Summer 2012

Summer 2012 will be an interesting one for the Pannell family. Scott's job has taken him to Louisiana for 4-6 months.Since the job hit over the summer, the boys and I are able to go with him.We will be living in Lafayette, which is a little bit smaller than Boise; population of 120,000 vs. 200,000. Lafayette is Louisiana's capital of Cajun culture, and also has more resturants per capita that any other city in the U.S.

Our itinerary includes New Orleans, the Gulf of Mexico, Sea World (San Antonio), Lizard hunting, eating, a few cajun festivals, a swamp tour, maybe a plantation tour, and trying not to die of the heat (we don't do well with heat). While Lafayette is mostly a caucasian city, I think that we will still stick out like a sore thumb.

Spencer can barely stand it, he's so excited. In this picture he is standing by our big map, with our route to Louisiana, and showing off his count-down links. We plan on leaving Sunday May 27, and the drive is 36 hours.

What have we been doing?

May 1, 2012 was Parker's second birthday.Scott left for Louisiana early that morning, so we had presents and cake the night before, and spent Parker's actual birthday at Jump Time.

This was the night before his birthday. We had an angry birds birthday party, and he is holding one of his favorite characters: Stitch (other fav is Mickey Mouse).

A week after Parker's birthday is my dad's birthday

yum - we love going out to eat :)

caught Spencer sneaking into our homemade frosting - he figured out how to go cross-eyed

the boys playing on the bridge at their great-grandma & grandpa Mortensen's house. The favorite activity right now, is tying boats to the bridge and letting them float in the creek, then pulling them back.

View from the bridge. This picture is for all of my Thomas cousins, who haven't made it to Grandma & Grandpa's for awhile. The creek beds have started to erode, so Grandpa added river rocks - it looks awesome.

This last weekend, the boys and I drove up to McCall for my niece, Kimberely's baptism. This is Spencer and Parker with a few of their Pannell cousins (Tyler, Gavin, Jackson) Some Misc. pictures:

Spencer is all about Skylanders right now.

The boys playing with dad before he left for Louisiana

Nobody can flip a fit like Parker can

1 O'clock church means that the nursary has turned into the napping house

The boys picking out their essentials for Louisiana:)