Colors for Tessa Fundraiser

What a great idea for a fundraiser!  We ran a 5K to help raise money for a mom battling her 3rd fight with cancer.  The race was held at the American West Heritage Center, in Wellsville, Utah. It was called the Splash of COLOR 5K!  We all received T-shirts and a racers' bag of color to make the race even more colorful! Runners started the race wearing all white. As we made our way through the 3.1 mile course, we were blasted with handfuls of colored cornstarch by the race crew. We celebrated crossing the finish line by throwing even more color. 
At the COLOR Festival after the race we enjoyed lunch, music, concessions, a silent auction, raffle prizes, games, pony and train rides, and baby animals.  How can you go wrong with all that when you have two little ones?  The girls LOVED it!!
Here are some pics from the day:

The start of the race.  It was a wee bit chilly!

Nana brought the girls to watch mommy take off!

My cousin Robert Crockett brought his kids as well, to watch their mommy run

McKel inspecting the wooden horse

Here comes Mommy, all color splashed!

After the race...

Kristen Crockett, at the finish line

Mommy's friend Shanae ran the race too.  We had a fantastic time together!

Time for the girls to get color splashed!!

 

After the race... with Tessa

Time for a pony ride!  The girls were ecstatic

Even a train ride!  Avril's favorite part was the tunnel

This was an incredible sight to see... an albino peacock!  Spectacular!

The Wellsville mountains... breathtaking!

Shanae and I... Go us!  So much fun :)

Another Awesome Weekend

Lots of Parkinsons!  We got to see lots of cousins, aunts and uncles over the weekend.  We are so blessed to come from such an amazing family.  I totally think the world of all these people.  Thank you for coming to visit!  We all just had some good fun and food at Grandma Joyce's place

Spencer, Sam, Uncle Robert, and another Spencer (younger version)

Keri, Susan, Grandma Joyce, Arleen, Tracine

the girls with Nana and Mama.  Mom just finished a 40 miler that day so I was a little cooked red in the face

Spencer, Jared, Steven, and Dallin (who owes me if I just introduced him to his future wife in AZ)

Avril playing with her always fascinating pods in the driveway.

Hanging out and chatting it up

A couple pics of mommy hanging out and being silly with her friend DJ.  We went dancing and then to fill our tummies.  Always nice to be with good friends.

Good times!  Another Awesome Weekend...

Happy Birthday Adrian, Arleen, and Jared!!

Every sibling besides your truly, has the same birthday.  So its kinda hard to forget the date:  April 16th.  Especially since my aunt just had triplet boys also born on that day.  That makes 6 in the Parkinson family tree all born on this eventful day.
To celebrate, we had a small family gathering with dinner and dessert.  Its always fun to all get together.  Avril especially loves birthdays.  She kept saying, "I want it to be my birthday, please."  So we let her blow out the candles on the cake.  She was thrilled :)

Avril with her Uncle Jared

McKel with her birthday Auntie

Adrian and Britt

A cute pic of Papa and Nana

Holding up the cheesecake

Jared is sooo excited to be another year in to his... big 3-0's

Avril blowing out the birthday candles

Mommy and my littlest sweet doll girl

Caught McKel mid-wink

Avril at the Dentist

Avril was on her best, sweetheart girl behavior when she went to her dentist appointment.  Nobody could believe what a good girl she was.  She actually enjoyed being at the dentist!  They had lots of toys for her to play with, and colorful fish to look at.  Avril even asked the lady up front politely, "Can I please play over there?"   Avril's teeth look good... no cavities, :)  of course, someday we know we'll be forking out the dough for some orthodontal work, but for now, her smile is perfect just the way it is :)

A GORGEOUS GIRL WITH A GORGEOUS SMILE!!

Easter Weekend

Easter weekend was jam-packed with fun for the girls.  First we got to open a new package that came in the mail from Grammy Carme.  The girls were soooo excited!!  Here is some proof in the video footage:

Avril trying out her new bunny ears

McKel loved her new bunny ears as well :)

The girls in their new matching Easter outfits from Grandma Carme.  They decided to try out a piano duet

Such a sweetie girl, Avril... holding her lil sis

 Avril and McKel's Daycare called All About Kids, had a special treat for them... an Easter egg hunt!  And the Easter Bunny came to visit.  In the flesh...

Watch out, I'm hungry for some treats!

Here we are with the Easter Bunny!!

McKel was excited to fill her bucket with eggs too

Next we went to go visit the triplet boys, Mommy's cousins in Salt Lake.  It was an early 1st birthday for them.  Lots of people came to join in the celebration.

The Glenn Home

Plenty to eat!

Jared, Adrian, and Britt about to chomp on some grub

Avril had fun playing outside in the backyard.

The next morning was Easter Sunday.  MORE TREATS!  Lucky for the girls, Mommy has a sweet tooth as well, so I helped them out with eating the Easter Candy.

After opening all the yummy treats, the girls dressed up all pretty in their new Easter dresses to go to church.  Talk about Darling!!

Precious McKel

Avril goofing off... McKel must be upset that she is not taking this photo shoot seriously

Its a miracle if you get both girls even looking the same direction for long enough to snap a photo

Aww, hugs!!

Just so sweet, melts Mommy's mushy love-filled heart

And here are the girls playing in the driveway with their Sunday Easter dresses on :)