An Addition

Jason and I are big suckers for dogs, as most of you know. We have been looking for a dog like the one we had in Utah and finally found her! This is Molly, a Golden Retriever/Lab mix that we adopted from the SPCA yesterday. She's nine years old and very well behaved. She and Sophie are getting along great. In this photo she is staring at our parakeets. She's fascinated by them. We are very happy with our new addition even though many of you, I'm sure, think we've lost our minds. Dogs rule!!

Just Something to Post

It has been a wonderfully slow month! For lack of anything else to post, Melanie says I should post a picture of Sara playing Play-Doh, since that has been my life every day since Christmas.

So here she is with a little person I cut out for her. She calls it "weepeep". No idea what that means. She loves it, rocks it, and sings to it. Then she rips it apart little peices at a time.

And this is just a cute picture of her falling asleep on her little Dora couch last night. Good thing she was already in pajamas.

Parkinson New Years Celebration

We were lucky to have our great friends, the Jorgensens, come and stay with us for a few days to celebrate the new year. It snowed about an inch in 30 minutes on New Year's Eve.

And of course, we played LOTS of Settler's of Catan. I think I won the most.

Jason decided it would be fun to do sparklers with the kids. It was so cold outside that everyone did their sparklers as fast as they could so that they could get back inside.

Fondue!!

The kids kept busy with the Playstation while we were playing Settlers. I think Ashley stayed in her pajamas the whole time the Jorgensens were visiting.

Parkinson Christmas

Christmas Eve"Hey! Hey! Unto you a Child is born!"

Christmas Day

More new dresses.

Christmas Girls

Here are some pictures of the girls in their new Christmas dresses courtesy of Grandma Parkinson. Sara was her usuall uncooperative self and Melissa met the pavement in a little playground accident last week, so the pictures aren't great, but they're my girls!!

Snow Day

This is what a REAL snow day looks like, Nickell! The kids were a little disappointed because they had a field trip planned today, but once they went out to play, they forgot all about it. The sad thing is that now they have to go to school on Monday! There is more snow in the forecast for Sunday, so maybe we'll get lucky and have another snow day.

Meet Holly

The parakeet that we found in the driveway in Blacksburg, Polly, died last week. She was old when I found her and I honestly didn't expect her to live as long as she did! Her mate, Pete, was VERY distraught, so we got him a new friend and the girls chose the name Holly. She is beautiful!! The two birds are getting along great and now Pete is back to his old self again.