picking the perfect tree!!!!

after thanksgiving, we decided to get our tree. we bundled up and then headed to our local home depot with cooper, babcia and dziadziu.

not the greatest picture but the only one of the three of us on our christmas tree excursion

coop loved home depot!!! he ran around so excited that he actually threw up and then just continued running and playing. he had a lot of fun following the home depot tree guy around and just exploring all the things in the nursery.

so many trees!!!

ooh these have pretty shiny things on them!!!

our perfect tree.....a balsam fir that measured a good 8-9ft!!!!

cheesing it up with babcia and the little trees

gotta love the cooper cheese face...squinty eyes and all!!!

thanksgiving

time for turkey!!!!

we were so thrilled to be able to have thanksgiving with my parents this year...thanks so much for driving up to chilly CT!!!

my mom made a delicious dinner and we had such a great time visiting!!!!

this is cooper's official "cheese" face...cute except that his eyes are always closed!!!

cooper and his daddy

cooper and his mama

this was an extra special thanksgiving because as we sat around the table after dinner and read off our cards of what we were thankful for.....my dad was able to read the great news of baby #2 coming in June....this was the first time we able to share our big news!!!! we then, of course, called the rest of our family on speaker phone and shared the news with them.

Cooper's Dedication

while we were enjoying our family vacation, we took the opportunity to dedicate cooper to the Lord. it was such a special time to be with both sets of grandparents and liz and jay. we prayed over him and thanked God for the incredible blessing he is to all of our lives. may cooper grow up to be a mighty man of God!!!!

coop's first birthday in Florida

so since i am a terrible blogger.... i'm going to post things here n there as i get to it so at least you can see some pictures...i just get overwhelmed and end up not posting because usually i just have soooo many pictures to choose from.

so this is in florida.....we had a wonderful week of vacation on the beach with family n friends.....here is cooper's birthday party. the pictures below are from his party and him eating cake!!!!

such a big boy!!!! walking all over the place...saying ball n daddy tries to say hello and very very chatty!!!

this is coop's awesome gator cake that his grandma michelle made.....how cool is that???

this is coop's personal birthday cake to destroy made by his mommy......i don't make cake very often so abbie helped me out..it's a funfetti cake with cream cheese icing and it was actually delicious!!!

love that icing!!!

look at our haircolor!!! love my little guys so so much!!!

our little family.....

he ate almost half the cake!!!! then i took it away......

bathtime since w had icing everywhere and yes that is a sprinkle on my eyelashes

a few firsts

here's coper having watermelon for the first time, he seemed to enjoy it

next we decided to check out the grass. he didn't know what to make of it at first.....just kept pulling and playing with it and then of course tried to eat it.

what is this green stuff?????

yey grass!!!!!!

at the playground with grandma smith

so this is from a while back but we were so lucky to have grandma smith visit and stay with us for 2 weeks this was one of the days we went to mike's work to enjoy the swings

loving the swings!!!