I MADE A DRESS!!!

The Final Product!!!

It’s for reals, me Angie Hansen Parker the girl who was afraid of sewing machines has made a dress, and I absolutely love it! My good friend Kelli convinced me back in April (while Joann’s was having a sale) to make a dress. I was skeptical at first, but Kelli promised to help me every step of the way and she really did!!! My dress became our project/excuse to get together for the next couple of months, and now we are DONE! Thanks to Kelli I now love sewing and am excited to start our next project which is swimsuit repair…so stay tuned. Thanks again Kelli, for the sewing lessons, good times, laughs, and memories we shared during this project!

PS. Reading sewing patterns is still like reading a foreign language to me….I think that skill comes with time and practice!

Me conquering my fear of sewing machines!

My instructor and friend Kelli the AMAZING!

The almost done dress above and the DONE dress below

Update From Columbus

I was looking through my pictures and realized I never posted about lots of things Scottie and I have been up too. Some of the things are too exciting to skip over so I decided I would do a post even though some of the activities are outdated....SO ENJOY the update!!!

BACK TO SCHOOL FOR ANGIE!!! Yes it's true. I have decided to go back to school! Since I work at OSU I get to take classes for free, so I decided to take some classes that will apply for my Master's Degree! Scottie is so cute and took a picture of me on my first day back to school.

OSU Football- We went to another OSU game this time with our good friends the Tolmans. Scottie called the game our defining moment as true Buckeye Fans because it rained the entire time, but yet we still stayed until the very end!

Kelli and I both must think alike because we both asked our hubbies at different times if they would do the O-H-I-O pose with us LOL. They agreed.

Trying new foods. I am in a culinary cooking club and our challenge for this month was Thai food. I made Heavenly Pineapple Fried Rice. It was super yummy and was a big hit at the group dinner. I also made POP can chicken it's a pretty popular way people cook there chicken out here in Columbus...They use beer though instead of POP. We used Sprit.

I felt bad for the little bird. I hate when you can tell what you are eating.

The Parker family decided to plant a garden this year. We rented a garden plot with some other friends of ours and then shared watering days. It worked out really well, and we loved the experience. Plus we got lots of yummy fresh produce from our very own garden!

Scottie surprised me and took me to a baseball game... we had a lot of fun together and enjoyed sitting by some crazy fans! The sun set while we were there and it was amazing!!!

3 Additions To Our Family!!!

Scottie and I babysat my sister's adorable kids last weekend, and of course Ellie (my sister's first child AKA DOG) came too....so we had 3 additions to our family for the whole weekend and we LOVED IT!!!

Friday night-April and Jordan stayed with us Friday night. We made homemade pizza and watched a movie. The sisters are at the ice cream again! This time we tried a new favor!

I took way too many pictures, gave the kids way too much candy, and had way too much FUN!!!



I Love My Nephews and looked forward to them coming all week long!

Saturday- we played on bikes and went swimming at the coolest pool ever! J doesn't like to look at the camera so this is the best I could do.

A doesn't mind the camera and I got this beyond cute Pic of him...Don't you love I have his collar up?

The kids pool at OSU is amazing. It had slides, a whirlpool, bubbles, a basketball hoop, and so much more! Scottie and the boys. They are desperately trying to get away!

J and I going down the slide, he loved it but was afraid to go down by himself.


Leaving the pool, I was so impressed the boys didn't even throw a fit when we left...they are such good little boys. Their mom has trained them well!

Talk about some serious morning hair. I couldn't resist and took a million pictures. His hair was just so cute.




I gave the boys frequent presents... you know I had to brainwash them into thinking I am their favorite aunt.

Ellie is jealous, I left her out...opps sorry girl.

Sunday- The boys in their cute church clothes. April and Jordan came back in time to go to church with Scottie and I. I was super excited to show them off to my ward! We also got to have Sunday dinner together before they had to hit the road and go home.

This pic was taken right before they left....J is so sad to leave Aunt Angie


The best group shot we could get! So so so hard when you have two wiggly boys!

Saying goodbye was sad. But we will see them for Thanksgiving in November. Sure love you guys and thanks for the fun weekend. Don't you all just love when family comes to visit?
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Ohio State Football

So Angie and I went to the OSU vs Navy game on Saturday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OSU 31 (1-0), Navy 27

Since Angie went and loved it, I told her I would post. We were both very excited to go to our first OSU football game together, I went to a few last year, but she didn't so this was our first one of many more to come.

Ohio State football is quite an event. We rode the bus down and walked a few blocks till we got there. Along the way we walked past all sorts of parties with people playing beer pong and cornhole, and having BBQ's. There were thousands of people tailgating and Nike, Gatorade, Coke, and other sponsors set up tents all around the stadium. We got there 15 minutes early and the stadium was already packed, there was not an empty seat of the 105,000 seats in the stadium, it was full of red from beginning to end. Quite the experience. Here is a picture from our cell phone as we forgot the camera.

Angie really liked the game and she is loving football more and more everyday and that makes me love her even more. We are so thrilled to be Buckeyes and we are both looking forward to more games together. (The picture below is also from the cell phone, so it looks a little goofy. Also, that is not my dad in front of her, although judging from the hat I can see why you might think it was... :)

Navy gave us a scare, the game was a little closer than we had wanted but the defense came through in the end, as we saved the game by intercepting their two point conversion attempt and returned it to our endzone. Here is the return.

We also got to see the famous OSU marching band. They have what they call "The best damn band in the land" They were good. The crowd actually does not leave for half time, but stays standing in the stands to watch the band perform. They did play great, compared to the many bands I have seen... Angie loved that too, I didn't mind it, but I was ready for half time to be over. They always end in the script Ohio, so I thought I would include that here too.

My 25th Birthday!!!

I am 25 years old!!!

So I totally got spoiled for my 25th birthday, thanks to my wonderful husband, friends, and family. My birthday was on Monday but me being the nut that I am about birthdays and holidays got to celebrate all weekend long.

The festivities started out with Scottie taking me to CiCi's pizza buffet, it's one of my favorite places to eat in Columbus.

We porked out LOL....no joke we really did!!!

On Sunday my incredible husband made me dinner and...

Invited some friends over for cake and ice cream...Scottie even made the cake! I was way impressed.

Here's the birthday crew...thanks for coming guys!

On Monday I found this gorgoues bouque of 25 roses in my office from my Dad!

Scottie gave me flowers too, and some friends brought me cookies to work!!! I was super spoiled

After work Scottie and I went golfing and I got my best score ever!!! I had 3 pars and I almost birdied!!! One of these days I will finally do it! I am so glad Scottie taught me how to golf I totally love it, and I am excited to golf with him was we get older together. We didn't remember to bring the camera so no pictures of golfing or dinner sorry!!! After golfing Scottie took me to my most favorite restuarent in the world!!! OLIVE GARDEN.

After dinner we came home I sat in the birthday circle and opened my presents!!! Scottie surprised me and learned how to play our song "the Luckiest" on the guitar for me. What a thoughtful hubby I have!!! I totally adore him if you can't tell!!!

He also spent several hours making this apron for me...also a surprise and something I have wanted for a very long time.

Me in the birthday circle! It was a great 25th birthday. Thanks to everyone who remembered and helped make it so special. I am a quater of a century old!!! WOW!!!! Did I mention I love it?