Catch-Up #1

I know it's has been since Halloween since I have posted on here and I apologize. Many friends and family have been asking for updates since they don't get to see Coop much and it has been very hard to get motivated after coming home from work and then playing mommy/wife, BUT I have learned my lesson to never get this far behind because I had way way too many pictures to look through to catch up to now. So, bare with me because there is lots to catch-up on and lots of pics to post...so we will start with Christmas!
We had 3 Christmas's this year. Our first Christmas was at Jacobs Grandmothers house, then to my parents house in Houston and then we had Jacobs parents Christmas on New Years this year. It was crazy and very busy but we were glad to not be snowed in this year. Hope that you enjoy all the pictures!!

Coopers first Christmas tree

horse from Pop-Pop and Maw

watching Wizard of Oz with cousin Alana at Great grandmothers Christmas
surprisingly he watched the whole movie
We LOVE to go to Taste of Texas when ever we go to Houston and with it being a few days before Christmas there was a 2 hour wait (so worth it) and well the kids were getting a little hungry and had about 4 helpings of popcorn, chips and coke while waiting.

the sugar kicked in so Cooper decided to wrestle Paige

outside Taste of Texas

Kids in matching Pj's

Cody and Cooper
notice the big bruise on Coops forehead..first day at nana's he fell off the couch and face planted into the tile floor

kids with GiGi

leaving cookies and milk for santa
Christmas morning
what Santa left for Cooper
Cooper loved his "hemmet"
reading a book that Santa left

Infront of Nana's tree

playing hide and seek

showing Claire his bow..."I funny", said CooperPaige and Cooper

Mr. Potato Head

Halloween

Cooper had a full week of Halloween this year by going to Storybook Forest with his adorable little friend Ella for the 2nd year in a row, Haunt the Zoo, a party with his friends at his babysitters, and having Grammie, Pop-Pop and aunt Rah-Rah intown to go trick of treating at some close friends houses!! So, with all that being said you can imagine what it was like to have a 20 month old high on sugar, staying up late and being spoiled...we will just say that church sunday was, well...not so pleasurable but we did have a VERY cute spider!!

at storybook forest

waiting in line for the hayride

listening to the storybook lady read a book

We ran into Pistol Pete at the Zoo

with some friends

Sad attempt for family pictures......

Its that time of year again....Family pictures and well I am sad to say that this is how they turned out

Boy Cousin Picture

These next set of pictures was suppose to be a cousin picture and well you would think it wouldn't be that hard to get a 17, 12, 8, 4 and 1 1/2 year old to smile...or should I say sit still....

so we thought we would bust out the bubbles.....didn't work so well

next was suppose to be a girl cousin picture and well....

Cooper thought he was one of the girls

what is missing from this picture? Do you give up?....COOPER.... he was off trying to get some smores without supervision

After all that hard work sweating in the Austin heat, we did manage to get some good pictures

Vacation-Part 2

On our way to San Antonio we HAD to stop in Gruene, Texas so that Cooper could have his first of many pictures infront of Gruene Hall and the famous water tower. After Gruene we headed to San Marcos to shop at the outlet stores, which Cooper was VERY excited about. We introduced Cooper to some of our favorite restaurants while in San Antonio...Chris Madrids and Rudys BBQ!

In front of Gruene Hall

Cooper watching a movie from our hotel balcony after eating Rudys and smores!

waiting for our shuttle to take us to Sea World!!

The ever famous picture outside Sea World

playing with daddy on the jungle gym

Looking at all the cool fish

feeding the dolphins

Cooper watching Shamu

he was like this through the entire show

We had a wonderful time on our vacation, it was nice to get away for awhile before things start getting crazy again!

VACATION!

We went on a wonderful vacation the first week of August! We spent the first half of the week in Austin at Lost Pines Resort and then the last part of the week we took Cooper to Sea World in San Antonio. This part of Texas is our favorite and there is so much to do. We tried some new places and had to visit some old. We had so much fun that it was really hard to come home. There is ALOT of pictures so I will have to post them separate so...... Here are the pictures from Lost Pines in Austin!

The kids at Salt Lick BBQ

Smores

playing in the sand

the waterslide...Cooper LOVED it,
we lost count of how many times he went down

bubbles

on the lazy river with Mommy...
another one of his favorites

the family at Chuys
(minus stef and jacob... i think they were buying tshirts)

the kids on the waterfall


claire and cooper pouring water on paw-paw to keep him cool

cooper all tuckered out