14 Month Bear Pics

Here's our BIG little girl! She's growing like a weed!

We're Moving Back Home!!!!

It's official!! Jonathan has accepted the position of Director of Engineering at his old company, Aerotron, in LaGrange and starts on October 4th. We're moving back to Auburn at the end of the month!!!! Sweet Home Alabama!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

War Cam Eagle!!!!

Yesterday was a very special day. It was the one year anniversary of when Leighton came home from the hospital. For some reason, it seems like it's taken a lot longer to get to this day from her birthday than it did last year while we were waiting for her to come home. You would think that the time would've dragged more in the hospital, but I'm not complaining! We're enjoying every minute with this sweet little girl! She's becoming more and more active, rambuctious, and curious by the day. And along with that, she's learning to test her limits. We better watch out!

Yesterday was also the start of the 2010 college football season, and we couldn't have had better weather to celebrate the occasion. It finally felt like fall. And it felt wonderful!!! We had one of Jonathan's friends from work and his family come over to watch the game. We had so much fun grilling out and rooting for our tigers. Auburn sure knows how to raise our blood pressure though. It seems like every game you're sitting on the edge of your seat, waiting for it to go either way. Thank goodness this one went down as a win! We really like Cam Newton too and very excited to see how the rest of the season goes. War Cam Eagle!!!!

Here are a few pics from last night:

This is Philip, Blake, and Joshua. They were so much fun!

Family picture in front of Aubie.

Leighton with her new favorite toy.

She's checking it out. I love those cheeks!

What a face! She doesn't like hats, even AU ones. :( The picture's still precious though.

Philip was so sweet with Leighton. He's a great big brother!

13 Month Bear Pics

Ok, this is becoming much more difficult by the month. She's so rambuctious now! This is the best I could do!

Meeting Jane Haun

We finally got to meet little Jane Haun last week! I forgot how tiny little babies are! I can't believe that Leighton was half her size when we brought her home from the hospital. Jane was so precious and let me hold her for more than an hour. Before I had Leighton, my arm would feel like it was going to fall off when I held a friend's newborn for even 10 minutes. Now that Leighton has my arm adjusted to the weight, I could've held Jane forever! It was also great seeing John and Jennifer. We hadn't seen them since they moved from next door almost 3 months ago!

Forrest Spence 5k

The Parish family participated in their first 5k ever, and it couldn't have been for a better cause. This was the 3rd annual running of the Forrest Spence 5k. The Spences are members of our church, and we are amazed at how God has turned their tragic loss into such an inspirational story. You can go to forrestspencefund.com for more information about their organization.

Despite this being almost a church event, it was something we've been looking forward to doing for some time. That is, running in a 5k. I'm no where near ready to run the whole thing, but Jonathan has impressed me so much with his recent lifestyle change of being more active and staying healthy. Needless to say, he did awesome! His goal was to finish the race under 30 minutes, and he did just that with a time of 27 min and 18 sec. I, on the other hand, managed to finish but it was at 46 minutes. Pushing a stroller along the way was pretty difficult, so you have to give me some credit for trying! Maybe one of these days, I can run the whole thing!

Here are a few pictures from the race:

Leighton's 1st Trip to the Beach!

Leighton's driving us to the beach!

We're almost to the beach!

The first time Leighton's feet are touching sand.Poor thing, I think she's just wanting to be held. Daddy is showing her the water.
Her 1st time in the pool! She loved it!

She's relaxing and having a good time!
The place we stayed had a great pool!

This was the only picture we got of her on the beach during the day. She ended up hating it, so we only got to stay for about 5 minutes. I think it was the blinding white sand. Poor thing would barely open her eyes. And of course she wouldn't keep her hat or sunglasses on to help!

But now we're happy to be back at the pool!

She loved her snack "pacy." I was putting ice cubes in it to keep her cool.

She was making funny faces in the side of her pack n play while we were getting ready for dinner. Silly girl!

Dinner Sat night at Hammerhead Fred's.

There was another baby nearby, so we couldn't ever get her to look at the camera. Oh well, it's still a cute picture!

We had dinner w/ Aunt Sissy and Eddie. I love how Leighton looks so tiny at the head of the table. lol