Way too honest!!

I had to post this because I have been laughing all night about it!
So first of all Weston and I aren't the most musically inclined people in the world, I think Im the only girl in the world that can play the piano but cant carry a tune to save my life...and then Weston is one of those that thinks he can sing but really he cant!!! Our poor kids have no hope!! If you're thinking "oh....it cant be that bad".....think again, its really really bad!!
So now that you're caught up and know about our beautiful singing voices last night when we were having family home evening we told Kooper that we were going to sing I Am A Child Of God...so Weston and I start singing and a few seconds into it Kooper puts both hands over his ears and starts saying, "I don't like that noise, I don't like that noise....You guys are killing me, you're killing me, stop!!!"
REALLY??? Even a 3 year old knows how bad we are...that's sad!!

Easter, Easter, and More Easter!

I feel like Easter lasted all week at our house this year, which is ok because its one of my favorites! Anyway on Tuesday we started out with an Easter Egg hunt with the Mom's group that we go to. It was really fun, Kooper wasn't too sure about it at first, well I take that back he was super excited until they said go and he realized some of the older kids could run faster than him so he kinda stared to throw a fit saying" I cant do this, I cant get anything" ha ha what is up with him, he is so competitive these days! Anyway once he realized there were more than enough eggs he was a happy little camper!
That night we colored Easter Eggs, we had so much fun. Kooper was so into it this year which was so fun because usually he is so not into "crafty projects."
Daddy thinks he is so cool, can you tell??
We decided to have a little barb-q/ Easter egg hunt with a few of our friends on Friday night. Weston and I love to have people over, although this time it wasn't as easy having a party being 37 weeks prego! It turned out really good, the kids loved it and that's what matters...right??
After a few minutes of collecting eggs I couldn't find Kooper, so I went inside and found him cracking all of his eggs open to see what he got...the hunt wasn't even over yet but apparently he had gotten enough!
Kooper and one of his best little friends Karissa having dinner together:)
I sent Weston to the store to grab a few last minute things and he came home with a big egg pinata and a bunch of candy! He is such a kid at heart:)
Then of course Sunday morning topped it all off. Kooper was so excited to find his Easter basket, the Easter Buuny made a little trail and he had to follow it to find his basket. When he was about through the trail he sat down and said that he needed a break, he wanted to eat pancakes and then he would find his basket! ha ha
We had such a good week, of course we miss family like crazy and Holidays like this makes me so homesick, but Im so thankful for the friends that we have made and the memories we are making with our own little family!

Butter....Seriously??

When I walk into the kitchen and see this.......(this is leaving him alone for 1 minute)I know its never a good sign....
I look to his room, his door is shut...I know this is going to be interesting so I grab my camera and find this...
For some odd reason my sweet little Kooper is OBSESSED with butter...yes I said butter!!! He loves it, for instance the other day I said to him,"Koop come and eat, we are having your favorite, spinach ravioli (which he really does love)," and he immediately says, "no mom, butter is my favorite."
So this is the thing we don't even eat butter, we have always used spray butter, I keep some butter in the freezer for baking and that's why when I see the chair by the freezer I know what Kooper is after! We can get this kid to eat anything if we tell him that we will put butter on it...is this a good thing or a bad thing? Just posting these pictures I'm gagging, I hate butter and to eat a whole stick...are you kidding me? Well he obviously didn't eat the whole stick but even one bite would send me over the edge! So really Koop, you're going to pick butter as your favorite food??? Can we even call it a food? SICK!!

Soccer Mom!

