Swimming Lessons

Cooper has been in swim lessons this week and boy has that been an adventure! Mom (being myself) endeed up doing swim lessons with him half the time!! Hooray for me! Luckily he had a great teacher, Danielle, that was able to put up with him and all his screaming and splashing!! Today Cason was out in the car, so Cooper had to do them all by himself and he did really well. I would peak at him behind the bushes (if he was to see me he would freak out and think it was time to go, this happened earlier in the week) and he was doing his back float and just kicking away! There is always light at the end of the tunnel. Next year my goal is to be able to sit and watch him with Cason there and nobody freaking out on me!!! Oh and in this picture he is not looking because he was trying to get out of that pool so fast! We had already put him back in twice to try and get a picture with Danielle and this is the best we have! What a boy for ya!

Good News

Good news, Monday Hayley went with me to Seattle to take Cason to see a Pediatric Optomologist. I think the spelling is wrong. His right eye is still crossing with his glasses on so Dr. Wilson reffered us to see if he may need surgery done. The doctor said not yet and is increasing his prescription, so hopefully that works and his eye will not cross when he is wearing his glasses and we can fix Mr. Goofey eye! We have to go back to Seattle again in a month for a check up! Fun, fun, fun! Times like this I sure miss mom, she would for sure go with me and I could count on her to drive! I hate driving, I get so tired!

Mowin

Whenever I see Cooper do this it just makes me smile! The joys of a boy! When Brenden mows the lawn he will jump on his four wheeler and follow right behind him! I just love it! He does the same when Brenden has used his four wheeler for projects around the yard he just follows right behind! And yes dad Cooper is quite the pro at riding his four wheeler! No we don't have to worry about him running into anything! I know my dad will ask my mom that. Last summer when we lived with them Cooper was on their Gator all day and he was lets just say, Crazy! He would run into everything and was found a few times in the ditch headed up the other side to go out onto the main road! Dad would call mom all upset yelling, "Somebody better get out there with that kid, he is going to get hit!" Needless to say the only damage he has done on the gator this year was right before mom and dad left and he headed out into the sugar beet field! Dad was a little razzled, but dad the beets look great and you can't even tell a few are missing!!


Road Rage!

Cason on the mower! Cason loves to ride with you on the mower and he can last the whole time!

Fun with friends

On Wednesday the boys and I met some friends at the park. Heather and Kaili left before I pulled out my camera so no pics of their cuties! Cooper and Haylie had so much fun playing together in the wading pool. It was so nice Cassi and I didn't even have to worry about them.




Just sittin there talkin'




Connor just turned around and went right in!

Running away from the boy with the blow up toy. He wouldn't leave them alone and kept hitting them! Lot's of fun had, we will have to do again before summers over!!

Silverwood

On Saturday to celebrate our 6th wedding anniversary and to have one last hurrah before our dad (brenden) trades us in for the telephone, we headed up to Silverwood! We were so excited that Grandma & Grandpa Kent went with us, they helped out with the boys tons!

On the train that went around the park. The ride was a lot longer than we expected, but was a lot of fun. We are glad we went on it.


On the train ride we stopped by the oldest mine. While there we ran into these robbers! Very entertaining and fun. There was a lot of Dynamite blasts that startled the boys!


On the "horsees"





Grandma & Grandpa trying to get into the train roller coaster! The worker said it was made for kids not adults! They finally were able to get the bar down, we had a good laugh!




Casey on roller coaster. So much fun for the little guys!








Cooper loved it too! "weeeee", was all he yelled!



Confined in their spots. I don't know what I would do with out this stroller. I love to lock them in and harness them down! I know sounds mean but it is the best thing in the world.


After lunch we headed over to Boulder Beach Water Park. The boys had so much fun just being able to run around, and we found the perfect covered place to make camp. Grandma even got to relax and take a little cat nap.


Coop running wild and getting all his jiggers out!



waiting in line patiently to go down the raft ride!



Here we go! Am I ready for this! Ready or not! Cooper was a good sport and sat in his chair being a big boy! He really has grown up from last year!




Brenden and Grandpa anticipating the ride and getting wet! Did I say wet, we got soaked!!

Cooper showing Grandma his wet shirt! Poor Grandpa got his leather shoes all wet too! After that ride we called it quits! We waited in line about 40 min to get soaked!! It was time to change our clothes! All in all we had a great time besides the sleepless night in the hotel and wa to many nasty diapers!! But what would a trip with kids be like if everything went perfect? BORING!

Camping

At the beginning of summer Cooper and Brenden went camping with Brenden's friend Jorey and his two sons. They headed up past Dayton into the Blue Mountains. They had a lot of fun. By the time they got up there it was getting late and the spot they had wanted to camp at was still covered in snow. So they headed back down and joined a fathers and sons camp out at Teancum Timbers. They stayed up late and I heard drank way to much pop! Cooper loved it and had a great time. They since has went on two more camping trips. One more with Jorey and another one with Grandpa! The best advantage of having a boy first? They get to go camping with dad!!! I love it! And the even better part is next year Casey is not going to let them leave him behind!!! If I figure out how to get the pictures off of Brenden's phone I will post them.

Standing by all the snow! Brenden and Jorey were shocked how much snow was still up there.


Jorey's boys





All in all I think they had a great time!

Best thing I have ever done!!

Today I did the best thing ever! We were headed to Fred Meyer to get a couple of things. I decided I could take them into Fred Meyer because they have a car cart. As soon as we stepped inside the store Cooper already started acting up and climbed out of his seat belt. I thought oh great here we go again why do I always take them to a store and then swear I will never bring them back! And then the thought came to me. They have a play land! Go take that kid over there and stick him in it! And I did! The greatest thing was he went in and didn't cry! He thought it was cool! Oh, it was heaven shopping without him! I love the kid but nobody would want to take him shopping. He is in and out and in and out of the cart and has to have everything he wants or he screams bloody murder and kicks and screams on the floor. You usually have to drag him out of the store screaming!! When I went back to pick him up I asked the lady,"This might be a stupid question, but how often can I bring him here?" I know I am dumb, but now I can actually do grocery shopping in the middle of the day and not at 9:00 at night! Let's just hope he keeps wanting to go!!