it has been a tradition for as long as I can remember to spend christmas eve with our good friends the parkers. as we have all grown and married and had kids, we have switched our christmas eve celebration to december 23. we love to catch up and think of all the memories we have made with such good friends.
i have a really cute niece, and she really likes to take pictures. She gave a coop a little photo session, and these were some of my favorites.
it has been a little sad this year for my boy. he loves to play in the snow, and we don’t seem to be getting much of the stuff. we were really hoping for the kind of christmas where it just snows and snows, but all we got during the vacation was this little bit. the boys were still excited and played outside for quite a while. they really loved it when grandpa came home and pulled them in a sled behind the 4-wheeler.
a few days after coopers birthday, carson was playing in my parents basement-by playing i mean jumping from the steps onto a beanbag. unfortunately, one time he missed the beanbag and landed on his ankle. i had never seen him in so much pain:( we waited till the next day to see if it felt better, and he still would not walk on it. i ran him to the doctor, and luckily it wasn't broken, but sprained pretty good. he had three more days till christmas break, so we called and excused him from school, since he was crawling everywhere. it actually turned out to be great timing, with zach in town he didn’t want to go to school anyway.
my sister and i saw on a blog some instructions to make tortilla snowflakes. the boys had a blast folding up tortilla’s, cutting them, then covering them with sprinkles. we baked them and they turned out really good, it was really nice to find a sitting activity for these cute boys.
we are playing a little catch-up. way back in december this little boy turned two. it is crazy how fast he seems to be changing. each day he is trying to say a new word and always making us laugh. he is still as busy as ever, and has even started a few terrible two tantrums, but he still melts our hearts most of the time. my parents had some leftover helium at their house, so we decided to fill up some balloons at home for him. he LOVES “bayooons.”
morgan loves to help, so i turned the balloon making over to her.
my sister was kind enough to be in charge of cupcakes. because they live far away, we don’t get to celebrate too many birthday’s with them, so it was a treat to celebrate with them.
coops’s cupcake’s. they were really yummy:)
he loves to open presents. it was so cute how excited he got, especially when he was so happy about getting books. he loves books right now.
i love that sweet smile and those chubby cheeks:)
playing with his new remote control car. he would let it drive for a few feet, then grab it by the antenna and haul it off somewhere else.
hanging out with daddy and grandma lowry
when it came time to blow out his candles, he was rather worried about that fire. luckily he had some siblings to help him out with that.
happy birthday cooper!
we are so happy to have this little boy in our family.
