Cooper is 4!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So yesterday was Cooper's birthday and at 11:38pm he was officially 4 years old! Gosh where does the time go! So I am also including a picture of his first Sunday as a Sunbeam which means he is out of nursery and with the big kids in his own class! And we gave him a haircut that same week so that is how long his hair was! You will see in his birthday pictures we chopped it! He has such thick hair, my color but Ryan's thickness!

Chloe busted for touching Cooper's Transformer cake before we even lit the candle!

Cooper excited about his cake! Cooper looks happy but he is honestly pissed because Uncle Darin pushed his face into the cake! Then he still had red frosting up his nose so it looked like he had a bloody nose! Uncle Darin did say sorry!

Cooper showing off the presents I remembered to wrap with the help of cousin Preston...Was he looking for the playdoh??Cooper and Mikey's dad holding the gift that cousin Preston got him for his birthday! Sarah doesn't Baylee look crazy in this picture! The first time I saw it I had to remind myself she had blue frosting!

Cooper's present I forgot to wrap. He also has a hulk set to go with his movie he got for his birthday, The Incredible Hulk! This set is Ironman to go with the movie he got from cousin Bryson for Christmas this year!
Cooper's first day as a Sunbeam and the girls and I had to stay home because Chloe was running a high fever! Luckily we all got to go the next Sunday but he didn't do so well at the beginning but daddy sat with him for a little bit and everything was fine after that!

I thought this was cute because Chloe puts herself in timeout and honestly she is a stinker most of the time but she doesn't fully the meaning of timeout!

This is just a recent picture of Reese! Chloe was making her laugh - that is something Cooper and Chloe are really good at!

Christmas in Connell Finally!

So we finally were able to go to Connell to have Christmas with my family and we even left while it was snowing but it is funny how right when you get out of Spokane the weather always is better! I think we are living on the wrong side of Spokane! We had a nice lasagna dinner and the kids always love to go the park that is almost in my parent's backyard! Lucky for them almost all the snow had melted (unlike here)! I am not sure when we will get to go to the park here!

Chloe wanted to smile like Cooper and cousin Jewel in the picture below!

Cooper and cousin Jewel smiling for a picture and it wasn't even pie time!

Cooper was in heaven playing with the dogs, Ariel and Charlie! He asked if he could have one for his birthday (other post!) - I feel bad and we said maybe when he is older! We figure we can visit Grandma and Grandpa more often and he can get his dog fix like grandparents get their baby fix with our babies! Cooper and Chloe eating garlic bread...I think that is all they ate besides drinking pop!

This is the cutest vest that my dad picked out for Chloe! We love it! And by the look on her face you can tell she does also!

Thanks mom and dad for having us over! It is always entertaining with our little ones!

Tax Time = Headache

So I was thinking last week that it is coming up on tax time! I am person who likes to be prepared and with everything we write off it takes about 10 hours to get everything ready for our tax guy! You would think after the headache of getting everything together I would just file myself but I think Ryan would rather pay a couple hundred dollars than have an even more stressed out wife! It seems like every time we get a new tax guy it works out great for a year and then they jack up our bill the next and we don't have that much change and if so I itemize everything! Having the duplex helps out a ton and now with three kids but Ryan didn't have any taxes taken out from his previous employer but we have thousands of miles we can write off from his totaled truck!
The worst part about itemizing I think is the medical...Seeing if we have enough to write off is always a pain and matching everything from bank statements to checkbooks to EOB's - it seriously all looks the same after awhile!
Okay enough venting...I guess I just needed a break! Friday I will post again with pictures of Cooper's small birthday! We decided to go small this year and big for #5 next year!
And Lindsay I totally have you on my list but I did the whole it shows updated posts so you just need to post more!! You always have awesome posts so quit being lazy! Just kidding you know I love you and love reading your blog!

My ideal job - NOT!!

I wrote this post and forgot about it! See what 3 kids does to you! (wrote Jan. 3rd)

So as I was driving around this morning at 3am I looked at the temperature reading in our rental car that we still have and it read -3 degrees...That is not a dash in front of the 3, it is a negative sign! So I got to thinking...Here I am at 3 am (sometimes earlier) and I am driving on sheets of ice to deliver papers to customers and it is -3 degrees (it warmed up to 1 degree when I got home) and although I am grateful for this job I really do not want to do it next winter...It has been nice having the subaru and we have to give it back Tuesday but on the other hand I would love to sleep through the night once in awhile...Reese sleeps through the night and I would love to join her! Another pet peeve is people not shoveling out their mailboxes and tubes! We have had so much snow here it is annoying...And we are supposed to get another storm Sunday night!

An update for today, Jan 9th, is everything is melting! YEAH! Lucky for us there is not much flooding but it is a bummer because the snow came so much at once the kids couldn't really play or I would have lost them! Then it has rained and melted so it is mega crunchy! We might try and go out later today since the sun is out! We still have 3 feet in our backyard...I asked Ryan when we were moving and he reminded me of his new job he starts on Monday!

I will try and post pictures later today!