Have you ever imagined something in your mind and then it turns out so incredibly different?? Well that seems to happen to me quite often! And this whole soccer mom thing being one of those things that was imagined so different! So Weston and Kooper have been practicing all these sweet moves, scoring goals, and passing the balls for a few weeks now so I was thinking by his first game he was going to be semi-pro.... ha ha boy was I wrong!! Although in these first few pictures he looks pretty convincing......
So this was the problem....he did really good until the other team would come and kick the ball from him, how dare they...right??? We have been taught not to take toys (balls) from other kids while they are playing with them, so why on earth would these kids just come up and kick the ball right away from him...he was playing with it first!!!
Oh boy...so there you have it, I forgot to explain that it's okay when playing sports to take the ball, which if I would have it would have avoided several on the field melt downs! I wish I would have gotten some pictures of him pouting and stomping around after the ball was stolen, but I was too busy trying to figure out why the heck he was so mad...."DUH Mom its because we don't take other kid's toys (balls)"
So after so many times of getting the ball taken from you I guess playing in the goal is a lot more fun!
I love this picture, he is just so content taking a break drinking his juice box.
All in all it was a fun day, it was so cute to see our little boy attempting to play a sport, he is growing up way too fast! He may not be semi-pro like I was thinking but we are so proud of our little soccer player and Im by far the proudest soccer Mom around! Love you Koop:)

A well needed visit home!

After being away from your family and friends for awhile there is honestly nothing in this world that I love doing more than going home to spend quality time with everybody. This time was so different because I wasnt working 90 hours in a week so I just got to enjoy having time to do whatever I wanted, it was just what I needed. I have been feeling so homesick lately, and its amazing what being around the people that mean the world to you can do for you in one short week!
While we were there my mother in law watched Kooper while Weston and I and our besties went on an over nighter. The day was perfect, it started out by my amazing friend Julie and her cute mom(my other mother) took me to get a pedicure and then out to lunch at my all time favorite "PF." Julie of course went overboard and spoiled the new baby with a whole storage bin of clothes, diapers, wipes, toys... you name it, it was in there! I honestly don't know what I would do with out this girl, she is one of those best friends that you can tell anything too, her shoulder is always there for you no matter what, she is such a good example, and I know that she would do anything for me! Anyway back to the perfect day... after being spoiled with pedicures and lunch, Weston and I headed down to St George to meet Julie and Craig. Weston and I did a little shopping, got our truck detailed and enjoyed some of that amazing St. George sunshine! When Craig and Julie got down there we went to the temple....
Went to Samurai 21 and enjoyed some sushi....
The girls had lots of "pillow talk" time, and lots of laughs...you know the laugh when you laugh so hard it hurts....
The boys had lots of...um... I guess showing each other their "apps" on their I phones??? Is that what boys do? What ever it is, they are totally into it!The next day the boys went golfing and the girls went shopping. We had such a good time, it was well needed especially because we will be very busy here in about 4 weeks...
We had so much fun at home, Im so thankful that we both have such amazing families that love Kooper so much, he is so lucky to have them, and yes we are too! Thank you so much Grandma Pam for watching Koop so that we could have a little over nighter!

100% Daddy's Boy!!

So Im not sure what the deal is lately but Kooper is obsessed with his Dad, which I know, I know isnt a bad thing, I know Weston is a good catch and all but what the crap..... I take care of this kid all day long, I feed him, I take him to the park, we play, we read, we color, we play hide and seek and you know these days its not so easy to hide this big ol' body but I do it anyway!! And still every morning when Koop comes in the first thing he wants to know is "where is Daddy"...I say the same thing, "Koop he is at work." His reply is always the same, "nooooo I want my Daddy so so bad, I miss him, he is my best friend." I know kinda cute but, every morning at 6:30am trying to console him, I'm just kinda over it! Dont get me wrong at times it is nice, like when Wes gets home Kooper doesn't want a thing to do with me, in fact he doesn't even want me in the room when him and Wes are playing which is fine with me, by the end of the day sometimes I dont want to even be in the room, (so there Kooper)ha ha But there are times when I really feel a little frustrated, like today before nap and I was reading him books, and he says,"I want you to read it like Daddy does." Or I'm tickling his back and he'll say, "your not doing it right, do it like Daddy." Another example, I can fight with him all morning to make his bed and he wont, but honestly the second Weston says, "Koop you need to make your bed." He skips right in and does it.(well maybe he doesn't skip, but he might as well)
Well I could go on and on all day giving examples why Im feeling like chopped liver, but I wont. I know he loves me I just had to vent for a minute.
Kooper loves to wrestle, and he knows he can only do that with Daddy...maybe thats why??
Weston gives him "bear traps" (notice his foot trapped in his undies) all the time but that doesnt stop Kooper from wanting more and more of his Daddy. PS A bear trap is a big thing in this family, its sooo annoying but kinda funny, once your foot is stuck its soo hard to get it out especailly if you have Daddy tickling you the whole time!
They nap together....
They play dragons together, usually Kooper is on Weston's shoulders"training the dragon."

