Thursday, November 15, 2007

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy fall to everyone! I love this time of year, especially Thanksgiving. Josh and Amy are hosting Thanksgiving for our family this year - so the Parker's and Bendixen's are taking a road trip to Vegas! It will be a blast to have 8 adults and 5 little boys all in one house for a couple of days. This will be our first 6 hour drive and overnight trip with Maxx...I hope we all survive! But we wouldn't miss being with our family for anything. This Thanksgiving will be hard - it's our first one without Les. We miss her very much.

Maxx is now 15 months old - time flies! He is such a character; learning new things every day. His best trick is blowing kisses (not gently, but loud and forceful) and waving bye-bye. He loves rocks and sticks and they usually end up in his mouth. He also seems to enjoy eating dirt and sand. He doesn't even pick it up - he just puts his face right down on the ground and starts eating. What'd ya do? He loves dogs and little kids or babies. He is a tender boy with a gentle heart, but very strong headed and stubborn (just like his dad)!! Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Saturday, November 3, 2007

Trick or Treat

Our favorite trick-or-treaters

Finn, a spooky skeleton


Atticus, a blue Power Ranger



Miles, chicken #1

Maxx, chicken #2


and, Oliver, a hot dog with mustard
Happy Halloween

Friday, November 2, 2007

Halloween!

Where is the Halloween spirit?
I thought I would see tons of pictures of all the Halloween costumes from this year, but nobody has posted any. It doesn't matter if you are married and considered an "adult." Even Eric and I got festive this year.

Monday, October 15, 2007

30 YEARS!

Yesterday October 14, 2007 was Richard and Jackie's 30th wedding anniversary!

A few weekends ago the whole family was in town so we decided to surprise our parents and celebrate early. We kept it very simple. Christy put together a video of pictures of my parents from the time they met until now. Then we had the top of their wedding cake remade. You can see the picture of the original wedding and wedding cake.






Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad!


Monday, October 1, 2007

Capitol Reef Getaway

Paul and I (empty nesters) recently took a road trip to Capitol Reef National Park.

We hiked five miles along the Sulphur Creek river bed and the scenery was magnificant! Paul was our tour guide (thus the colorful outfit).


Lunch was next to one of the four waterfalls we scrambled over.

Southern Utah is a favorite place--


A great place for the Baker Family Reunion 2008!

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Las Vegas Parkers


There's a new blog in town:




Visit to keep up the with Josh and Amy Parker Family, in addition to the Baker Family blog.
I also added a spot for others to add their individual family pages at the top for those that want to share.

Love,

The Las Vegas Parker Crew

P.S. Talon looks exactly like a little Bret.

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Someone Had A Birthday


Richie turned 56 and gets grumpier every year!