Our Mountain Continues.....

Ok, like I said, we have pix of the mountain that is arising in our back yard! It looking so neat and really taking shape. I am getting carried away thinking about the plant life I will be able to put here there and everywhere! :) Chet may look back at this later and wish he might not have gotten this whole thing rolling. As I spaend all of our spare change, and then some. Just kidding......sort of. Anyway, here are a couple of the pix we have so far. They will be working more on it tomorrw and Tuesday, so I will update more either when it is done or when it looks so cool I can't contain myself anymore. Love you all tons! Jana

P.S The first 2 are the befores, the last 2 are the work in progress before it got dark. Even though they worked on into the night. They worked until like 11 pm so it looks even more different now than it did then. Guess you will have to come back l8r if you want to see more. HAHA now I am just teasing you. There will for sure be more.

Our own piece of the mountain!

Hey all, Just another Parker family update! Not that you really need one, but here goes anyway.

I think that you all need to come to my house and see what we have been doing in our back yard! ( by we I mean Chet and his brother Rick. I am just a sideline supervisor )

For real though, we are building our own MOUNTAIN!!!! It is so cool! I will post some pix as we get farther into it. It should be finished some time in the beginning of next week.

We have been planning on doing this since we very first moved in. I couldn't picture what it was going to look like at first so I just had to trust that Chet knew what he was doing. But now it is looking SO neat! Megan is going to have her very OWN ledge. I am not sure exactly what that means but she will have one.

Anyway, I am just a little excited! I will update as new things come up. :)

Hey! Happy 19th to the Parkers!!! It is a big deal and we're very happy for you! We love you all. And, please notice, it isn't just the Parker blog!
We got more than 1 1/2 inches of rain this last week! That's pretty huge for St. George! We don't really have a whole lot of news from here, but we do love you all!
Mom & Dad

19 years!

Hey everybody!
I don't want this to be the Parker blog, but here I just wanted to say hey.
Chet and I celebrated our 19th anniversary today! wahoo! No really! That is a really exciting thing to me! Especially for us to still really like each other! We are really looking forward to the rest of forever together! We went out on Saturday to Costa Vida's in Ogden. There is an indoor surfing place right next door, so you can eat in the restaurant and be entertained by the surfers next door at the same time. It is really a good time. At least for my family it is. Then we went in and wondered around Fat Cats arcade for a while before we went home. Fairly uneventful but a good time just to be together. We had to go on Saturday because Chet's work schedule has been a little crazy as of late. Anyway, I guess that's all for now. Now it is someone elses turn to make a post, before I make another one.
Love you all have a wonderful week. Jana & Chet

Hi everyone! We finally got on! Sorry it took us so long! I don't know how to get back on next time, so somebody will have to tell me that. Dad's last blood count was up to 11. His doctor thought she was going to have to put him back in the hospital and start that all over, but he surprised her! That's a good thing!
My work is keeping me very busy and I'm going to learn how to do Reiki, so we'll see how that goes. If you have questions about it, look it up on Google. It will explain it lots better than I can. I don't know why, but I know I need to do this, if only for my own health and for Dad. I can't help but think there's more to it than that, but I'm feeling my way one step at a time.
It was our Relief Society enrichment night tonight and I had a gal come and teach the sisters Edgu. It's a form of exercise you do to music and guided imagery. It's more like a dance and is very gentle and non-impact. It helps align the spine and increase mobility and anyone can do it, old and young, even pregnant. It was fun. Well, it's late and I got up at 5 the last 2 mornings, so will sign off for now. Hope you get this! Love, Mom

Hey everybody lookie!

Hey everyone look at this! This is Megan's Homecoming dance pix. Notice how she is the ONLY one without bare shoulders! Not sure if she was happy about that, but she did it anyway. She is getting so grown up I can hardly stand it! Oh well! I am still having fun with it! (at least MOST of it. ) :)

Hidie ho Neighbors (family)

Hi Family,

NOt to much new here. Just an update on our week end. Megan's homecoming went well. She didn't go with a date, as she both didn't get asked, and she is not 16 yet. She did have a bunch of friends that all went together. Some of them were couples but on the whole they were just a great big group. She did buy a group pix, so when that comes I will scan it and post it so you all can see, her goofy group that I love.
Ford is working hard on his part in the play, and is getting a good work out by learning dances and moving sets around. I think this is really good for him though.

We got to go to one of the most awesome Sacrament meetings EVER on Sunday. Chris worked his magic yet again, and had an orchestra preform for the whole meeting (except the 2 very short talks) One the the orchestra members is a girl from our ward that has just started college, and was offered the opportunity to play with Chris' group and had a wonderful time! It really was one of the best meetings I have ever been to! Kudos again to Chris, and also to Christi for supporting and encouraging him. Anyway, I guess for now that's all. So I will Blog again soon. Love you all Jana

From Colorado

I don't know about anyone else, but we are enjoying the blog so far. I hope we'll just keep getting more and more activity.



Congrats on your part Ford. I wish we could come see you perform. Sounds like you're having a good time and developing lots of talents. Keep it up.



Megan, sounds like your having a great time in high school. I'm glad to hear it. However, if I get word I need to make a trip out to straighten out a wayward young man who's got big ideas about my niece you better watch out. By the way, who's the latest casualty in Megan's war of infatuation? If you think someone should smack me for all this harrassment, don't worry, Jennah's good at that sort of thing when necessary.

