As the New Year approaches it makes us all reflect on the past year and its many blessings. Our family has so many wonderful things happen in 2007. Below are some of our the most memorable.

• In February we visited with family and Great Grandmother Isabelle in Natchez


• We closed on our new house in March


• Our nephew Michael Taylor Parker, Jr. was born on April 17th


• Parker and Bennett's cousin Mary Olivia Barnes was born on April 22th


• We traveled to Chattanooga to meet Taylor


• Our good friend Scott Young was married to Tina Rankin in West Palm Peach, FL and were were able to attend the memorable event and visit with old friends


• The Parker family gathered for a family trip in Centralia over the 4th of July


• Our Son Bennett Rivers was born on August 16th


• Clif and I celebrated our 6th anniversary


• Parker turned 2 on September 16th


• As we celebrated Thanksgiving with the Barnes we found out that we will be having another neice or nephew in June 2008 - Beth and Brian are expecting their first child


• Our nephew William Crosby Parker, Jr. was born on December 7th


• Spending the entire month of December with my mom as she helped me recooperate and take care of my family after surgery

Thank you all for being a part of our lives! Happy New Year!

We all had so much fun together. Crissie, Michael and Taylor came into town on Christmas day to open presents and have Christmas dinner with us!

Parker and Crissie playing with her new toys

Taylor had fun playing with all the presents

Michael couldn't wait to see what Santa brought him

Coco got her favorit gift of all after dinner...a phone call from Shannon! We all got to talk with him. We were so excited!
Poopaw and Parker eat cake that she bake in her very own kitchen

Christmas 2007

We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas....we sure did!

As you can see below we were all ready for Santa and he came.

When Parker and daddy walked throught the living room door she new exactly what had happened. Santa came to visit her! She had tried to be good all season.
Look at all the presents Santa brought!
The whole family enjoyed Christmas morning.
Bennett got his first golf club!

Coco, Papa, Parker, Bennett and I decided to get out of the house and drive down to Yazoo City to see Crissie's parents and Taylor. Michael and Crissie had already left of the coast to visit Crosby II.

Beth Cook (Crissie's mom) and Bennett
Coco and Taylor
Parker and her bears
Bennett and Taylor

Parker at the Christmas Parade

Parker enjoying the Christmas Parade

BRB enjoying Christmas Parade

Bennett (held by Andrea) enjoyed Greenwood's annual Christmas Parade.

Parker sings Twinkle Little Star

I've finally found a little time to load some videos....some are new and some are old. Enjoy! Here is Parker singing her favorite song. In order to hear her singing you might have to stop the music on the bottom right under the map and counter.

I just wanted to put everyone's elves all together sincing it is getting closed to Santa's arrival!

Crosby's elves
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Shannon's elves
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Michael's elves
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Clif's elves
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Jack's elves
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On December 7, 2007 we welcomed William Crosby Parker II into our family. Lauren, Crosby and Crosby are at home and doing great! I'm so excited to have another nephew.

Tuesday night Parker and Bennett got to go and see Santa. Bennett did great and so did Parker until the little boy in front of her starting crying. She was all ready to see him and tell him what she wanted to Christmas. See the pictures below to see what happened then.

Right here she is looking around for Santa Claus because she knows that he brings GOOD girls and boys presents!

It is like the Easter Bunny all over

Having Bennett with her made her calm down a little but not much.

I think Bennett would have stayed in Santa's lap all night

A couple of weeks ago, Greenwood had its Annual Roy Martin Delta Band Festival Parade (say that 3 times in a row). We all had a blast and Parker loved all the marching bands and the dancers.

Poopaw and Parker getting ready for the parade to start
Andrea Long (she works with me) and Bennett watching the parade go by
Aunt Sunny and Parker pointing out their favorite bands

Parker had so much fun that she couldn't even stay awake to watch Dora.

Here are a few pictures from Thanksgiving and the weekend after. Below we are all at Sunny's putting together a gingerbread house. It was difficult trying to keep Parker and her cousin Ethan from eating the decorations!

Cool Bettie (who is expecting in June!) and Bennett
The Barnes and Parker clan eating at Greenwood's new Mexican restaurant Margartias!
Parker's cousin Ethan turned 2 in November and he had a cookout at Aunt Sunny's house. Below Parker and Ethan are playing outside with the bubble machine.
Parker and Ethan playing with his new toys.

Hopefully this weekend I will be able to post some video from our annual Christmas parade. The weather was cool but not too cold and Parker and Bennett had a great time watching and listening to all the marching bands.

Stay Tuned!

Happy Halloween.....a little belated

It was brought to my attention that I never posted any Halloween pictures so here they are

Parker kissing a witch
Parker in her duck cosutme. She didn't really like the head until she figured out the whole Halloween thing....dress up and you get candy!
Bennett didn't really have a costume. He just looked cute!
Parker would say "trick or treat" in her own fashion and then would immediately turn around and say "mommy open open!" and begin to eat. I would take away what she was munching on so that she could go to the next house. It worked out that she only ate about a piece and a half of candy so bedtime wasn't too terrible.

Here are some pictures that we had taken a couple of weeks ago. I'm very happy with how they turned out. I hope you enjoy them too!

The Parker "elf yourself" was too cute so I had to copy it.

http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=9624584687

Hope you enjoy!

Here are a few pictures from the past few weeks.

Coco and Papa stopped by on their way to Natchez the weekend before Thanksgiving. We were still having beautiful weahter (if you like it to be 75 degrees in November).

That same weekend we packed up the children and headed to Jackson to get some new furniture, which was way overdue if you had every seen or better yet sat on our couches. Below is a picture of our new couch. Big enough for all of our families to gather on for the Holidays!
We also made a stop at Chuck E. Cheese. Parker had a blast. She loved the little cars and just running around. We will definitely go back in the future. Below she and Clif are playing a game.
Here is Bennett in the morning. He wakes up happy and stays that way most of the day. I wish that I woke up that happy.