Scarecrow Festival 2008

Here are some pictures of our fun at the Scarecrow Festival at Thanksgiving Point. This was a few weeks ago but I figured it would be fun to see.

The Pumpkin Patch

So I have not posted our Hawaii pictures yet and they will be coming soon. I am still waiting on a decent tool for posting multiple pictures as a slide show. I promise to get it soon.

As of today, however, I thought I would show off my sweet Charity. We went to the pumpkin patch in Springville tonight with Mark and Michelle and their kids. Here are a few good pictures for you.

This is (Starting at the top left to right) Ella, Makayla, Charity and Emmitt. They loved picking their pumpiks from the patch.

Charity found the one she wanted but dad had to tell her no. We had to get something a little more her size.

It wasn't the biggest one in the patch but I think my sweet Charity will love this one. I could not get her to do it long enough for a picture but she loves to hug her pumpkin. I think she will like it just fine.

Charity is Having Fun!

Charity is having lots of fun with mom and dad. She is a really fun loving kid and always smiles. We take her out with us to dinner and movies and it does not bother her at all and she barely peeps. This is a picture of her sitting with us in our booth at Happy Sumo. I tried to convince Camille that the Buffalo Roll is good for babies but she wasn't having it. Just milk and fruity mush for Charity for a while longer yet.


Following dinner at Happy Sumo we took her to see Horton Hears a Who. She loved watching it and even was laughing with everyone else at a few parts. Come to think of it, I should get her a little stuffed Horton.


Spring has come and Camille has started playing softball with K&J Construction again. Charity and I had to miss the first game as it was way to cold but last week we got to attend the game and Charity was even blowing raspberries at the opposing team... sorry Korriane she just like's mommy's team better. Here we are at the game.



A while back our good friends Mark and Michelle Peterson gave Charity a bib that says "Future Mrs. Duritz" (referring to Adam Duritz the lead singer for the Counting Crows for those of you who dare profane). I found this picture of her that I had taken when she had first started eating. I had taken it to send to Michelle so she could see Charity's bib but I thought it belonged here too. She is getting really good at eating solid foods and I even have to take her graham crackers and banana puffs to Camille's games for Charity to munch on. She has even started drinking from Camille's glass... which has only helped reinforce our efforts to minimize our carbonated drink intake.


Charity has such a fun personality. I really get a kick out of all the silly little things she does. We love her and she is definitely keeping us very busy!

The Haderlie Birthday Cake

Since there are several birthdays in Camille's family in March and April they are doing a big party today for all of them. Camille decided to put her cake making skills to the test yet again and created a really springy cake complete with daisies. This was our first attempt at some harder flowers.

All of the cake is covered in a white fondant to make the pastel decorations stand out. The bottom tier has colored squres with the center cut out in a flower and decorated with polka dots of the same color.

This close up shows the intricate lavendar piping that Camille did to create this band around the middle tier. Additionally there are pearls of buttercream setting off each of the tiers and the second tier band. This was a really cool feature that I was really happy she came up with. You can see it from a distance in the other pics and either close up or far off it looks amazing.

The sides of the thrid tier are decorated with differently cut colored stripes. On top of the third and top tier is a collection of white and lavendar two-part daisies with yellow buttercream piped in to make the core.

All I can say is that my wife continues to impress me with her creativity and talent at this whole thing. This cake is the same size as our first one which the first time took us 12-13 hours to complete. She did this one in about half the time. We found that making the bottome tier from rice crispy treats and covering it with fondant saves a lot of time and gives a very firm and stable base for the rest of the cake... plus we have not finished all of one of these cakes yet. All I can say is that Camille is amazing.

Charity: 3 Months and Growing

I know I am slow in posting this stuff and I am sorry. Here are a couple of new shots of my sweet Charity. We got these shots at about her 3 month date. It is getting harder and harder to believe how old she is getting.

The puppies love her and Harley is getting more interested in her all the time. He and I sit in our recliner and try to make her laugh. Harley gets as big a kick out of it as I do.

Both her grandparents are excited to see her grow and it seems like we never have enough time to parade her around to all the family and friends.

Anyway you slice it here is a little more of our dear little girl

Charity at Home

We are home now and Charity is as cute as ever. We are continually working to get more pictures of her to post. The one on the left is the night we got home and the one on the right is the Sunday after. We wanted to get some pictures of her in her blessing dress and this one was just too cute.

Harley and Lizzie both love Charity though Lizzie is not really sure what she is. Harley has already taken to protecting Charity and is not shy to let people know when he thinks they have been holding her for too long. Harley also loves to sit with Camille or I whenever we feed Charity. He lays his head on her legs and stays with her. It was great that the very first day Charity was home Harley kept going into her room to check on her.

I am continually taking and editing new pictures and will post more hopefully tonight or tomorrow.

The Puppies

For those that do not already know, Camille and I went to St. George two years ago and brought home the first addition to our family. Harley is an AKC registered Yorkshire Terrier and a member of our family.

He is a little bit mischievous and really too smart for his own good. He knows all the best hiding places and has even figured out how to get out of two different cages we have gotten for him to stay in. The first one was low enough that he figured out how to scale it like a ladder. The second one he figure out how to push the hinged section over the stairs and drop out of.

We love Harley to death. I really didn't think a person could love a pet quite like we love him. He is one of the family to us.

A short while later Harley met Lizzie. She was a Yorkie that was bought by one of our friends. They really loved playing together so when the family that had Lizzie decided they could no longer keep her we immediately took her in.

She is a year younger than Harley and is very playful. She is not as cunning or mischievous as him but is more like the little sister that likes to pester Harley and follow him around. Harley acts like she annoys him but if she is out of the room he just has to know what she is doing.

Lizzie is a lot more hyper and gets really excited whenever she meets new people.

Both are sweet and we love them to death. Like I said, I never knew that I could love pets as much as I do. They are a big part of our life and we do not know what we would ever do without them.

Our Growing Family

Camille and I are happy to announce that we are going to be having our first baby. Our little girl is due on November 5th and we are really excited to meet her. I know many people doubted for a long time that we would ever even have kids but we were just taking out time.

We have already talked about names and it is almost certain that her name will be Charity Camille Parmenter. Camille and I have a tendancy to have completely different likes and dislikes for names so when we find one we both like we have to jump on it and Charity was one of those.

As we get more details about her we will let you all know but she is already a vivacious little scamp. When Camille and I went to California she must have known the day we were going to Disney Land because she really started rocking and rolling at that point.