One year!

OMG! My baby is one!  Cooper officially turned one on November 3rd, and I can't believe how old I am getting! Wait, this isn't about me. I can't believe how old he is already!  We celebrated/mourned with some family at our house for the occasion.  We had my mom's famous homemade chicken noodle soup, which I made this time, in some yummy bread bowls. My very talented sis-in-law made Cooper two, yes two, fabulous cakes! One was for Cooper to dive head first into, and the other was for the rest of us to dive head first into...which we all did! Cooper was so funny with his cake.  We have tried the traditional let-the-baby-go-to-town-on-a-cake-trick with each of our kids, but I gotta say Cooper "took the cake" Ha!  He was so funny with it and all the cousins, sitting around the table screaming every time he did anything remotely funny, made it even better!

Cooper's one year facts:

He is not quite walking yet, but is so close. 

He has four teeth, two up and two down. 

He is totally potty trained.

He loves to talk on/eat anyones cell phone.

His favorite babysitter is Makenna.

His favorite parent is Mom.

He doesn't speak much english yet, but he signs really well in spanish.

His favorite place to swim...toilets.

Seriously though, he has been a tremedous blessing to our family and everyone really loves him!  He has been the best baby to end with.  Not too hard..so its fun and we love him, but not too easy..so we aren't dying for another. (just yet anyway) I love his curly hair and his sweet smile, but most of all I love that he loves me! Not everyone around here does, so that's nice to have for the moment. Plus it helps that he's my twin if we were the same age.  Which really we're not THAT far apart?

Halloween '08

We had a lot of fun this year on Halloween. The kids are off track over Halloween, but we got up early and got everyone ready to walk in the school parade anyway. What is Halloween without a school parade in your costume? After all that work, for a 10 min parade, we went to McDonalds for breakfast. So yummy! Nothing like a bacon, egg & cheese biscuit after a chaotic morning to sooth the nerves!

Dad showed up from work early, complete with paint brushes, paints and newspaper to carve the pumpkins. Does that sound just plain wrong to anyone else? "Carve", last time I looked, does not mean "to paint"? But that is what we did. We painted our pumpkins this year. What a lazy way to keep up tradition!! You know that saying "pick your battles"? This was one I picked to NOT battle. And really, the painted pumpkins didn't turn out as bad as I thought they would. We might actually mix in a paint party every few years. Who knows?




That night, we got all suited up...again. I even busted out an old witch hat to show some spirit and we headed out in the rain. This was the first year in a long time I went out with the family to trick-or-treat. It was so fun! Tyson, Cooper and I rode in the Rhino, and the kids jumped in and out when they wanted to take a break. We made it to a lot more houses that way, and we were sheltered from the rain. Sort of.

Football player

Woopie Cushion. (don't ask?)

Vampire girl

Minnie Mouse

Bat baby

After we had enough of that, we packed everyone up in the car and drove over to meet Travis and Rebecca (Ty's bro) at their house. Deron Williams (Utah Jazz point guard) lives close by and the kids wanted to trick-or-treat their house to get an up close glimpse of him. Unfortunately, he wasn't the one who answered. Dang. I guess that means we now have to go caroling there too?