Mmm, Ice Cream!

To celebrate Jesse's birthday we ate at Golden Corral with all the family. Avril particularly liked the ice cream!

SYTYCD

Well, I have served 21 complete years of my sentence on earth. To celebrate my apparent immortality, my beautiful wife surprised me* with a trip to see So You Think You Can Dance Season 5 perform at the E Center. Our night began with a swift visit to Grandma and Grandpa Parkinson's (from Avril's perspective) to drop off Avril. Of course we had to take pictures and here are the results. The show was amazing and we had a blast! Great birthday present!

Before the main event of the night when we dropped the cute little baby off at Grandma and Grandpa's house. Ali and I are also pictured, but Av kinda steals the spotlight.


Because of Avril's spotlight hogging, we decided to take a picture without her in it. We are pretty good-looking if I do say so myself, we just don't get the opportunity to show it off because there is a little someone, who is cuter than us, sneaking into all our pictures.


There goes Ali trying to suck my blood again. She is a little tiny bit obsessed with Twilight. I'm just not Edward material.


She's still a trouble-maker...


The stage before the show. It was surreal to be there in real life!


First of all... I can do that.


The dancers informed me they took woodshop classes to improve their carpentry efficiency so they could nail their dances.


To summarize, there's dancing. Then there's da-ancing. This however, was da-a-a-a-a-ancing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Avril the Texter

Our little girl is growing up so quickly! Too quickly if you ask me. In fact, mommy wants to buy her a cell phone for Christmas. Avril is not opposed to this idea. She is already demonstrating more "phone proficiency" than her daddy. Mommy still has the upper hand on little Av but it's close.

You're in for a Thrill!

Alicia told me I get to contribute to the blog so these next couple posts are Jesse authored...

Tell me Alicia isn't the freakiest-person you've ever seen! You can't argue that the girl can get her funk on! Avril wins the cutest costume, duh. I was somewhere in the middle, more towards the scary end. The following are representative images of our night on the freaky October 31, 2009.


Avril as a pumpkin! She thinks she is 5 years old because right before the picture I asked her how old she was.


This is Alicia before she died and came back to life. Avril is being cute i guess.


If you are wondering how mommy died and was burried underground... look no further. She felt really bad though so she dug her mommy up. Pictures of scary mommy are to follow.


More creepiness for Halloween.. (Uncle Jared)


In an attempt to cover her dirty deed, Avril dressed as the lovable Minnie Mouse.


We visited Great Grandpa Parkinson and these are his trick-or-treaters.


Great Grandpa Parkinson Leopard!


And the moment you've all been waiting for... Mommy back from the dead!


Thriller/ Thrill/her!


Scary, but I don't need to say that. And yes, that is real hair.


The classic Thriller stance. There is something disturbing about a dead has been showing some leg. Kind of ...... different???


Ignore the man in the red pants.


And what would a post be without still-framed dancing? We really are amazing at the dance ps.

Like my jerry curl? Alicia liked it so bad she turned to reach for it, so I tried to run away, but my body would only go into that one position to run! Now that is scary!


Don't we make the perfect couple?


I double dare you to disagree!

Before you judge... I just learned this dance right before while I was at work. Alicia threatened me that she'd stay a zombie for good if I didn't learn Thriller for her. Too bad I still haven't learned the dance. Haha, just kidding Alicia. I love you.

She's Getting Too Big!!

So our baby is ginormous! So big in fact that we had to call in Grandpa Bryan to readjust the crib! She was starting to stand up with the support of the objects around her (as evidenced by previous posts). She had learned that by grabbing the top of the crib and pulling, she could stand. When she stood, she could almost bend over and "escape" from the crib. Needless to say, We promptly suspended our little Av from the crib and called in the master of maintenance.


The process of lowering the bed has begun!


Along with lowering the crib, we needed to readjust the car seats to cater to Avril's huge (wide and tall) torso.

Amy's Baby Shower!!

My good friend Amy Rapp is about to pop! She is due on November 20th but that baby girl is getting ready to come out any day now. Amy was already dilated to 3 cm and 70% effaced at the time we had this baby shower. I was just hoping she wouldn't go in to labor before or during the event.
I have never thrown a baby shower for someone before so I was very excited to have one for Amy. Ina and her mom helped me out... and it turned out to be a great time!


Here are some of the decorations... the diaper cake was made by Ina's mom and Ina helped. I made the baby cupcakes (with help from my mom-in-law, Carme). The bread at Macy's you can get made in different colors, so we chose pink of course and had cute little pink chicken sandwiches! There was also a chocolate fountain with yummy strawberries to dip! Mmmm....


Avril enjoyed her chocolate strawberry. Mommy helped her eat it :)


These are my absolute FAVORITE pics!! There was a little 4 month old baby boy who Avril just couldn't get enough of... he seemed to have had enough of her though! Hahaha, I LOVE his facial expressions! Poor guy... Avril is a little too forward, we haven't taught her that some boys don't like being bitten in the face!


Lots of fun guests...


Looks like Avril wasn't the only one to enjoy that chocolate! This little girl was so cute... she would follow Avril around and pet her cheeks. It was just adorable!


Jesse works with Amy at the hospital so there were several of his coworkers at the shower. He told me to make Avril look cute since they would be meeting her for the first time. I think we did a good job following his instructions. :)


Lots of great presents for Baby Girl Rapp!!


Good Times!!

Monster Mash!

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