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I'm a wife and a mom. I live a crazy busy life but love to spend every free minute with my beautiful daughter. I have recently rediscovered my love for crafting and found a new love for blogging!

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Farm Fun and the Strawberry...

This weekend was a blast! Friday we ate dinner at The Depot and laid low. I spent most of the night reading blogs...mostly decorating & crafting. Tonight I actually made a flower headband that I found a tutorial for on Jones Design Company. It was super easy and super fun! I want to post a picture, but I had already downloaded weekend pics from the camera and was too lazy to do it again! Maybe next week.

Oh, I forgot! I wanted to start this week's post with Cooper's Halloween party at school. She started a new school at the beginning of the month and we are loving it! Her teachers, Ms. Kathy & Ms. Angela tell me everyday how great she is doing and what a good job she did adjusting. They said she is so well behaved (what, really?) and that she fit right in with all the other kids in the class! I am so thankful that the transition went so well. She is bringing home art every week and learning a new letter every week. They feed the kids breakfast  & lunch (which is much easier on Mom & Dad). I am amazed at what she eats everyday. She is eating fruits & vegetables that she would never eat at home! She is also starting potty training. She sits on the potty at every diaper change. Sometimes she goes and sometimes she doesn't. I try to remember to ask her at home, but she doesn't seem to be too interested in the potty at home. I'm not going to push it yet, because I know she won't do it until she decides she is ready. Daddy was late with the camera (and I wasn't mad at all!), but here are a few pictures from the party.




Cooper wore her jack-o-lantern dress to school on Friday. Here is a picture I snapped before we left on Friday morning.


Saturday morning we got up and went to the Oak Mountain farm/petting zoo. It was a great activity for a fall Saturday. Cooper loved seeing the animals and wanted to pet all of them! I think she kinda scared some away because she would get so excited. It somewhat smelled and there was poop all over the ground, but it was fun!!





Saturday afternoon Bebe & Papa John came up to go trick or treating with us! Cooper put on her costume and was excited about going outside and walking down the street. When she figured out we got to stop at every house on the street and get candy she was thrilled!  She wanted to knock on the door until the people answered and eat every piece of candy right away. We convinced her to put the candy in her bucket as we went along. Her favorite were the lollipops, but I think she would have eaten every piece if I let her. We had so much fun around the neighborhood.


Nosey...wonder where she gets that from?!




This is our neighbor, Kate. Cooper & Kate play outside together in the afternoons. Cooper loves seeing her!

After the blue sucker.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

2 Year Pictures...Round One

Carly is phenominal! I met her this afternoon to get the pictures that she took on Sunday. I love our new friend Carly and I love all the pictures! I can't stop looking at them....here are a few of my favorites. I am so glad we met carlyJphotography!!


Sunday, October 24, 2010

Pumpkin Weekend



The weekend started early for Cooper & Mommy!  I took off work Friday just to hang out with Cooper. We slept in and then ran errands most of the morning. Her birthday party is in a couple weeks, so most of our errands were to get ready for the party. We went to Chick-fil-A for lunch and then came home so Cooper could nap. Since she started at The Odyssey, her naps have moved up to noon. On the weekends, we try to keep her on schedule, but she usually doesn't go down until about 1:00. After nap, we met some neighborhood friends at the park to play! Even though we didn't do much, I still just love being with Cooper and would take that over going to work most days!!

After Daddy got home, we carved our pumpkin. Since Cooper is really into cats lately (I think it all started with her Halloween cat toy), Wes carved a cat into our pumpkin. It looks great! Cooper wasn't really into getting the yucky stuff out, so she mostly just watched and played around the yard.



On Saturday morning, we went down to La Reunion and ate pancakes for breakfast! Yum! We ran into our neighbors, The Davenports and The Cobbs so Cooper ended up playing more than eating! After breakfast, we headed down to The Grand Ole Pumpkin Patch. While we were there, we took a wagon ride to the pumpkin patch to pick out our pumpkin and walked around the farm. There was a sunflower field (that I loved and though would be a great photo op) and Indian teepee's. Cooper seemed to be afraid of the sunflowers, I don't know if it was that they were so big or what! And about that time she started getting hungry and on the verge of a meltdown! We got our pumpkin & our pictures, so we were out of there!



We watched the Alabama game at home in our pj's and had tons of fun! Much more enjoyable game than the last two weeks! Sunday morning we got up and got ready for pictures. Cooper had her two year old portraits done today. We went to a really cool little farm. It was just someones house and they let our photographer come take pictures there. They have a red barn, horses, a pond, blueberries and just overall beautiful land. I can't wait to see the pictures!! And, I love our new friend Carly. Check out her FB page at CarlyJphotography. I also started on a birthday party decor project today. I was a little intimidated at first, but I think things will turn out well. I am attempting to make some fabric pennant banners for the party. I will post the results soon! Overall, we had a fabulous weekend!!

Please ignore the terrible blog background...I need help! Mindy, I hope you are at work tomorrow.


Try, try, try again!!

Here we go...I'm giving blogging another try! I love reading and looking at pictures on other people's blogs. All the searching i've been doing lately for birthday party ideas a got me going! Plus, I started working on a photo book of Cooper's firt year and realized how upset I was at myself for never writing anything down. We did a pretty good job of taking pictures, but we never did anything with them. So here we go...