Weekend on my own.

OK... Sort of a weekend on my own. My husband has a good friend who is getting married in 2 weeks. I'm really excited about the wedding. I think it will be really fun :)
This past weekend my husband and about 30 other guys they are friends with left on a big 4 day Dallas weekend. They wanted to get away and go somewhere outside of town but didn't want to fly or go anywhere too expensive (since most of us are young with families and want to save their money for family vaca's). So they chose Dallas because its close. They left Thursday and came back Sunday. Somehow my husband managed to spend an awful lot of money on golf, dinners, hotels, taxi's (I made him promise not to drink and drive :) And yes in they did go to a strip club. I knew they would, I just asked that my hubs be respectful to me. I trust him so it wasn't really an issue but I had to make sure he knows my feelings about what's OK and what's not OK. This isn't his first bachelor party so I've become very aware of what they do. It sounds a lot like the movie The Hangover to me. YIKES!

Cooper and I were on our own this weekend. PARTY! j/k.

Thursday night we just spent some time together at home...

We actually left for my parents Friday as soon as I got off work.
I took these Friday before we hit the road. My mom bought him this cutie pie little comfy tree hugger outfit. :)

I like my alone time sometimes but a full weekend on my own with the Coopster isn't really my cup of tea. Sure I can handle it just fine but I prefer people and talking and busy weekends. So we stayed with my parents and spent time with them and with my brothers and sis in law and niece. We had a great time. my niece sang "Glamorous" by Fergie to me this weekend. Hah! She is hilarious. Her favorite song right now is "Bullet Proof" But since she's only 2 she says " this time baby I beeeee Huulllettttt pooooofff" Its seriously so funny. She gets so into the songs and when she was singing Glamorous she was doing so good when she spelled it. GO NAT!!!! She would shake her little hips and throw her arms up in the air and get so into it. Cracked me up.

My dad with his grand babies. He just loves them to pieces.

We had a fun weekend. My sis in law and mom and I went to hobby lobby to start on all my 1st birthday projects for Cooper's big 1! I have so many ideas and I know I have 2 full months until his b-day, but we have a vacation, birthdays and all sorts of things going on between now and then so we got started this weekend.
We are doing a Cowboy theme. Its going to be SOOOO CUTE! I decided this after long deliberation about 1 month ago. With the help of my mom of course. Maybe because I really wanted a reason to buy Coop some adorable little cowboy boots? Either way the outfit is in progress, the hat, the jeans, the boots. The whole deal. I have a cake picked out. I bought letters (his name and the number 1) and my sis in law and I painted them this weekend. They look so cute. I am cutting out Boots and Cowboy hats to hang his pictures on over the cake table and the fireplace. I'm so excited about this. I have so many fun and artsy projects started for the party. I can't wait to pull it together.
Here are some pics of the painting and some of the decor we bought on sale at Hobby lobby, that way we don't have to make everything.
Nat helped us too :)





Cooper has been taking more and more steps lately on his own. He took 2-3 good steps by himself Sunday. Today he took 5 steps on his own and then 4 another time. He's getting really close to really walking. He's been playing with this walking toy he has so maybe its helping him to be more daring. Its so cute when he tries to walk though. He puts his hands out like lurch. He goes fast and grabs onto whatever he is headed for. Adorable.
We had a good weekend. It was way to fast, tiring and now its over! BOOO! But either way its always nice to see mom and dad. and the rest of the fam. But we sure did miss Julian. I'm glad we are back together at home now :)