Goodbye Again Liz and the 24th

We were lucky to see Liz for a month or so while she was in town for her surgery (which went great and she has been recovering awesome by the way).  It was great to spend time with her and to see Ava and Lucas start to interact with each other a little bit.

July 23rd we roasted hot dogs and had a nice dinner so we could all spend 1 last night with her.  We miss her and her little family while they are in Tennessee, but are grateful to get to see them when we do.

The 24th was a fun filled day as well.  We went to the Boy Scouts breakfast that morning and had some great food that they prepared for us for their annual fundraiser.  Then we caught a bit of the days of '47 parade on TV.  After the kiddos and I headed to my parents to see Aunt Becky, her girls and Adalee.  They had all gone to see Rebecka in the parade.  We had lunch with them and had a good time visiting.

That night we all headed over to my parents for good food, good company, and fireworks.   We had a great time.  On the way home Lawson and Ava were out with in seconds.  We stopped at the school to do a few fireworks with Jake's family and Caryn, Kenny and their kids were their also.  It was a fun filled day for sure.

Unfortunately this is the only picture I took on the 24th but it is a good one!

New Car

So a few weeks ago we purchased a new car.  It is great!  We love saving on gas and I love it not to have to lift the kids up into the truck.  It will be a great new addition.  We plan on selling the Truck soon.  We have loved the Blazer and it was still running like a champ at 229,000, but the gas really gets to ya!

2001 Chevy Impala

4 Months!

Can't believe this cutie is already 4 months.  We all love her to pieces!!

Fun in Bear Lake

This year the Cooper reunion was held at Bear Lake.  We stayed at Bear Lake Adventures and what an adventure we had.

We planned on leaving Monday morning at 9:30 and didn't leave until 11:00.  Jake made a great point saying that if we would have planed on 11:00 it would have been 2:00.  Tonya and her van full of people and Jon and his car full of people all left at the same time.  We stopped in Garden City for a quick bite to eat.  Then before 3 we pulled into our week of fun.  We set up camp and just hung out for the rest of the day.  

The rest of the week was full of activities.  Many of them just included playing in the lake.  The kids had a great time playing in the sand on the beach.  We had water fights, snow cones, campfire and smores, games and just a fun time hanging out with everyone.  A couple mornings Masha, Kim and some of the other ladies helped paint faces.  They did an awesome job and the kiddos loved it. There were over 90 of us there and it was so good to get to spend time with all of them.  At one point a water balloon launching fight broke out between the Haddock boys and the Fetzer boys and some of the other boys of course.  It was quite entertaining.  

The last night there we had a talent show.  Randy's kids put on a great little number about Grandma and Grandpa Cooper and their kids, "I woke up in the morning feelin' like J. Cooper...."  It was awesome.  Talese treated us with a few songs as well.  What talent!  Some of the kiddos did a few things too, including Lawson singing Scooby Dooby Doo.  After the talent show we had an outdoor movie.  It was a great time.

Thursday morning we all had breakfast and then cleaned up, packed up and went home.  Jon's car and our car stopped in Wyoming so the boys could get some fireworks.

We had a great time and thank everyone for making such great meals and for Sandy and Reed putting the whole thing together.  Cooper's Rock!  

(A lot of fun = a lot of pictures)

Happy 4th!

Our fourth of July started out in the morning with breakfast at my parents annual ward/neighborhood breakfast.  We had some good food and enjoyed seeing people we haven't seen in a while.  My parents, Zach, Christina, Sarah and James were also there.

Later in the day we headed to a chicken picnic at the Fetzer's.  We had yummy chicken and everyone brought salads.  We enjoyed each others company, the kids enjoyed water fun, we had cool popsicles and we ended the night with some fun fireworks in the school parking lot!