Christmas...belated

It's been awhile since our last update. We were very busy in the month of December. Christmas was so exciting this year, you would have thought Bryan was more excited this year than Parker considering he was up at 5am wanting to wake the whole entire house to open presents! I told him he was nuts, so Parker and I got a few more hours of sleep before we put Bryan out of his misery! Grandma & Grandpa Hoyes stayed with us on Christmas Eve and then made the rounds to the rest of the grandkids during the day. We then went back to LaGrange the weekend after Christmas for my family's Christmas. New Years was pretty uneventful for us, we cleaned house....lame I know BUT we were hosting Bryan's family Christmas the next day so everything had to be in tip top shape. We celebrated the Hunt Christmas on New Year's Day. Everyone was able to make it back and we had a great game night later on that night; boys vs girls with Pictionary and Taboo (my favorite). I hate to admit it but the boys did win :(

We encountered our first official injury of the year. See the photos below, it actually looks worse than it was. Parker was in the hallway by himself when it happened, I think the wall and him had a falling out :) A little ice and lots of TLC and he was back to normal within a few hours. January looks pretty calm for us, we are preparing for a ski trip in early February. We are excited BUT I'm dreading leaving my little guy for 4 days!

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We are excited to see what 2010 brings the Hunt family :)

From 01-2010 Parker

From 01-1-2010 Hunt Christmas

From 12-24-2009 Christmas Eve

From 12-2009

From 12-2009

From Parker Growing Up

Say Hello, to my little friend

Meet our new puppy Tucker

From 11-2009

Parker's New Room

We finished our first work inside the house last weekend. It didn't require much - scraping and re-texturing the ceiling, fresh paint, and a new ceiling fan, but it feels good to make some progress on the inside of the house. One room down, lots to go.

It still needs some finishing touches. We decided to give it more of a grown-up look so Dad hopefully doesn't have to repaint in a couple years, but that means his dinosaur stuff doesn't match quite as well. We primed the navy blue wall with a special additive (basically metal shavings) that allows magnets to stick to the wall. Yep, the entire blue wall is magnetic.

Halloween

Time to share some pictures from Halloween. I say some, but I'll warn you there are a lot of pictures in the slideshows below. We didn't do anything too exciting for Halloween, but it was nice to have a relaxed evening and Parker had a lot of fun. He definitely knows what candy is now, and he knows he loves it! We went over to Grandma Hunt's in the afternoon for a short visit, and then Renee brought Owen over for a visit so the two boys could monkey around for awhile. We hit up a few houses in the neighborhood for trick-or-treating before heading home to hand out candy. Parker was tired pretty early that night from all the excitement, and probably coming down from a sugar high.

Bump City and the Pumpkin Patch

It seems like we've been super busy the last month or so with something going on every weekend. Other than Halloween on Saturday, we'll actually have some time to relax and hang out at home this weekend. I thought I'd share a few pics from the past month. We'll try and get Halloween pictures from this weekend posted in a timely manner so everyone can see them before Thanksgiving :).

Blue Springs has a big gymnastics center and we took Parker to their Bump City night a few weeks ago. Bump City is their open gym for toddlers on Friday nights. Parker had a blast! We've definitely discovered a good energy burner for this winter. He liked everything, but really liked the trampolines and the foam pit.

From 10-2009 Parker

Two weeks ago we went to Carolyn's Pumpkin Patch up in Liberty with Parker's daycare. It was a little muddy, but a lot of fun. Parker and Dad both got to pick out pumpkins for Halloween.









Parker's daycare also had their own trick-or-treating night last week so we had a chance to put his costume through a test run. Everybody has to wait until after Halloween to see pictures though:) Have a happy and safe Halloween!