Christmas Time!

I love this time of year! It all starts with black Friday, yes that is almost better than Christmas for me even though a lot of the time I have most of it done, its just the thrill and of course you can always find something that is a good deal:)
This year has been especially fun because Kooper is at such a good age. I love that I can some what use the.."Santa's watching you better be good" tactic. I have been waiting my whole life to use that! I love that he knows the Christmas songs and always wants us to sing them with him, preferably "Rudolf." I love that his favorite thing to do at night is "go look at the pretty decooooations." I love that before he can even open his eyes in the morning the first thing we have to do is open a square from that little event count down calender and he may or may not get the little chocolate before breakfast (don't judge its the holidays)!
Kooper loves Santa, he gets so excited when he sees him, whether its a fake Santa or a real Santa. He has been able to sit on 2 Santa's laps, he loves it but at the same time he gets a little shy and will just whisper what he wants to him. This year he wants a "blue barbie jeep" thanks to his cute little friend Kaydence. She has a pink one and for a long time...like months he has said he wants a pink barbie jeep, then this past month or so he has realized that pink is for girls so now he wants a blue barbie jeep.
Im looking forward to Christmas morning and seeing his cute little face, its amazing how much kids bring such a special spirit into the Holidays. Happy Holidays!
We got to go to the "North Pole!" Kooper had a blast, he can't stop talking about it.
It had so many cute little rides.....
Even if your not so little......
Thumbs up!!
Kooper was looking at the reindeer, we were on a train ride and they have a bunch of reindeer off to the sides of the train. It was really cute!
He was being really funny about this Santa, he didnt want to get too close. I love the look on his face!
Feeding the deer...
Last but not least the CANDY CANE COASTER!! Kooper loved this little roller coaster, I think he might be a thrill seeker like his father....great!
This is what happens after a long hard morning at the North Pole......sound asleep!! YAY!!

Happy Birthday Kooper

Honestly, how do they get from this......
To this......I have no idea where time has gone but my baby is three!

Dear Kooper,
Happy Birthday! We can't believe that it has been three years since you came into our lives! Time has gone by so fast! People always use to tell us to watch out because he will be big before you know it, and now look at you! Your such a big boy, you're so independent and you have to do EVERYTHING by yourself! You have changed so much over this past year and we love every second of it, okay maybe not every second of it...your tantrums are a little over the top but then again what 2 year old doesn't have their fair share of melt downs:) You are such a little chatter box and I love it! I was telling Daddy the other day that there is nothing more sweet to me than to hear you say,"I love you Mommy." It melts my heart every time. You are so considerate of others around you, there is never a time that goes by that if I let out a frustrated sigh you will ALWAYS reply, "whats wrong mommy, don't be sad it okay." Or if you hear a baby crying you are always so concerned and you want to make sure the baby is okay. You bring so much joy and laughter into our home, we can't even remember what life was like without you, it must of been so boring.
Since we have moved you have been my best friend, I love playing with you everyday. I love our silly little conversations, I love our cuddle time, I love when you want me to just hold you, I love your sweet innocent prayers, I love in the mornings listening to you try and sing along to Mickey Mouse Club House(your poor little singing voice doesn't stand a chance if its anything like mine or Daddy's), I love that you hold my cheeks and tell me I'm pretty and then proceed to give me butterfly kisses, Eskimo kisses, real kisses then head butts(thanks Daddy)!
Thanks for being the good boy that you are, you have taught us so much over the past three years and we have grown so much in so many ways because of you. We are so lucky that you are our Son and that our Heavenly Father trusted us enough to raise such a perfect little boy! Happy Birthday!

Love Mommy and Daddy

We are having a......

On Saturday we were able to find out what we are having! We are thrilled to be having a .........

BOY!!!!!!!!!!

We couldn't be happier to have two little boys running around our house soon..(3 counting Wes)! Weston is one proud Daddy, for some reason its like some sort of accomplishment and boost to their ego to have a boy...why?? I have NOOO idea! Im not sure that Kooper quite gets it but, he always talks about him and whenever we ask what we should name the baby, lately he always says," Baby Jesus." I think its just because we have been talking a lot about Baby Jesus the past few weeks and so now he thinks that that's a great name for the baby in my belly!
I feel so blessed to be having a baby, I know so many people struggle getting pregnant or even having kids and so to be pregnant with my second child Im so overwhelmed with gratitude. I love being a Mom and I pray that I can be the best little mommy ever to my boys!

Way behind!

