Videos of a Growing Boy!!

Just some videos from the past month!! Cooper is growing like a weed and I cannot believe how fast he learns!!

Cooper finally figured out how to jump!! So dang cute. He loves the camera.

He learned how to say tickle it is so hard to get it on camera but he says it real quick in this video he does better but he mostly wanted to try and get the camera, little stinker.

Blaine is teaching Cooper how to get off the couch safely!

Well there you have it a few videos of my growing baby! I cannot believe how big he is getting.

Growing way too fast.

Cooper is growing so fast I can't hardly stand it. Today was he 9 month check up and he weighs 20 pounds (50%) and is 27 inches long (10%) he is a little fatter than he is tall.

He is such a little mover. He crawls all over the house and has even started crawling up the stairs!! Yikes. He pulls to standing on everything he can and can walk down the couch he is a little cruiser. He has really discovered Bruno (our little dog) and follows him around and tries to play with him. Bruno will play with Cooper a little bit but gets a little bored and leaves him. However Bruno is always right under Cooper when ever he is eating to catch all the crumbs. The other day Cooper was in he excer-sauer while I was cleaning the kitchen and he was snacking on some little fruit puffs, I looked over and Cooper leaned over as far as he could and shared he fruit puffs with Bruno it was so cute!! And now Cooper has started sharing his food with Blaine and I too, it is so sweet. Cooper is in to absolutely everything and nothing is safe! He also must have super vision because he can find the most tiny things on the floor and eat them. Speaking of eating Cooper thinks he is big stuff because whenever it is time for dinner if we are eating too he refuses to eat his baby food and will only eat what we are eating and prefers to feed himself, thank you very much. Christine described him best when she said "its like he is a two year old trapped in a 9 month old body." HAHA

He is such a sweet fun boy and Blaine and I love him to pieces!!

Such a sweet heart!!

Happy 21st Birthday Jacob

Today is my brother Jacob's 21st Birthday!! He is serving a mission in Pocatello ID! I decided I still wanted to celebrate so I threw him a party and just didn't invite him haha!!

A party complete with decorations

Happy 21st B-day

The party goers

A piece for Jacob ~ with a glass of milk!! :-)

Cooper hoping for his piece of cake.

no cake... but still happy with his fruit puffs!!

I know the video is sideways but that is the only way I could get it to get all of us!!

Sorry about our horrible rendition of "Happy Birthday"

Videos!!

Christmas Day!! Sledding Christmas Day

Early Christmas with Dannah!!

Happy New Year!!

So New Year's Eve Blaine and I had no plans but we wanted to do something fun! So we decided to see what every one else was up to, no one had any plans so we invited everyone over to our house. Blaine and I hit up Costco and bought tons of good food.

We had dinner at Blaine's parents house because it was Boyd and his kids last night in town. Then Blaine, Boyd, and his boys went to the hockey game. Rachel (my nephew's wife) and I ran to the dollar tree and bought a few decorations and some silly string and glow sticks for the kids and then ran to the grocery store for a few things. Then Rachel, aka my lifesaver, headed over to my house to get ready. We made all the food and got it all put out and the decorations out. If Rachel had not been there I would have been up a creek because Cooper needed a lot of attention. I was so excited because everyone came!!

We all hung out and played some really fun games - catch phrase and mafia. Everyone had a good time and the time went by really fast. All the kids were perfectly behaved. At midnight we watched the ball drop and all the kids did these little poppers things that made noise and shot confetti! Everyone made it to midnight too! Even Bruce and Sharon (blaine's parents) stayed till midnight. I had a really a good time and loved being the hostess!

