Angie and the dumpster

Well, after many months of Angie trying to get me to post on the blog, I am finally doing it. She has asked me to post since August, here goes nothing. Enjoy.

So the other day angie was getting ready to go for a run and had to go throw some garbage away in the dumpster and clean out the vaccuum filter. To clean the filter, we usually hit the filter on the side of the dumpster until all the dust and stuff comes out of it. Well I was sitting in the office reading and I looked up out the window just in time to watch her hit the filter twice and then watch it slip out of her hand and fall into the dumpster. I laughed a bit and thought she would come up to get me, but to my delight, she looked left and right and then decided to climb in herself, so naturally, my reaction was to go grab the camera. I managed to catch her in the dumpster then she noticed me filming and did a show.

Good times dumpster diving in Columbus.

And Angie getting out of the dumpster.

Then she still cleaned the filter after she got out.

77 degrees and we're lovin it!

HOLY COW it was 77 degrees today. Scottie and I almost didn't know what to do with ourselves. I knew we had to be outside and enjoy this heat wave so guess what we did???
We had our own Parker Family sporting event. We used our big front yard and hit some golf balls, played catch, and even threw the pig skin around.
Needless to say we loved the warm...well I should say hot weather today.

Passing the Praxis

ME CELEBRATING...I did it!!!!!!

Not many knew but I have been studying for two of the hardest tests of my life for the past 4 months, and now the results are in...I PASSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Utah required different praxis tests, so when I moved to Ohio I had to take on two different ones. Passing these tests will hopefully help me get a teaching job out here so keep your fingers crossed...I miss teaching so much...and it would be a dream come true if i could teach again...so wish me luck!!!

Scottie and I went out to my favorite restaurant to celebrate when we got my scores

Random Pics

So I haven't been a good blogger lately, but I realized it is because I haven't been a good picture
taker...So here are the few that I have.

Scottie surprised me and took me to the Ohio State Hockey game. It was our first hockey game together and was a lot of fun.

Here is the Medical Student

Scottie has been hard at work here at OSU and I am proud to say he has completely rocked his first year as a medical student. I have been impressed with his work ethic and how successful he has been. Scottie even has found time to volunteer at the free clinic and gets practice screening patients. Keep it up babe you rock!!!

FRIENDS

I just got off the phone with one of my best friends and I realized I am so blessed to have such amazing friends no matter where I live. I am so grateful to my friends from Washington who went through all of those crazy school years with me, and to my pals that went with me to BYU and to the friends/roomies I met and lived with in Utah. We sure became like family to each other and I think we will always feel that way (thanks for being there for me ALWAYS!!!) I am especailly grateful for the people I have met here in Ohio, we have grown so close already and I am so happy for the fun times we are able to have with each other during this eventful time of our lives. I feel like the Lord has always blessed me to know amazing people who have touched my live in so many ways... So this post is to all of you (not just the ones pictured) who have touched my life and who have been my friend.

I love you all!!!

SCOTTIE VS THE BUZZERS

Scottie decided it was time to give himself a hair cut

BEFORE

AFTER

I couldn't believe how different he looked, hope you were surprised too!!!

Scottie has been a wild man out here in Ohio and hasn't given himself a hair cut for about 4 months!!! The before picture is what he looked like the other night...then he decided it was time to shock everyone and buzzed his hair all off. He has gotten all different types of reactions... one of my personal favorites was when I ran into him at work and I didn't recognize him myself!!! He also had a lot of fun cutting his hair, so I decided to make a slideshow of the crazy event!

Christmas Break

Christmas in Washington

The Family Tree... looks like we were good this year

This year Scottie and I celebrated Christmas in Washington with my family. We were able to spend ten days with my family, and we loved every minute of our time there. Break always seems to go by so quickly... and then you have to re-adjust to real life... maybe that is way I am so late in getting my pics posted. I hope you enjoy.

Our tradition of lining up youngest to the oldest before we can go in the living room and look at the tree

Good lookin boys... in new coats

New boots...I am excited

Andrew must have been really good this year...Santa brought him a new snowboard

Here are lots of fun random pictures of our trip. We ate lots of really good food (thanks to mom's good cooking),played lots of Nintendo wii, saw some good friends, enjoyed lots of time with the family, and had the first white Christmas in Washington that I can ever remember!!!

