Sunday, April 25, 2010

Weekend with the family!



We went to visit my parents and brothers this weekend. I missed them like crazy! We had a great weekend, let me give you a quick re-cap. Friday night we went to a friends house for a cookout. We had so much fun. Add Image Remove Formatting from selection
Saturday morning we headed for mom and dad's and made it by lunch time. We went to our usual lunch place when we go to visit, the Greek House. MMMM. This place is so good. After lunch we headed back to mom and dad's. But on the way we stopped at this really fun park they have by the campus. It was so cute. It looked like a huge castle, and had all sorts of hands on things that kids could do. I played with some of the musical toys with Cooper while my niece went down slides. Cooper swang for a minute but didn't care to much for the swing set. not sure why really?

We left because it started to rain and my mom and I needed to go to the store.
We then came home to the guys playing football outside and my niece Natalie was playing sidewalk chalk. We stayed outside for a while and enjoyed the nice weather. Then we all went for ice cream. YUM! It was one of those frozen yogurt places where you get to put whatever you want on it. Mine was some sort of berry flavored yogurt covered in all types of fruit. It was amazing! Sunday we got up and went to church, then went to the music/art festival they were having in town. That was??? Well OK let me break it down for you. I love love love music. I am a very musical artistic person so I appreciate music and art. However this was sort of strange. Its like every hippie under the sun comes out. Which I have absolutely no problem with whatsoever. However what I do have a problem with is people who don't wear deodorant and they smell like they just took a 40 mile jog in 100 deg weather. They stunk BAD! and smiled up a storm. Well today while at the art festival, we saw some. They were being sold in a booth and so I walked over to look at them and my mom was like "oh my gosh, he loved that one he saw yesterday". Sure enough, when Julian brought him over to see them he smiled from ear to ear reaching for them. So my mom decided she would let him get one. It was so funny, we found one named "Ralph", I like to call him The music was nice, the art was nice. I saw some super cute headbands that were so fun and I decided instead of paying $25.00 for one how fun it would be to make my own. So I inspected it really closely and I am going to go buy the supplies tomorrow and try to make one. Apparently Saturday Cooper saw a sock Monkey on tvRalphy. But anyways, he has his tongue hanging out. Cooper has lately been obsessed with hanging his tongue out of him mouth its so funny. So mom bought him his little sock monkey and he hasn't been able to put that thing down since he got it. He loves it!
Anyways, we had a good time but didn't stay too terribly long. We went back to mom and dad's and spent the rest of the day hanging out and relaxing. I had a terrible headache due to my stupid annoying allergies. But luckily a short nap and some Advil took care of that.

I have to tell you all. Cooper loves his grandparents. Of course he does, but this weekend Cooper started showing quite the interest in my dad. It was the most absolute adorable thing I've ever seen. I felt some sort of special joy watching my little boy ooh and aah as he stared at my dad. He would lean around you just so he could see my dad. He would smile non stop anytime my dad was in eye sight. He leaned to him whenever he saw him. He LOVES my dad. I loved watching him as he looked adoringly at his grandpa. Its the cutest thing ever! Just wanted to share that with you because it was seriously adorable. Now we are home and tired and ready for bed. But I decided I would post really quick and say hi. I hope all of you had a good weekend. I'll have to spend this next week playing catch up again. :)We left because it started to rain and headed home so the kids could take a nap and I went to run errands with mom.
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Thursday, April 22, 2010

IF YOUR HAPPY AND YOU KNOW IT



Its award time ladies!
Here are the rules:1. Copy and paste the award on your blog.
2. List who gave the award to you and use a link to her blog (or hyperlink).3. List 10 things that make you happy.
4. Pass the award on to other bloggers and visit their blog to let them know about the award.
Sounds easy enough to me. :)
I got this award from Shannon over at www.ourgatorzone.blogspot.comThanks Shannon that was so sweet of you.


THINGS THAT MAKE ME HAPPY!

