Cooper's First Aggie Tailgate!

Saturday we got to go to the A&M vs Tech football game and tailgate! We didn't get season tickets this year because of the timing of Cooper being born, so we were super excited that the Johnson's invited us to go to this game with them! Granny and Papas met us in College Station and played with the girls for us while we went to the game. It was a great date! And I think they had fun, too. :) Here we are at the tailgate before the game.


I had to feed Cooper before we walked over for the game, and Kendall came to check out what was going on. :)


Granny and Papas took the girls on a walk around campus during the game. It was such a pretty day on Saturday and Kendall had a lot of fun playing while Cooper slept in the stroller.
Playing on the century tree!

Thanks for coming down Granny and Papas! We had a great day and it was great to see yall!

Halloween Parade 2010!

Friday night we had our second annual Halloween parade at the house! We have really been looking forward to it and it was so much fun! I took some pictures, but there are more coming from friends who were there. I will post those as I get them, but I wanted to go ahead and get this post up so that I can post about trick-or-treating on Halloween night (I'm a little crazy about things being in order! Ha!).

Kendall has been telling us for weeks now that she wanted to be a kitty cat, so we decided little Cooper could be a mouse. I put her in a grey shirt and pants and made some ears that I sewed onto one of her headbands. Then I cut a sponge and glued it on her sass - cheese! We think she was a pretty sweet mouse. :) She had her 2 month check-up Friday morning and got 3 vaccinations, so she was pretty sleepy all night.

Here's the cutest kitty cat! I wasn't sure she was going to keep her ears on, but for the most part she did! She loved her tail, too.

Such a ham!
Ready to get the parade started!

We had a "float" contest this year! Since the girls were a cat and a mouse, we decided to put Molly in the wagon too and make it like a pet store. We even got some things from Petco to help! We put Molly's bed in the wagon, but she didn't end up staying in there (we put her in the house - she was barking too much!). It worked out great though for Cooper to lay in Kendall's lap. She was asleep the whole time and Kendall was so sweet holding her and making sure she was safe. :)

Some of the parade participants! We counted up how many people (adults and kids) we had this year and it was 93!!! We invited friends to be IN the parade and friends to watch the parade. I was a little nervous that we would be taking over the neighborhood, but it really worked out ok. People dropped their wagons or bicycles off at the house and then parked down the street, past the parade route. Then some people brought chairs and sat along the route to cheer and let the kids throw candy to them. It was really soo cute!!

Lined up on the driveway, ready to start the parade!

Kendall got a little overwhelmed and needed to hold my hand. I will never get over that! Love it!

Noelle was so sweet to snap some pictures with our camera so I could pull Kendall and Randy could "direct." Here are Jillian (Snow White) and Sarah (Ariel)!

Ethan (Spiderman) and Ella (Minnie Mouse) rode on their gator.

Lawson, Aubrey, and Brynlee were the tin man, Dorothy, and the wicked witch!

Two of the three Mbaraka girls! Precious!

The parade is over- Cooper is still passed out!

After the parade we had cupcakes for the kids to decorate. Jeff helped entertain Kendall by wearing her ears. :)

And Kendall helped herself to LOTS of icing!

We also announced the winners of the float contest: Mikey Hintze got funniest for his Hulk costume, Alex Vrazel got most creative, the Reyes girls won the cutest award, and the Calhoun family of M&Ms won Best in Show! SO. MUCH. FUN!! Already can't wait til next year!

Sweet sisters

2 months old!

Cooper is two months old today! Friday we went for her checkup and Dr. B said she is just perfect! She weighs 11 lbs 3 oz and is 23 1/4 inches long. Both her height and weight are in the 75% - she's creeping up there! We start vitamins this month. I'm sure that will make for some great pictures! She had to get three shots and one oral vaccine. It was hard to watch her get her shots, but she did ok. Then, she pretty much slept the rest of the day - right through her first Halloween parade! We had our parade at the house Friday night and she was conked out for most of it. Check back for pictures soon of the cutest little two-month old mouse you've ever seen!

Halloween Presents!

Kendall and Cooper have enjoyed getting fun mail lately! One day last week they got a Halloween package from Gigi and Peeps! Kendall got to open it after her bath.

They got some fun pumpkin lights, cute Halloween clothes,
and stickers!

Cooper kind of slept through the package-opening, but we "tried" some of her clothes on her. :)

We love the cute clothes the girls got! Cooper got three shirts: one that glows in the dark, a white Casper the ghost one, and this cute one that has a tu-tu!

The girls also got some fun matching Halloween outfits from Granny and Papas! They wore them to church this past week. I tried to get a picture of both of them, but it didn't go so well...

You can't see it in these pictures, but there is a big spider on the front of their shirts. I will try and get a better picture soon!

And that is THE END!

8 Weeks of Cooper!

Sweet girl, we can't believe you are already 8 weeks old! Friday we go for your two month check-up, and on Halloween you will officially be two months old! Here is what you have looked like with each week:

8 weeks old

7 weeks old
6 weeks old (not too happy to be taking pictures!)

5 weeks old

4 weeks old

3 weeks old

2 weeks old

We love you more and more with each week that goes by and can't wait to learn more about the little girl you are going to be. You are such a blessing to our family!

Cooper's First Trip!

You went on your first road trip this weekend, Cooper! We had one night free in the middle of three very busy weeks for our family, so we went overnight to Aaron's family's cabin at Cow Creek with Holly, Aaron, Ethan, and Ella. It was great to get away and spend time together as a family and with our friends.

Here you are, ready for a road trip!

It was very relaxing to be at the creek. Kendall, Ethan, and Ella rode the gator, played in the sand,

we all roasted marshmallows,

got very dirty,

built fires,

and you did a lot of this! You did great sleeping and sat in your swing a lot and watched the big kids.

And of course, you cuddled your mommy and daddy a lot! We love to snuggle with you. You're just so sweet!

We look forward to many more trips to Cow Creek as you get bigger!