Parkinson Family: Erika's 7th Birthday

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Erika's 7th Birthday

On July 24th we celebrated Erika's 7th birthday. (We call her our pioneer baby.) This is one of the first years we have actually been home for the 24th because every other year we have been vacationing this weekend, for some reason. Tremonton actually has its' "Tremonton Days" celebration this weekend so this is the first time we were able to participate in this.

In the morning, after having Erika's favorite breakfast- crepes, and opening a few presents, we headed over to the park where they had a bunch of booths set up and some free blow-up toys the kids could climb around on. That night, they had fireworks at the park and we got to watch them from our house. (Heidi and Jared were in bed.)

After the park, we came home for lunch then headed over to Brigham City and went swimming at the Community Pool. I think this is our favorite place to go swimming. They have little kiddy slides for the kids to go down and also a pretty fun waterslide kids can go on with mom and dad or by themselves.

Erika and Kyle have gotten so much better at swimming this year after a few sessions of lessons and they both decided they were brave enough to go on their own this time. They had a blast! We met my parents at the pool and they had fun swimming with us, too.

Heidi was exhausted after all the fun!

After swimming we all headed back home and had Erika's favorite homemade dinner- fettucine alfredo, and then cake. I had a lot of fun making Erika's cake this year. I learned how to do fondant at aYoung Women's activity a few months ago and had fun decorating my first cake with it. The crayon box fits Erika perfectly because she LOVES to color! We love our sweet Erika and are so grateful to have her as part of our family!

1 comment:

AngeSeptember 17, 2010 at 10:41 PM
Wow! What cute kids you have Amber. That Birthday cake looks amazing. I'm super impressed.
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Parkinson funnies

Nov 2012- Aaron was watching football on TV and Jared came out saying, "I want to go watch grass!"

Dec 2011- Heidi said one morning, "Mom, there's frosting on the house!" (on a cold day when frost was on the house).

June 2, 2011- Driving in the car Kyle said to his sister, "If you don't learn to talk, Jesus will make you talk Spanish." (He explained later that he actually meant sign language. That's how he thought it worked.)

Feb 28, 2011- Kyle said, "I don't like to have babysitters because they are only supposed to take care of babies!" Then we explained that they can take care of bigger kids too.

Dec 15, 2010- Kyle said, "I know how they make egg nog. First they dump in the eggs and mix them around. Then they put in the nog..."

Oct 20, 2010- Kyle said, "Mom, is some cheese blue?" I said it is called blue cheese but isn't really that blue. He said, "Well, then does it taste like blueberries?" I love all the questions he asks about how the world works- He's really trying to figure things out.

Oct 7, 2010- We were driving by Arctic Circle and Kyle said, "Is that the hamburger hut? I like that hut." I am wondering if he was remembering a time when we went to "Pizza Hut".

Aug 12, 2010- We were driving by a farm where there was a big fire burning up the field and Kyle said, "Dad, is that where the indians live?"

Aug 8, 2010- We were driving in the car and Kyle said, "Dad, I think I 'm truck-sick." "You mean car sick?" "No, truck sick- when you're sick in the truck."

Aug 2, 2010- We were headed off to a doctor's appointment for the baby and he was crying. Kyle said, "Mom, I think he's crying because you said he is going to get a shot."

June 28, 2010- The other day at dinner it was Heidi's turn to pray and daddy was helping her. She was just repeating everything word for word when he got to "Please bless it.." and said it 3 times. Finally I had to open my eyes to see what the hold up was. Well, little Heidi was just stuffing spaghetti in her mouth as fast as she could and it was hanging out all over. We all just bust up laughing. I guess she just couldn't wait any longer!

May 19, 2010- On the way home from the hospital after seeing their new baby brother, Erika said, "When I was born mom and dad said that I looked blue." Kyle said, "And when I was born I was pink and red. "

Dec 9,2009- The other day we were eating dinner and Kyle didn't want to eat. He said, "I don't like to eat aliens!" We told him there were no aliens in his dinner. Then, realizing what he was talking about, I said, "You mean onions?" He kept calling onions "aliens" and we got a kick out of it.

Nov 20, 2009- Erika lost another tooth at school today. Kyle said to her, "Erika, when my tooth gets loose and comes out, I'll give mine to you."

Oct 10, 2009- Today Erika said, "Mom, someday when I'm older, I want to get that recipe from you!"

Sept 9, 2009- We couldn't find our puppy anywhere and had driven all over the neighborhood to find him. Finally about 2 hours later Kyle showed up holding him and I said, "Where did you find him?" He said, "In the killer-box". "The what?" "The cooler-box". He had stuck him in a cooler in our backyard and forgotten about it. We were glad he was okay!! I felt terrible and gave him some extra TLC for a little while.

Sept 4, 2009- Erika said tonight, "You know what my favorite thing is about school? It's lunch... and learning... and break!" We said, "Isn't that the whole thing?"

Aug 17,2009- We were camping and had brought all our bikes. As we were leaving camp for a little while, Aaron commented that it might have been wise to bring a chain to lock up our bikes so they wouldn't get stolen. Erika said, "Or, we could have just brought a sign that said, 'DON'T STEAL!'".

July 12, 2009- Today at church Kyle looked at my Young Women's Medallion and said, "Mom, is that you on the necklace?"

July 3, 2009- Kyle had been sleeping down in Erika's room with some friends and came upstairs before we went to bed. He said, "Mom, there was some noise down there. I think it was the tooth fairy, coming to get the loose tooth."