Random weekend pictures

Some of the best weekends are not planned. We did go camping and were planning on participating in the chili/soup cook off but decided at the last minute to back out and head to Prairie Du Chein Wisconsin for the day. Friday night we got up to Whitetail and NO ONE was there, it was just me, Tom, Cooper and Micayla, it was nice and relaxing, a beautiful night for a fire.

Saturday as I was "napping" with Cooper around 10:00 Tom came in and asked if I wanted to drive to Prairie, I was thinking the same thing, great minds think alike, so once Cooper woke up, which he was starting to, we got up and headed out. It was a gorgeous day, we took our names off the cook-off list and spent the day shopping and eating.

Coopers first ride in shopping cart, I sure wish I had my cart cover but didn't think we'd be shopping and let alone Cooper sitting in one already! Tom told him to hang on for dear life and that's just what he did. He didn't let go, it was so funny!

He even got to pick out a toy, a stuffed animal.

After Wal-mart and The Cannery one of my all time favorite places for knick knacky stuff, if you know what I mean. I got a few fall decorations. They also have a ice cream and fudge shop where we stopped for some ice cream and it was a good spot to feed Cooper. We sat outside and enjoyed the beautiful weather. After Cooper ate he played with Daddy while mommy finished her ice cream. Gotta love Moose Tracks!

After shopping in Prairie, we headed over to McGregor, IA, its just over the river about 5 minutes away and walked the streets there, a lot of Antiques, so nothing that really caught my eye, but we did stop and eat at a bar and grill, the Hawks were on, and it was right on the Mississippi. The food was yummy, nothing like a good greasy burger and french fries!

Sunday morning, this momma was tired and someone was not! And I don't mean Tom he was but I was up with Cooper about 3 times so Tom got up and played with Cooper while I rested. I think they were watching Bob the Builder.

Sunday we got home around noon and decided to make Chili, since we had bought everything to make it we thought we better, and it was oh so good! I swear Tom makes the best, as long as he doesn't add too much hot stuff.

Mom and dad stopped on their way home from camping and mom found this hat in Cooper's room, Linda bought it for him, and we had to get a pic of dad and Cooper.

My boy is growing up way too fast, he's going to be 6 months tomorrow! Can't wait to take his pictures, both professionally and the ones I take with his stickers. So be ready for picture overload tomorrow!

Go Bears!

Yesterday, we had Cooper all decked out in his Chicago Bears gear, unfortunately they didn't win, but we were still all decked out. I dropped him off at daycare and one of his classmates, Maive, had a little Packer dress on, it was so cute and the rivalry started! 

 

 

Cooper was pretty crabby for Daddy while I was at Jazzercise, so when I got home after supper, Neighbors pizza (oh so good!), Cooper and I went into our room and played for a while. He was laughing and giggling, just melts my heart.

For some reason he wanted to be held all the time last night, not sure what's going on, but I gave him a bath and put his jammies on, he had Bear jammies too, but I didn't get a picture of those, oops, next time. Cooper was in bed by 8:00 and slept all night until 5:00am!

And just a few more random pictures that I wanted to share, and thought you would enjoy them. 

Again, sitting up all by himself, he's still a little webble wobble but for the most part he sits there. He's chewing on a a frozen teether, I think he likes it.

 

At Grandma's in his bouncer/toy gym, not sure what it's called, but its a Baby Einstein thing I got at a garage sale and Cooper loves it. He sat in it while we ate supper Wednesday night at mom and dad's. 

Grandma picked Cooper up from daycare on Wednesday so this gave Tom and I a little time to go grocery shopping and run a few errands. It's amazing how much quicker you can get around and in and out of places without a baby. But I sure do miss him when we're out with out him.

Here is Justin working at Hy-Vee, I don't think he saw me take a picture, if he did, he'd probably kill me. But he his lane was open when we went to check out so we went to his lane, he did such a good job. His manager next to him is training him and she used to work with me at McGraw-Hill, she was one that got let go when Nikki did, she's a riot and I bet Justin will like her.

We are ready for the weekend, it's Chili Cookoff at Whitetail this weekend. Tom's going to make some chili, it's going to be a perfect weekend for it that's for sure. I love these beautiful days!

Fun with the neighbors

Tonight we ventured out for a walk, it was beautiful, but ended up at the neighbors play yard. I don't know what else to call it, but our neighbors have a huge play area for all the kids in the neighborhood. This is the family who lost everything in there huge yard last year when we had the big flood. Here is my post Flood aftermath the yard is where the new "hang out" is.

We started out with the stroller and this is Coopers first time riding in it without his car seat, so he could face forward and see what was going on. He loved it!

Brandon came along with us riding his bike. Cooper loved watching him do his tricks.

