Hooooray!

Happy birthday Nicole!!!

The awesome seesta #1 is celebrating her birthday today.

Here is what I hope happens for her today....

• She awakes to sounds of Julie Andrews singing her happy birthday.
• A delicious breakfast of fluffy pancakes and fruit is made for her by Rachel Ray.
• She is flown to New York in a private jet to do some shopping.
• Then, she has lunch at Tavern on the Green with all of her favorite people.
• The Red Door spa will then cater to her every whim. She shall leave refreshed.
• Off to a private showing of her favorite Broadway musical. Hmm, I wonder what she will choose?
  
• Just in time to be whisked off to a candle light dinner with her sweet hubby Matt. Very romantic and I would reveal the location, but then what secrets would there be for her?

I hope that your day is just that special. (with cool kids like Zack and Dylan and a rad husband like Matt I am sure that it will be just as special)
Love you Nicole!

I am sooooo excited!!!

I can finally post on here that my beautiful younger sister Shannon and her super rad hubby Brandon are going to have a baby!!!!

Whooot whooot!

Shannon and Brandon have been together since the beginning of time... well it just feels like that . I think that Shannon was a sophomore when they got together, but I am not 100% on that age, it could be earlier than that. They were married on June 8th 2002.

Why am I such an expert on her wedding anniversary?

It is exactly one year after DJ and I were married.

Totally sweet, I know.

Ok...so we have been giving her a hard time about when they were going to have a baby. Lately we have stopped a little because it can wear on a sweet spirit that is Shannon.

So, when she told us that she was pregnant I almost did not believe her and told her to not joke around. Then I promptly freaked out with happiness and have been super excited ever since.

That was a week ago and now I'm still is crazy excited.

The new sweetie is going to be here in either December or January.

There are a TON of January birthday's in our family, so that is cool. Way to keep up on the family tradition Shannon!



I am sooo looking forward to:

• buying soft, soft blankets
• rocking a new baby to sleep
• throwing a baby shower
• cleaning up spit up...it is cute man
• seeing them as parents
• helping out any way that I can

Mega coolness

Did I tell you that Kelly is a farmer?

I didn't?

Well, she is. At least, that is what she tells me.

She loves to go out and plant with her Papa Coop. They planted onions a few weeks back. Red and yellow. They planted some tomato plants as well. Then Mommy left them out in the wind, and now they are dead...it is a looong story, and it makes me sad. Oh, the little voice in your head that tells you to bring in a plant... I really need to start listening to that.

Today Papa Coop planted water melons, cucumbers, pickling cucumbers, more onions and some snap dragons. It was a beautiful day.

Kelly enjoys planting and being one with the earth. She loves to water the plants.

Let me tell you a story about watering the garden with her the other day.

I made the first mistake of the day by waking Kelly up to early. It was 8am.

Boo hoo.

She needs to work on waking up earlier because a certain little someone has morning kindergarden in the fall and it will be really bad if she does not work on her morning skills.

We are working on that pronto!!

Being a gardener is going to be key. See, she loves to water on irrigation day.

But then the wind started to blow and Mommies next mistake came into play.

I put a new outfit on her on irrigation day. A windy irrigation day.

So, then my pretty little princess too nervous and angry to be the happy little farmer that we all know that she is.

(Cue evil music)

The bad, bad wind blew the sweet, sweet H2O on to Kelly's new outfit.

And, action Kelly.... she now feels like crying and whining about small specks of red dirt on her new pants.

Oh the horror!

Is there anyone out there with the sense and understanding to help this situation?

Anyone?

(Cue super hero music)

Yes!

Mommy is here with her super green hair dryer and the super hero strength to out wit a sobbing 5 year old.

No autographs please.

Dang I look good in tights.

(ha ha HA HA!! that was a good one)

All is right with the world...until I, Super Mommy have to drain out the fish tank in Kelly's room tomorrow. I might have to take a major hit of fish water in my mouth when I siphon out the tank, but it is a small price to pay for JUSTICE!

