Coop's Birthday

Cooper is very into horses right now, so he had a pony party for his 3rd birthday.  The boys had a lot of fun playing outside, hitting the pinate, riding power wheels, and throwing water balloons.

Zoo Atlanta

The boys and I went to pick up Ben from "army work," as the boys like to call it and we stopped at Zoo Atlanta on the way there.  We had a lot of fun, but unfortunately because the battery on my camera is awful we were only able to take these two pictures!

Mother's Day Tea

Bradley's school had a special program for Mother's Day.  They sang several songs, recited some poems, and served us cake and apple juice.

Bradley also made me a beautiful bracelet.

Allison's Wedding

Allison and Jason tied the knot!!  These are some of the pictures from the wedding... of course most of the ones here are of the kids!

Bradley and the girl he calls his "girlfriend" Ana Grace at the rehearsal.

All the girls had funny glasses to wear at the rehearsal... of course Kyler had to wear mine... while running around with Ana Grace's basket!

Bradley all decked out in his tux!

Bradley and his friend Hunter... Allison's son.  He and Allison's Dad gave her away... and he did such a great job walking her down the aisle.

Bradley and Ana Grace heading down the aisle... and there is sweet little Zuri behind Bradley with her Daddy.

Kyler just loves Ana too... he wouldn't leave her alone and kept hugging her.

Ashley and Ben... Kyler told me I looked like a princess when I put this dress on... kids say the funniest things.

Kyler, Ben, Bradley, and Ashley

The whole wedding party.

Bradley and Ana Grace getting ready to be introduced at the reception.

Lele and Ben

Ana Grace and Kyler dancing... Ana really had a great time dancing and she had all the boys out there wanting to dance with her.

Ashley and Ben shagging.

Kyler and Ashley dancing.

Bradley finally got to have his turn dancing with Ana Grace... aren't they the sweetest thing.

Hunter, Bradley, and Ana Grace playing outside.

Trip to Florida

Ben and I took the boys to Florida where we went to all 4 of the Disney parks, 2 Disney water parks, and Sea World.  I had the flu for the first couple of days and then I pulled a muscle from coughing and was in pain for a few days, Coop got sick and didn't feel good a couple of days toward the end of the week, and Ben got stuck trying to keep the boys straight because my throat hurt so bad I couldn't really talk for the first half of the week!... but the boys had fun riding rides and meeting all of the characters (Coop did the days he wasn't sick anyway) and it was fun to see them get so excited.  I wouldn't recommend going for such an extended time though... you are very busy and after about 4 days you're exhausted.  We were gone for 10 days total, and went to a park for 8 of the days.

Who would have thought... Cooper went down a water slide of his own volition and loved it!

Bradley getting ready to go down the tube slide.

Ben and Bradley on the river rapid ride... Kyler was very upset that he wasn't big enough for this ride!

Kyler playing in the water.

Bradley and Coop outside the Beauty and the Beast performance at Hollywood Studios.

Bradley and Kyler.

The boys posing in front of the Muppet Babies water fountain.

The boys got to meet Goofy, Donald, and Minnie at the character breakfast.

Everyone with Donald!

Bradley and Kyler at Epcot.

The boys and Stitch.

The boys all got Mickey Ears with their names on them (they saw it on Jon and Kate and wanted to do it too) and they actually wore them around a good bit.

Meeting Mickey!

... and Donald (again)!

Cooper didn't have much fun this day... he wasn't feeling well and he spent most of the day asleep.  (This is why he wasn't in any of the previous pictures with the characters... we hated to wake him.)

For lunch this day we ate in Japan at Epcot... of course Kyler and Bradley thought they had to climb all over the rocks.

Kyler and Bradley got to meet the Genie.

Bradley and Ashley being silly in China.

Ashley and Coop riding a space ship ride.  He finally recuperated from the previous day and got to have some fun.

The last day we were in Florida we took the boys to SeaWorld.  Bradley and Cooper enjoyed it for a while, but Kyler loved it all.

Ashley and Kyler petting Sting Rays.

Kyler trying to get the Sea Lions to come over to him.

Radiator

Ben and I changed the thermostat in my car on Sunday and since that seemed to go so well we decided that we would not pay $400 dollars for the car shop to fix the radiator and attempt that ourselves.  We took the old one out yesterday and put the new one in today.  The boys were tons of help as you can see below.  So, we got the new one in and went for a drive and everything seems to be working well... knock on wood... but I guess we'll know for sure soon enough!  I'll be sure to update everyone if my car blows up tomorrow!

Bradley's Tiger

Ben got Bradley this tiger before he left to go to DC and Bradley has kept it since then and played with it pretty regularly.  Several months ago he took it to Karah's house and forgot it and it has been MIA since then.  Karah just found it and Cooper gave it back to Bradley today.  He was so excited he didn't put it down for the rest of the day except to take several pictures of it.