Friday, November 16, 2012

Aug 28th-- Happy 5th Birthday Cooper


Can't believe my baby turned 5 this year!! Our college kids came to celebrate Cooper's big day!! What a great group of kids they are!! 



Rah Rah took us to Chuck-E-Cheese to celebrate Cooper's big day! As always we had a great time!! 



Such a happy boy!! 


Trail of Tears




Soccer Time

The boys had a great soccer season! Cooper enjoyed his first year playing and did very well. Because the boys are all in different age groups and play at different times we spent a big part of our Saturdays at the soccer fields watching them play. I love watching the boys play hard!! They love to play ball! 



Our college kids were very supportive of the boys and were at most of their games!! 
 
Cooper finally old enough to play!!

Cooper and his buddy Jonah!




Monday, August 13, 2012

School Time

Can't believe summer break is over and it's time for school again. The boys switched schools this year so they are no longer going with Chad to Adamsville. I'm no longer babysitting full time in my home. Cooper started pre-k. We are all dealing with some changes this year but I think they are good changes. I hope to be able to be more involved with the boys in their school. I'm really looking forward to that. They love their teachers and are having a good year so far! 



Chance is ready for 1st grade!! 


Cade is now a 3rd grader...wow! 


Cooper all ready to start pre-k!! 


Fun on the Farm

We spent the day before school started at the farm with Papa and Clare Ruth. The weather was beautiful. The boys swam, played in the creek, rode the 4-wheeler, picked watermelons, shucked corn, and helped make homemade ice cream. 


Everyone shucked their own corn for lunch!! 



Food taste so much better when you help prepare it!! 



We made ice cream the old fashioned way....hand crank!! Our arms all got a good workout! 



When it got hard to turn Cooper sat on the bucket to help keep it still while Papa gave it a few more turns!! 


It was delicious!! Butterfinger ice cream....yum!! 



Being Creative

My boys have been all about creating things lately. Chance especially can take just about anything and create something cool from it! He has been obsessed with tape and paper lately! The boy can use a whole lot of tape in a very short amount of time. But I love to see him using his imagination so I try to overlook the mess he makes and the amount of tape and printer paper he uses!! 


One of his many creations was this umbrella!! Not sure how well an umbrella made of paper will hold up in the rain but he worked and worked and worked on this thing and he was very proud of it. I was pretty impressed with all the things he used to get it to look like an umbrella. Several pencils, toothpicks, pieces of paper, and lots of tape were used!


One day the boys built this fort and played in it almost the entire day. I loved seeing them work together and play without argiung. Doesn't happen very often so I tried to enjoy it and not interrupt their playing. 


Cooper sat in the kitchen floor one evening drawing this. I walked by and said, "Cooper, that's a really good person you drew.' He replied, "Well actuawwy that's Jesus walking on the water. See this is Jesus and this is the water that he's walking on. And this is the sunshine!' Sweet boy! 

Mid South Junior Camper

Cade enjoyed his second year at Mid-South Youth Camp as a junior camper. He loved being there with some of his closest friends. He's already looking forward to being at camp again next year.