Cool fish tank right?

Aunt Shannon gave this to Kelly. It has a rad plant in it to help keep it clean and he looooooves it. It looks cool to.

Wanna guess what she named her fish?

Rex! I adore it.

I shall leave you with a completely too cute picture of my niece Sadie.

She is the most precious little girl. I love that she is rocking the yellow headband. It is so "spring" and it makes me smile.

Until next time.

Same bat time.

Same bat channel.

A very good day

Today we went to Mia's 3rd birthday party!

It was a lot of fun. Kelly and Mia played great together. There was a TON of fun, multi-colored balloons. Doug grilled up some tasty grub. Deej and I got to hang out and listen to people other than Kelly. Just what the doctor ordered, I tell you.

Mia looked like she had a fun time. They blew bubbles, caught butterflies, and ate yummy cake.

What more can you ask for when you are three?

Here is a sweet picture of Kelly and Mia catching those butterflies.

They are so smart, that after a while they just stood by where the butterflies were going to come out. Then they waited there and caught them all.

You load up the butterflies, and then they shoot out of the elephant nose. The crummy thing about this game is that it takes all of 2 seconds for them to fly out...then it is butterfly loading time again and it is a teensie weensie bit annoying.

No, I am just old and easily annoyed. Whaaaa baby.

My littlest sister Shannon, (here is her blog...brandonshannon.blogspot.com go and read her....she is soooooo funny) challenged me to post my 6 word memoir. How interesting and at the same time off-putting. Who can really think of what a good 6 word memoir could possibly be?

Well I certainly can.

Because I rule.

Ok, here it goes.

Alexis Cooper's 6 word memoir for May 3rd 2008. (It really could change tomorrow)

Always willing and eager to help.

Ha Ha! Take that!

I leave you this fine evening with two thoughts.

One... Kelly wants to either be a secret agent, or a police officer. (see picture above, she has a badge, a gun and a cell phone in her pockets)

Two... Savy won the stinkiest feet contest on the bus ride home from the BYU track meet yesterday.

Rad.

Ha ha

Which Movie Mom Are You?

My Result: Freaky Friday's Tess Coleman

So you might not be a psychiatrist...and you most definitely haven't switched bodies with your kids (right?), but when it comes to parenting, you've got a lot in common with hardworking Tess Coleman. You're passionate and driven about your family and your career, and you do everything in your power to make sure that your family has it all.


Even when you're juggling a million responsibilities, you take most things you do very seriously. But you can certainly find that kid inside and cut loose when you need to. You just have to remind yourself every once in a while that doing cartwheels in the backyard can be just as educational as homework. Give it a whirl!

What are you?
http://web.tickle.com/jumpto?test=moviemomogt&c=50652

It's Fri-ness-day!

Well, to mere mortals it is Friday. To me it is Fri-ness-day. It is kind of a play on Wed-ness-day.... but I do go on.

Here is a sweet unassuming picture of Wyatt, Jesee and Kelly. They are being their cute little selves, eating suckers and making me smile.

There is something that I must admit.

I like to spy on them when they play.

Is that weird?

Yes, it really sounds weird.

It is just that when I am obviously watching them, they act all good and sweet. They are just little 5 year olds with nothing crazy planned at all. Then, when I am not around they turn into diabolical super children.

They plan adventures, develop complicated potions, and dare each other to do amazing things.

Just the other day I am pretty sure that they were playing a pretend game of Alvin and the Chipmunks....only I swear that they were speaking in primitive Mandarin Chinese. It was odd to say the least.

Here the little munchkins are when they were just wee ones. That is Jesee, Kelly then Wyatt. It still looks like them, only with less hair. It could be just my imagination but I swear it seemed like they were communicating with their minds when we took this picture. The idea was silly back then, but now I can see it being a reality. Those clever little people.
I love 'em!