We had a busy day yesterday. We left at 9:30 with all the brood and went to Paige's soccer game. Boy, talk about mob mentality. That's all the kids know, but that's normal. After Paige's game, we went to Jesse's flag football game. Jesse is really excited to get to play and he had a great time. After Jesse's game, we went Brielle's soccer game. She's is fun to watch play soccer because she plays with unrestrained energy and zeal, until she exhausts herself. By the time we finished it was 4:00 in the afternoon. I wonder how we're going to handle it when we have all the kids running around to lesson, games, or other activities. Oh well, why borrow worries. I enjoyed watching the kids play and I even managed to restrain myself and let their coaches do the coaching (I only cheered a little bit).

Jennah and the kids are enjoying home school. It still challenging, but Jennah has retooled the schedule several times and is getting more and more comfortable. Jesse has learned the names of about 30 birds (he embarrassed me in a competition) and they've both learned a great deal about sharks, fish and amphibians. I'm definitely going to have to make sure I keep up on my reading or they're going to learn more than I know before I know it. Boy, that was hard to follow. Hopefully, you got the point.

Anyway, love you guys. We'll talk to you later.

Dave

Hello. This is MEGAN! :)

Aloha!
hahaha I felt like Hawaii for a second there :)
Anyways this, as you may have already guessed, is Megan.
And I am greeting you from our humble abode, in the dinning room to be exact..
But anyways on to the good stuff.
I am in high school now, and a brand new one at that :)
We are the Syracuse Titans and we are full of pride because we have a new school. (the good pride)
I am taking my core classes.. because I have to.. but my electives are Choir, Orchestra, and Seminary and I am loving all three.
Tomorrow is Homecoming day.. and the Orchestra gets to be in the parade we are having after school :) it is very exciting because I have never been in a parade. :D
And there is a tailgate party with free hot dogs!
Our homecoming football game will be played against Weber High..
Hopefully we will win.. We haven't won at all so far..
So wish us luck :)
Homecoming Dance is Saturday evening and I am going to go with a bunch of friends it will be exciting..
I hope.
Well.. I feel as if I am rambling on.. and on.. and on..
haha...
So I will part from the blogging scene for now.
Have a wonderful night, and weekend.
Love you so much miss you all!
♥ Megan

Just a little update.

Hi guys,
Just a little update, Ford got a part as a salesman. I can't remember if I said that they are doing "Music Man Jr." Not as big of a part as he thought, but I think the more he thought about having to be there everyday, all day long I think he is glad that he got a smaller part. Not only that his friend Dylan and he now have almost the same part. It worked out well.
Chet ended up not having to go to court for the assault thing. The guy out in a plea bargin, so it was all over with and handled without even having to go back to the judge. What that means for us yet is not really clear for me. I do know that the guy has to pay restitution, and will be on probation, and some other things that I don't know all the details to. I think that if we want any money from him, we will have to sue him civially, and I don't think that Chet is really wanting to pursue that. I guess we will have to just wait and see. Anyway, I guess that is all for now. Love you all. Jana & Fam.

Greetings family of mine! having technical difficulties with my aged computer. Love the blog - hope to be able to post soon.

Hi guys

Here's a little clip of Eryn starting to walk. She still prefers to crawl most of the time, but she's getting more and more confident.

Love Dave

Here are the newest pix.

These were taken a couple of weeks ago at the park in a tree that we take pictures in every year. They are getting old aren't they. ;)

This is from Ford

Hi everybody this Is Ford. I'm just going to tell everybody, that I made call backs for the musical at my school. If anyone wants to come I will get the information and post it here. Love you guys. Ford

I think it is almost FALL!

Hi everybody!

I hope everyone is having a great week! As for me, you know,(sarcastic deep sigh) never a dull moment at the Parker house!

In my last entry, I was complainging LOUDLY about how stinking hot it was. Well, now is my time to NOT complain. The weather has been so fantastic the last few days!! It has cooled off nicely. Not too cool but not at all hot like before. It rain here at my house for most of the night last night. Which for me was a really good thing, as I was the only one home and it gave me something to focus on BESIDES being home alone. Which I really hate. (I was trying to conserve fuel, by not driving anywhere).

Anyway, Ford had his tryouts for the school play today I will have to let you know what happens with that.

Megan was voted class rep for her Orchestra class. I think she is excited!

Work and kids is really all I have been doing, not too exciting, but there is my entry.

By the way Dave & Jen, This is a really good idea, I think I just hope to hear from everybody. But if not it will be intirely too funny to read about your family! I love it!!

Guess thats all for now Love you all, Jana & Fam

Hi Guys

Does anybody want a tadpole? We've got two. They're actually looking more like frogs now. Jennah and the kids found them at a farm after some heavy rains. The kids have never caught tadpoles before, so I guess it was a bit of a circus. Everyone ran into the water like the tadpoles were just going to sit there and let them catch them. When I got home that night, I educated them a little bit about how to appropriately catch tadpoles. Oh well, they had fun and the tadpoles, amazingly, have survived. This despite incidences with our not so gentle with animals Caleb. He came to me one day with a tadpole very securely held in his hand. I think the poor things eyes were bulging out of its head. I really thought he killed it. Fortunately, they have proven resilient and are quite active most of the time, especially when they see the shadow of Caleb approaching.

This is our fifth attempt at having animals about. Brielles Gecko and the tadpoles are the only ones still hanging around. Oh, and the crickets if you count them before they become food for the Gecko. I can't remember the Gecko's name, Brielle keeps changing it. One of these days we'll get really brave and get a puppy, but the kids scared the last dog we tried to get away. He started digging under the fence he was so scared. Just kidding. Anyway, Jennah tells me I need to stop now, so we'll talk to you later.

Love you all

Dave