Silly Cooper

Cooper has been starting the "copycat" stage....how long does that last by the way?...forever? Anyways, he and I were in the shower the other morning and I had my foot up on the edge shaving my legs. He put his foot up on the side and had a toy that he was rubbing on his leg...I laughed all day about it. I just thought it was so funny. I wonder what he was thinking. "Hmmm. Don't know what she's doing exactly, but I guess I'll give it a try.......(with a very focused look on his face)....not bad."

**He also started doing something kind of funny, maybe a little dangerous. He's been trying to throw his toys up at lights and ceiling fans and stuff. He's not even close but he sure does try hard.

**Today I had the dishwasher open, (knives already put away :).... ) Cooper always hands me the silverware and then all the cups, and then whatever else he can manage to pull out for me to put away. This morning I was kinda busy so I just let him do his thing in the kitchen and didn't check on him for a little while. When I finally went in, he had the silverware drawer open which is right next to the dishwasher and he had unloaded all the silverware and piled it in the drawer.....along with a couple of plates and glasses. Whatever he could manage to fit. It's probably a good thing I went in when I did. Oh, you might be wondering how he reached...he stands on the dishwasher door and holds on to the top rack. Probably not good for the dishwasher but if it can hold a whole rack of dishes it can hold a 26 lb. kid right?

Time for the countdown....

....Well kinda sorta I guess. I know once you get the little guy you can't give him back so I'm enjoying my sleep and my one on one time with Cooper while it lasts. I do however have just over one month left until thing #2 arrives. Still no names yet. I think I'll put up a poll of a couple of names we can't decide on and I won't tell you anyone's favorites so there's no bias at all. His first name will for sure be John (Both my dad's and my father-in-law's name)....it's the middle name he'll go by that we're stuck on.

We bought another crib and set that up in Coops room a couple of weeks ago. I have to get a carseat....and a couple of other small necessities but we're pretty much as ready as we can be. You know how when it was just you to worry about getting ready and being somewhere on time?? That was easy right? Then the first kid comes along and it takes a long time to figure out how to be on time again. Well I just started to get back into punctuality and I'm about to get all screwed up again....all for good reason though I guess. It's amazing to me how much a mom has to plan ahead just to get to church on time....It will probably be easier to figure it out this second time around.

Only time will tell right?

Happy Thanksgiving!

Some things we're thankful for:
-our babies....well 1 and 8/9ths of them ;)
-Moms who cook awesome Thanksgiving dinners
-Our families
-Silverdale 4th ward, the sweet gospel of Jesus Christ
-eachother
-Jake's job
-The heated blanket on our bed
-Living in the USA
-Twilight book series, well Rachel is anyways
-Toilet paper
-breath mints
-our lovely little hybrid
-wool socks
-Sunny days
-cell phones
-Friends....sorry you guys that this wasn't earlier on the list.... :)
-5 dollar foot longs
-the uncle who happens to be a car mechanic
-baby wipes
-gold fish crackers
-hot water
-swimming pools
-airplanes
-volleyball everything
-snap fitness
-christmas decorations
-the youth of the church....especially ours in SIV ward
-the internet
-Dr. Christen
-Costco
-our "shows" --Fringe, The Office, Life...among others
-dollar theatres. we don't have one here and we sure do miss it.
-the beautiful city of Seattle
-our health
-nap time
-bed time
-waking up in the morning
-comfy couches
-glasses
-honey buckets at jake's job site
-chocolate
-tillamook ice cream
-crystal light lemonade


I don't know where a good place to even stop would be.
We could go on and on and on....but the tryptophan is starting to kick in...........

Make it stop!!!

As much as I love seeing campaign ads 24/7 and hearing candidates bash each other back and forth rather than talking TO the American People about what they actually have in store for us, I am very excited for it to end today. Or atleast the majority of it. Here's a funny cartoon I found:

Halloween

Cooper was a fuzzy wuzzy bear for halloween this year.  I think it beats the pink piggy he was last year when everyone thought he was a little girl that didn't belong to us.  I bought the outfit back in September and we "practiced" in it so he wouldn't have a hard time wearing it when the day actually came.  From behind he actually looked like a real something walking around, I thought he resembled an ewok (sp?) mostly but he was just so cute!  He was very good at growling and everything.  Maybe next year he'll actually understand the whole trick-or-treat, walk around with a bucket and get free candy thing. 