New Year's day we went to a church sledding activity. It was sledding!! I love sledding so I was pretty excited but Cooper had been kinda cranky. When we got there I bundled Cooper all up and he didn't really like it. Now that he is so mobile he doesn't like not being about to crawl around. But he sure looked cute in the coat and snow pants that Anne got him for Christmas and the BYUI hat that Dannah got him! I wasn't sure if we would stay long since it was cold - 13 degrees!! and Cooper was fussy but he fell asleep and I was able to put him the house so Blaine and I could sled. We sled down on big black tubes and it was so fun!! Blaine and I went down together and crashed - I landed on top of Blaine but it was so so so FUN!! We laughed and just had a blast. After sledding we went up to Debbie's house and played another game, I think it was called Things, it was hilarious!! We really started the New Year off great and are looking forward to an amazing 2011!!

I have a few videos I need to post from Christmas but my new computer is not cooperating so I will hopefully be able to get them up in a few days.

Blaine after sledding down the hill!!

Cooper after a day outside sledding!!

Beautiful sunset! View from Debbie's house.

Merry Christmas!!

Cooper opening his present for Mommy

He thinks the box is just a drum... haha

Looks like he loves Christmas presents!!!

Our first Christmas as a little family!! And our first Christmas in Washington!

We had a great Christmas! On Christmas Eve we went to Blaine's sister's, Deb, house. We had a really wonderful dinner with everything you could think of, she does lots of hosting (she did all the food for our wedding) so everything was really good and we over ate. After dinner we sang Christmas carols and then read the story of Christ out of the Bible. Cooper loved the Christmas music. When ever anyone was singing he listened and rocked back and forth to the music, it was so cute. Blaine and I were Mary and Joseph and Cooper was baby Jesus. Haha. It was fun and the kids loved being the wise men, angel, shepherds, and camel. Cooper was very well behaved. After we left Deb's house we made some presents deliveries to people we didn't think we would get to see on Christmas day, including the secret Santa we did! Blaine and I both agree that was our favorite part of Christmas. Then it was off to Grandma's house to spend the night!!

Christmas morning we got up when we heard Boyd (Blaine's brother) and his 3 boys going through there stockings. Blaine and I got up and even though i hate to wake a sleeping baby we just couldn't stand it and woke Cooper up! Cooper enjoyed opening his presents or at least ripping paper and trying to eat it. I got him a little "race track" type present and Blaine got him so cool balls, of course he liked Blaine's present more than mine but only because mine was in a box and requires batteries. Grandma got him a duck pillow pet. Cooper also got another little toy, movie, book, and some clothes. I got Blaine a hunting knife and some camo clothes and he got me a Pandora charm bracelet that i absolutely love!! I got three charms one that is a heart that is for Blaine and I falling in love, a garnet for Cooper's birth (his birthstone) and a Christmas tree!! And as if that wasn't enough I also got a pink bike!! :) I couldn't believe it! After opening presents we went back over to Deb's house for a big breakfast and stockings. I was pretty anxious to talk to all my family in VA so we headed home and turned on the webcam to talk to everyone. We talked to my Dad and the entire family that was at his house for Christmas dinner and thanks to technology I even got to see my step mom and mamaw open the presents i sent home for them. After talking with them I got to web chat with my mom, step dad, and little sisters. Talking and seeing everyone with the web cam made me feel like i got to be home for the holidays too! Man I love technology.

Blaine and Cooper took a nap while I made my first ever broccoli casserole (everything from scratch, it was actually pretty involved) I think it turned out pretty good. Then we headed back to to Grandma's for Christmas dinner with most all of the family. It was delicious and so fun. While we were there Jacob called and I got to talk to him for a long time. I am so excited for him to come home!! Can't believe he only has till May left on his mission. After dinner Blaine took everyone sledding, he pulled the sleds behind his four wheeler, they loved it. We then decided to go see Blaine's other sister Debbie and her kids to give them their gifts. It was nice that we got to see almost everyone on Christmas day. After a nice visit there we were pretty tired and went back to Grandma's and gathered up all our goodies and brought them home. Blaine, Cooper, and I all changed into our pjs and watched the movie Wyatt Erp (Cooper got it for Blaine for Christmas) before bed.

