Alexia is 5!

Alexia had a Rainbow themed 5th Birthday party

Rainbow face art!

Serious Birthday conversations!

Hanging out with Mama Corinne and Uncle Liam

Blowing out her candle!

Pinata fun!

Taking down the streamers!

It is hard to believe our Alexia is now 5 years old!  She is growing up so quickly and we just adore her!  She is such a kind, compassionate child.

  She is such a loving sister to both her big brother and her little sister!  She loves all things girly, but is super excited to start baseball this summer!  Her favorite things to do are Yoga with Mommy, Dance class and anything that involves spending time with her cousins and other friends!

  It has been such a blessing getting to know our Lex and we are so excited to see her grow and experience lots of new things this year!  She is really looking forward to starting Kindergarten!

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, Visiting Colorado Family

Super Excited the day before we left for Colorado!

Sleepy, but excited!

On the long road trip!

Our first day in Colorado!

Waiting to go on the Royal Gorge Train!

Eating with Great Mama Donna

Checking out the scenery and having fun

with Grandma Jenny!

Love Daddy!

Fun back at Grandparent's house!

You can tell they are cousins!

Cheese!

Before Bed snack in the hotel room!

Playing with cousins at Grandparent's house!

Pool fun!

Lex loves Janko!

Briana loves her Uncle!

Nap buddies!

Our view from our window!

Saying Goodbye!

Alexia's cousin Chaylaa made this for her!

Sibling Love!

Family!

Saying goodbye to the littlest cousin!

Great Mama Donna with a few of her Great Grandkids!

Some road trip gifts from Great Mama Donna!

We had a great time driving to Colorado, the kids were really great on the trip!  They definitely exceeded our expectations of a 2 year old, an almost 5 year old and a 7 year old on an 8 hour road trip!
Once we got to Colorado we really enjoyed all the family time!  We ate yummy food and reconnected with Aunts, Uncles, Cousins and grandparents!

  We really enjoyed our experience gift from Grandma Jenny, we all went on the Royal Gorge Train and enjoyed great food and great company!  Of course the girls made friends with another little girl and played with her quite a bit!  We really had a great time!

  We also had a Birthday celebration complete with cake, family and gifts to celebrate Alexia's upcoming 5th birthday and her cousin's upcoming 16th birthday!  Everyone really enjoyed that as well and we really appreciated seeing even more family there as well!

  All in all the trip was absolutely wonderful!  Even driving there and back!

This concludes our most wonderful times of the year!  We've had such an amazing start to the year 2014, we can not wait to see what the rest of the year holds in store!

God Bless!

The Parracks

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year (Part 2)

Alexia picked this dress out herself

she seriously wanted to wear it every single day over the holidays.

The Parrack family Christmas party,

It was an enjoyable experience for all of us!

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Blake wanted us to take a picture of him with his cool new football!

Parrack family boys!!

Some of the Parrack family girls!

Little Lady potty training

A family dinner at our place, Alexia front and center

Uncle Rodney and Aunt Marysol in the background!

Briana eating yummy Jerky

Some lovely gifts from our neighbor!

Milk and cookies for "Santa"

Stockings hung on the railing with care!

Cookies are gone!

Blurry Christmas Morning picture

Lex with Mama Corinne

Blake trying to make a face like his funny face pancakes

Nerf Wars

Opening presents and Mama Corinne and Papa Mark's

Mama and Papa with their gifts

from us!  Mommy made the blanket and 

we gave them soup bowls for the upcoming winter days!

Blake San

Blender time

I did not realize we had so many great times to share from the Holiday season!  We will probably have one more post, possibly two for The Most Wonderful Time of the Year!

  We had a great time with Daddy's side of the family at the Parrack family get together!  The kids played with their cousins, even Briana enjoyed playing with her cousins (amazing for a group of 1 and 2 year olds)!  We also enjoyed family time with Mommy's side of the family on Christmas Eve and Christmas day!  All the cousins had fun there as well and Briana was very spoiled as the youngest child at the Wilson family Christmas party!

  The kids have been learning lessons of giving and watched the Veggie Tales true story of St. Nicholas in order to understand where we come from as Christians during the holiday season.  We hope to teach them more and more as they grow up and are able to understand.  The kids were quite spoiled in gifts this year, but their favorite gifts were definitely the gifts of time spent with loved ones!  We have been so blessed to get to spend lots of time with all of our loved ones over the past few months!  From our trip to Joplin (although not under the best circumstances) right before Thanksgiving to our trip to Colorado right after the New Year, we have been blessed so much!   We even have family visiting this weekend!  The blessings are just pouring into 2014 and we are really loving every moment of it!