Gram & Grand-Bob Visit!

Last week was Scott's birthday. (I know, I am a pathetic wife for not posting a Happy Birthday message on my blog!) To celebrate his birthday, Gram & Grand-Bob came to visit and give Scott birthday wishes. Thanks again for brunch!

It was nearly impossible to get both kids looking at the camera at the same time.

Cooper has his own version of playing Connect 4.

Look at how focused he was! Funny!

My little boy is growing up!

I know that Cooper is learning alot at school because of his increasing vocabulary and his counting and recognizing some letters. He is definitely a very active boy and doesn't sit around practicing his handwriting like Caroline did at his age. Although I should, I don't practice alot with him at home showing him out to write and color. He does that all day at school, so I let him mostly play at home.

So yesterday, Caroline and Cooper were in the car with me. I was zoning out in space thinking about all of the things that I needed to do and heard C-O-O-P-E-R. I thought it was Caroline talking at first, but it was Cooper spelling his name all by his little cute self!

This morning, I told his teacher that I was very impressed that he could spell his name - thinking that they have been working on it in class. Mrs. Christina said that she heard him say it on his own the other day when he saw his name on his pencil box.

I know it may sound small, but I am very proud of my little guy! Oh yeah, to top it off, he got his hair cut yesterday (with clipppers) and he didn't cry at all!

Indoor Soccer

Cooper's indoor soccer season ended this past weekend. Cooper was one of the youngest on his team, so it was frustrating at times to see him not kick or go after the ball. We signed him up for outdoor soccer starting next week, which will be more practice and less games. He will get it sooner or later!

Pop & Pat-Pat came one night to see him play

On Sunday, the team met at the park for some pizza and cupcakes. He wouldn't eat the pizza, but he certainly would pertake in a cupcake!

It was a Good Weekend

Since it was rainy all day on Saturday, I took Caroline and her friend, Mary Kate to the science museum in our town. The girls had a great time running around and looking at all of the exhibits and visiting the animals outside at the barn. Their favorite animals were the otters. Those critters are so darn cute!

In the 360 mirror

In the planetarium killing time before the show started

Later that night, Scott and I went out to eat on a date! It was so nice to have a conversation with him without the constant "Mommy, Mommy" echoing in my ear.

After church today, we made a trip to Wal-Mart to do some grocery shopping and stopped for lunch beforehand.

Cooper eating his Dilly Bar

Such a cute smile!

Happy St Paddy's Day!

Caroline (aka Mom & Dad) had to make a Leprechaun trap for her class. Apparently, the leprechauns have wrecked havoc in the classroom, so the kids have to make traps to catch them. Every day this week, Caroline comes home telling me about the messes that they made in their classroom. Today, they wrote her a note.
Scott made a trap door underneath where the Leprechaun will fall into the shoebox underneath. Hopefully, he will take the gold at the end of the rainbow bait! :)

It was a looonnnng two years!

The day that I thought would never come... CAME!!! After two long years, I got my braces off! It was well worth the pain and torture that I had to endure.

Later that evening, I took Caroline to gymnastics. Pop and Pat-Pat made a surprise visit to see Caroline in action.

After gymnastics, we went out to eat for Pat-Pat's 60ish birthday!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAT-PAT! We love you!

Me and Pops (my first post-braces picture!)

The past few weeks

It has been a crazy few weeks. After I returned from my Girls Weekend in Florida, I came down with a horrible case of the flu. I really was at peace with dying. I felt HORRIBLE! Two days later, Scott caught it so I had to "man up" and watch the kids. It was a rough few days that I would not like to think about again. Good thing - we are feeling much better and the kids did not get sick. I was so scared that they would get sick!! I lysoled their rooms really good and kept them busy in their rooms all weekend. We rented tons of movies and had picnic-style meals in Cooper's room. I felt horrible about couping them up in their rooms, but the kids loved it. Go figure....






On another note, this past week was my last week of boot camp. I had a great time pushing myself and learned alot about what I am capable of. Although I missed last week while I was sick, I only missed a few days over the 8-week camp. I decreased my mile run-time and doubled my push-up counts. There is anothe boot camp starting in April and I am contemplating whether I should do it again. 5:30 am is pretty early!







I also started running with some girls in the neighborhood the past few months. We all have different goals, but wanted to start running on a regular basis. We meet every Sunday morning before church and run usually 3 miles.







Today, we met our first goal together to run our first 5k or 10k together. I decided to run the 5k today since I have been sick. Scott brought the kids and cheered us on at the starting line and met me at the finish line. It was very motivating seeing the finish line with my kids and husband cheering me on.





I ended up running it in 31:45. Not bad, but I would love to eventually hit 30 minutes. This will be my time to beat on my next 5k.

The best part about this is that I have met a wonderful group of girls in the neighborhood.