While in NYC...

this is what Cooper was up too! We'll have about a thousand more pics of these 4 together after next week. We're all making our annual trip to SPI, we're just praying there are no hurricanes this year! Obviously we need to work some more on sharing our toys...I guess that's what happens when you're an only child.He did not like that his cousins were in the wagon, or maybe he was just mad that his mom and dad weren't there! Still, thank you Jeni for taking these pics of our kids!

cake pop

Josh Bailey made the cutest monkey cake pops for Amy's shower on Sunday, I brought one home to Cooper. At first he wasn't sure what to think about it, but it didn't take him long to tear into it...

hmm....what is this?

taste okay....

oh really good! I think I'll stuff the whole thing in my mouth!

Located in Memphis...

We did not know about this little neighborhood or district until Harold and Sally Shank informed us about it, they went through there just to take pictures of it for us. The streets Cooper and Young intersect, it is a very artsy district. Apparently there is a Cooper Young Festival, some day we'll go and get shirts!

zoo take 2

Since it was nice this morning, I decided to tear Cooper away from Little Einsteins and take him to the zoo. We have a pass and since hopefully sooner rather then later we'll be living 2 hours away you can never visit the zoo too much when you don't have to pay for it! He went yesterday with my mom, and this trip lasted all of 1 hour before he decided he needed to take a nap, but here are some sweet pics of him excited to see the animals.





and making his mom proud after the zoo by flipping through a Rachael Ray Cookbook!

Oh....Europe!

Growing up with a German Mom she taught me to love nutella from a young age! When I went to Vienna in 2001, wow, that was a while ago, I fell in love with Pretzels dipped in Nutella, and Bananas dipped in Nutella! The other day I saw this, which inspired these:




So here is how you make them:
Cut a banana in 3 pieces, place lollipop stick in them and freeze for 4 hours, then melt nutella for 30 seconds and dip the frozen bananas in the nutella, and roll in crushed pretzels. Put back in the freezer for 30 minutes, let thaw and eat.

We'll just say I'd rather eat these then the Starbucks Java Chip Ice Cream that is in my freezer that has not been opened yet! That's how good these are!

Busy....

As you can imagine we've been busy over here....our sign is officially out in our yard, so if you know of anyone that needs a nice house in Northwood, tell them about us or tell us about them and in my grandmother's fashion I'll hunt them down and force them to buy it! (I'm totally kidding about the forcing part, but it would be great if our house would sell in 2 weeks)

Here is a another picture of Jeremy and I from New York, we were waiting for the train at Newark Airport to go to the big city, I love this picture!


Then yesterday we went up to see Dad at camp. Cooper has rencently started favoring his father, so he was dying to see him, which led to Jeremy having an assistant coach! I think that this is Jeremy's last week to coach, he'll still be at camp, but will have other responisibilities instead of being a team coach, which is a good thing!


I tried to take another picture of them, since they matched. We got Cooper some official mavs shorts at the NBA store in NYC, but Cooper didn't want to smile. I don't know what his deal is lately! Maybe it was the fact that we got stuck at the gym longer then expected because of the little storm that passed through yesterday.

thousands of reasons....

I will greatly miss memorial road.

(Yes I was on stage to take these, I didn't have the best lens for this, and Andy said it was okay for me to go on the stage. The Elders can't kick me out for it either, unfortunately I'm leaving...but I'm sure I'll be back.)