Cooper's 3rd Birthday

We celebrated Cooper's 3rd b-day yesterday. Cooper had fun spending his birthday with Brody, Makayla & Dayton. We had lunch and cake...a dinosaur cake. Cooper still hasn't eaten a piece of his cake; he's just happy playing with the dinosaurs on top of it.

Yearbook Your Husband

Just so you know, I have Johnny's permission to post these. :-) I can't decide which one I like best, maybe the last one, the "80's mullet" pic.

Yearbook Yourself

Okay, so I discovered this website where you can download a picture of yourself with different hairdo's from the olden days. Go to http://www.yearbookyourself.com/ and give it a try. You have to do this, Crystal and Mashel! This is what you get for tagging me. :-) This would be fun to do with our husbands pictures too. :-)

Seven Quirky Things

Ok, so I have been tagged by Mashel AND Crystal to list 7 quirky things about myself and tag 5 others to do the same. You are right, Mashel...this is new to me. :-) So here's what I came up with:

1) At times when I need a moment of peace, I will lock myself in the bathroom to get away from the kids for a bit. Please don't think I'm a bad Mom!

2) I once ate a whole box of Golden Grahams in a day and I'm sure I could do it again if I let myself. I love Golden Grahams, only the off-brand kind though, b/c they taste more sugary.

3) When I was a little girl I always wanted to be a teacher when I grew up. My favorite toys were my chalkboard, my gradebook (it was a real one), pens & pencils, and anything a teacher might use.

4) I hate Coca-Cola! When I was in 2nd grade I drank too much of it and threw up all over my desk at school...I never have like it since.

5) I love to pop zits...gross, I know.

6) Ok, I'm getting desperate to think of more things so I have to steal one of Sarah's, but it definitely applies to me. I have a hard time sitting and doing one thing...if I'm watching TV, I like to be doing something else too like making to-do lists or grocery lists, folding clothes, checking e-mail, etc..

7) I'm an Amazon freak. I can thank my sister-in-law, Julie, for introducing me to http://www.amazon.com/ a while back. :-) I'm always checking Amazon for books, reviews, anything and everything...I love Amazon!!!


Okay, so I'm supposed to tag 5 more people but the only bloggers I know are the MOPS ladies and they have all been tagged already so I have something else up my sleeve. Check my next post for more details... :-)

The Holcombe Boys

Brody & Cooper all dressed up for church.


I had to bribe them to let me take their picture. In this
picture they are saying "candy!".

Friends

I had the pleasure of baby-sitting the Heymann kids last
weekend...what great kids!


Brody and Cooper just love Makayla. Can you tell?


We're so happy to have friends here from back home to
share this San Diego experience with.

DISNEYLAND

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More Disneyland...

We went to Disneyland yesterday and had a blast! The boys did so good all day so we were able to stay from open to close allowing us to do and see a lot. Their favorite ride was probably Casey Jr.'s Circus Train. We were really surprised that Cooper wanted to ride the large roller coaster, the Matterhorn. We had our doubts but we let him ride it with Daddy and he loved it! Brody didn't want to have anything to do with the roller coasters so he and Mommy rode Dumbo, Mad Tea Party & the carousel while Cooper and Daddy were busy doing their thing. We took a dinner break at the Hungry Bear Restaurant and enjoyed a lovely view of the Mark Twain steamboat ride while we were eating. We can't wait to go back again some day. What a memory!

"Stanley Mows the Lawn"

Has anyone ever heard of the "STANLEY" books? Brody found this one at the library yesterday and he has been wanting me to read it to him over and over and over again. Anyone that knows Brody knows how much he loves lawnmowers and loves to help his Daddy and Grandpa when they mow the lawn. When Brody was first looking through the pages of this book, he said "Uh-oh Mommy, you are not going to like this book because it has a snake in it". I thought that was so cute...he knows I don't like snakes. I don't even like to look at them at the zoo. Anyway, I was so excited to find a book that he absolutely loves and wants to read a lot. This is definitely a must buy for us!

Friends

Check out the "Friends" blog post at http://www.theheymannfamily.blogspot.com/ for some cute pics of the kids. We spent the day with my friend from back home, Sarah, and her kids and she got much better pics than me so I thought I would direct everyone to her blog for those. :-)

Play-doh Fun!

The boys may not look sick in this picture but they were so we stayed inside for a few days earlier this week until they felt better. I tried to think of different indoor activities that we could do instead of laying around and watching TV, so I decided on making play-doh one day. In this picture the boys are yelling "play-doh!".

They loved stirring all the ingredients but got tired of it after about a minute so Mommy had to stir until it was done.

Now we had to be patient and wait for it to cool so we could dye it, the best part...besides playing with it of course.

I forgot to buy gloves so we had to use plastic bags so as not to dye our hands.

Brody wanted green and Cooper wanted purple but his turned what I like to call "pretty plum" b/c we got a little carried away with the dye...oops!

Now it's time to....

PLAY!!!