Birthday Fun

July is known as the Birthday Parade around the Cooper home. Both Hyrum and Madison's birthdays are in July. Since we were in Utah during a good part of July we had some fun birthday celebrations there.




Madison's birthday was a few days after we got back from Utah. We started the day out with a balloon party in Madison's room.


Our dear friends came over later that morning and brought a cake over to share in our celebration.


I took Madison out to the store to pick out what she wanted for her Birthday dessert since we had cake with her friends earlier that day. She picked out Jr. Fat Boys and her own colorful candles. She was so sweet and was worried about Hyrum not being able to blow out his own candles when he had his birthday (since he was stuck with the swine flu that day). So we sang to both of the kids and had a grand old time!

Hyrum was so excited about his candles that he blew them all out before we started singing! I guess he wanted some practice! :)

Madison enthusiastically singing "Happy Birthday"- with the Hoorahs and all!
(We have a tradition in our family to sing the Danish version of Happy Birthday as well.)


Hy singing his little heart out!

Madison so happy that it is her birthday!


The kids scored big time for their birthdays! Madison got a new Princess bike and Hyrum got a tee-ball set. The kids also got many many toys from grandparents. There are too many to list. But I think their favorite that they're playing with at the moment is the train tracks and all the trains!

Happy Birthday Madison and Hyrum!!

Utah Trip

FYI: We did not spend the whole trip in our pajamas. The only time I thought of taking pictures was either in the morning or night. Hence, that is why every single picture I have of our trip my kids are in their pajamas. Haha.

With that said, we were in Utah for the past two weeks having a lot of fun with our family. I was too busy cherishing the moments we had with our family to take pictures. Fortunately, other family members did and I will be receiving those pictures shortly.





My nephew Carter LOVES sprinklers and my kids loved to run in them. They got Carter to follow the crowd and do it with them. YAY!
Grandma was so fun to have all the grandkids on her lap to watch "Elmo" on the computer.
I think Grandma enjoyed it too! :)



We had a lot of popscicle parties. Due to the fact that half of the crew got sick with the swine flu. Did I mention, that was the only bad part of the trip. But we are lucky that the WHOLE family didn't catch it. Only cousin Carter, Hyrum, Hilary, and I got it... wham baam!


Papa put on a fun firework show for us all on the 24th of July- Pioneer Day. Hyrum liked the fact that there was a ladder to mess around with.

Mischievous boy! The kids all loved the firework show!Madison, Hilary, and Devon all waiting for the show to begin!

Carter and Hyrum are 2.5 months apart and had so much fun playing with each other. Hyrum and Madison LOVE Carter. They are all best friends! We had a blast!!


There are so many more events that took place during our visit... so I'll end this post with. TO BE CONTINUED...

4th of July

We had a fun filled family day on the 4th of July. We started our day off by having a nice lazy morning as we played around the house.And no, it is not cold outside, it is the complete opposite. But Hyrum loves to wear this beanie around the house.

We decided to go to the local parade. Madison was very happy about this news, as you can see!

We then came home and washed our car as a family. Our family loves to do this because it cools us off while we get something accomplished at the same time. It was a lot of fun!

Madison and Hyrum were good workers too!

We then took a really nice long nap. After a shopping trip we came home and watched Pinnochio. It is one of the kids favorite movies these days. Daddy hadn't seen that movie since he was a child, so we all sat down to watch it together.

The kids were lucky enough to eat their dinner in front of the movie that evening. So fun! You gotta love that ketchup face, Hyrum can not get enough of that ketchup! :)

We had our friends over to help us eat the homemade ice cream that Hyrum and Daddy made for us. After we headed out to see the fireworks. I forgot my camera so I took some pictures on Cory's work camera. I am still waiting for those pictures. I will post those once I get them.

When we got home we enjoyed our sparklers and our own little firework show.

The kids had a lot of fun...

And so did Daddy! He was entertaining us by singing and dancing with the sparklers. At one point he was dancing with sparklers in his shoes. It was so entertaining, I didn't get a picture of that one. We had a great day together as a family, making memories, and being grateful for the freedoms we have by living in the USA.

Current Events

I know this is an old picture (taken in the beginning of the year) but this is a lot of what we have been up to these days. Resting, resting, and more resting!
Our family has been living in a sick house this past week. We have been dealing with sore throats, runny noses, coughs, and pink eye. Sounds like fun huh? Fortunately I am the only one that has not gotten sick AS bad (knock on wood) but am dealing with headaches and lack of sleep. I am grateful for the strength I receive from being a mother and trying to take care of my cute little family. I know we will be up and running soon!