It was such a great day!! We had a wonderful Christmas.

side note: on Christmas day Cooper learned how to clap his hands and now does it all the time that we will say "Yay good job" and clap too. And he was standing holding on to the couch and totally walked down it to get to me. When I realized what happened I almost fell over

Loves the balls that Daddy got him

Loved all the faces that he made all Christmas Day

not sure what this face was for, don't take my

picture or don't take my presents

Merry Christmas everyone!!

Blaine giving rides!!

Dannah was here!!

Pictures First:


Cooper asleep after opening gifts!!


Blaine so excited about his presents!!



Cooper helping Dannah with her presents!




What could be in it?..





Dannah!!

So my sister Dannah got to come see me for a few days before she headed home for Christmas. It was so fun to have her, but it was such a short visit. I already miss.






I got some winter pictures made of Cooper. I ordered some copies for everyone that I will send in late Christmas cards. Sorry! But here is the link to see all the pictures and if you want to you can order more or other poses. Just call or email me. myonlineportriats.com/viewsession.aspx?id=88ee207ababcd761b447bb58






She got here on friday, she found a ride right to Wenatchee from someone she knows at BYU-I. We met right after our ward Christmas party (which I made scalloped potatoes for that were amazing!) I had been counting down the days till Dannah came to visit. I always have a count down going on in my head, like right now it is count down to Christmas, then Cooper's first birthday, ect ect ect.






Oh by the way, after a year of talking about it Blaine and i bought a new computer. I love it, it has a huge monitor and is super fast. We picked it up on friday on the way to meet Dannah.






After we got Dannah we came home and talked and caught up on how her first semester of college was. She loved it! :)






Then saturday we got up and did Zumba of course and went to the craft store and did a little Christmas shopping. I finished up some crafts that I had started with a lot of help from Dannah. We made dinner and rented two movies, "Inception" and "The Other Guys" loved them both! Dannah couldn't stay awake through both of them haha.






Sunday of course we went to church and then to Blaine's parent's for dinner. When we got home we talked to Dad on the web cam!! It was so fun and now that he knows how to do it i hope we will do it often! After our chat with dad we went to my sister in law Debbie's for scones to celebrate all the december birthdays! She makes the best scones. It was fun to be with the whole family and for them to see Dannah. They all love her and have really gotten to know her from all of her visits.






When we got home we watched a little tube and made smoothies. Blaine has a vitamix and we dug it out of the basement and made smoothies with all kinds of good greens and fruits! Then we played video games. Dannah played Call of Duty with Blaine and was a natural. I put Cooper to bed. Speaking of Cooper - He is still fighting a nasty nasty little cold. It seems like it will never go away and he has a terrible cough. I feel so bad for him. it doesn't affect his mood too bad but he has better days than others and you can tell when his throat hurts and he just need some cuddle time. The cold and cough have also taken away his little voice!! But with Dannah here he got completely spoiled!






Also.... drum roll please!!.... I have a crawler! Thats right, Dannah put here computer on the ground with Cooper's favorite video on and he army crawled straight for it. I captured the video on my phone and will have to figure out how to load it on my new computer so I can post it. Cooper's other new thing is that he can throw a fit, for example; he is currently sitting on my lap and got a hold of a pen and tried to eat it. I took it away and he yelled and arched his back in anger! lucky me.






Monday Dannah and i did a little more shopping and wrapping and then went back up to Deb's to make christmas treats. Dannah did some crafts while we were up there. she is making some neat christmas presents. Cooper wasn't having as good a day. After we left Deb's we came home and made dinner - fried rice, shrimp, and stirfry veggies. Then Blaine's brother, parents, and a dear family friend came over for card night! We had a good time eating, making more smoothies and of course playing cards. We worked a little bit more on Dannah's crafts and i messed them up!! uh oh. hopefully she can fix them. After everyone left Dannah, Blaine, Cooper and I sat around the tree and exchanged Christmas presents! So fun!! Unfortuately Dannah left this morning even though I begged her to stay! But we had a great time while she was here.

I promise to take lots of pictures and videos on Christmas and post them right away.
Love you all!!