Parker and her best friend Anna Grace ready foe a "blooming" birthday party!

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and they are swimming!!

Poppa Jack's tinkering

I love the things Poppa Jack creates when we come to town!

Parker got a new look!

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Thanks Coco for watching our children!  We had a wonderful time at the wedding.

hanging out at the Natchez airport

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sweet smell of Spring

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This past weekend some of us gathered in Natchez to run the Junior Auxiliary Run for Kids 10K race. We had great weather and fun times. I will have more pictures soon but Sarah sent this precious one of Langley and Josie. They had a great time playing together.

In January Parker's class went to the livestock show. He classmate Emma Lewis who is the cute girl sitting in the middle with the glasses had a pig that won 2nd place!

Parker and Bennett goofing off and having fun!

Parker and her pack of puppies having a meal.

Playdoh time!

more playdoh time

More four wheeler fun!

We had a wonderful New Year's Eve playing with our cousins! Shannon, Sarah, Josie, Crosby, Lauren, Crosby, Cannon and Charlie all came to ring in the New Year! We had a brief period of sunlight so the kids went outside to play. Bennett began riding his bike without training wheels just the day before so he was loving showing off his new skills. We tried to get a picture of everyone and I think this is one of the best.

Parker making Charlie smile.....it doesn't take much. He is a very happy guy!

Josie and Langley playing with Bennett's race track.

Trying to get the perfect photo.

Since Bennett moved up to the bike Langley took over the four wheeler and Josie borrowed our neighbors. They went up and down the street and it was so much fun! I will post more pictures.

Random pictures from the end of last year. Over the Christmas break Parker got very creative and began creating an underwater scene with her pipe cleaners. We decided to tape it all to the couch and it stayed there for awhile.

Langley enjoying some yogurt. Don't you love her painted nails....she is definitely a girly girl!

Most days of the week Parker comes home with multiple cuttings. She calls herself the "master cutter". I'm definitely not going to let her watch Edward Scissorhands! Some of the cuttings are pretty elaborate and very detailed and some are 3D. We have setup the dining room as our art studio and have been doing lots of cutting with construction paper including our Valentine's Day cards. I will post more pictures of her cuttings and some of her new paintings from art class.

Langley the princess!

If you didn't receive a Christmas card I apologize but this was the picture. I just love it! Here they are at age 6, 4 and 2 looking so very sweet!

She is ready for her first Valentine's day party!

Go Dawgs!

ready for playschool!

We had a pretty low key Christmas this year. It was just us and the Barnes' came over for Christmas dinner. Below are just a couple of pictures. Langley enjoying her princess tent.

Parker and Langely getting down with the Wii Just Dance game.

More Wii just dance....this one if for kids only though. Langley loves it and watches Parker the whole time!

Bennett got an awesome new race track.
You can see a new kickstand bike in the back for Parker and a dollhouse for Langley too!

We got our Christmas decorating off to a late start but I did have a lot of help when we did get around to it. Parker shimmied up the tree to hand each decoration. It was quite impressive!

These pictures go with the danceing videos below. I hope you enjoye them as much as we do!

It's a dance huddle! If you notice, Parker had a couple of wardrobe changes.