Happy Halloween

The Parkers want to wish you a spooky Halloween!!!
Love: David, Katrina, Lizzie, Krislynn, and Madison

Lizzie's Pumpkin Shirt

So after multiple jack o lantern faces this is the one Lizzie FINALLY picked! Hooray for fun holidays to make fun crafts!

Krislynn's pumpkin shirt

"Look at me!"

Krislynn's pumpkin silly face

I did it!!! Krislynn LOVES it, and now I'm one to making one for Lizzie. She said she wants a cat, but then she changes her mind every 3 seconds... The joys of being a 3 year old.

The girls

Oneies for Devyn's Baby Shower

My great friend Devyn is having her third baby in November, and she isn't finding out what she is having. This caused me some stress of deciding what to make her since I didn't know if it is going to be a girl or boy. I called multiple friends, and they gave me their take on what I should buy her, but nothing stood out to me, until late Thursday night I found this AMAZING Etsy shop with super cute unisex oneies. I LOVE the Hungry little caterpillar, and an owl to go with her owl theme. She loved them, and now I'm on to making the girls some jack o lantern shirts. Wish me luck!

Classical Lizzie

Lizzie has said some super funny stuff lately that I want to remember:

Saturday Conference Morning: David went over to our friend's house to pick up some baby items. Conference had just started...
(L) "Where is Daddy"
(K) "He went to go pick up something for Madison"
(L) "He went to Heaven to get Madison?"

Yesterday in Church during sharing time they were taking about Conference, and showed a picture of Pres. Erying
(Primary worker)"Can anyone tell me who this picture is of?"
(L) yells out "Georgie Porgie!"
(Primary worker) "Good guess, but he is not Georgie Porgie!"

I guess we have been reading our nursery rhymes book too much lately!

Here is the rhyme:
Georgie Porgie pudding and pie,
Kissed the girls and made them cry
When the boys came out to play,
Georgie Porgie ran away.

Oak Glen

The girls

Who wants my girls?

For the past week my girls have graciously decorated my carpet and furniture with random foods. Last week I bought David Fruity Pebbles and Coco Pebbles since he was starting a new class and he loves them. My darling daughters thought they should be used as confetti and traced it throughout my house. Each day they would find the boxes and let the ritual rain to flow. Finally the boxes were gone since they had so many pebble dances, and I thought the messes would end. BOY WAS I WRONG!!! After the pebbles were gone it went to Kix cereal, then Krislynn thought it would be enjoyable to take off her diaper and pee throughout our room, and when she would finish she would grab a towel and sit on it butt naked. Thank you for sitting on the towel Krislynn, but next time let's keep your diaper on please :) Then today Krislynn came into our office, and brought me her new adventure. Let me give you a couple hints of what it could be. It is white, found on the cooking isle, and it it powder. Did you guess powdered sugar? Yes, powder sugar was dumped everywhere from the kitchen to the family room, to the couches, then underneath the coffee table, then a huge pile on a side table, and then a perfect line down the hallway to the office.
So who would like my kids? They are super cute, and very mischievous :) What am I going to do to make them stop? I'm going out of my mind over here! Help me please!
Today's update adventure: Krislynn decided to get down the vitamins, and eat chewable Vitamin C tablets.

Going to the beach

One of our favorite things to do is go to the beach. The sand in our toes, and the sounds of the waves crashing just makes a perfect day. The girls especially love to dig in the sand and make sand castle after sand castle.

Grammie and Papa

The girls love having their Grammie and Papa come to visit, especially if Grammie colors with them and brings cookies and juice. Every time I tell the girls Grammie is coming to visit they ask what kind of juice and cookies she is bringing. Grammie always brings the best treats, and the girls can't wait to see what they get each time she walks in.

My little pirate

Krislynn's cousins had a joint pirate party, and ever since the party it is all about pirates. Pirates this and pirates that! The girls loves to get dressed up as pirates and go on adventures. They especially love Peter Pan, and Jake and the Neverland Pirates right now. They get out their treasure chest and fill it with gold doubloons and the fun never ends.

The Letter Worm

The other day I came up with this great game for Lizzie. I made a long strip, and wrote all the uppercase letters on it, and then I got clothes pins and wrote all the lowercase letters on each clothes pin. I mixed all the clothes pins up, and Lizzie picks a clothes pin, and has to pin it on the correct uppercase letter. This simple exercise works with matching uppercase and lowercase letters, and small motor skills. You could also have the child say the sound the letter makes when they pin it on. Enjoy!!!

Lizzie's new thing

This year I wanted to put Lizzie into Preschool, but out here it is hard to find a "good" preschool for a reasonable price. So I scratched that idea, and have just been implementing different strategies with her. So I decided to see what else was available for my little Lizzie to do, and look what I found!!!! Lizzie LOVES gymnastics! She loves to tumble, jump, and run. She loves working with her teachers, and is excited each week to go to class. Each Tuesday I remind her we have gym class, and then she asks every give seconds, "Is it time to go yet?" Krislynn wanted to join in on the fun too, and was upset that she didn't get to do all the fun things Lizzie got to do.

Here Batter... Batter

David and I love going to Angel's Games. Here is a picture of one of the many games we have been to this season. Hooray for Big Bang Fridays and the Daniels!

