called 'family rules', but i don't know, maybe it's the teacher in me that feels like rules need to have consequences, and i am not going to discipline for not having patience.  it is a good thing, or i would be in the corner all day long.  so i made ours full of things that all of us parkers need to remember daily.  the parker family will...



now, some of these i swiped, some of these i just asked the boys what i tell them to do all of the time.  they had a lot of things to put on there.



one of the reasons it took me so long to complete this, is i got started and then realized that i measured my papers wrong.  i did the first three strips of paper, and had to stop and re-do.  the next time i sat down to re-do was a few months later.  davis saw the mess ups and asked if he could have the one that said 'the parker family will...'  he said he had an idea.  he wrote it and then asked if i could "make it look cool with the lines on the ends of the letters."  this was his idea:



it now has a permanent home behind my computer so that i can see it all of the time.  and no, i don't tell them to do this one all the time.  he came up with it all by himself.

here's evan!

here is our cutie.  10 monthsold