expecting baby number 2 on March 10th. Obviously, we are very excited! We got to hear the heartbeat last week-awesome:) Parker will be a great big brother, he loves babies! He adores cousin Gabby and our neighbor baby, Claire. I am feeling all of the first trimester symptoms but it is well worth it in the end! Please pray for a healthy pregnancy and healthy baby!:)

(By the way---I don't quite look like this, yet! Thank goodness:)

Love, Hilary

Our sweet, funny,and loveable little Parker Man turned 3 years old last week.......(sob,sob.) I have truley loved every stage and every age but I have to say that 3 is an awesome age! Parker is signed up to go to preschool at "King's Kids" with Mrs. Deanne. He will onlly be going one day. He got the cutest little dinosaur backpack from grandma Debbie and grandpa Rob for school. We just got his school supply list in the mail yesterday.:)

Parker's favorite things at 3:

-Loves the show "Word Girl!" on PBS
-superheroes, mostly Spiderman
-capes
-dinosaurs.......anything dinosaurs
-cheeseburgers
-apple juice
-cookies and milk
-reading/being read to
-the library
-Borders Bookstore
-McDonalds!
-playing with friends
-board games
-swimming
-pretending

We had a little b-day party for Parker on vacation. Mom and I made a dinosaur icecream cake. I was all set to decorate it but then Parker wanted to have the honors. So....it didn't look like a dinosaur but it tasted yuummy! We had a small cake last night and celebrated with my g-ma Barb and g-pa Dick and my parents. I think the parites are over!:)









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We had an AWESOME time on our vacation. We had beautiful weather, low 80's and only one rainy day. We took lots of walks, played on the beach all day and enjoyed time with family in the evenings. Jeremy's extended family has been going up to Pentwater, Mich. for decades so it is a ncie family tradition.

Parker enjoyed playing with his cousin's Waylon and Nellie and with his "big friends" Uncle Erik, Uncle Evan, Uncle Ethan, Uncle Paul, Aunt Carrie, and Aunt Melissa. He was also fortunate enough to have both sets of grandparents for the trip ths year. My parents came along and stayed in our cabin because Jeremy's sister and hubby couldn't make it and his brother and his wife were are in Europe on vacation. So we had room in our cabin for my parents to come. It was so fun to have them.........

View from our screened in porch....



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the popular paddle boat at our cabin....(pap jeff, parker, waylon)



Groups hug!!!!!


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MORE TO COME..........TOO TIRED TONIGHT:)

Parker turns 3 years old on July 16th! We will be celebrtaing his birthday on vacation....pics to come:)

We love you so much Parker!

xoxoxo, Mommy and Daddy

We had a BUSY fourth of July weekend. We went to my parents' neighbor's 4th of July party on July 3rd and enjoyed a pettiing zoo, fireworks and face painting. On Friday we went to my friend Bridget's house for a pool party/cook-out and that was a lot of fun. Bridget, your house looks great!:) To top things off on Saturday we went to a party in Bloomington at Jim's house, one of Jeremy's close friends.. It was nice for Jeremy to get to catch up with friends he doesn't see very often and Parker had fun wrestling and playing with Jake, one of Jeremy's friends. Thanks for entertaining Parker, Jake--he talked about his "new friend" on the way home.:) This week will be getting ready to go on vacation. We leave on Satruday for a week to Pentwater Michigan with Jeremy's side of the family. It is always a nice and relaxing time, reading and playing on the beach all day!:) We are all looking forward to it.