Then we saw the neighbors were out and they motioned us to come down so we did and it was so much fun. Cooper loved the baby swing they had. Since their are 3 babies all within 3 months of each other, it's great having this play area.

Here is Daniel, his mommy and daddy own the play area, he was born a couple days after Christmas and was a big baby, like 11 pounds when he was born! Yeah I'm not kidding, but he's such a cutie. We call him Danny. He just learned to wave, it was so cute.

Here is Danny's sister, Sophie, she was on the big kid swings.

Tom and Brandon hanging out on a swing as well. There are swings everywhere!

Here is Carter, he is the girl in the backgrounds little boy, she has the other little boy, Graham, who was born  just a couple of weeks before Cooper. Carter is going to be the big boy the others follow around, we can see it already.

There is Graham, and Joie is his mom. All the babies were smiling tonight, it was all so sweet.

Tom now taking a few pics, we never did a good one of the whole play area, but you can kind of see how awesome it is. It even has a sand area. Behind me is Kathy, that's Danny's mom.

It's so funny, all the babies were getting tired at the same time, so we all headed in to bathe and feed our little boys. We are so looking forward to many more nights together. Our walks always end up with us chit chatting with the neighbors which we love!

Weekend recap

We decided to stay home at the last minute, it was supposed to be a chilly weekend but it turned out to be beautiful! Perfect nights for bon fires, but we'll get them in, in the next couple of weeks.

So since we stayed home, we always plan on getting things done around the house, but nothing got done! We were out and about, since we are not home on weekends much we always like to get out and about with friends and family, so Friday night Tom, Cooper and I went out for dinner at one of our favorite Mexican restaurants, Los Aztecas, after that we headed down to Tom's parents and his mom and I and Cooper went to a 31 party at Tom's cousin's house. Tom and his dad headed to the casino. Linda and I had a good time, so did Cooper, we walked away with a couple of cute outfits from Hilary, that was the first time she has seen him. The outfits were so cute, we even got a Halloween pajama outfit, it's so cute!

That night, once we got home, around 9:00, Cooper had several naps because the car ride to the party was about 20 minutes so Cooper fell asleep on the way there and the way home, so buy the time we got home we not at all tired.

This at 10:30 at night! Momma was tired.

 

 

 

I finally picked him up and rocked him to sleep, which is what I usually do but he wanted nothing to do with it that night, then once I put him down and left the room, all he wanted was his momma, so it took about 10 minutes is all and he was out. But it wasn't a very good night, he was up at 4am! I just brought him in bed with me, we snuggled until about 7, he was up at 6, but there was no way I was getting up, I just laid there listening to him talk. It's so sweet wondering what they are talking about.

 Saturday morning, we got up, got ready and headed downtown to market and to Tom's Grandparents house. We were invited to Tom and Linda's and my brother's house for the Hawkeye game so we went to Tom's parents for the first half and Chris and Kristi's for the 2nd half.

Cooper with Great Grandma Nita

 

 

Cooper and Micayla, the big rival, Iowa and Iowa State, Micayla is a State fan and you can tell what Cooper is. She has a cousin that plays for State, they won :(

Linda has Cheesy Chicken Tortellini soup for the game, it was so good. And mini panini's!

Check Cooper out on his hands and knees!

 

 

At halftime we packed up and headed to my brother's house, they were out on the deck watching the game, it was gorgeous out.

Cooper helping Chris drink his beer. Not really, but someday I'm sure it will happen.

 

We had steak and shrimp at Chris and Kristi's, it was all so good. She makes the best potatoes, I don't even know how to explain them but they are good! We headed home around 8:00. Cooper didn't sleep the best again, he was up at 4 and didn't get to bed until 9 or so. Not too bad, but not as good as he can be.

Sunday we got up, Grandma called about 10:00 and said she's coming out and pretty much hung up the phone, meanwhile Cooper was sleeping and she got out to the house and I told her not to wake him up, he's been crabby, she doesn't believe it, but it's true, not sure what's going on, but he slept until 12:15 or so. Then the 3 of us headed out to the mall and Kohl's guess who made out?? Yup, Cooper! We had fun and Cooper was exhausted, he's fell asleep around his normal time of 8:00 so I'm crossing my fingers he sleeps all night.

Here are just a few random pics from this past week. Here Cooper is holding his own bottle! I think he just likes to play with the nipple. He was making a mess. LOL

 

Trying to get a good pic to send to Steph so we could facetime! But she didn't get the message right away, that darn 2 hour time difference, gets us all the time. When we want to talk its dinner time and when they are ready to talk we're already in bed. We manage once in a while, it's just everyone is so busy. We can't wait for October, we're heading out to visit!

And Cooper in his John Deere outfit that his big sister got him, it's so cute!