Family Time

I need to remind myself how precious family time is. My children are not always going to be this young and eager for attention. The other night Taylor and Cooper made these posters and posted them around the house. The posters advertise "game night" They also cleared the dinner table and got out a game.

Had they asked for a game we probably would have done something quick, or told them that we would another day, but they went through so much effort.

As we were playing it was a lot of fun laughing and spending time together. These are the moments that I remember at the end of the week. Not facebook, not web serving, not shipping or doing chores. I need to cherish these special family moments.

Cooper!

I thought I would try and spotlight each kid. Today I wanted to do Cooper because he has been just a sweetheart!

He got a toy for Christmas that he has enjoyed and he told me he really wanted to buy one for Taylor and one for Mason. He started doing some chores around the house today to turn money to purchase the toys. When I picked him up from school today, he saved one of the candies that he got from the teacher for Mason. He said it was for Mason because he feels bad that he hasn't earned enough money to buy him that toy yet.

Here is a quote from an email I got today from Cooper's teacher: "Cooper is such a cute kid! His often very energetic responses make me laugh."

Cooper loves learning. I is constantly asking questions about how things work. He loves to read. Each night he reads scriptures in his bed. He instigated it. He asked me if he could have his on scriptures to read. Most nights when I go in to tuck him in, he is totally involved in his scripture reading. In fact, he has a had a few panicky moments when he can't find his scriptures.

Cooper plays nicely and treats others so well. I am so blessed to have such a handsome, smart, fun, kind, and special little guy to me my son.

Puppies!

Laverne had puppies! They are 4 weeks old today. 2 more weeks of keeping these pups. It has been an exciting adventure. The night laverne was in labor, I walked past Taylor's room and heard squeaking. I was too nervous to go into the room by myself, so I rushed down stairs and got Jason. We went into together. These was laverne, and a slimy pup, and some messy spots on taylor's carpet :( We heard squeaking coming from somewhere in the room, so Jason and I went hunting. Jason found a pup under one of taylor's skirts still in it's sack. We took the sack off and cut the cord. Yay, we saved it!
This was around 10:30pm, and by 3am Laverne had all 8 pups. They all are healthy and doing well!
The kids love them and have named each of them (biggy, chocolate bar, miniature, yonyo, yonyo junior, zoe, Michael Jackson, and dude).
My house is very stinky and there are a lot of flies. I will be happy when we can give the puppies away, but it has been lots of fun!

Pillow Pet

Mason has been wanting a pillow met for quite some time. I think he must have seen a commercial for them. A few weeks ago when I had him in the jogger during my run, he told that we need to go the the store and buy him some pop tarts and a pillow pet.

Well, Jason took him to the store this week, and couldn't resist buying him one. Mason had fallen asleep in the car and was kind of groggy at the store. When they past the pillow pets, Jason said his face just lit up so big, and Jason just HAD to buy him one. http://www.blogger.com/

Wallsburg

The YW board had a party for families of those serving on the board. It was in Wallsburg at sister Ashton's property. My family had a blast! We were sad that Jason couldn't make it (he was running the rivalry relay). But we are glad that we got to spend the day with Grandma, Grandpa, cousins and nice families. My kids loved it so much. They want to go back.
The property had a couple zip lines, a man made lake with paddle boats, and a floating dock. There was a huge playground, barn with activities, lots of sports games, and giant slip and slide and so much more.

We are very grateful for the fun invite!

Go Wallsburg!!

My Baby Bauer is 1!

We had a fun birthday party for little Bauer. Lot's of cousins and family came to celebrate! We did some party games, and set up the waterslide. We also ate lots and lots of pizza.

I love my baby! He has been such a joy. He loves to cuddle, laugh, play toys, and show off his cool "standing" tricks to anyone who will watch. He is such a happy buy! One of his favorite things to do is "bonk headies" with Grandpa Robison. Bauer loves to play in water, and he loves to be sneaky and grab my cell phone or a remote whenever he gets the chance.

His first words are: dad, baba, and gog (dog).

We love you Bauer!!!

Cooper's Trafalga Birthday

Cooper had a great birthday! He is now our sweet 5 year old boy. He has waiter so long for his birthday. For about 4 or 5 months before his birthday he kept asking me "how many more days until my birthday?" Well the day arrived, and my 5 year old had a blast! Cooper was allowed to invite one friend to take to Trafalga. He invited his very best friend, Jacob! They played lots and lots of laser tag. Afterwards we came home for Cooper'd birthday dinner request: hawaiian haystacks, limeade,and icecream cake. Here are some pics of our fun day!