Perfect Day For An Egg Hunt

It is absolutely beautiful today in Tacoma and we are having a blast! We took Bella to two different egg hunts, the first one was pretty lame, but the second was really fun. She was a lot more aggresive during the egg hunt than I thought she would be, she was serious about getting those eggs. After the egg hunt she played at the beautiful new playground at our favorite park and then came home to do an egg hunt in our backyard. We are loving this sunshine, and wish it would stick around.

It's A Boy!

We are BEYOND excited to announce that our new addition is a boy!! We both realllllly wanted a boy so that we could have the awesome experience of raising one of each sex. I think you could probably here us all (CJ, my mom, and I) yell "Oh my god!" throughout the entire doctor's office. As the sonographer was showing us baby's legs she said, "There is one leg, there is the other leg, and that in the middle is the third leg." We were ecstatic. The baby's name is going to be Jameson Paul Cooper (Paul is also CJ's dad's middle name). We are thrilled and Bella is very excited as well. Now she calls the baby her baby brother and it melts my heart.

A Year Later

I forgot to post on March 9th that it had been one year since we moved into our house. We feel that we have done a lot in one year, and the more work we put into our home, the more we fall in love with it (even if some days it feels like everything is breaking).

March 2010

April 2011

CJ's next big project is re-doing the stairs. As you can see they are a bit caved in and cracked. We have some really nice looking granite to use for the stairs and I can't wait until they are done!

Quick Update

Bella received an Easter surprise in the mail from her auntie Georgia and she was SOOOO excited to open it. Bella sends a big huge thank you to her auntie, she is very much in love with the singing Easter sheep.

Also, today marks 18 weeks into the pregnancy. The bump is finally looking more like a baby and less like a beer belly. We are SOOO excited to find out the sex in 3 days!

Miss and love you all!

The Spring Fair

We took Bella to the Puyallup spring fair today and it was a blast! She is now at such a fun age for the fair because she is tall enough to go on all of the smaller rides. We were unsure about going this morning because she has a little cold and it was raining off and on, but the second she heard that there could be pony rides, she was "not sick anymore". Bella's favorite part of the fair was the pony ride, with the car ride in a close second. Mommy and Daddy's favorite part of the fair was seeing the big smiles on Bella's face....oh and the AWESOME fair scones. And since we haven't uploaded many pictures lately, I took a ton of pictures at the fair for the blog.

Project 1- Island Counter

So I decided I would start posting pictures of all the small projects we are tackling while CJ is laid off. Our first item up was our island counter. From the moment we bought the house it has been falling apart and a PAIN to clean the grout lines. We were originally going to wait and do a granite slab, but we decided it would be a lot less expensive to do an oak butcher block (which is also very conducive to all the baking we will be doing with the kids over the years). So here are the before and after shots, enjoy....we sure do!

Before- ugly and annoying tile.

After-beautiful butcher block

Trying To Stay Busy

Sorry I haven't posted anything interesting recently. We are currently trying to stay as busy as we can while CJ is laid off. It really sucks having all this time that we could do projects, but not so much money to do them. Fortunately, CJ has found small things to work on so far. Tomorrow my family from up north are coming down for a visit and we are so excited. I will try and get some pictures up of the projects we have been working on around the house. Until then, here is another beautiful photo of our awesome kid.