SkyPark Adventures!

Category: Parker

  • Parker 6th Grade Graduation

    Parker’s graduation was a party! The kids got dropped off at 6PM and had music, activities, and snacks for a couple hours until the adults showed up at 8pm for a slideshow.

    The big gossip was that David in our neighborhood had asked out Caroline (Parker’s old girlfriend from the previous year) to the dance. Originally Caroline replied “maybe” to David, and then told her parents she was excited to go with him. While we originally thought it was a bust, Caroline’s parents picked up David and they rode together to the graduation, which is probably the closest to each other that they got all night 🙂

  • Parker – 5th grade school picture

    Parker’s look was a bit casual this year 😉

  • School concert

    Skylar had her final school concert and Parker got to participate with her at his first concert. You can see the difference between 3 years of experience or lack thereof on their faces 🙂

  • Parker Birthday

    Nana and Poppa D came up to celebrate Parker’s birthday with us. We had all Parky’s favorite foods – london broil, mac & cheese, sweet potato casserole and a very specific ice cream cake that I had to drive to Herndon to get.

  • Christmas 2022

    Nanny and Poppa D came and spent the night with us Christmas Eve and we had a fun Christmas morning prior to heading out a day later for Mt Snow in Vermont with the Garners.

  • Parker – Cello

    4th Graders do not put on a concert at LAES, but I did get these videos of them practicing. Next year Parker will get to perform with the 6th graders at all the various performances. Parker is in the middle with the black shirt playing cello.

    Progress, progress…

    Oh how we love our hot cross buns. Yum yum…

    Wrapping up with my personal favorite – jingle bells because it is that time of year! Parker is on the right on the front row in the orange shirt below. Rock that cello Parker! Jingle all the way.

  • Parker Cello

    Parker in class playing Cello – listen to that sweet sweet sound!

  • Parker – faces and voices

    Sometimes Parker and I like to play around and make faces and create voices. Quasi-modo had us laughing pretty hard one night on the trampoline.

  • Fall camping / climbing 2022

    We went to Luray to camp and do some climbing. It was supposed to dip into the 30’s at night so we brought electric blankets (great idea Uncle Gillette). Unfortunately what we failed to understand was that we were supposed to put them under us and not on top.

    By morning the electric blankets were bundled up in a corner providing heat to no one, but luckily we had tons of blankets and stayed super warm even without the electric heat.

    Skylar did an amazing job as film maker, getting close ups of Parker’s feet, which is pretty awesome to even think to do that, but we also found hilarious for no good reason. Skylar – if you go into the film industry we will talk about this moment…

  • Skylar Birthday – Lexington

    We were on our 3rd trip of the summer for Skylar’s birthday. Our stay at the Yogi Bear campground was awesome minus the scrapes from the first day where Tweedle Dee (aka Skylar) decided to jump off a moving golf cart and subsequently crashed face down – minor scrapes only. Tweedle-Dum then decided he was smarter and could pull it off and he subsequently did the exact same thing but got some nasty road rash on his buttocks.

    Yes, I wrote “buttocks”.

    Nana and Poppa D hosted Skylar’s birthday and we played a round of corn hole. It was a beautiful and fun evening had by all.

    We prepared Skylar (and Daddy’s) favorite cake which is angel food with chocolate whipped cream topping – NeNe’s recipe (my grandmother and Nana’s mom).

    We also spent a night at the Col Alto Hampton Inn. The kids enjoyed the fancy amenities and played a round of chess while drinking their hot coco a la sassy.