OH BOY!!

Well I found out yesterday that Cooper is going to have a baby sister in April! We are so excited and still a little shocked that we could actually have a girl. It just didnt seem probable!

TAG I'm it!

This is supposed to go down with #4 but I am so not able to make my computer function properly. This is my sweet Gus that had to go live with someone else because she wanted to hurt Cooper.

Okeedokee, I have been tagged. I am supposed to write 6 things about myself... This is a hard thing to do! I just realized I am pretty boring!

1. Well, I have always had an obsession with realestate. Probably from 12 years old on I have drawn floor plans, clipped out pictures of homes in magazines and put them in my house ideas binder and surfed realestate listings on the internet. My binder of houses are mostly 16th century castles and mansions, so before Drew asked me to marry him my dad suggested I show him my deluted reality of my future home, just to be sure Drew knew what he was getting into.

Anyway, to make a long story short Drew has put his foot down and refuses to drive me around looking for houses that I have seen on the internet and suggested that I stop looking at the listings in the first place because we wont be multi millionares anytime soon. I decided that was probably smart after I actually knocked on someone's door that had recently purchased my dream home, and asked if I could look inside. I figured that was the only way I would be able to stop dreaming of the floorplan and mouldings, and blah blah blah. He was actually really nice and the incident probably only encouraged my discusting obsession! Moving on!

2.I really like to vacuum. I mostly only do it once a day, but I seriously have to keep myself from looking at my carpet the rest of the day because if I spot a hair or a crumb or if the vacuum lines are no longer as visable, it will prompt me to do it again. This is a serious time waister! I have been asking Drew for a Dyson for Christmas...AHHHH...a Dyson....he says no way.

3. I wish I could breakdance. The thought of breakdancing just makes me so happy! I want to spin on my back and do windmills and all that really not so girly stuff. I try periodically when the music is right, wich mostly happens to be when other people are around, and end up I am sure embarassing myself pretty bad. I dont know to what extent I look rediculous cause it always looks so cool in my mind.

4.Um, I really like animals. I have had many pets, most of wich turn out to be comical mistakes and end up causing me bodily harm. So I say to myself, I will never have a " " again, and then 2 months go by, I see one and I am scheeming of ways to take it home. I used to dream of owning a camel, a donkey, a cow,........I would have actual dreams where I would ride my camel or Donkey to track practice and park it by the fence. I felt so proud.

5.I am kind of a "closet" wanna be politician. I would LOVE to be a senator or hold some sort of public office. I dont like to talk about politics with really anyone except for politically savvy adult (usually males) because they are really the only ones who know what they are talking about and talking about politics to people who have no idea just makes me mad. So my passion for politics is or was a secret.

6.I love decorating. Not really actual decorating, (cause you pretty much have to have an income) but dreaming of decorating and reading about decorating. I love Architectural digest and Traditional home and House Beautiful most of those publications. You would probably never be able to tell that I like it so much by looking at my house, mostly because everything I like is too expensive and I am not one of those creative crafty people who can improvise. Someday in another life I will live in a huge mansion and have an unlimited budget to decorate. And vacuum with expensive vacuums and have live in maids to clean up after my exotic animals.

Ok, I tag Annie Lewis, Kirstyn Adams, Paula Brown, Mylinda Mortensen, Jenny Smith and Keira Paulson AND YOU HAVE TO DO IT!

I took Valentina to the groomer and they choped her long ears off so now she looks weird. It really bothers me.

My Christmas card picture attempts!

I really wish I knew someone here who could take a picture! I give up! I took a ton and none of them turned out, mostly because Cooper would not put his book down and I am not a photographer!

So enthused

Cooper and I went to Bricktown (down town OKC) and had lunch at Falcones. I had decided with my parents before I left AZ that the new rule was never go anywhere alone with Cooper because I cant control him...that is so embarassing to admit, and I feel like a horrible, wimpy mom, but it is really almost dangerous for us to go anywhere alone together. Just cause he is crazy and I am pregnant, and he is strong and kicks hard...(he is a sweet boy though..) anyway, we were down there anyway and I was starving so we had a date and it went well! We had a nice lunch, I only got socked in the eye twice and until that happened, we had a fun time. He even let me take his picture! He even alomst smiled! Oh my goodness I pray I can survive 2 kids.

watching a movie (trying to restrain Cooper from beating any more cousins up)














Cooper, Harrison, Charlee and Ella

Thanksgiving in CO

Sweet Ella read books to Cooper and he was in Heaven.






We went to Colorado for Thanksgiving and had so much fun. We got to see family that we rarely get to see and my grama and grampa who just got home from a mission in Tonga. We had so much fun although Cooper was a nightmare. He could not have behaved any worse (I suppose he could have...I just cant imagine it.)

Aunt Amy and Aunt Beth made yummmmmy breakfast and then all of the dinner. It was so yummy. Amy is pregnant and due 2 weeks before me. In fact, I have 2 more aunts expecting in the same month as me!

















Our dear Cooper refused to take a nap even though he had been up since 5:30am and was just as bratty as he has ever been!

Fun in Ft. Collins

We had so much fun in Ft. Collins with Drew's brother and sister in law. Cooper and Torrey got along really well and Cooper still asks "where did Treddy go??" He loved "Treddy".
Jumping on Clint with Drew's encouragement.

work'n out

Cooper climbs on Drew's back when he is doing push-ups. He doesnt allow Drew long breaks either. As I am making dinner I hear "Again! Again!" and Drew is like "just a minute...wait a few more minutes...OK, in a minute."

Daddy's Helper

Cooper LOVES his lawn mower. He has an inside lawn mower and an outside one, and loves them both. He follows Drew around the yard right behind him, and waits patiently when he stops to empty the grass.

Cooper and his puppies, "Nye" (Valentina) and Ciba

Daddy's shoes, mommy's hair

Cooper likes to walk around in our shoes. I am sure every child does. It is just funny! And I chopped my hair again. Every time I do something drastic to my hair the decision is made in like one minute. I have been trying to grow it our for a year and last night went to get my hair colored and when she asked if I wanted it trimmed or anything I was like, yah cut it! Thank goodness I like it. I think alot of the time I need people to make decisions for me because I am too impulsive! So, in 2 years, I might have long hair again....maybe.

Wonderful weather!

When daddy came home from school we went out to play. The weather was so nice. It was good lighting too, I tried so hard to get a good picture of Cooper! He doesnt sit still and if he knows I am going to take a picture he turns around. So I finally sat him down, and was lucky enough to have a fast finger to get a picture when he looked at me for a split second at a time! I sooo give up!He likes wearing daddy's lunch bag around and calls it his "pack pack". It's a little hard to wear a pack pack and play foot ball at the same time.

Ahhh, he's looking at the camera.

Pictures that wouldnt show up the first time!