The bandaid

The other day Lizzie cut her back and wanted a bandaid. I told her to go into my bathroom and there was one on the counter. This is what she came back with! LOVE IT!

The T-shirt dresses that I have been dying to make

So here is Lizzie's. I found out that I didn't have enough fabric for the yoke(the tie part on Krislynn's) but I still love it.

I wanted something to spice it up so I added a flower and some ribbon

This is Krislynn's. Lizzie was the model today since this is what Krislynn has been doing ALL DAY!

Not wanting to play with Mommy and being a model. I'm glad they are done, now on to something new...

Zesty Slow Cooker Chicken Barbecue

Ingredients

• 6 frozen skinless, boneless chicken breast halves
• 1 (12 ounce) bottle barbeque sauce
• 1/2 cup Italian salad dressing
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce

Directions

1. Place chicken in a slow cooker. In a bowl, mix the barbecue sauce, Italian salad dressing, brown sugar, and Worcestershire sauce. Pour over the chicken.
2. Cover, and cook 3 to 4 hours on High or 6 to 8 hours on Low.

Denise Bagley’s Chinese Chicken Salad

So Yummy!!!!

Marinade:

o 2 tablespoons sugar

o ½ teaspoon pepper

o 1 teaspoon soy sauce

o 1 tablespoon sesame oil

o 3 tablespoons rice vinegar

o 3 tablespoons oil

Ingredients:

Salad mix (a couple different types of lettuce)

2 cans of Mandarin oranges

Bean sprouts

Slivered almonds

Crunchy noodles

Green onions

Won tons (fry in hot oil. Slice wonton in 1/8” slices. Don’t brown too much. Drain on paper towel)

Chicken

Sesame seeds

o Marinade chicken overnight if possible (if you don’t have that much time marinade for a couple hours) before serving mix the rest of the ingredients, and then add chicken mixture. Serve Won tons on the side.

Bling Bling Krislynn

Super Funny Superhero Daddy Story

Okay.. this post is kinda random, and David will probably think I'm silly for posting this, but I want to remember this Father's Day. The girls and I went to Walmart to pick up some things, and we were passing through the Men's clothing section. (Lizzie is obsessed with boy underwear, and she would prefer to wear since it has cooler pictures on them) Well she spotted Men's Superman undies. She hopped out of the cart and ran to them, and wouldn't put them down. She wanted to get them for David so badly. Well I tried everything for her to put them down, but she wouldn't. So I put her in the cart and told her she could hold them. She was the happiest little girl showing anyone and everyone this pair of underwear, and explaining to everyone how she was going to get them for her dad for Father's Day. I quickly finished my shopping and headed back to the underwear section to see how much they were since Lizzie had her heart set on them for David. They were $8.00 for ONE PAIR!!!! There was no way I was going to spend that much money on one pair of underwear. I tired everything to get Lizzie to put them down. I looked for a cheaper pair, but NOTHING was working.
Then my light bulb went off! My Ah-Ha moment as Oprah calls it. Freezer paper stencils and then David could have multiple pairs of SUPER HERO undies. I explained my idea to Lizzie and told her she could help make lots of SUPER HERO undies for Daddy. She was super excited, and she finally put the Super undies down. I walked out of Wal-mart with 5 pairs of undies for $9.00.. Way better deal!!! So the freezer paper stencils started, and here we are with the SUPER HERO DADDY PACK "For all your crime fighting needs!"
Lizzie and I finished the undies a week or so before Father's Day, and Lizzie was super excited about giving them to David. She kept telling me Daddy needed more Batman undies, but I explained he needed different kinds for all his crime fighting needs. Father's Day was FINALLY here and Lizzie was so excited to give David her gift. David loved them, what dad wouldn't RIGHT? Hooray for crazy ideas put to good use!

Lizzie our little photo taking princess

Lizzie and Krislynn LOVE taking pictures. I grabbed my camera this morning to take a picture of something, and noticed that my card was filled. So I checked to see what I could delete... well lets just say that Lizzie and Krislynn went on a photo taking adventure around the house. I guess I should have kept some of the pictures they took, but I just loved the ones Lizzie took of Krislynn in their tent. Hooray for fun adventures, and ten minutes of deleting random pictures :)

Our Garden

Ever since I was little I have always wanted a garden, but growing up in the mountains where the wind blows all summer long, and it doesn't get that hot makes gardening kinda impossible. I can remember Amanda Fenn always coming home from her grandparents house in Az, and telling me about all the wonderful things they got to eat out of the garden while they were visiting, and always hoping they brought some home to share with me. Or when Grandma and Grandpa Fenn would come and visit and they would bring over their watermelon.. I can still taste the juiciness of those melons. YUMMY! So after moving here I decided I wanted to have a garden. I decided this was the year, and not really knowing anything about gardening I planted my crop, and hoped we would get at least something to harvest to show the girls. Well the first harvest came and the girls were so excited. The girls want to pick everything now, but I explain each time we water the different veggies are not ready to be picked yet, but once they are they can help me harvest them. The picture of the garden was taken about 2 weeks ago, and everything is in bloom now. So hopefully this month we will get a good pickling. Our backyard is all weeds except the back corner where the garden is, maybe by next summer we can get the backyard finished since the front yard is almost complete.