We ended up just going to the church and doing the trunk-or-treat with the three wards that meet there.  It was rainy and wet but that didn't stop everyone from having fun! After that we ended up at grandma and grandpa Fry's to show off Coop's costume.  Cooper had his first sucker that night, plus two more and lots of other candy that I'm sure has permenantly ruined him for life.  He hasn't wanted regular food since....

As for other updates, Jake is still very busy with work.  I am growing daily with little fry inside.  We are almost at 8 months!  But we are definitely not counting the days.....with all the season's festivities I'm sure the time will go by fast enough.  We are both very busy with Young Men and Young Womens and we both love being second counselors in the presidencies.  It is awesome working with the youth of the church.  I am constantly surprised at the challenges they face compared to mine just 5 or so years ago.  

Life is busy....when isn't it right?!  More updates sooner than later :)

The Best Three Years of My Life!

Today is our anniversary and can I just say these last three years have definitly been the best of my life...by far. Many of you know our story but I'll just give a nutshell version of it for those who don't.

In January of 2005 I got an email from Jake, a former co-worker of mine and someone who was in my stake growing up. The email said something like, "Hey this is Jake, I heard you were looking for me :) I am in town for the next 24 hours and I was wondering if you wanted to go out tonight? ...Give me a call."

That fall my mom had asked his parents when he'd be home for Christmas break. We had found out that he was coming home for a brief visit before heading down to Mexico for an 8 month internship with DelSol. So....I wrote it off early and didn't expect to see him so you can imagine my surprise to open up that email. We went out that night for a couple of hours and got hot chocolate while Jake showed me pictures of his trip down to South America with his brother Matt that they had just come home from. While out on the date he was telling me all about where they were going to live in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico and invited me to come down sometime and visit. Sounded like a pretty casual invite....something I was totally for but never thought would actually happen. That night I came home...after my curfew...and wasn't even in trouble. The next morning my mom came into my room all giddy to wake me up and ask me how it went. I don't recall the whole conversation except for the part when I jokingly said I was going to marry him :)

I told her all about Mexico and she was like...Why don't you go!? I was like...What? You would let me do that? She was all for it...that week my friends Corie, Louise and I bought our tickets to Cabo for 8 days in March for spring break. Between then and the trip Jake and I kept in contact mostly by email while he helped us figure out accomadations and other details of the trip. He asked me in February if I would hang out with his friend Brandon who was coming home from his mission and probably wouldn't have many friends at home. So Brandon and I started to spend some time together, went out on some dates and made a little thing out of it I guess you could say.... Don't blame me for anything all you judges out there....I was 19 :)

To keep this as short as possible, I went to Cabo kind of dating Brandon and I came back...well....not dating Brandon :) About a month later, after Jake and I had our nightly "internet chat dates" and expensive phone calls....Jake came home for about a week to transfer to Cancun. He got home on a Thursday night. I saw him right after my classes Friday and we spent the whole weekend together. He proposed Tuesday April 19th and midnight so I guess it was the 20th....we had Wednesday together then he left Thursday morning to come back on the 14th of August for our sealing on the 19th.

WHOA I know. But look what it's all turned into. We are the very best of friends still and have a beautiful, vibrant, hilarious little boy and another on the way. Life isn't exactly as I pictured it 5 years ago but I know that I couldn't possibly ask for more.

Camping!!

This last weekend we were invited to go camping with some families in our ward. We went up to Lake Cushman Friday afternoon and brought Jake's two brothers with us, Mike and John. We got there around 3 and set up our tent and stuff then went to the lake to swim for a bit before cooking our tin foil dinners!!! What was really nice about the weekend was that it was about 80-90 degrees during the day so it was perfect....When we were coming back from swimming Cooper fell asleep and I could not wake him up for about an hour. He slept from about 6-7 so needless to say, it was hard for him to fall asleep that night. He finally fell asleep around 11 or 12 that night and as soon as he fell asleep so did the rest of us.....And then the snoring began. Jake and I didn't know that BOTH of his brothers snored so bad. Again, needless to say, that night sucked. But by the time morning came and Cooper woke up at about 6:30 it started a great day. It got really hot again on Saturday and we were at the lake all day boating and swimming until about 3. We were so tired Saturday night and we all slept really well. We are really excited to go camping again soon!