Taste of Cancun

We're Back from Cancun, Mexico! We had 11 glorious days of fun in the sun!!!! Here's just a taste of our trip even though there are tons of pictures. I will post a more detailed write up with the videos.

Cooper & Daddy getting ready to go to dinner.

Cooper and his new friend Ana from Argentina!!! They were inseparable the entire trip!

Grammy & Cooper snuggling at one of the shows.

Cooper trying out Daddy's vacation hat.

"Cheese"

Cooper and one of the show girls!

Cooper hanging out at the pool.

Cooper with the frog/hippo (not sure) towel creature. Every day the maid would leave a new one for him and every day he would tear it apart.

Daddy and Cooper admiring the beautiful Caribbean!

Cooper and the "Ah-Ew-Ew" (aka - Monkey)

Cooper smiling after a wild ride down the kid's water slide.

The one and only family picture of the trip.

Cooper and the spitting Camel.

Getting ready to go down the slide - Wee!!!

Cooper and Ana at the show! He insisted on sitting on Ana's lap for the entire show.

Cooper with his spiked hair like the Mexican boys at the resort!! He thought he was hot stuff!

Momma & Cooper getting ready for dinner.

Poppy, Cooper & Daddy at the top of the kid's water slides waving hi!!!

Christmas at MawMaw's

We celebrated Christmas at MawMaw's the first weekend of 2010 with the crew - MawMaw, Nana, Gramps, Uncle Aaron, Uncle Mike, Aunt Lura, Cassie, Seth, Uncle Chris, Aunt Stacy, Campbell, Uncle Dave, Aunt Traci, Hannah, Isaiah, Jenna-Claire, Jean & Ed Clark, Jeannie, Lee, Jessie and Allie. We missed you Heather and Madison!

We had such a good time hanging out with everyone - we need to have family weekends more often!! Thanks for all of the wonderful gifts - Cooper is so spoiled and blessed to have a family who loves him so much!!!! And so am I!!!!

Cooper not wanting to share Momma with Jenna-Claire.

Isaiah & Campbell

The Crew at the Dinner Table - minus Dave, Traci, Jenna-Claire, Cassie and Lura.

Seth & Cass

Aaron, Jessie, Seth, Cass, Isaiah, Campbell and Hannah

Cooper playing with his new Elmo drumset with Nana & Gramps!!!

Nana reading Cooper one of his new Elmo books.

Jenna-Claire and Cooper - future Partners in Crime (poor Isaiah)!

Maw Maw and Cooper

Isaiah & Uncle Mike

New Years Day Tradition

It's tradition that on New Years Day Grammy, Poppy, Corey, Cooper and I head to DC to see the National Christmas Tree and to have a nice dinner out. It's great because DC is dead and there are absolutely no crowds. We practically had the restaurant and tree to ourselves.

Also, this year on our way up to DC we made a pit stop at Occoquan so Cooper could throw his bag bag of rocks in the river and feed the ducks.

We had a wonderful time, the food was phenomenal, the tree was beautiful and the company was not too shabby either!

Here are pictures from our day -

Christmas at Grammy & Poppy's

We celebrated Christmas with Grammy, Poppy and Kalli on December 30th and 31st. We had a wonderful time hanging out, relaxing, opening gifts, playing games and eating lots of yummy food! Cooper even slept in a big boy bed for both nights - he went right down for the night and never tried to escape. Here are some pictures of us opening our gifts -

Grammy trying out her egg nog pitcher! Yep, she will be stewed next year. =)

Poppy and his new tailgating hat!

Cooper chewing on Vinko the Bear from his new dump truck.

Poppy helping Cooper open his gift. It was a Little People farm just like Maw Maw's!!

Cooper & Grammy - Cooper's stocking was filled with snacks - he loved it!

Poppy got Cooper a 50 pound bag of egg rocks. Cooper is in rock heaven!!!

Cooper giving hugs and saying Thank You to Poppy!!!

Grammy, Cooper & Poppy

Momma, Cooper & Daddy cracking up in front of the Christmas Tree

Smith Christmas

So this is Cooper's Christmas number ??? - I have lost count already and we are not even close to being finished. The kid is going to think everyday is a Christmas celebration and that he gets presents!!

We unfortunately missed the Smith Christmas get together this year - there was just too much running around this holiday season for us. Nana, Gramps, and Uncle Aaron were Santa's helpers ensuring our gifts got to the kiddies and Cooper's gifts got to our house. Cooper got some awesome gifts: a Dump Truck, Old McDonald Puzzle, ABC Fridge Toy, Elmo doll, Elmo Seek and Find Book, Sit and Spin and a Recorder. Thanks everyone!!! We really hate that we missed visiting with everyone and the sledding activities!!!

Here are pictures of Cooper opening his gifts: