UPDATE:

Most of you have probably seen these on facebook but I just put a couple up for fun....

So update of what we've been up to:

- Not much out of the ordinary

- Matt did OB/GYN rotation and is now on Psychiatry (not his favourite)

- A few of our good friends are moving out of the ward :(

- Had the best Valentines ever (flowers, a ring, dinner the works!)

- Getting Parker to stop taking a binki for naps and bed (only cried 15 minutes tonight...)

- Doing Beehives ( I thought I made the best scavenger hunt ever on Tuesday)

Nothing too crazy, but we're happy and just thought I'd say what's up?!?

HALLOWEEN

Here's a few things we've been up to since the summer:

1. Matt went to a wedding in California the same day I went to a friends wedding in Utah

2. My mom, sister and her 2 kids came to visit for a week and we had so much fun

3. Lots of time spent at the park, now that its only in the 70s and 80s instead of 90s and 100s

4. Texas State Fair.....deep fried cookie dough

5. Pumpkin Patch (this particular October day it was 90 degrees)

6. Halloween Parties

7. World Series Game 5....TONIGHT!

Here's Parker in his little dragon costume!

I love the pudgy side view :)

A princess, a knight and a dragon

EVEN THOUGH....

Matt is one of the most ridiculous people I know, that just so happens to be one of the reasons I love him SO much! After 3 years of marriage he makes me the happiest!

Can everyone believe I just posted twice in one day?

MY SON IS ONE! well 13 months....

Well everyone I know its been a long time, but I'm not even going to apologize because I've been having WAY too much fun and been way too busy to even blog about it. But I do have a second today and can't resist showing everyone (who even checks my blog anymore since its been so long) the very cute pictures of my favourite little boy!

He's already 13 months and I can't believe my baby is such a big boy, guess its time to start thinking about getting a new cute little baby :) Just kidding we're not going to try just yet, but this little guy will need some siblings eventually.

AIR SHOW!

A week ago Saturday we went to an awesome Air Show in Fort Worth. I was supposed to go to a Stake Relief Society thing that morning but I weighed my options- spend quality time as a family (which is somewhat rare) or go to an uplifting RS event...sorry Relief Society family wins! Five other families from the ward met us there and we had a great time watching the planes, and watching Parker watch the planes :)

The exact moment this picture was taken Parker's hat had blown off his head and into the helicopter, you can see it going through the window in the picture.

Love his fat chubby cheek grin!

TIME

I've been thinking a lot about time this past month. I would consider myself an organized person and I'm constantly making lists of things to get done...which never ends of course because by the time I cross laundry off the list and move on to the others it's just about time to add laundry back on again and so on. I've been wanting to post about Hawaii and Parker and so many things but can't find the time...but I have time for my favorite tv shows...it's hard for me to find time to read my scriptures everyday, but I have time to read other books...so I guess I realized I have plenty of time to do things I need to and plenty of time to do things I want to...I realized I'm not as organized or disciplined as I may thought I was, I need to do a lot better job at organizing my time!

LOVE OF MY LIFE

Sadly I must admit that I didn't do much of anything for Matt for Valentine's Day, and he did some really sweet things for me...So I am going to tell you the top ten reasons why I love my husband, in no particular order!

1. He makes me laugh every single day (reference the picture below)
2. He loves me unconditionally, no matter what
3. He honors his priesthood and is a great example to me of service
4. He always does everything I ask of him without complaint
5. He is a sweet and loving father
6. He is so honest and is not afraid to say what he thinks or feels, but also listens to what others have to say, he helps me to express myself better
7. He is so much fun to be around, no matter what we're doing
8. He is always concerned about my health and happiness
9. He reads and prays with me everyday
10. He is the best thing that has ever happened to me!

* Sorry if this was too sappy for some, but "I'm in love, I'm in love and I don't care you knows about it!"

FAMILY AND PARKER PICS 2010

Here's a recap of the last couple months....all the holidays were great and it was fun to spend it with lots of family and friends! We truly are very blessed. Matt is pushing along through school as best he can. I think he's tired of lectures all day every day and is really looking forward to started clinical stuff this summer. Parker and I are doing great and loving every minute of being home together. Parker is growing so fast and I love him more every day. We decided to get some good pictures of the little man and the whole fam together, so please enjoy :)

4 MONTHS!

4 months has literally flown by and I love this little boy more than ever!


He is now 14lbs7oz and 25 1/2 inches and cute as can be!

He's working towards becoming the next Crocodile Hunter!

PARKER'S 1ST HALLOWEEN!

