Parkinson Family: December 2015

Thursday, December 31, 2015

Our First Christmas in Paradise

Our first Christmas in our new home was a memorable one. We enjoyed spending time with our family and doing our usual Christmas Eve program with the kids. Christmas morning we spent at home opening presents and just enjoying our day.

Oma and Opa came up to visit late Christmas Eve and Christmas morning. I made each of the kids a block with their name, photos, and birth info on them. They each have their own color, which they use for different things around the house so I used their colors for these.

The kids couldn't wait to put their new lego sets together!

Over New Year's Eve, Aaron's family came and stayed at our house for a few days and we had a blast!

still not quite sure what to do with the presents

The kids have had a tradition almost every time they get together of putting on a show for all of us. This year's "show" was hilarious! It is so fun to watch them use their imaginations!

This little guy was completely exhausted after all the fun. This made me laugh because
only Jordan could fall asleep upright like this, anywhere, even amid all the noise.

We played a lot of games together, one of them being "Pie in the face" and got a lot of laughs from watching people get whip cream splatted in their face.

Saturday, December 19, 2015

Temple Square 2015

For our anniversary this year, Aaron and I had the opportunity of attending the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas concert. The concert was on Saturday, the 18th, the day after our anniversary, so we just stayed home the day of our anniversary. We ended up doing a stay-at-home date for our anniversary. I surprised Aaron with some yummy chinese food, which I dished up on nice china and we ate it in the front room. Our children got really into serving the food to us (as shown in the picture above of Kyle) with a menu and everything. Erika and Kyle fed the other kids a quick meal in the kitchen while we had our "date".

We stayed down in Sandy with my parents for the next couple days. We took the opportunity to go sledding on the morning of the 19th. There wasn't a lot of snow, but we found some on the hill behind the elementary school in Draper.

The evening of the 19th was my mom and dad's party with my siblings.

All the grandkids in their new pajamas

Kaylee enjoying a candy cane. (easy to please...)

We also took the kids to see Temple Square on our way out of Salt Lake on Sunday.

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."