John Parker

John Parker is finally here!!!!!!!! And we are beyond excited! We have been anticipating his arrival for the last nine months, and he decided to make his appearance on July 15, 2009. I am a little late posting this, as he is now a week old, but better late than never.
John Parker's mother, Sarah, is one of my oldest and dearest friends from ever since I can remember. I went to the babysitter's with her and Kara, another one of our friends who is expecting, since we were itty bitty.
Trent and I were celebrating her husband Bill's birthday one night at their house, when she called be back to their bedroom to tell me she was pregnant! So after morning sickness (all day sickness) and her expanding belly, John Parker has arrived! All 8 lbs 4 ozs of him! And he is such a cute baby. When you look at him, you definitely see his daddy. However, after closer inspection, I think he has his momma's eyes and mouth- and she says her feet!
Trent and I cannot wait to give John Parker a little playmate! Congratulations to Sarah and Bill-and the proud grandparents!

This is Trent telling something to Bill in the hospital. I thought this picture was funny, because I imagined Trent probably telling Bill how big our baby would probably be!

And this is the diaper cake I made for one of her showers.

I want to clear it with Sarah before I post any pics of her with John Parker on the day of delivery- considering she had just gone through about 13 hours of labor and a c-section. I'm sure I will get plenty more with momma and her sweet baby!

Disney 2009

As mentioned earlier, Trent and I went to Disney World the week after school was out for a couple of days. It was a very short little getaway!
We love Disney World. I think Trent would go every year if we could afford it. We only went to the Magic Kingdom park this trip and tried to do everything we could there, since we didn't get to see everything last trip. However, our favorite ride-Space Mountain-was closed down due to some renovations.
We cannot wait to take our kids to Disney World in the future! There's something about seeing a child's face light up as they see their favorite Disney character walk down the street right in front of them!
This is the main reason I think we like to go so much... No matter how hot you've gotten or how tired your feet are....When you see the firework show that night, it seems to make you forget everything. It also puts any other firework show you see after to shame!

Way Behind

You would think that we haven't been around a computer since April by looking at our blog, but that just hasn't been the case!
We both got busy with end of school year paperwork. Then we took a quick trip to Disney World (more to come on that later) the week after school was out. Then I started doing some part time summer work, and Trent started the second year of his nontraditional workshops. Both of which just recently ended. So...it feels like we have been busy running around everywhere, and now the summer is just about over! It goes by SOOO fast!
I have lots of pics to update on our blog, but I am in the middle of uploading everything to our computer and organizing them-which can be an all day job when you take as many pictures as we do.
I did want to post this one picture we took a while back of our baby birds, since we left off when they had just hatched. We took this pic a couple of weeks after they hatched. There were three eggs but one didn't make it. So sad! But it's all amazing the see. They hatch...then what seems like just a week later, they fly away. I guess that's what some parents must feel like!

Surprise!!!

Look what we found in our front door wreath this morning! Baby birds!!! There were four eggs, but as you can see, one has hatched. It's probably the smallest bird we have ever seen. I haven't seen the mother bird in the nest yet. Every time we open the front door she flies off. What's puzzling me is that father bird is with her and flies off, too. I don't understand how they both can fit in that tiny nest. Oh well! I'm just glad that mother and father are taking care of their babies and that we have a functional bird family. The little red ball of feathers is our new baby bird!

Here are the proud parents on our roof. I think the one on the left is a robin.

Congratulations to the Harris and Johnson Families!

Two couples that we are friends with recently gave birth to two beautiful baby girls, so they received what else...a diaper wreath! The Johnson's welcomed beautiful baby Heather, and the Harris's welcomed beautiful baby Cilla. They did not find out the sex of Cilla until her arrival. What fun! I just don't think I could do that. I'm such a planner, and I would drive myself crazy wondering if the baby was a girl or boy.
We are so happy for these two families! Both are going to make such great parents!

Baby Heather's wreath

Baby Cilla (Harris) wreath

Under the Weather

No fun post this weekend in the Haynes household. Trent has the Type A flu virus,which we' ve been told is the worse type to get; and I'm having to take medicine so that I MAY not develop it. He started feeling bad around Wednesday night and then ended up coming home from work mid-day on Thurday with a high fever. It pretty much went downhill from there. I was scared that he had strep because one of my patients that I see after work had gotten it, but no-the FLU...He ran 103 temp on Thursday night, and finally went to the Dr. on Friday. I don't think I've ever seen him this miserable. So! He is not suppose to be around people for 5 days-which I don't think he really cares about, because he hasn't even wanted to get out of the bed....On another note...I have put my good wife skills to the test! I spent over an hour in Wal-mart on Friday after work trying to pick up the $120 meds, since they were the only ones that had them. And since we had never bought meds at Wal-mart, it took them forever to get our insurance straight. Then I finally got home around 6:30 last night and proceeded to make HOMEMADE chicken noodle soup for my sweet husband. Which surprisingly turned out really good! ....and it felt really good on his throat. So...No fun weekend planned for us besides staying in and getting better! It's kind of a gloomy weekend anyway. We have weather in the high 60s this week and then a forcast for snow this weekend-GO FIGURE!

*Side note-Picture above is not from today, but Prissy and Trent both looked a little sad in it and that is how we feel right now. GO AWAY FLU!

Say Cheese!!!!

We are ever so fortunate to have Trent's sister as our professional photographer! I was transferring some old files to our new computer and thought I would share some of the pics that she has done for us over the past three years. However, this sample does not even touch what is in our photo album. She will be back in the Wynne area around May! Spring is always a great time to have some family photos done!

Thanksgiving 2008

Prissy and Elvis

Memphis Photo 2008

Christmas Card 2007

I love this card!

I think this was around Christmas 2006.