Merry Christmas from CC!

Park definitely needed some older cousins around to get her excited about Santa coming. I kinda had to guide her through it.


But once Bobby, Marlena, Chloe, Chance, and Jessica got here and started unwrapping she got excited.

Her favorite, a mickey mouse blanket.

Corpus!

Surprise! Hank was suppose to get home in January so I was suppose to go to NY for Christmas and then fly with him to Texas sometime later on. Around the 11th Hank called and told me he would be home next week so we quickly bought tickets to Corpus. Since it was such short notice we decided to just surprise his family, and boy were they surprised!

Parker and Chloe are only a year apart in age, and have really enjoyed getting to play together.

Walkin

Christmas day, after opening presents, we decided to take a walk.

These are Park's Spiderman sunglasses she picked out herself.

There is a huge park right next the house which has a duck pond with tons and tons of ducks/geese.

Park seriously ran the whole way there and back.

Uncle Ry's Pig

Ry has a pig at school that he takes care of and will eventually sell when he puts on enough weight. Since Ry broke his leg Dad has been taking care of the pig. Park has gone a few times to check it all out.

There are also goats and lambs.

This is Uncle Ry's pig.

Guess what? ..... Pig Butt!

Merry Early Christmas!

Daddy came home early early Saturday morning(yay!), and we left for Corpus on Tuesday to surprise Hank's family, so saturday afternoon we opened presents at our house.

Grandma and Grandpa Clay gave her a cool ball pit.

Mommy gave her a doctors kit.

Which Daddy helped her try out.

The Warrens and Wickers sent her some very cute clothes, a tea set she loves, and a Minnie Mouse cupcake set that she really really loved. Thank you!

I had found her this random wooden Mickey Mouse nutcracker that she carried around everywhere for a few days. That was really all it lasted, by the end the nose was gone, the presents were broken, and the ears were bent.

This is how I found her ball pit later on.

Mommy and Daddy also gave her a jeep, she loves to sit in it, but is a little scared driving it.

Merry Christmas Costanzos!

Sunday night we had Sheila and her family over for dinner and to exchange presents.

Parker got this baby bed that she seriously loved. She dragged it around behind her all night, and the next morning.

Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas!

The Park at the Park

Cute.

Girls Night Out

I just recently found out that I qualify for 16 free hours of daycare every month that is called "respite" care for spouses of deployed Marines. I have been wondering why I didn't know about this 11 months ago! So Saturday night I left Parker with Sheila's neighbor, Kristy, who has a in-home daycare and whom Parker knows and love, and I went to Wilmington with the girls for a birthday dinner.

It was Sheila's and Laryn's birthdays this week so we went down there and tried out a fondue restaurant, and then went shopping.

I finally found some decent shopping (still a hour away, of course).