A Child's Prayer

Annley's bedtime routine goes like this: We read a story then scriptures,family prayer and her prayers.

This was tonight's prayer

"Heavenly Father,
I'm thankful for this day.
I'm thankful for Mommy and Daddy and Jesus.
I'm thankful for watching movies.
I'm thankful for Captain Moroni for fighting.
Please bless Annley that I will sleep all night.
Bless Mommy and Daddy that they can sleep in their bed all night and that we can live happily ever after.
Amen.

Yay! And now Jesus is happy!!!"


- Posted from my iPad

9 Months

The other day I realized there hardly any blogs dedicated to Parker. I pretty sure there is only one blog about him and that's the blog announcing his birth so this is long overdue.

A few words to describe Parker; mischievous, bulldozer, happy-go-lucky, climber, ambitious, clown, cuddly, friendly, determined, master of the stairs, chatter box, amateur electrician.

He has six teeth, four on top and two on bottom.

At nine months he is inches long and weighs pounds.

Parker loves being in the middle of everything that is going on. Like his sister, his favorite games are tag and the tickle game.

He is now sleeping through the night. Thank Goodness!

We are pretty sure Parker can sense electrical current anywhere within a 10 foot radius. He may have super powers but it's too early to know for sure.



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Sweet Pea

Tyler & I took this picture tonight while posing for the picture he looked at me and said,

"You smell like another woman."

"Really? That's weird."

A few minutes later while we were cuddling on the couch I saw him inconspicuously sniffing the air. I was worried my breath was offending him then he said again that I smelled like another woman.

That's when I remembered I was wearing a new lotion his mom had given me for Christmas.

I held up my arm and made him sniff my wrist.

"Yep. That's it."

"Well, do you like it? I used to wear it all the time before I met you."

"I don't know."

"What do you mean you don't know?"

"It smells good but I used to know someone else who used to wear it. I don't know who but you smell like another woman."






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Annley Says...

Right now Annley says some pretty funny things.

"What goes beep in the night?"
"I don't know. What?"
"The baby mommytor."
Our previous baby monitor used to beep whenever someone touched it & sometimes just randomly.


Last month we were walking through the grocery store. Annley was walking backwards.
"Annley, please turn around and walk forward so we can go faster."
"No, mommy. I just want to walk with my bum behind me."


Tanner's cat, Beej, died while we were out of town for Christmas. One morning at breakfast Annley mentioned her.
"Beej is hungry."
"Oh, Honey, Beej died. She lives with Heavenly Father now."
"And she is telling her family all about me."


Tyler was talking to Annley.
"Annley, you're so awesome."
"I know."


Last Monday it snowed about 6 inches in South Carolina.
We told Annley that when she woke up on Monday there would be snow.
She jumped up and down happily and started making plans.
"I'm going to make a snowman and throw snowballs, and then we can build an igloo."


Monday morning, we saw 3 deer walking into the woods from the kitchen window.
"LOOK!!! IT'S RUDOLPH! He is going to into the forest. I'm going to build my snowman and then go in the forest to find Rudolph."


On Monday, when it snowed, Annley and Tyler built a snowman. As Annley and Tyler worked on their snowman, Annley gave specific instructions.
"Give him eyes."
"Give him a nose."
"He needs a scarf and a hat."
"Give him a mouth."
"Now you need to give him feet."
"Now I will hug him and he will talk and play with me!"
We're going to have to reduce the viewings of the movie The Snowman to a minimum, I think.


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Echo

By Tyler

Annley had her arms around my neck.

"What's wrong with your ear, daddy?"

"Nothing."

"But it's BLEEDING!"

"No, it's not."

"But there's a HOLE in it!"

"Annley, that hole is for sound to get in so I can hear."

(Leaning in close to 'the hole') "ECHO!"

Goodbye, Twenty-Nine

Someone is turning Thirty and it isn't me.
Twenty-nine was a very busy year for Tyler.

He started out the year in a new position at his job.
He recently came up with a business idea and found a company who is excited to have him develop and manage the solution he came up with.

He decided he would like to get involved with the local theater in the last six months he played the role of Prince Charming, in Rodgers' and Hammerstein's Cinderella, joined the Improv group in which he is also a board member, played an evil Baron in a Children's play for the Children's Museum of Greenville, came up with an idea to introduce the Improv group to the residents of Easley by leading a Totally Untrue Ghost Story Tour in Easley, will be performing in a Broadway Revue, and he is currently involved the a production of "Sanders Family Christmas".

He decided to train for and run a half marathon which he trained for months in order to complete it. To train he ran 10-20 miles a week.

He was an excellent child-birth coach when Parker was born, very encouraging.

Tyler stays very busy but manages to find time to play with Annley and Parker, who absolutely love their daddy.

Obviously, I love my husband very much!

I don't brag about him nearly enough but turning 30 is a big deal and he has had quite a year.

To Tyler,

Congratulations Tyler for everything you have accomplished in the last year.
I know you will continue to - for lack of a better word be absolutely AWESOME!

I couldn't have asked for a better husband. I still think you are my match. We definitely balance each other.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Four

November 3, 2010 Tyler and I celebrated 4 years of marriage. Those four years have flown by faster than I thought they would.

This year we celebrated our anniversary by spending the weekend where we spent our honeymoon, Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

My parents kept the kids for us while we were away.

Our Trip...

We went to Wonderworks, a place of artsy and sciency activities.










Ate at a delicious pancake house. Tyler ordered Reese's Pieces Chocolate Chip Peanut-butter pancakes with whipped cream. Tyler dubbed it the breakfast of dead champions.




Went to the biggest Christmas shop ever.





We were able to see Fall change to Winter.










And this was where we stayed.







The kids didn't even miss us which was a little sad. Tyler tried bribing Annley with souvenirs for a little attention but not even that worked.