Random Fun

This is a very random post, I just need to catch up!  

The boys were playing around with these parachute men and started putting them on their heads.   So strange but so darn cute!

A week or two ago we went to an outdoor concert and the kids loved it!  The weather was beauitful which made it nice for the grownups!

 I think they look alike even though they're cousins not siblings!  Am I crazy?

 The crowd was sitting to the left of the picture in chairs, and there was this grassy area that a few kids were dancing around in.  Our kids went and joined them, and Cooper was SUCH a ham! I think he thought everyone was there to watch them dance, not to listen to the music.  He had the biggest smile on his face and kept watching the crowd.  I think I may need to put him in drama or something! :)

 Ben and Cooper started breakdancing.

 A house project I recently completed is painting this wall upstairs with a chevron pattern.  It's just a small wall at the top of the stairs so I thought it would be fun to do something kind of crazy on it.  Upstairs is the gameroom.  It was easier than I thought, especially since Laura had the kids for the day!

I can't remember when this was or why the kids have on pjs, I think my parents were babysitting them. Anyway, my parents are having all of the tile in their house replaced with wood, so my dad wrapped all of their furniture with this plastic stuff.  Of course the kids wanted to be wrapped up too.

 Wow this is fun!

 Here's an example of the wrapping...the entire house basically looks like this.  What a pain!

 I watched Ben one day recently and got a few pictures of these best buddies.

 Another recent activity was Cooper's class, and a few other classes,  did a little concert for the parents. 

 It was so cute!  Cooper practiced the songs at home so he was really prepared and had a great time!

 Last but not least, we had our last MOPS meeting and we took a picture of our table, we're missing a few girls but here's most of us! 

Adoption Update

Well, our home study is complete and we're waiting to receive the final copy of it in the mail.  It takes awhile to become "official" because it has to be reviewed by lots of different people and then notarized ( I think that's the process!).  Once we receive the home study we can file the next two sets of paperwork, so I'm trying to now get all of that paperwork in order so we can mail it off as soon as we receive the home study.  After we file the next two sets of paperwork, all we have to do it sit back and wait for a referral!  (I should say that I wrote that sarcastically, that part will definitely be the most trying so far, as it will require much more patience than I have at times!)  We have lots of videos to watch and books to read while we wait in order to fulfill our agency's guidelines for training, so I guess that will give us something to do!  (Besides, you know, being a parent to our kids. :))

What We've Been Up To

It's been awhile since I've posted!  Ryan and I just got back last weekend from a trip to San Fransisco.  We had so much fun and it was a nice break from reality.  So this week we've had a very relaxing week and I've been trying to catch up on everything, along with blogging!

A few weeks ago Jackson decided he was not going to nap, but he was being so quiet I thought he was.  I opened his door and was shocked to see this! 

I'm in a MOPS group (Mothers of Preschoolers) and a few weeks ago I had some girls from MOPS over and their kids for a playdate. Here's some of the kids eating, I tried to get a good group shot but this was the best one.  I think there were 14 kids, so it was a good kind of crazy! :)

Cooper wanted me to take a picture of him so he could see his dirty face one day, and I just thought it was cute. 

We finally tried out a railing and it works wonderfully, he hasn't fallen out of bed since we got it!  He did one time fall in between the bed and the wall since the bed is on wood and he must have scooted it out while trying to fall asleep.  So now before bed I always make sure he's tucked in there tight!

A big milestone for Cooper is...he learned how to ride a bike without training wheels!  We started out in the grass and that worked great, he wasn't scared to fall but he could still ride around.

 There he goes!

 Jackson was toodling around in the car-the field is a great place for him to practice steering since he hasn't gotten the hang out it yet!

 There he goes!  Ryan did a great job of holding him up/helping him get started.  I tried a few times and he fell over.  He then asked if daddy could help him. :)

After the bike riding was done, we went to the park for a bit.

Then we ended our night trying out the new fire pit Ryan got for his birthday. 

We just needed chocolate and graham crackers to make the evening perfect.

I think the boys were happy with the marshmellows.

Easter Day

On Easter we woke up and had a very quick Easter egg/basket hunt and then got ready to go to church. I was able to get a few pictures of them in their cute outfits.

We arrived early at church so we took a few more pictures in front of this gorgeous fountain.

After church we had to wait in line to take a little bus to our car, and the kids waited so patiently! They thought it was fun riding on the bus.

After church we went to Gma and Gpa's house for another Easter egg hunt!

Gma and Gpa with the kids.

The kids made resurrection rolls with Gma.

He thought it would be better to put his head in the basket, rather than eggs! He changed his mind quickly once he saw his eggs lying around.

Cooper is showing Ben where his egg was. They each had to find about 24 eggs. The grown-ups also had an Easter egg hunt that was VERY competitive. We'll have to video-tape that next time :).

Jackson enjoyed checking out his eggs.
Comparing eggs was a fun activity!

It was a fun Easter!

Easter Eggs

I thought this was so cute how Jackson is laying on Cooper while he's reading to them!


We had fun dying Easter Eggs this year. We didn't do it last year so I was happy to finally do it this year.

Woops, I had to reach into a too-small cup to get the egg out and my hand was dyed like this for quite awhile-this was after I washed my hands multiple times!


Jackson had some difficulties holding the eggs so we put them in this whisk. It worked great!Cooper made some beautiful eggs! He had his own ideas-had me draw a cross on one of them and wanted me to draw a picture of Jesus on one of them! He wrote "Jesus" on one of the eggs.

That blue one was the one where he wrote Jesus. You can only see a few of the letters there.

A random funny picture of Jackson- he got a sheet of stickers as a gift and put every single one of them on his shirt! Hilarious.