Growing Up

Parker is learning so many things lately! I can't believe how fast he is growing up. He started clapping and waving on the 21st. His new favorite thing is to walk around. Both in his walker and with help from anyone. He loves being at Grandma's with such a large area to crawl and walk around in. He is such a champ dealing with this terrible cold. He is really enjoying the time he gets to play with Daddy too. He is talking even more lately, and it sounds like he says "hi" and every now and then he says "momma." Of course he is constantly saying "da-da." He calls Grandpa "da-da" too. haha

To show how good Parky is getting at walking in his walker

Parker got his first boo-boo on the 27th. We were freaking out because we noticed blood dried on his chin. We were worried that he had been coughing up blood. Then I noticed that his fingers were all bloody too. I wiped it off and, luckily, he only had a small cut on his finger. We had to create a little bandaid for him. I had to take a picture of his first one! :-)

I love my boy!!!

Paramedic Pinning

We are so proud of Tyler! He has finally finished the academic portion of the paramedic program! I got to "pin" him at his pinning on the 21st. It was such a cool experience! The Idaho Falls Fire Department had their Bagpipe Corps there. Tyler received his badge and he also got wings for his shifts he did on the airplane for AirIdaho.

The 2011 Paramedic Program graduates


Great work Tyler! We are SO SO proud of you! :-)

Sunday Drive: Canada Edition

We decided to head for Waterton after church Sunday. We had a lot of fun enjoying the beautiful scenery.

Parker with Grandma Duce

The most adorable picture of Ben...EVER! :-)

Parker with his new Aunt Julie!

Great Grandpa Adams gave Parker some licorice. Haha! Love this picture!

We saw a couple bears on our way out of Waterton. This one is a grizzly!

Swimming in the pool with Ben & Conner on Monday.

Parker splashing with his feet.

Parker riding a horse for the first time!!

O Canada!

CANADA DAY

JULY 1, 2011

Day began at the Raymond Parade at 10 a.m.

Our favorite "float." HAHA!

The Duce clan riding in the parade:

L-R: Grandpa Adams, Uncle Tracy, Dad, Jacilyn

We then hit the Raymond Stampede Rodeo at 2 p.m.

He really was happy to be there...I promise ;-)

Sportin' his new belt buckle and his boots from Great-Grandma and Grandpa Little. One good-lookin' cowboy!!

It was a fun day, but we were all too tired to stay up for fireworks. Bummer. Oh well...more pictures from our trip thus far:

Hugs from his cousin Alex

First time holding a bunny--hanging with Aunt Jacilyn

She is definitely not my sister... haha.

Parker and Conner on Aunt JJ's lap. Jessica decided that 'Jacilyn' is too hard for Alex to say, so she is now Aunt JJ. Jacilyn doesn't mind. She is still obsessed with JJ Reddick. haha

While in Canada

Amazing Deals!

We've had quite the miracles in the last couple weeks. We finally got the new transmission in my car. Amazingly, Tyler was able to find a used transmission online, so we saved LOTS on that. The day we got the car back we cleaned it up, made 'for sale' signs, and listed it on Craigslist, Bulletin Board, and KSL. This was on the evening of May 26th. The next morning we left for Downey to spend the holiday with Tyler's family. We got there and I checked our email and we already had a voicemail and an email about the car. The lady who left the voicemail wanted to look at the car as soon as possible. So Tyler turned around and drove back to Blackfoot, to meet her. Funny enough, she was from Rexburg, but drove an hour to come take a look at it. She wanted to buy the car! So Tuesday morning she had it checked out by her mechanic and then she bought it for only $4o0 less than we were asking! As much of a blessing that was, it gets SO much better! We followed her to her house with the car, and she asked Tyler if he was interested in a van. We had decided against a van, but he said he would take a look anyways. I was wondering what was taking so long, so I got out of the truck and went to find out. I get over there and Tyler jokingly said, "you want a van?!" I kinda chuckled and went to take a look at it. It was a 1997 Ford Windstar with 185,000 miles. It looked alright, and Tyler started it up and messed with it. He eventually asked her what she was asking for it, and she said that she was basically giving it away. She said "I dunno...$100?" We both thought she was kidding, so Tyler asked her again, saying "no, seriously..." She said, "$100." Tyler asked me what I thought, and I said, "Give her $100 bucks!"

Bye Bye 'BELLA'....

Hello 'DORA'!

Pretty good lookin' van for $100 bucks eh?! We are so blessed.

Tyler has had a blast fixing the small problems with the van. Now I am SO excited for June 24th and my trip to pick up Jessica and her boys and heading to CANADA for 2 weeks!!! (13 days!) WoW...what a miracle. :-)

Today was garage sale day! We spent most of the morning traveling around and looking for great deals. And we found some! We got a bag of baby clothes for $3. A huge box of adorable 18m+ baby clothes and pajamas for $8 , and a bunch of NFR buckles for $5 each. I got a collection to pass out within my family...I am so stinkin excited about them!

Mike & Julie's Mine & Parker's

Mom's Dad's

Dad's & Jacilyn's

Tyler found possibly the best deal today. He saw this sign...

and ended up with this....

for $75! :-)

He was like a little kid in Santa's toy shop! You should have seen his smile! It took me pulling him behind the truck to be able to get it running, but Ty thinks that a new carburetor will fix that problem.