Monday, April 21, 2008

ELTON JOHN CONCERT

My dad was sooo happy to be at this concert. Elton John has been his favorite singer for years, so it was truly one of my best memories with my dad. I love you Dad!!
Mike wearing the Bitch is back hat
Heather wearing the bitch is back hat

On April 18th we went to see Sir Elton John in concert. It was me, Mike, Hettie, Cousin Phil, Mom and of course....the guest of honor....my dad. Elton John has been my dads favorite singer forever and he had never seen Elton John in concert until Friday. Just to let you guys know that The Bitch is Back hat is I guess the name of his tour. I think its the name of a song also. The deal behind the hat was, my mom and dad had to sit seperate from me, Mike, Phil and Heather. So Mike and I decided that we would go buy my dad a shirt and take it over to him during the concert. So we did and we walked the shirt over to him and at the same time we handed him his shirt he handed Mike the same shirt and me that hat. It was hilarious. He loved the concert. You could see the excitement in his face. It really meant a lot to me to be able to give this gift to my dad. I feel like I am constantly trying to do things to make my dad either proud of me or just flat out...happy. I really think I did a good job with taking him to this concert. We had kind of a really rough weekend though. We left Atwater at 2:30pm and got to Bakersfield around 5:00. Then we left for dinner around 5:30 and left from dinner to get to the concert around 7:30 pm. The concert started at 8:00pm. The concert ended around 10:30pm. Elton John played the whole two and a half hours non stop. Well he did stop for like 10 minutes to sign autographs, but he never once left the stage. It was an awesome concert by the way. So we left the concert around 11:00. Then we had to stop at Wal-Mart to get a couple of items that we needed. So we got home around midnight. We ended up finally going to sleep around 12:30am. Mike didnt go to sleep till like 1:30am. We woke up around 4:30am to get ready so we could leave Bakersfield by 5:15 to get to Manteca for Heathers first game by 9:00am. Well we didnt end up leaving Bakersfield till almost 5:45am. So that put us a little behind. We made it to the game at 8:50am. We rushed to get there to have Heathers coach only play her 5 minutes in the first half and 5 minutes in the second half. Needless to say that we were all a little ticked off and still are a little ticked off about that whole thing. Anyways....Mike and I had to leave the game by 11:15 am to get to Atwater by 12:30pm to coach the softball team. We forgot that we had to get something to eat before we coached the game since we hadn't eaten all day. So we showed up to the game at 12:50pm. We lost our softball game because we only had 10 players. We tied our first soccer game 0-0 and we won our second soccer game 5-0. It was a long weekend for the grandparents also. They stayed out there with Heather in Manteca while we coached the softball game. We all met at home around 5:oo Saturday night to have pizza for dinner and everyone just looked beat. We have the greatest parents in the world. Heather is pretty lucky to have such great grandparents. So...basically what I am trying to get at is....that no matter what we did this weekend, it was totally worth it to see my dad that happy!

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Check out my Slide Show!

More of Heather's Party

I was too cheap to buy real sacks for the sack races so we used dollar store garbage bags and they all riped, it was still funny to watch them do this though.
Bubba and Jazzy won something
Brianna showing off her beautiful outfit.
Are you suppsed to have a passenger during wheel barrow races??? I Love that kid, she is so cute!

Heather Cheyenne Parker

Well Heather is officially 12 years old. We had sooo much fun at her birthday party. We played relay games, dodgeball, volleyball, kickball. All the parents played also. I am so proud of Heather for everything that she does. I'm not sure how she has the strength to wake up and get out of bed some mornings. She has some kind of sport to do everyday of the week plus she has homework, after school gate classes, and she helps around the house. Heather is a true blessing from Heaven. I don't know if a lot of people know this, but Heather was born one month early. She only weighed 4 lbs. 15 ozs. She was a tiny thing. She was 17" long. The doctors were almost positive that she was going to have to be in an incubator for a couple of days if not flown to Valley Childrens Hospital. When Heather was born she was perfectly fine. She did not have to go into an incubator, heck...she didn't even need oxygen. She started gaining weight immediately and for those of you that know her can see that she is a very healty 12 year old. I thank God everyday for giving me this special gift. Happy Birthday Heather Cheyenne Parker! Dad and I love you more than anything in the world.

Heather's 12th Birthday Party

Heather and Bubba
Dad cookin' hamburgers and hot dogs
Cousin Phil and Cousin Andy
Krista and Cousin Jenn

Opening Ceremonies

Me, Mike and Maribel
The Girls
Good Ole' Atwater

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Atwater Youth Baseball Parade

Say Cheese
Jeannie and Lisette
Aly, Bri, and Heather
Some pretty cool spectators

Atwater Hooks

Sonia and Esmeralda made our banner, we should have won 1st place.
No, Heather is not that tall, she is on a parking curb.
The girls are telling me what number they are. We have our first game tonight. I think we will do really well, I am very proud of all of them. Especially the ones that are doing more than one sport, that takes a lot out of them. Good job Girls....

Looking at Model Homes

Hettie and Issac
Jazzy and Bri
Maribel, Bri, Jazzy, Hettie and Issac! We were out looking at Model Homes on Good Friday!