1. This little face! Need I say more :)
2. My amazing Husband. I HEART HIM! He makes me the happiest girl in the world.


3. Buying something new! It just feels so good to add something new to my wardrobe. To wear it and to feel good about myself. I don't get to shop as often now that I'm a mama, but I still enjoy it and feel great when I get something new.4. Spending time with my family! This pic was taken before Coopy so pretend he's in it :)


5. GIRLS NIGHT!!!, Ha, I was prego in this pic. That is why my friend is touching my belly. We don't normally hang out and rub each other's stomachs. :)
6. Kraft Cheese, Thank you so much to whoever created this lovely piece of heaven.

7. The movie Hairspray, because no matter what that super corny movie can always make me smile. I don't care how dorky that is. I love that freaking movie!
8. Singing out loud in the car.

9. Getting a pedicure.

10. And last, having a clean house, laundry done, dinner made, the house is spotless. Ahhhhh feels so good! :)



Since it doesn't have a certain amount of bloggers I have to pass this on to. I will pass it on to all of you who want to participate. If you would like to make a list please do. :)
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Monday, April 19, 2010

Great Weekend

We had a great weekend. Friday night we went to dinner with some friends. Always fun! When we got home from dinner, My best friend and her husband came over for a little while. Guess what happened!!!! COOPER CRAWLED. For real crawled, not a scoot to the toy he wanted. I was so proud and excited for him. However he didn't do it again this weekend. Today he did it once at his Mimi's house. :) But he'll get the hang of it more often now that he's figured it out I'm sure.
Saturday, I played clean up for the earlier part of the day and then Saturday evening we went to another friends house. He was having a cook out. We had a good time and Cooper of course was just loved on by everyone.
Sunday we got up and went to church. Cooper has sat through church twice now without us having to take him out to go to the cry room because he's being too noisy. He's been doing so good lately. Especially since he's a little chatty Cathy. The boy rambles on and on. Its so cute.
After church we had to hurry over to one of my husbands co-workers houses because their little girl was having her second birthday and we were invited.
We had been to this guys house a few times and I know his wife (we get together with them for dinner sometimes). However even though we are friends we don't go over their house often.
LET ME SET THE STAGE: We get there a little after 2:00. About 10 minutes late for the party. We show up and I comment on how there aren't many cars parked out front of the house. Julian says to me "hmmm yah I would have thought more people would be here". So we get Coop out and proceed to walk to the door. I even say while walking to the door "are you sure the party was at their house"? We walk up to the door and see that the the main door is open and the storm door is closed. There are streamers hanging from the fireplace "whew ok its here"... We see people inside so we knocked softly and chose to let ourselves in (I never ever do this but here we are walking into a party late. We didn't want to interrupt by ringing the doorbell and barrelling in). We walk in and see two women standing there staring at us. I say hi! Then luckily the owner of the house Sheila comes in the back door with the birthday girl Hayden from the backyard. Whew! Thank goodness we saw them. I was feeling strange the way those ladies were staring at us.
We went over to say hi to Hayden and took her birthday gift over to where all the others were at. My husband is standing talking to Sheila and I over hear her saying "Yah Jerrod just left for work"??? (That's her husband). As she says this I'm setting the gift down and thinking "Hmmm that's strange, why would he plan his daughter's 2nd b-day party for when he's at work"? Then I notice!! DUN DUN DUN!!! All the gifts had been opened. The gift bags surrounding mine had no tissue paper in them. I slowly looked around like I was in the twilight zone and smiled at Sheila and said "Oh my gosh, so did we miss the party"? Hahah! The embarrassment started to saturate me. Oh my GOSH!! We totally just walked right into to these peoples house, walked right in like we owned the place and your not even going to believe this. The party was actually at 11:00. We were 3 whole hours late.
For whatever reason I had in my head that the party was at 2:00. I mean its a Sunday! Nope 11:00. Luckily Sheila laughed at us and forced us to eat cake before we walked out in shame and embarrassment.
You should have been there, I felt like we were in some sort of Monday night 30 minute family comedy weekly show or something. Like we walked into everybody loves Raymond. This is so not what happens to us.