Why do I do this to myself! Im so behind in posting now I just feel overwhelmed and I dont even want to do it. And why am I behind...I dont really know, its not like I have a super busy life here, I guess I just find better things to do:) So considering that we saw Santa yesterday and I have some way cute pictures I better post about Halloween first so it looks like Im kinda on the ball.
We had such a good Halloween this year, Kooper is a little older so it makes it so much fun! We went to a little carnival at one of the schools with Craig and Julie and their twins, it was a blast and Kooper loved it!
The cutest little pirate in the world! Love this little guy!
Bean bag toss....
He was too far away at first, so of course what else would you do but walk right up to the pumpkin and throw the bags in!
Kooper trying to hold Kamree's hand and she is NOT having it! She is all ready playing hard to get....
Kooper with 2 of his cousins.
Kooper and Pa Pa Tom, don't ask me what Kooper is doing...

Another one on the way:)

So excited to add another member to our family in May. Kooper is in desperate need of a sibling so he is so excited. He is so cute with my tummy and always wants to know if the baby is crying. I love that he is all ready so gentle with my tummy, I know he will be such a good big brother. We feel so blessed to be able to bring another child into our family, the gratitude I had when I was watching the doc do the ultra sound and seeing that little peanut swimming around was so overwhelming.

Carving Pumpkins!!

Well for the first year in our married lives we decided to carve pumpkins....and I now see why we don't ever do it! It's messy, it stinks, its hard when you don't have very sharp knives or one of those cool carving kits. We have friends that are like die hard professional pumpkin carvers (The Ulriches that are AMAZING) https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmrDsekYhn-9LO83oXvkR4soM6o1AV8yj1DpAXnLb4X4pTgbyOjLwW-XMI8RMFvPzySBNIODXR8wXk-KIzZ-TPIeOA1mJWiaSfH2RBqOnTnlAUJYYLh67w2GIrG7taxLeN4vSK1J2Ijxk/s1600-h/Halloween+2009.jpg that make it look so easy, so we thought well they carve 120 pumpkins every year what's the big deal about carving 2? Well it was a big deal...and I think next year we will just paint on them:)It started out ok, kinda messy and it was harder than I remember trying to get all that slimey crap out...Kooper thought it was kinda cool.Weston was trying to be all hardcore and do something cool....so its suppose to be a cat and this is how it turned outIt was just a big hole, ha ha the whole thing just fell out!So then he just decided to do 2 big eyes and whatever else that is. I opted to do a normal, easy jack-o-lantern....not so easy for me. As you can see one eye is bigger than the other and one of his teeth fell out. Man...we struggle!!:)We also made pumpkin cookies for desert, I think that was Kooper's favorite part!
To top the night off our cute little neighbors brought Kooper over a little Halloween bag, he was so excited.

Pumpkin Patch

Over the weekend we decided to go to a Pumpkin Patch to let Koop pick out some pumpkins. The pumpkin patch was so cute, they had a huge corn maze, hot chocolate, a pit full of corn the kids can play in, hay rides and tons of pumpkins.

I have no idea where Weston was, I was just going to take Kooper's picture but then this old guy insisted that he take one of both of us...
This is the one!
WAY too heavy!

Kooper wasn't to sure about the corn maze, he wanted to get our as quickly as possible.And totally off the subject of pumpkins... For some reason the last week or so Kooper will not stay in his bed at night, this is how we find him every night! What the heck?? Arent there supposed to be monsters under the bed?

Miniature Golf

So this last Saturday was kinda monumental (not sure if that's the right word) but anyway it was the first Saturday in over 2 years that Weston, Kooper and I were able to just hang out as a family with absolutely nothing to do. No papers due, no study groups, no boards to study for, no unpacking....nothing! It was great! So we got up and got our house cleaned, the cars cleaned, and then after Koopers nap we decided to go miniature golfing. We had a blast, I wasn't sure how good Kooper would do because his attention span is about 3 seconds, but I guess if its something cool enough he will pay attention (I think he gets that from me.) In case anybodys counting I had TWO, yes TWO hole in ones and Kooper amazingly had one hole in one(watch out Tiger) and the golfer of the family had a big fat ZERO hole in ones! Its kinda a sore subject so I wont go into details:) Anway great day, I love that our Saturdays will be like this from now on!
Daddy helped him at first...
But then he got it.... he wanted no help, "I do it, I'm a big boy"

We were trying to explain to him that he got a hole in one..he looks a little confused??
Good form, good form
No Kooper you don't follow the ball....
Of course Daddy had to see if he still "had it" in the batting cages....yes he was pretty good!
But Koop and I were a little board:)

The little things that make me smile!

