My Little Man All Grown Up!

Ok seriously I'm so in love with this kid!

I can't believe he's already 18 months!

Where did the time go?!?!

• Recently he's gotten all 4 of his molars in
• He jabbers away all the time especially when he has a phone
• He loves to push my coffee table around the living room
• He's started throwing tantrums :S
• He gets really frustrated when he tries to tell me something and I don't understand him. Hopefully this just motivates him to learn to talk sooner
• He loves walking around with his backpack on!
• He brings me a pair of his shoes when he wants to go outside and if I don't take him out right away he helps me out by finding mine too. He even usually gets a matching pair!
• He gives the best hugs and kisses and has the cutest smile!
• His favorite game to play is Peekaboo

All you have to do is say "Where's Cooper?" and he automatically hides his face.

It's been a pretty nostalgic day looking through all the pictures we have of him.

Happy 18 months Little Man!

We love you so much! 

XOXO 

Mom and Dad

August

With all the packing and moving going on we've had to pack most of our summer into the month of August. 

Here's a little recap of what we've spent the summer doing.

We went swimming with some family and Cooper loved the water! 

I've only taken him a handful of times this year but hopefully we can squeeze in a few more pool trips before summer's over.

Cooper got to spend the weekend with his Grandparents while Matt and I enjoyed a little weekend getaway to Edmonton. 

We got to do some shopping and go out for dinner.

It was kind of like a belated Anniversary trip.......at least that's what I told myself.

In reality we went up to pick up a truck......

Matt's dad was looking for a new semi for the farm so Matt found this sweet Pete up in Edmonton.

Matt, his dad, and his brother Brad went up to take a look at it together.

They decided it was exactly what they were looking for so they told the guy they'd take it!

Matt was so happy he said he was almost in tears....I had to remind him that even on our wedding day he wasn't that close to tears.

His response?

"I know, but buying this truck is my dream come true!"

I think Cooper takes after his dad because neither of them can get enough of that truck.

Although I don't quite understand their obsession I'm glad it makes them both so happy.

Here's my little man all dressed up in his new clothes.

I can't believe how big he is!

He's gotten so big I thought he'd like to color a picture for his Uncle Nathan who's on a mission in England right now.

Here's how he stared out....

And here's how it ended up....

It was probably a total of 5 minutes before he started eating the crayons.

Even though he's not big enough to color he is big enough that I thought I should build him a little table and chairs!

I still haven't finished it but he could care less. 

The only thing I won't let him eat at his table yet is berries. 

As you can tell he gets just a little too messy.

This past week was also Brittany, my sister, and Brandon, her husband,'s birthdays.

Oh yeah and it was their anniversary too!

All within a week!

So I made them some pies to celebrate.

The only other thing we've really done this summer is have family movie nights.

Cooper has eagerly embraced the tradition of dill pickle popcorn and peach juice for movie watching.

We're hoping to take Cooper on his first camping trip this weekend since we haven't had a chance to use our trailer for the past 2 summers!

I'm a little nervous since I didn't do much camping growing up but with how much Cooper likes being outside I'm sure we'll have a good time.

House Tour!

So I finally got around to taking some pictures of our new house!

I would have done it sooner but sometimes with a 1 year old it's hard to keep things clean....

I thought I'd do some before and after pictures so you can see the difference

Here's what it looked like from the outside before we moved it from Brooks.

Here's our house on wheels. And yes I do know how red neck that sounds....

Here it is out on the farm!

Hopefully we'll plant some grass next summer...Cooper sure doesn't mind all the dirt though. 

This is the Living Room before...

And this is it after.

 You can't really tell but the ceiling before had a popcorn texture on it. Matt wasn't too fond of it so we scraped it off, retextured, and painted all the ceilings. It was A LOT of work and I may have complained just a smidge during the process. But I really like how they turned out.  And I know it looks a little funny with no picture in the frame, but one day I'll get around to printing our family pictures off.....

This is a dresser that I refinished into an entertainment centre just before we moved in. I love that it hides all our DVDs from Cooper.

This is Cooper's room before. We weren't really crazy about the color...

So we painted it before we moved in.

We also put a new window in and put up most of the trim.

This is what the guest bedroom looked like before. I'm pretty sure they let their kids pick the paint for their rooms....

This room isn't quite organized yet, but I like the color a lot better. So far it's a craft/sewing/guest room that has Cooper's big boy bed in it hence the John Deere bedding.

Cooper's bathroom before.

And after. We really didn't have to do a whole lot with this room.

This is the kitchen before

And after. We put up some new back splash

And we found this great table at the Brick a few weeks before we moved! It's nice to not be so squished around such a small table anymore. 

Here's the computer desk before...

We put the same back splash up here. Just a heads up for anyone doing renos, probably make sure you have enough to finish the job before you start. We ran out 1/2 way through and it was a huge headache to find some more. Oops...

Here's the back entrance/laundry room before.

The previous owners had some very bold color choices.

And after. 

I would have loved to have painted back here, but I was a little sick of paint by the time we got to this room. 

The Master Bedroom before

As you can see to the left of the bathroom doorway is a very large window. 

Before we moved in there was not 1 but 2 of these windows so you could clearly see into the bathroom. 

So the previous owners figured they may as well take the bathroom door off too since it wasn't doing much good anyways. 

We have yet to put a bathroom door up, but luckily I married a very handy man who, after some complaints, fixed our window dilemma.

This is our bedroom now.

See, no more windows!!!

This is the ensuite before

And here it is after a little paint....

And some new tile. 

It was really hard to leave Welling, but we feel so blessed to be able to move on to this new stage in our lives.

4 MONTHS!!

I can't believe it's been 4 months since my last post! We've had so much going on lately so I'll probably have to do a few posts to catch up on it all. I'll use this one to catch up on this sweet little boy that I get to hang out with all day!

One big thing that's happened is WE MOVED! We bought a mobile home and have been spending the last 3 months renovating and moving into it! I'll do another post about that later but Cooper was a big help. 

He also started walking a few months ago and is so much busier! Now we don't have to spend our time outside with him crawling around like this

He's started talking a little more and understanding things too. He says Mama, Dada, Ball, and Shoes. Shoes sounds a lot more like 'Sooz' but its pretty close! If we ask him to get his shoes he knows exactly where they are and will bring them to me. That little boy loves spending time outside especially on his Gator. 

On Canada Day we bought a chair for me to hang out on cause I knew we'd be spending a lot more time outside. If Cooper sees me starting to walk towards it to sit down he makes a beeline for it. I think he likes it just as much as I do. 

He's growing up so fast and I love that he's getting so independent but I miss my baby! I can't believe that in just a few weeks he'll be in nursery! It's hard to not smile when I'm around him. He gets this goofy little grin on his face and it makes trying to discipline him very difficult sometimes ( he's gotten into this habit of shoving his finger up his nose and when I try to tell him to stop he just grins at me and I can't help but laugh! I mean seriously how can he be cute picking his nose!?!)

We had a party for my grandparents 50th wedding anniversary this week and my grandma turned to me and said "How is it that you have the cutest great-grand baby? Oh, I know. You have the cutest husband!" I'm sure she says that to all her granddaughters, but I have to agree with her. I got pretty lucky with these two!