Mom, mom!

Monday morning Cooper was upstairs and started yelling, "Mom, mom. I wanna ride four wheeler!" Well, it was early maybe 8:00. I went up stairs because he was really yelling and I found him just gazing out the window. He sat perched up there for a while just watching it snow. "Mom, mom look snow!" He was beyond elated. He loooves the snow!

Senske lights

Sunday night we went over to Senske to watch their Christmas light display. You tune your radio to a station and their lights blink to the beat! Absolutely worth it! Brenden did not want to go very bad, but was glad he did after he watched the display. We are hoping we can get his mom down here sometime at night and take her. She would love it!

SNOW!

Old man winter has arrived! Brenden woke up at 5:30 this morning to go out and shovel the drive way. He was like a kid in the candy store! He was so excited! Coop woke up at six and was excited to see the snow too! He bundled up and headed outside to help his dad! He then wanted to take his four wheeler out and kept getting stuck! He needs some rubber tires (AKA a real four wheeler)! He was froze after he came in. A real cold cold snow! The snow is going to be here for a while! The forcast for the week is cold, cold, cold!

Favorite

This is one of our favorite Christmas decorations. We bought it at Costco a few years ago. It is a music box and then there is a button you press and it lights up and snow falls! Cooper from his very first Christmas has loved this decoration. Here is with his own deer playing with it.

Cathedral Cookies

Cathedral Cookies are one of my favorite Christmas cookies! I have fond memories of my mom making them every year. Last year I think was my first year making them. I loved when I realized they were so easy to make! When I was a kid I just remember thinking how did she get those mellows in there! The recipe is over to the left. I posed the picture so you could see what they looked like.

State baby!

On Saturday we headed up to the T-Dome to watch the Prosser Mustangs take on the Lyden Lions in the state football tournament! What a game that was! We were ahead all game. With TWO minuets left in the game Prosser was ahead 21-6. Prosser ended up loosing in double overtime when they attempted to win the game by a two point conversion. Let's just say it was heartbreaking! I knew they could do it, but they didn't pull it through! I felt like I was back in high school when they lost! My nephew Kody plays here is his fan club.


Kate eating cotton candy. There was a lot of that stuff bought!!

Cooper broken hearted! J/K I think he was throwing his popcorn at this moment!

Kody #76. He is the blond turned sideways.

Kody plays O-line but in playoffs they have put him in on deffence a little.
The best darn play of the game was when Kody, my 6'7" 275lb nephew, sacked the QB!!! It was awesome to say the least!!

Got him!

Brenden said, "What do you think the QB thought?"

I said, "Oh crap the big guy got me!"

Getting up from that awesome sack!

You could see that Troy was just grining ear to ear!

It was a sad sad game, we thought they would win, but you never know who is going to have the most points at the end. Lucky for us Kody is only a junior, so we have one more year of Mustang football!

For Grandma

The first reason why I blog is for my mom. She likes to see what we are doing and likes to see pictures of the kids. I feel bad when she asks me why I havn't posted anything. I tell her because well I don't know. Not really a good excuse, but then I feel guilt and vow to do better for my mom! So this post is for Grandma! Cooper has always loved Grandma!! Brenden says Cooper has a special bond with Grandma since she was in the room when he was born. He was her 19th grandchild and her first grandchild to see born. I think Grandma has a special bond with all her grandchildren! I thought I would post this picture because Grandma would love it. Probably not the rest of you, but grandma will. Cooper came running in the door today to give me his picture from Nursery(I was home with Cason). He was so proud of it. He loves to see his name written, so I think he thought it was so cool his church teacher had his name printed. This picture says a lot for it to have so much color on it. For the kid who had nothing to do with coloring for the longest time, it is pretty good. He is starting to like crafts a little more. According to Hayley he is still not interested at all, but I can see BIG improvements! He often tells me he wants to color!
So here you go Grandma Cooper's picture from church! I thought you would enjoy!