I think its hilarious now but still get that OOPSY feeling in my tummy when I imagine seeing them again. Haha. Oh well. Makes for a good story. I bet those two women at her house thought we were crazy when we just moseyed on in:). Apparently it was her mom and mother in law. FABULOUS!

That's the fun story I have for all of you today. Hope you enjoyed.

Oh and of course some pictures from this week as well. How could I not?

Little baby Hef! Oh just look how cute you are.





Someone managed to scoot right under the couch. "Um Sir??? Sir? Could you help me please"? :)


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Thursday, April 15, 2010

7 months old


My sweet baby boy is already 7 months old April 16th! Its hard to believe, he's past the 6 month mark. I'm happy and excited to see what comes next but I'm sad to leave behind that tiny baby he once was.
Cooper has truly grown to be such a wonderful, happy, fun to be around little baby. He is always smiling, brightening people's days. I haven't come across one person who didn't say to me "wow he's just so happy) :)

He is doing so many new things these days. Just in the past month he has really started to move around more. I wouldn't say crawl really. More like he gets on his knees and hands and rocks forward like he's going to speed crawl and then he never actually moves. He also gets on his hands and pushes off of his knees onto his feet and he tries to move that way. He's using his hands well while in the crawling position. He can reach for objects without falling over or anything sit there on one hand and two knee's. I truly think he will master the crawl very soon.
Cooper rolls to get where he wants to be. He plays so well, he usually enjoys to bang one toy into another. That most definitely interests him the most :)
He tried to pull up onto our coffee table last night and the hubs and I just sat there in shock not wanting to distract him so we could see if he could do it. He would almost get pulled to standing and he would lean back and fall. But he could pull to his knees only using the table to hold him up. I can't believe that in the coming months he will be learning to crawl well, to pull up, to cruise, to walk. Oh my goodness the things he will learn.
Cooper loves to feel our faces. He is always wanting to touch and he is quite the cuddler. Not afraid to love on us when he wants to take a break from playing. He's just slightly spoiled :) He loves to be with his mommy and daddy.
Julian thought he heard him say "good" today. HAHA, I cracked up. Good huh? That's an interesting first word. I didn't hear it so I can't say weather this happened or not. But I did hear him say mama a couple weeks ago and I am almost positive he was truly saying it.

Cooper is our absolute life and everything to us! He is the most amazing blessing from God and I am truly prayerful and thankful to the lord each day for giving us such an amazing beautiful life in our own lives.

Cooper,
Mommy and daddy love you more than I knew love was. You are our heart and soul and we have the most amazing time just watching you and seeing the new and old things you do. We never get bored of you. You surprise us daily with all your new tricks. Your big round blue eyes are the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in my life. The smile you get when I walk in the room, or when you turn and see daddy's face is gorgeous. You love us and we love you. You are our Coopy!
Happy 7 months sweet baby!

Love mommy


God,
I can't thank you enough for this gift of life. For my own, yes. But for blessing my life with the life of my son. He is truly my everything. You knew all along that I was destined to be a mom. When I worried about being infertile, when I cried because I had a miscarriage, or failed attempts. You always knew that you had something special in store for us. September 16th 2009 you brought that gift that you worked so hard on to us. And forever my life has changed. Thank you God. You amaze me! Please keep my sweet family and friends safe from harm, alive and well. Thank you again for the gifts and support you always bring to us.

Amen.

These are just a few pics of Cooper I took the past few evenings when we were just playing at home.
He is super tired in a few of them. Check out those ready sleepy eyes. But he's like the energizer bunny, he goes and goes and goes until he just can't go any longer.
















Ha this is his "Raz" face. He does that a lot!

I am also attaching some pictures of a get together at a friend of mines house this past week. We had so much fun.





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