Washington got the most snow they have ever received this winter, so I took lots of pictures around the house to document this historical event... we had about two feet of snow at my house.

My most favorite dog in the world with me in the back of our house

The Front

Look at all the SNOW... I can't believe it

Our Christmas day feast...well before we ate

US all at Applebees a Wednesday night tradition

And last but not least, a picture of Andrew and his finance Jill. Andrew proposed to Jill, his high school sweetheart on Christmas day... Congrats you two. SIDENOTE: I couldn't get Andrew to take a serious picture the whole trip so this one will have to work out. They are getting married on March 21st... so that is when our next Washington trip will be. That's all for now folks.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

Our adorable little Christmas Tree. Scottie and I put it up the first Sunday of December

Scottie and I have done lots of exciting things this holiday season and it has been a while since I have posted, so I decided I had better get these pictures up before Christmas. I hope you are all well and that you enjoy!!! love you all

Some festive holiday decorations, most are from my dear MOM

Our turkey feast. Turkey was so cheap I couldn't resist. We have another in our freezer, we are saving it though so we don't get turkied out

The happy cook

Hannah and I having a girls night out...in. We gave ourselves manicures and of course talked and talked. We were celebrating the end of Hannah's dental finals. Congrats Hannah you are done.

Scottie opening up his first Christmas present of the year!!! Thanks Jenny and the Zaugg family for your wonderful gifts we were so excited to get them.

Merry Christmas to everyone. Scottie and I hope you have a wonderful holiday and that you all remember our Savior Jesus Christ is the reason for the season. We love and miss you all.

Washington DC Trip

Slideshow

THANKSGIVING

So Scottie and I were traveling to DC Thanksgiving day for our little get away: which means we had our first dinner away from family, and since we were traveling we had to eat at a restuarant. We both agreed we needed to eat at a place where we could still stuff our faces so the only logical place for us was...GOLDEN CORRAL.

Scottie and I had been in the resturant for about 10 minutes when he leaned over to me and said "Ang I think we are the only normal people in here," and it was so true... the place was full of lots of interesting people... and then there was US!!!

Needles to say we had a great time and spend almost 2 hours eating. We didn't eat the next day until 4pm because we were still so full.

WE LOVE AMERICA!!!

Thanksgiving Break was a blast for Scottie and me!!! We decided that we would do something special since it was our first Thanksgiving away from family. The special something that we did was go to Washington DC. Scottie had never been there before and it's been years since I was last there, so it was a fun experience for us both. We loved seeing all of the monuments, museums, and important buildings (like the Capital, White House, and the Supreme Court House.)
US OUTSIDE THE JEFFERSON MEMORIAL

CAN YOU GUESS WHERE WE ARE AT???

THE WHITE HOUSE !!!(hope you were right)

You can't get that close,but lucky for us our camera has a powerful zoom

THIS IS AN AMAZING PIC OF THE CAPTITAL (taken by Scott Parker)

This is an ok pic taken by a stranger. I guess you have to do what you have to do to get both peeps in the picture LOL

This monument was built in 2004 and it was amazing.

Us inside the Museuem of Natural History (way cool, they even had real dinosaur bones!!!)

The history teacher was going crazy inside of me the whole time and I absolutely loved seeing all of the historical things there (I seriously almost started crying when I saw the original Declaration of Independence).

THIS WAS THE CONSTITUTION

(they keep it very dark to preseve the document)

The Lincoln Memorial (our fav)

THE WALL OF REMEMBERENCE

(this wall is from the Vietnam war and there are over 58,000 names on the wall. I am so grateful for all the sevice men who fought and died for our courntry... this memorial was very touching)

Here is Scottie's new best friend...NOT I would be jealous!

Korean War Memorial

Scottie and I appreciate our country so very much and we are grateful for this trip because it made us that much more aware of how great our nation is! This is truly the promised land and we pray that God will always bless America!

So I have too many pictures that I want to share and this post is getting too long, so I am going to try to figure out how to make a slideshow so you can all enjoy them!!!!

THIS IS A TRADITION HERE AT OHIO.

People take pictures all acrossed the whole doing this and then send them in to this competition thing... we just did it for kicks.

THIS IS A TRADITION HERE AT OHIO.
People take pictures all acrossed the world doing this and then send them into this competition thing... we just did it for kicks. And the two people of the end are complete strangers LOL.. disclaimer: they were fellow Ohioians who knew exactly what we were doing.