Florida Bay-cation (Vacation)

Well Cooper FINALLY got to go to the beach!!!! We packed up the car, and headed to South Florida to see Tiffanie, Joe, Mimi and Pops for New Years weekend. Cooper did GREAT on the 9-10 hour drive. He watched many, MANY movies.

Cooper LOVES the beach. Once we got there, he didn't ever want to leave.

This little white Jeep drove ALL OVER the beach...

It's never too cold to get a suntan...

Cooper and Joe even went crab hunting. Here's Cooper with a Horseshoe Crab...

He also found a baby lobster....

We even took some family photos. Here is a pic of all of us....

and here is a pic of Gweat Gwamma, Daddy, Cooper and Mimi..

Christmas at Home

Cooper was VERY lucky this year, and Santa brought him a "TWAMPOLINE!!". Santa had it all set up for Cooper, so he got to see it out the living room window.

Unfortunately we didn't get to test out the trampoline on Christmas Day, as we had to get to Gwamma and Gwampas for breakfast. Before we headed out, we opened presents at home.

Santa brought Cooper a BIIIIIG fish, which Cooper now carries pretty much EVERYwhere.

I bought Cooper some new DVD's. He took one look at the packages, and said "I don't need to open those, they are CD's". Little booger.

I'm not sure how it happened, but I didn't get ANY pics of everyone opening gifts at Grandpa & Grandmas. I really don't have ANY pics. Grandpa, Myles, Kali and I did play a few games of beer ball. Then after we all ate, people were droppin like flies with a stomach virus. So I DEFINITELY didn't get any pics of that.

Overall, we all had a great time. Lots of beer and wine were consumed. We even had Mimosa's!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!

Christmas from the Browns & Halls

Last night Cooper got to open his gifts from our Florida Family. He opened the biggest one first (of course).

You'll have to excuse his jammies. He wanted to wear shorts, crazy kid. Anyways, he ripped the paper off one side of the package and exclaimed "ITS A SUPER CRAZY AWESOME TRAIN!!!"

He also got some "glubbs for when I wide my bike!!!"

He even got some AWESOME books!!

Here is a video we took of the little peanut...

(In case you can't understand him, he's saying "Fank you for the twain, I WUV YOU!!"

I also took video of Daddy and Cooper setting it up. Cooper LOVES to put the speed on high. That train whips so fast around the track!!!

Thank you Tiffanie, Joe, Mimi and Pops!! We love you and miss you lots!!!

A much needed haircut...

For the past few weeks, Cooper has been in desperate need of a haircut. Apparently the longer his hair gets, the curlier and coarser it gets. That combination equals a fuzzy head!! So last night, we headed up to Sport Clips, and Kali cut Coops hair. While we were waiting, Cooper had to "read the paper".

I didn't get any 'after' shots, however you can see his new do in the next blog entry.

I give up....

"But MOMMY, you said sub-ar-ines can't go in the toilet!! THAT is a BOAT!".

Damn kid.

Crazy Kid

Lately we have been catching Cooper doing crazy things. After he goes to bed, he's allowed to get up when he needs to, to go potty. He always leaves the bathroom light on after he goes, so one night I went in there to shut the light off, and found a submarine in the toilet...

Daddy caught him leaning waaaaay over the rail on his top bunk bed, batting at the ceiling fan pulls. Guess we will be removing the ceiling fan and replacing it with something else. BOYS!

O' Chrimmmas Tree

This past weekend we went out and got our Chrimmas tree. She's a beaut. 12'4" of pure frazier fir glorious-ness.

After we set it up in the house, we left if alone over night for the branches to fall a bit. Then the next day we did the decorating. Cooper helped... by climbing the ladder...

Little monkey.

Cooper loved putting balls on the tree. He especially loved putting as many as he could on one branch. The poor thing was almost touchin the ground!

And of course we had to put the train back on it as well. Cooper was a tad upset. He wanted to play with the train, he didn't want it on the tree. Here's a pic of the finished product. 12'4" Frazier Fir with 500 multi-colored LED lights.