MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

Some randoms...

I was getting some pics from my old camera and came across these pictures that I forgot about. They are so cute! We took these a couple months ago. They are of one of the lakes right up the street and a beach we loved going to this summer. I love the picture of Joe and Cooper.

The boys...

Here are Cooper and a couple of his good friends- Christian and Niko. They are moving in right up the street from us so we are SO excited! Here they are playing in the "backyard" and exploring the "cave" (aka excess water tunnel) And they we went and played on the trampoline. They had tons of fun and Cooper loves hanging with the big boys.

Thanksgiving

This year my mom, her husband, my sister and her husband all came to visit us. It was great not having to travel with the kids and to finally have some visitors! Unfortunately, Josie got sick the day they came in and was really sick the whole time. And of course- she passed it on to everyone! So every day someone was sick but we did the best we could to have a good time and they saw some sites, played in the snow and ate a yummy Thanksgiving Dinner. It was great to have them and we are very thankful for family.

SNOW!!!

Well, it finally snowed here! It was the first and only time yet. But it was a good snow storm and we had tons of fun playing in it! Especially when it's right out our back door and we can have so much fun in our own backyard. Cooper enjoyed the snow a lot more this year than last and him and Joe played for hours.

Play group at the Skate Rink

This indoor hockey rink by our house hosts a really fun play group every Wednesday morning. They put tons of bikes, cars, tunnels, hula hoops, balls and lots of other stuff out for all the kids to play on. They had a bounce castle and a parachute that they played games with. It was a blast!

Funny Christmas Video

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My kids...

Since I use this blog as a kind of online journal I feel the need to update everyone on my kids and what they have been up too...
Cooper
What he loves:
1. His Daddy- all day long I hear " I want Daddy."
2. To play!!! This kid LOVES to wrestle, run, jump, roll and bounce off and on everything. He always wants to play tag around the house and wrestle with Joe as soon as he gets home.
3. His trains, and his big trucks. He goes through phases where one day he wants to play with Mac- his big truck all day and the next day he wants only to play with his trains.
4. Little Einsteins and Nemo- His favorite T.V show and his favorite movie. (Seriously, I think Joe and I have endured Nemo at LEAST 40 times)
5. Mac and Cheese. Every meal I ask Cooper what he wants to eat and it's always "Mac n Cheese!"
6. To scare people- he just recently discovered the fun you can have and the reaction he gets when he scares someone. He loves to hide and stick out his toes ( so we can find him) and then jump out and scare us. It's funny.
7. To be social. He is a social butterfly. He loves preschool and the gym day care where he can just hang out with the kids and play.
8. CANDY!!!! Yes- the son of a dentist and I have never seen anyone worship candy as much as this kid. The second he wakes up " I want candy mommy."
9. Stories- He loves when Joe and I tell him stories especially about bears and big trucks. We'll be telling him a sweet little story about a baby or something and he'll get all excited and chime in " ... and then a big bear came and ate him!" Or "... and then a big truck came!"
10. Fire trucks- He LOVES them! What little boy doesn't?
What he hates:
1. Being dirty. He hates stuff on his hands and if a bib even has a little spot on it he will make you get a new one!
2. Going to bed. Just recently he started this. But I think he just has too much fun during the day and doesn't want to miss a thing.
3. When Josie plays with "his toys" Of course all the toys are his- they are recycled from him! So this is a constant problem that we work on daily.
4. When we're all done playing. He just wants to play and play all day long. And we have to go somewhere or do something- he hates it.
Over all Cooper is a pretty typical two year old. He is quite moody and can go from laughing to temper tantrum in literally 2 seconds. When he is in a good mood though he is SO much fun!! He is REALLY funny and loves to make people laugh. He is very witty- like his dad and a busy body- like his mom. He loves to be out and about and exploring. We love him, although he is a major handful sometimes but well worth it. :)

Josie
What she loves:
1. Her bottle- she is a bottle baby and any cry can easily be soothed by a warm bottle.
2. Food! She LOVES to eat! This girl is such a great eater! She eats anything and everything (except peas)
3. Cooper- she LOVES her big brother. She has so much fun playing with him and laughing at him.
4. Her bed. She loves to sleep and take naps in her own bed- what baby doesn't?
5. Baths. She loves to play in the water and splash around.
6. Playing. She LOVES to just play by herself. She will go in the play room and I won't hear a peep out of her for over an hour. She is so easily entertained and just plays and explores everything.
7. To sing and dance. She loves " If your happy and you know it..." And she cracks up every time we clap her hands and squish her cheeks.
8. To stand up. She is standing up on her own now and pushes herself on her walker. She will be walking here soon...
9. Her pacifier. She has to have it to go to sleep.

