Introducing the Cooper Sisters!

Above are some pictures that Heather had taken at a local photo place. I was amazed at how well they came out! The girls are beautiful! They must have gotten their looks from their mother! The photographer liked the close-up of lyndi so much that she asked Heather if she could use it as one of their display pictures so Heather had to sign some papers to release it. They are both growing so fast!
Kessie is precious. She has been developing her hand eye coordination and is starting to grab things and shove them in her mouth! Everytime i look at these pics, i'm reminded of how blessed I am! I hope you all enjoy them as well.
We are working on arrangements to have Lyndi in Preschool this year. She knows her alphabet, can count to 100, and can do some simple addition and subtraction. One of her favorite things to do is play XBOX with daddy. We play Lego StarWars together as a reward for good behavior. Life moves faster and faster it seems. I hope these pictures find you all in good health! Blessings to you!
Also, I have some of these pics in various sizes for family and friends that would like one. I also have higher resolution pics that I can Email to people to download and print on their computers. There are a few more pics that aren't listed here. Email me and I will send them your way.

Happy Halloween!

Arrrgh matey! Halloween has come upon us once again and Lyndi has taken the challenge of treat-or-treatin' Pirate style! Yes, she did have an eye patch but apparently she didn't like not being able to see out of both eyes so we lost the patch. She was a good pirate and rounded up quite a bit of booty. So much so that we are still working on finishing it all a month later. Now that's some good scavenging!

It's A Girl!!!

Kessid Grace Cooper has arrived! Yes, yes... Kessid is a very unusual name. It is rare but I have heard of others and talked with one person who has this name. Kessid is Biblical Hebrew and it means "lovingkindness." It is used quite often to describe God's lovingkindness for His people. So whenever you see the word lovingkindness in the Old Testament, it is the Hebrew word "chesed", which we chose to spell in a more phonetic pronunciation. Below are some new pics of the "lovingkindness" that God has bestowed upon us!

Carving Pumpkins

How fun it is to carve a Jack-O-Lantern with a 3 year old! I was the appointed pumpkin carver so Linda and Heather helped out with cleaning the pumpkins (the least favorite part for me!). We had a good time and it was good connecting with Lyndi a bit since the arrival of her new sister. Below are the pics from our adventure. Enjoy!!

Happy Birthday Lyndi!

Time seems to fly by these days. It doesn't seem that long ago that we trekked out to southern california with a 1 month old baby. Now she is 3 years old and is a beautiful little girl! It was great to celebrate her birthday this year. We had a big party for her since this is the first real party that she can enjoy and will most likely remember. We invited some of her friends from church and our adult friends from AD. Overall it was a fun time and I was pretty tired after jumping in the bouncer with the other girls =) Hey... someone had to supervise them... right? =) Below are the pics from the party. Enjoy!

California Adventure

Ah... one of the great things about living in So. Cal. is that we are 30-45 minutes from Disneyland. On this occasion Heather, Fred and Linda were able to take Lyndi to Disney's sister park, California Adventure. I believe that I had class that day so I wasn't able to attend, but it looks like they still managed to have fun without me. Enjoy the pics!

Heather, Vegas, and NASCAR... OH MY!!!

Heather surprised me for my 30th Birthday this year... and did she ever surprise me! Most of you know that I love NASCAR, and those of you that didn't know now. So Heather decided to "kidnap" me after my Friday morning classes and we drove to good ol' Las Vegas, NV. I had never been to the Vegas track but had always wanted to go since it's only a few hours from us. So my fun-filled weekend was filled with NASCAR, great food and entertainment, and I got to enjoy it all with the love of my life! She is amazing! Despite the unpredictable high winds and cold rainy weather, we had a blast and it definitely was the most memorable Birthday celebration I've ever had.

Heather not only got us weekend tickets to the Busch and Nextel Cup races, but we had Pit Passes that allowed us to walk up and down pit road at selected times throughout the week. It was amazing. Robbie Gordon waved at us as he was filling his Busch car with gas. We were able to stay in the pit area while they ran happy hour and the pic you see below is how close I got to my favorite driver, Bobby Labonte. In this pic he is actually waiting for the official to wave him onto the track for their last practice run before the race. The background car is Kasey Kane. We had an amazing time!

Ah... one of my favorite things about Vegas is the amazing restaraunts! These pics were taken in a Cafe in one of the newer resorts known as the Wynn. Over the weekend it became our new favorite themed resort and the breakfast that we had was incredible. Heather and I also went to one of the Cirque du Soliel shows know as "KA". It was fabulous. The stage was the most amazing set up I have ever seen. It was such a wonderful weekend that it took the pains of moving into the 30's much easier :)