Parker was a football for Halloween because I figured we had to carry him around any way :) My mom, the wonderful seamstress made this adorable outfit for him.

Here's the footballl player carrying our little football at one of the parties we went to with a bunch of other medical school students.

The whole little family, sadly no pom poms to go with the cheerleading outfit.

Wearing his 1st Halloween shirt he got from Matt's mom.

Cool Mr. Skeleton dude!

MONTHLY UPDATE

I seem to be in the habit of only updating the blog once a month, which I fully intend on doing it more often...but somehow it just never happens.

Disclaimer: the pictures are kind of blurry on here, but they're not blurry on my computer so I'm not sure what's going on with that....

A few weeks ago Parker and I embarked on his first airplane ride ever (which he did amazing on) to visit my family in Oregon. It was so much fun and a lot of firsts; he met 3 uncles for the first time, went to his very first football game, and slept 8 hours straight for the first time every night I was there! I'm so glad I got to go it was such a nice break and fun to show him off to everyone back in the home ward.

Taking a quick nap before the footballl game (he did have a crib to sleep in, but this was closer at the time).

Parker and Uncle Phil before the big game!

Sleeping through most of the shouts and screams!

Hanging out with grandma!

CATCHING UP

After almost a couple months and a few people reminding me I need to update my blog, here's a quick update. I probably have 800 pictures of Parker that I think are adorable, but I won't make you scroll through them all. I narrowed the last couple months down to 5 major events as follows:

1. Best/Worst Day

Matt and I's 2nd Anniversary was on August 11th, but Matt had school so we didn't really do anything special. But to celebrate Matt got us tickets to go see Wicked in Austin. We left Saturday morning with Matt's brother Steve, we ate some good bbq and then Steve watched Parker while Matt and I went to the play, which was so fun to see. That's the best part, here comes the worst.
On the way home the alternator died on our car and we were stuck at a gas station in Salado, Texas for 3 1/2 hours until our amazing home teacher drove all the way out, in someone else's car, to give us a ride back to Dallas, only to get a ticket on the way home. Nice repayment for his service, right? A couple other bad things happened before we finally got home at 1am, but I'll keep the story short.

2. Parker's Blessing

We blessed Parker on Sept. 6th. Below are the Harrison Family members that were able to attend.

Tolley Family members at the blessing.

Parker and Cousin Addyson.

Sisters and Babies :)

3. EQP, yeah you know me!

As if medical school, being a husband and father weren't enough for Matt he just got called to be our ward's Elders Quorum President. I know he'll do a really good job I just worry because I know he stresses about spending time on school a lot (and that was before)...

4. 2 Months Old!

Parker is over 2 months now, it's crazy! He's getting so big, but I love all the smiles and coos he's been giving me lately.

Height: 23 inches (50th percentile)
Weight: 12 lbs 10 ozs (75th percentile)
Head: 15 inches (20th percentile)

I make him wear things to bring out his Canadian Heritage.

5. Babysitting

I am currently babysitting the baby of a friend I taught with last year as a source of a little income. He's a week younger than Parker, his name is Brayden. This is my 3rd week doing it, and overall it hasn't been that bad, but there are definitely those moments...we'll see how it goes.

Nothing too exciting, but there's my life of the last couple months in a nutshell!

LIKE FATHER LIKE SON....

they're goofballs!

I have a feeling these two will be having a lot of fun together.

TWO WEEKS!

Everyone said, "Enjoy him being tiny because it will go by really fast" and it is so true. He's still tiny but I can't believe he is already over two weeks old now! I am so so tired but absolutely love this little boy more than anything!

Two Week Stats:
Weight: 7lbs 6ozs
Height: 20 inches

We've had a little fight with jaundice, and I've had to take him to get his foot stabbed and blood taken 3 days in a row. It made me so sad to hold him while he cried, but thankfully his jaundice levels are on their way down, so no other problems :)

I love being a mom!

PARKER MATTHEW HARRISON

July 9th, 2009
8:37pm
Weight: 7lbs 5ozs
Height: 19.25 inches

So what do you do at 3am when you're feeding a baby? Update your blog! However seeing as I'm pretty tired this round is mostly just some pictures. With very little commentary...

Happy family just after he was born and cleaned up

First trip to the Nursery

When he first got home 2nd whole day of being alive!

Love the cheesy grin (Day 4)

Day 6
Still just being the cutest little boy there ever was!

For those of you who want to know the actual story of his birth I promise I'll share it soon, when's it's not 3am and when I'm not so tired...so maybe never :)