resolutions, schmesolutions

Who needs resolutions when the day brings a lot of reflection - how could it not?  And looking back at the past 12 months, I'm amazed at how much has changed around me - and how much I have changed. 

This post will be lacking something - no pics.  My computer was ransacked by a "backdoor trojan" and have been forced to use the hubs laptop in the meantime until everything gets sorted out.  I'm grateful to have connection to the internet, but sorely miss my computer with my settings, bookmarks etc. I'm hoping that this will be a short-lived time on the lappytop.

Jack has officially turned 16 months and quickly working on his terrible twos...

an attempt at many things

I'm attempting at trying to make this a habit of updating far more often than I have been.  I think that the main reason I think why I didn't/don't do it too often is because I feel like my life is far too boring for anyone to WANT to read about.  Jack's growth and development isn't new and exciting everyday/week, and today was the first time I put makeup on and went outside my house today.  And Brandon works - HIS daily activities are so interesting because he deals with a lot of people that are one of two things: 1) they're not the sharpest knife in the block; or 2) high on meth.  But I wouldn't be able to relay the stories so well - first hand account is so much better.  So I'm stuck with finding the interesting parts of my life and hopefully making this worthwhile to read...

So, does she still blog???

I bet that's what most of you are thinking... cause I haven't posted in quite some time... partly do to all the chaos of moving, but it mostly has to do with my laziness.  Sorry :/  Rock Springs has been... interesting.  Some good, some not so good... but always interesting!

a wee bit of an update....

I'm taking a MASSIVE break from packing to share some of Jackaroo's cuteness

may oh my...

I once had a goal... a goal to update this sucker about once a week to share on the small tidbits of our lives before I forgot them and felt extremely overwhelmed trying to do it monthly.  And here I am, about a month later feeling overwhelmed by all that is going on in our lives, and fearing forgetting something oh-so-adorable or oh-so-important.  I know I'll be omitting one crucial detail - the adorable Jack photos...

our adventurous April

We've had quite the adventurous month of April... You ready to hear all about it?  Oh, it's a doozy!  I don't know how I've been able to stand not sharing how great this month has been.... cause it hasn't.  We've been SiCk!!!  That's right!  For most of the month, we have had the plague descend on our home and it has caused us a lot of holing up and coughing and hacking, and snot - LOTS of snot.  I blame the kid... it's not his fault entirely, due to the fact that he's still working on the immune system and all. 

It all started with a fun trip to Green Canyon,

Month 8 is upon us & Jack has turned into the best playmate EVER!  Of course, I'm a wee bit biased being his mom and so far his only consistent play mate.  I love that he has been following me around the house since he's learned to crawl... he's still a bit slow & it takes him some time to catch up, but it's so cute when I'm putting his clothes away in  his room and I hear "da da da... da da da..." getting closer and closer to where I'm at.  Of course, as his speed increases the less harmless this will be ergo my speed will need to increase.

He is a jibber jabbering all the time now.  Lots of practice on his volume control as well... this is most of what I hear "Da da da la la ba ba BA!! La da da da..da da da ba la la la..da da da DA DA LA!!! La la la badala ba la la" It's so nice to have a two-way conversation, even if we both have no clue what the other is saying.  This has only happened in the last week so church will be interesting as we had general conference this weekend.  I teach in primary to the 10-11yr old kids and Jack is usually a saint, often using him as an example of what being reverent is.... oh well.

We're just a bunch of movers and shakers around here....

The Parkinson Clan has had an exciting development... Jack has begun to crawl!

update, smupdate...

SO - I am completely overwhelmed with the catching up business of this blog 'cause this girl is WAAAAAAY behind... I'm going to follow the advice of my very cool friend Natalie and just try to share more smaller stuff, instead of one big huge posting that inevitably leaves me to miss something.  Here I go, going to do my best...

I blinked... did I miss somthing?

I'm having the hardest time keeping up with the fast growing boy!  He's 6 months now, and I swear he was just 2 months YESTERDAY!  I knew that this time would creep up on me, but I didn't expect it to BLOW right past me...

6 month check up! 28" long & 18 1/2 lbs

 So I thought to keep my readers happy whilst I chip away at a fully updated post, I would post some awesome videos from Christmas time. (yes, THAT long ago...)

whoa!

How is time going by SO FAST??!?!?!? Christmas seems just like a few days ago, and here we are with January almost over!  Traveling and busy days have kept me distracted from updating this thing!  I'm not living up to my blogging potential...  for shame!