In the last few months Kooper has changed so much, he says the cutest things that just make me smile! I know that if I dont write a few down I will forget and wish I had.

-The other day I was having one of "those" days, and yes I was crying:) and Kooper took my cheeks in his hands, pulled me close and gave me a kiss and a hug then patted me on the back and said,"it ok mommy, be happy."

-Weston gave Kooper a taste of his lemonade and Kooper made a really funny face, so Weston asked him if he didnt like it and Kooper replied..., "no it tastes like poo!" How he knows what poo taste like I will never know:)

-Whenever we tell Kooper to do something he doesn't agree with he will always say in a really snotty voice...."goooossshhhh, okaaay!" Its so funny because he draws out the gosh and okay like he has really had it with us!

-I love that if he is talking to me and Im not paying attention he will say "mommy, look at me now."

-I love when he says things backwards, I never want to corrrect it because I think its kinda cute! Like for instance If I ever walk into the room and he is doing something he isnt supossed to and I scare him he jumps and says,"Mommy I scared you, geeezzzz!") aka mommy you scarred me geezzz:) Does he really even know what Jeeezzz means?

-I love that whenever I sneeze no matter where I am in the house I can always, and I mean ALWAYS hear Kooper yell, "bless you mommy." And then of course when ever he sneezes he will always say, "bless you Kooper."

You know as hard as it is to be new in this area, Im so glad for the undivided attention that Im able to give to my precious little guy! We have been having so much fun together and I love it! Yea, I would love a play date, someone to go to the park with or even to go to lunch with but those things will come..hopefully:) Thanks to the church when we moved to Pasadena I had/have such a great group of friends that were so willing to take Kooper and I under there wing, I miss them all like crazy! But I'm sure that will happen here too it just takes time!
All though Kooper isnt helping us out much....So the other day we had just got passes to the YMCA, its brand new and really nice, so we were really excited! They have a great swimming area for kids that has a big pirate ship, a fun slide, and its all only a foot deep( you get the picture) Anyway It opened at 10, so of course we were there at ten minutes too, with our suits on ready to go! There were about 10-15 other kids and Moms, so I was thinking oh this is perfect, I will for sure meet somebody here(am I sounding desperate yet ha ha) So abut 10:10 I look over and Kooper was just standing there looking down at his shorts and I was thinking what is he doing?? Next think I know he yells to me Mommy I pooped sure enough about 5 huge turds come floating out of his shorts!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!! Ok sure I should have put a swim diaper on him but he has not had one not ONE accident since he has been potty trained, only about a month but still! So anyway the lifeguard, says loudly, "everybody out, a little boy pooped in the pool, the pool is now closed! UGGHHH why me?? Why did it have to be my little boy, oh I know why because over the summer we went to a little pool like this and somebody had pooed in the pool and I was saying what the crap is it that hard to put a swim diaper on it was so annoying that we had went all that way just so they could shut the pool down.... So I hope this is a lesson to everybody, well one of 2 things either put a swim diaper on no matter if your child is 7 or just dont talk crap when other kids poo in the pool!:)

New Adventures

Well we finally made it! We have been here about a week but its taken that long to get Internet set up. We had a good trip here. Kooper, Pam(Grandma), and I drove the car, Weston drove the 347ft uhaul..ok maybe not that big but it seemed like it! And Kent(Grandpa) drove the truck pulling the snowmobile and trailer, yes it was quite a caravan! We stayed the first night in Grand Junction to brake up the 12 hour drive, and then made it the rest of the way the following day. Kooper was pretty good we only had to make about 2 emergency stops for potty brakes..which was really good I thought!
On day 2 Kooper was not feeling it so we tried to make a few extra stops to get his wiggles out...
We found a little park in Breckenridge that worked....slides, a steering wheel and a few rocks..what more could a boy ask for?
Pam and Kent helped us out so much with the move and getting settled, we really couldn't have done it without them! Thank You!! They were here with us for about 5 days, which was so helpful! We were able to get out a little bit, the town doesn't have a whole lot to offer especially compared to the LA area, I know it will be a huge adjustment! But on the bright side of things we can get our student loans paid off faster since there isn't much to do and then we can move on to where we want to settle down...where ever that might be.
Hopefully in the next few days I will be able to take a few pictures of our house...which I really like (except for some of the paint)! Thanks again for everybody that helped us move and helped with Kooper while packing! We have the best friends and family in the world! Love and miss you all!