He did it!

Cooper has been going to speech therapy for several months. He was unable to pronounce the "k" and "g" sounds. It is kind of ironic that he had trouble with the hard "c" sound considering his name, 2 of his brothers names and all of his cousins (except 1) have a name that start with the hard "c" sound. Kind of silly! He has worked very hard in his speech therapy and yesterday he did it!!! "He celebrated" (he meant to say he graduated!) We are proud of our Cooper!!

Busy Busy Busy..

Like everyone else..we have been BUSY!! While the kids were off track, we took a trip to Idaho to visit the Jones. It was so much fun. Despite the fact that I had my camera and the video camera with me.. I have no pictures!!

Then we went to Palm Springs. Again, only a few pictures were taken.

That trip was mostly swimming (at the pool and at the water slide park). The cousins had so much fun..but we missed the Jones cousins.

We have been to park several times trying to enjoy the nice weather.

We had a fun Easter weekend with both sets of Grandparents...again...no pictures..ugh! My mom bought my kids the cutest Easter suits and I couldn't wait to take pictures. Sunday morning was a nightmare! This is when I remembered why I don't care enough to take pictures!!!

These are my "Easter" pictures. AND YES!!! I really really did try to take Easter pictures of the boys...this is what I ended up with....

YES that is a BEDROOM! It was the best I could do to corner all my "happy" kids into one room thinking I could crop out the background...what's the point...between the "no tie mommy, no tie" to the "I hate looking handsome" to the "my collar is jacked up!" Sunday morning isn't suppose to be this stressful. This is why my blogs don't have many pictures.....it is way to much effort!!! :)

oh...and for the real fun boy stuff...we also rode quads at Grandma and Grandpas!!

PROMS!!

Most of my friends tell me they would NEVER want to go back to high school. I would go back to high school in a second!!! Of course, I made very stupid choices, said horrible hurtful things to friends and did things that I want to "redo" but putting that aside, I would go back to high school because it was soo fun! I loved my friends, I loved playing softball, I loved driving, I loved going out with friends, I loved having no worries. High school was soooo sooo sooo fun for me. With that said, I have been looking for my prom pics without any luck. I can't find the "official prom pictures". In my search I did find lots of snap shots of my friends, boyfriends, sisters etc and I loved going down memory lane. Thanks everyone who suggested this at Katie's dinner party!! This was fun for me!

The pictures below are the only ones of prom I could find. They are not the official dance pictures but they will work.

This is my Junior Prom.

My date was my "high school boyfriend" (we broke up right before Senior Ball so I didn't go with him. He took Amy Kartchner...hahaha sorry Amy, I had too. Inside joke for the rest of you). There are soo many things wrong with this picture but the best part is that there is a story to this dress. (it was velvet and my mom IRONED it 2 hours BEFORE prom!!!) you can't see it in the pictures but there are actually iron marks on my butt! it's a long story, if you care to hear it, ask me...I'm sorta scarred about it..this could be where the "girlie" part of me just gave up!! I realized during this process that "girlie" was way to much effort!)

SIDE NOTE: I forgot that his tux had tails. I read Stefani's post and had to add this bit in..we thought the tails on his jacket were soooo cool!!!

This is my Senior Ball. (no it isn't the same dress but just like now, I know what I like and it is simple and basic.)
Man, 16 years and 3 kids can do a lot to a girls body! I wish I had this body back but I would never trade my husband or give up the life lessons I have learned in those 16 years!

NOW POST YOUR PROM PICTURES EVERYONE!!

MY Homecoming

Marianne is the only one who has posted old prom pics. I found these homecoming pictures...still looking for my prom pics but I got a laugh out of these....enjoy at my expense! :)

What is worse in this picture? His hair, my hair or the background? I remember this night like it was yesterday....so funny!!

I thought I was sooo cool at this homecoming. I was a freshman and he was a senior! He only asked me because his best friend was my sisters (Tessa) date..but whatever..did I mention I was a freshman and he was a senior!! This is was my senior year homecoming....why did I wear pants...oh yeah, maybe because my boyfriend was a cowboy!! hahaha..only in Elk Grove!!

Boys will be boys, right?!?!

Cody, who has decided he is going to go by "Mack" which is his middle name, is a true boy! He gets into so much mischief I don't have time to grab the camera. This last week he has been crazy! Into everything, wants to do what his big brother do etc.

"Mack eat thips" Ironically, as I was taking these pictures he says "cheeeese" (that is nacho cheese all over him, the table, the floor and the walls)

And this one below would be cute if he wasn't sitting ON my onions!! We have 3 garden boxes. 2 which are just weeds and dirt and one that has 3 varieties of onions growing. He chooses to SIT, DIG and PLAY in the one box that has stuff growing!! go figure, right?!

I must admit though...with all this "trouble" I love my boys!!!!!

Kids say the darndest things....

Cooper: "It's "whats-her-face" not "whats-her-bucket", get it right!"

Kindergarten rocks

Today Cooper got 2 awards for his work in Kindergarten. He was soooo excited!! Way to go Cooper!!