Bonfire Safety

He was very attentive while we explained how roasted paws are no fun. 

A lot can happen in 3 years...

Since my last post much has changed. We moved to College Grove Tennessee and I am finishing my PhD in biology education at MTSU. Shannon started kindergarten this fall and we are finally feeling settled in to our home in the country. 

The Gift

The Gift from Eric Parrish on Vimeo.

Beep Beep!

Shanon loves her tricycle. The best part is she thinks about safety too! She won't get on the tricycle without her helmet. You'll notice her left cheek has a red substance on it...that would be raspberry juice from shoving as may raspberries as she could into her mouth and missing a few times. She's getting taller and soon will be able to move the pedals on her own. For now she doesn't mind sitting on the tricycle and beeping the horn.

Shannon's 2nd Oktoberfest

Today Shannon experienced her second annual Greeley Oktoberfest. She seemed to have a lot of fun watching Erin & Grady play, doing the chicken dance, and eating bites of mommy's black cherry Tropical Sno. She also enjoyed watching the traditional German dancers. I didn't take too many pictures but did manage to grab some videos of Erin and Grady on the inflatable obstacle course and slide.

Grady at Oktoberfest from Jennifer Parrish on Vimeo.

Grady's Bliss from Jennifer Parrish on Vimeo.

For some perspective I glanced back at pictures of last year's Oktoberfest. Oh how fast a year goes and how much changes! Here's last year...

And now this year!

As you can see the kids were not happy about being forced to watch the dancers when there were pumpkins to decorate and more slides to go down on the other side of the park!

I need to blog more...

The purpose of this blog is for friends and family to see pictures of our happenings way out here in Colorado, but it seems like Facebook, Facetime, and picture messaging have made me lazy. Rather than write about what's going on, I just put a blurb on my Facebook status or press a button to Facetime my mom (who now has an iPad!) I'm also disappointed because Vimeo changed something about it's video embed code so that videos automatically play when this page loads, which is rather distracting.

Shannon is 16 months old now and it seems so easy to take care of her. She eats whatever we put in front of her, she plays with her friends for hours at a time, and she sleeps through the night. I know we are fortunate to have a child with this temperament. I wasn't that type of child, or so I hear. She's our sweetheart and I'll close with some pictures we recently took.

Videos & Pictures

Here are some videos and pictures of what's been going on lately.

Shannon is learning how to dance. Yes, that head shaking, leg moving thing is her attempt at dancing. I think she got her rhythm from daddy :-)
SORRY-VIMEO IS ACTING UP AND I REMOVED THIS :-(

We took a trip to Nashville to visit cousins Alyssa & Sam.


Here's Shannon in front of a picture of Sam at about the same age.


Shannon was reunited with Cache. Sniffing of behinds occurred.


We went to Alyssa's softball practice and enjoyed watching her play. The uniforms are so cute!




Dancing Buddies
SORRY-VIMEO IS ACTING UP AND I REMOVED THIS :-(