one month old...

seven months old..

football+mom=love

found this today..cooper is good at expressing himself in all kinds of ways..but if you can write "i love my mom" on your football...well that screams LOVE! ...i love you too cooper, more than you will ever know:)

so funny...

Im feeling old...

so lately i have been having these eye opening experiences about my age, sometimes i can be walking, driving or doing whatever..and my mind will get to wondering and i will completely forget that i am a mother to 4 children, and that im approaching 30! this year i will be 28 years old...wow where did time go, i find myself from time to time forgetting my age and when asked how old i am, 18 or 19 wants to quickly spill out and i have to catch myself and say....sigh 27! why is that, why do i remember those years? why do they jump from my lips so easily? i remember being a child and i couldnt wait to be older, i couldnt wait to say 20 something! for example, i had a conversation with kortlyn on saturday and it went like this...

Kortlyn: "mom how big are you?"..(she was asking my age)

Me: "i am 27"

Kortlyn: "how big is dad?"

Me: " Ha ha..he is 30!"

Kortlyn: " aww he's bigger than you, thats not fair..huh mom?"

Me: "ummmm???"

how do you explain to a child, uh yeah it is fair...VERY FAIR actually! its amazes me that when your young you want to be old soooo bad, and when your old..you want to be young! lately when i go to bed at night, just before i fall asleep, i think about my childhood memories~ i have been doing that a lot lately! i think after i graduated from high school, someone told me "now that you have graduated, the years are gonna fly by...so take time and enjoy everything life can offer!" i was 18 and i thought yeah right, its taken forever to get this far! but he was right, here am 10 years later, four children, married, and i cant believe how fast it has gone by!

ALL HE WANTS FOR CHRISTMAS...

halloween preview

at the beginning of the night we had, one darth vader

one sharpay...

and two little lady bugs

we ate "killer bbq pork sandwitches" and "booger macaroni salad"(i died the noodles green) and chips of coarse....

our "witches brew"..."witch" consisted of mostly root beer, but still...its was fun!

cooper had fun with all the silly food creations (kortlyn not so much..as you can see) cooper drank his and said MUAH AH AH AHHHH!

WHEN IT WAS TIME TO LEAVE, WE DIDNT GET HALF WAY OUT THE DOOR AND KORTLYN DECIDED THE BOAH "SHE JUST HAD TO HAVE" WAS TOO ITCHY AND SO, I WAS LEFT TO WEAR IT!

we found all our friends along the way..from left to right...nate, trevor, cooper, korlyn and ashley!

at the end of the night we had two worn out trick or treaters...

one sleeping lady bug..(kaylee)

and gobs and gobs of candy...

it was a very happy halloween....