I love these boys and I do love their relationship, I couldn't ask for a better Daddy for Kooper. Weston does so much with him and is such an amazing exapmle and I love seeing Kooper look up to him so much, I hope that his Daddy is always his"best friend."

California!

After two long days at Disneyland, we decided to go to the Long Beach Aquarium on Saturday. He is at the perfect age for this, he loved every second of it!Kooper loved being able to touch all of the fish, starfish, little crawdads, and whatever else was in the water!At the Aquarium they have a huge bird area, you can buy nector for $3.00, which I though was kinda a rip off becuase its in the littlest cup you have ever seen, but let me tell you...it was worth every penny! Those birds love it, once they see that you have the little cup they flock to you! Kooper loved it, and as you can see Daddy was having a lot of fun too!While we were in CA, we took a little drive up to Pasadena where we used to live. We of course had to eat at my all time favorite restaurant Houstons. I have been craving their coconut shrimp roll for the longest time....it is the best ever, in fact just looking at the picture makes me want to go back! And then of course we topped it off with Pinkberry. Going to all of our favorite places really made us miss Pasadena, we had such a good times there!

Kooper loves hotels, for some reason he thinks its the greatest thing in the world when we get to stay at one. As you can tell he thinks he is sooo cool!
We had such a great time on our little family vacation, and Im so glad Kooper had so much fun! I love that kid more than anything in the world and bringing a new baby into our lives scares me a little because I would never want Kooper to feel bad in any way. Dont get me wrong I know it will be so good for him because the little stinker needs a sibling around to teach him how to share and all the other things siblings are good for. He has just been my world for the past 3 1/2 years, he has been my best friend while Wes has been busy at school and now work. I think Im just scared to see all that change but yet so excited to have another little precious child in our home to love and adore just like we do our little Koopy Koop!

Disneyland!

So we though we better get a little family vacation in with Kooper before our new little guy comes and turns Kooper's world upside down....So what better place than the "happiest place on earth"??
We love Disneyland, we have missed it so much since we moved from CA so it was so nice to go back. Kooper has been so excited for this trip, every night after books he likes us to tell him a story and usually it can be about anything but after we told him we were going to Disneyland we had to tell a story about that and it had to include Buzz Lightyear. When the day finally came that we were leaving he was so excited, he was so good on the plane and couldn't wait to just be at the park. Once we got there, he did his little happy dance and was the happiest kid in the world! It was a perfect day.... there were no lines and it was so warm and sunny!On our way....


Toy Story is one of our favorite rides, it by far had the longest line but to see Koop SOOO excited to go on it, it was worth the wait!
Kooper is going to be a thrill seeker like his Daddy, him and Wes went on this little roller coaster several times. Kooper wanted to go on the bigger ones but he wasn't tall enough....he was so disappointed!

Kooper LOVES this ride, he thinks his mission in life is to help Buzz fight the Evil Emperor Zerg, so this ride is so perfect for him. I cant tell you how many times a day that we spend searching (with our guns) looking for Zerg.:) Look at his eyes, he is SO into it!

Kooper loves animals, so the Jungle Safari is perfect for him. He kept wanting to know if they were real....
Monsters Inc.
Woody!
LOVES Mickey!!


Bumper cars, he thought he was so cool that he could drive!
This is what happens after a long day at the park, he was so wore out! Weston and I took full advantage of our sleeping child and had a nice quiet meal at Cheesecake Factory, he didnt even move a muscle the whole time we ate...we aren't use to that, we usual have to inhale our food because he is being naughty, not this time...it was great!