What she hates:
1. To be dirty. She whines and cries if she has a dirty diaper until you change her.
2. Peas- that is the only food I have found she doesn't like.
3. When Cooper takes her toys away. She screams! This girl learned how to hold her own pretty early.
4. Shoes and socks. She kicks them off the second I put them on- she HATES them.
Josie is the most laid back, easy going and happiest baby ever. She is so easily amused and pretty much loves everything. She is very predictable and adapts well to everything. We LOVE her SO much!!

My New Business!!

Hey all! Sorry I haven't written is so long... I have been working on my new site and doing stuff for my business. Check it out...
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Super Hero Party!!

Bev is going to kill me for this picture...




Happy Birthday Jackson! Jackson Bartholet turned 4 last week and had a really fun "Super Hero party" at the park right next to our house. They played "Super Hero" games (tug o war, chase, and kick the ball) and hit the Spiderman piniata. It was SO much fun! Cooper loved to dress up and we all just hung out- it was BEAUTIFUL- about 70 degrees!! (ofcourse- it ALWAYS is here :)

Halloween....

Cooper doing his "Scary wolf growl!"

"Giddy up Woody!"

Just checking to make sure it's all still there!

The Dynamic Duo- Woody and Buzz (aka. Jackson and Reed)

Little Red riding hood looking so cute.

Our neighborhood church group that we went Trick or treating with.

Cute little Lion with his mommy- Emily.


For Halloween this year Cooper and Josie were Little Red riding hood and The big bad wolf. Their costumes turned out really cute I think. I threw them together at the last minute- literally about 2 hours before our church party (they were going to be Pebbles and Bam Bam- but I decided it was too cold so I changed my mind at the last minute!) I didn't think Cooper would keep his costume on but surprisingly he did! I have rarely seen the kid this happy. He was SO excited trick or treating he just kept laughing and jumping up and down yelling "Candy, ha ha, Candy!" It was really cute but that is when you know your kid is truly addicted.
For more pics check out Sage's site- The Pierce family- under Blogger friends- to the right.

New park!!!

Yeah! Another park to play at! This one is AMAZING though. It's over 50 acres right up against the mountains- it's beautiful. There are 5 baseball diamonds, 2 soccer fields, 2 basketball courts, 6 pavilions, a water park, a dog park, biking trails around the whole park, a mountain bike course, skating rink, snow hill and not to mention the AWESOME and HUGE playgrounds! With so much new and innovative fun equipment. There is a big "giant" who has fallen and he makes all these sounds and you can play all over him and when you stick your hand in his mouth he yawns and in his nose- he sneezes. It's really cool. This is our 52nd park here in Fort Collins- amazing. It is absolutely awesome here.

Bath time!

Here are the two crazy monkeys. Do you thing it's time for a hair cut or what?! They are so funny together. Cooper just wants Josie to play with him SO bad and Josie is perfectly fine playing by herself. But she does love her big brother and they have lots of fun together.

Pumpkin Patch!

We had play group at a local pumpkin patch and it couldn't have been a nicer day! It was so sunny out and about 75 degees! Here we all are.. taking a hay ride, playing in the kiddie hay maze and hanging out.

Alamosa....

Joe had the "Mission of Mercy" clinic he had to go to in Alamosa, Co. And for some reason he actually talked me into bringing the kids and driving 6 hours each way! What was I thinking?! There were some fun times- mostly not so fun times- Josie got an ear infection and kept us all up- all night- every night! We were literally up every twenty minutes. Other than that, Alamosa was fun. There was a water park in our hotel so that kept our spirits up!

Parkin' with Porter...

Today we went to the park with Porter and Sage. Sage and I wanted some new models besides our own kids so we swapped. Man- Porter is impossible to get a good shot of! I mostly got the top of his head, his cheek, and his backside. Porter- it's a good thing your so dang beautiful to make up for it! And I just had to add this one of Cooper. For more pictures of Cooper and Josie go to Sages site: http://mikeandsagepierce.blogspot.com/