Long Weekend

We had a nice long weekend! Dennis took off work on Friday, so we went camping through Monday. It sure is exhausting hauling all that stuff back in when we return from camping, but we're always ready to go again!
Nothing much has been going on lately, we are waiting for our building to come in on the 24th, even though we are not quite completely ready for it yet. It started raining last night and has not stopped all day today, so our land is probably really muddy now. We're counting down til Cooper's birthday now, only 10 more days to go!!
Enjoy the Cooper pictures!


Cooper has finally learned how to get in his toy box, it's so funny to watch him pull his toys out one by one!

Peek-a-boo!! This is Cooper's favorite game and he likes this OSU blanket because the fringes tickle his face.

A Little Change of Scenery

I like a little change in my blog every now and then and thanks to Shel's Scraps I found a cute (and FREE) one. Now that I know how to do it, I will probably change it according to season, mood, whim, whatever, so it will look cute and different all the time. Enjoy!!
(Thank you, Traci, for all the cute stuff I steal from your blog!)

Hangin' Out

Before- sometime in the winter, but you can tell how wet it was in this corner compared the the After pic below



Thought I'd share some Cooper pics and thanks to Al, I have a before pic of our land, so you can see the changes. We went out for a boat ride Saturday afternoon with Grandma and Grandpa Rains and had dinner at Whitehorn Cove Restaurant on the lake. Cooper is not so crazy about the life jacket, but he likes to ride, he took a little nap on the way back. The other picture of Cooper is him at Mamaw and Papaw's house, he loves to crawl around in the kitchen with Mamaw and beat on her box of SlimFast and bottle of juice, you'd think the kid didn't have any toys at all, but he's amused by the simplest things.

A Day in the Life....

Of Cooper:

7:00am- Wake up, sometimes singing, sometimes yelling at me, sometimes banging on the wall to get my attention, usually with poopy #1 for the day
7:30am- Eat some breakfast
8:00-10:00am- Play, play, play, somewhere in there, usually do #2 poopy and have some milk
10-10:45-ish- morning nap, which is usually just a "power nap" of 30-45 minutes
10:45-ish - Noon- Play, play, play
Noon- lunch time
12:30-2:00- Play, play, play, sometimes another poopy, some more milk
2:00-4:00 if I'm lucky- nap time, oh, I can get a lot done in a short amount of time
4:00-5:00pm- Play, play, play
5:00pm- dinner
5:30-7:00- Play, play, play
7:00- Bath and play til bed time
8:00- Milk, book, and bed til 7am the next morning.

This is the life! Of course, this is a day at home, a couple days out of the week, we are out running errands, which we usually start just after morning play time, since we are 30 minutes from all the places we need to go, that driving time is good for morning nap. He's such a good little trooper, that I even take him to workout with me at Curves, where he mostly sleeps and/or watches all of us, while sitting in his carrier for 30 minutes and rarely gets upset, thank goodness! But, he will be starting Kid's Day Out a couple of days a week in September, which will give him some time with other kids and me some time to get some work done, uninterrupted. I think we will both enjoy the break from each other and it will be that much more fun when we are doing the above routine.
The only news I have is that Cooper is getting more teeth!! His top two front teeth are finally starting to poke through after a very fussy week. Yay! He still has many to go, but it's still exciting to watch the progress. I will try to get a picture, but for now, the only ones he likes to show me are the bottom two.

Date Night and Family Gathering

Cooper stayed the night with Mamaw and Papaw last night, so hubby and I had a much needed evening alone. So, how does that Jeff Foxworthy thing go again?... Oh yeah, "You might be a redneck if....your idea of a romantic evening is taking a ride on the bass boat to your favorite lakefront restaurant"- Yep, that's us! I think he married me because I am so easily amused- hehehe. We had fun just hanging out together free of distractions, I think we forget what that's like since we've had Cooper, we need to have "dates" a little more often! I feel like I'm a much better mommy when take that time for Dennis and me, too.

I'll be posting pictures of our family "mini-reunion", I guess you'd call it, very soon. We had a lunch with some of Papaw's side of the family, celebrating his sister's birthday (she is 83 years young tomorrow). "Aunt Neat", as we call her used to babysit us when we were kids and she always made us mac and cheese with weenies cut up in it (still delicious to this day) and we would sew little Barbie clothes and pillows, make tents behind her couch, and cut out paper dolls from the clothing catalogs. Oh, those were the days! So, Happy Birthday to Aunt Neat!

Virtual Makeover

Okay, I promised a peek at the results of my very own virtual makeover, so here you are! The hair was especially fun!

Can you believe this?!?

This is soooo funny! Try it out to see what you come up with. I couldn't believe I'd be a 50's chick!

You Belong in 1953

You're fun loving, romantic, and more than a little innocent. See you at the drive in!

What Year Do You Belong In?