Relay For Life...Team TA TA

CANCER...such an ugly word that seems to have impacted everyone's life in some way. My sweet friend/boss Andrea was diagnosed with breast cancer in Aug. 09 and has conquered the beast. To show our support, we decided to have a team from work in the St. George American Cancer Relay For Life on April 23/24. We decided to name our team "Team Ta Ta" and we all got "Save the TaTa's" shirts. We set up an awesome camp and had a delicious dutchoven dinner (thanks Scott) and walked & ran our brains out! It was so much fun & really meaningful to all of us! FIND A CURE!!!

EaSTeR 2010

For Easter this year we all met up in Washington & went to a park near Matt & Keely's house. It was a beautiful day (the weather in Enterprise that day was awful) and the kiddos really enjoyed being outside! We had some KFC (yum) and just hung out. It was a really nice day! Here a few pics of the day & Easter morning the Easter Bunny found Kenzie at our house! Whew...we were afraid he would not be able to find her!!

OUCH!!

Poor Tom has had so much medical stuff in the past month & therefore the blogging has been seriously neglected!
Tom was scheduled to have a tri-level back fusion surgery in Provo with a reknowned surgeon on Feb. 24th. A routine bone scan 2 weeks before the surgery found a problem in his right femur bone. He has no marrow in 14cm of the femur and lesions all over the bone. He had to go in for an emergency biopsy (we still do not have concrete results at this time) and then 5 days later he had the back surgery. Needless to say, it was horrible for him but he is slowly making progress every day.
He is gonna be a new man when he is all healed up!

Matt is Special

I need to clarify about the picture of Matt sporting those lovely underwear on my previous post...and yes, he is gonna kill me if he finds out that is on here! I always get the standard socks, underwear, pjs etc for the boys each year for Christmas. Well, I am gonna blame it on my bum foot and the swine flu.. but somehow I ended up getting these lovely striped tighty whities for Matt, not to mention they were a size 46 Waist!!! He was so funny, I was making breakfast & came in the living room and he was modeling them for everyone! That kid makes me laugh & I love him to pieces!

Christmas at the Cooper's 2009

Christmas was a little rough for me this year...I had surgery on my foot in October and had just gotten the cast off the first week of December when I slipped in the snow & reinjured it. Needless to say...I was not happy & was back in the cast. Then to add insult to injury...I got the Swine Flu 7 days before Christmas! I thought I might die.. but I didn't and by Christmas Eve I actually felt human & even managed to make Christmas Eve Dinner with Tom's help. Matt, Keely & the twins came and stayed at our house that night as well as Skyler & Kenzie so it was really nice. Everyone had a great Christmas and enjoyed each other. I love my family!

Wedding Pics...Finally!

I am such a slacker but sometimes life just totally gets away from me & that is the case with my blog!!
Matt & Keely got married on Nov. 13, 2009 and it was such a lovely evening! Keelys mother did a beautiful job with the decorations & Keely's sisters, grandma, mom & aunt all made hundreds of little pies to serve. It was so fun & couldn't have been more perfect. We are happy for Matt & Keely and especially for Teagun & Taisley!!

Sledding with Kenz

More Winter Fun!

More fun in the snow!!

Winter Fun

Kenzie was excited when she came to stay with us this past weekend & saw that it had snowed! We got her sled and took her to the elementary school hill to sled. She even talked Papa Tom into taking a run down the hill! She had such a great time!

Grandmas Girl

Kenzie is such a funny girl & I have a blast just hangin out being silly with her. She gets so wound up and will get to laughing uncontrolably just like her daddy used to when he was a little boy. She cracks me up!

Waitin for Santa

Kenzie came to visit this weekend and she was so excited that all the Christmas decorations were up at our house! She was especially drawn to the tree and all the presents under it...she can read now and loved showing us which ones had her name on them! After we took her home on Sunday evening, I was going to turn the tree lights off for the night & noticed something under the tree. I picked it up & it was green construction paper folded like an envelope & it said "santa" on it so I opened it. Kenzie had written a letter & cut out a picture of a rollercoaster toy from the Target ad & put in with it. The letter said: Dear Santa, Please bring me this rollercoaster for Christmas. Love, Kenzie

We are having a Wedding!

So Matt finally proposed officially to Keely! He is so funny....he put the ring in a diaper while he was in changing one of the babies. He yelled to Keely that she needed to come & see the diaper he was changing cuz the baby must be sick!!! She came in & was all concerned & opened up the diaper & found the ring! She was way excited. The big day is November 13th (yes, that's Friday the 13th) at the Bloomington Stake Center.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOM

My hot husband is turning 47 years old today!!! I want him to know how much I love and appreciate him & everything he does for our family. He works so hard out on that truck, away from home all week & he is a lot of pain with his back but he just keeps on going. His sons love him dearly & his grandkids adore "Papa Tom" and I can't imagine my life without him in & hope I never have to! Love you!!

GREAT WHITE HUNTERS!!

Everyone that knows Skyler knows that the kid lives to hunt...doesn't matter what or where, if there is a hunt, he usually ends up right in the middle of it. Sunday afternoon, our friend Randy called & said one of his relatives had an antelope tag that she hadn't filled and Sunday was the last day of the hunt. He asked Skyler to go out in the valley with them and help get this gal an antelope. Needless to say, Skyler was all over it! Sure enough, about 9pm I got a text with a picture of the antelope & a message saying they were coming to hang it in our shed to skin it. I had to get some pics of the hunters (left the gal out to protect the innocent)!

Redneck Weed Control

Well... there's no denying we are definately REDNECKS for sure!! We have 1 1/2 acres of property where our home is and it is a huge job trying to keep up with all our yards & trees, let alone weed control. Tom was complaining about the fact that we had sprayed twice already this summer and yet the weeds in the back lot were still out of control so Skyler showed up with a solution! Her name is Nana(original huh? Kenzie named her ok...) and she is doing a dandy job of eating all our weeds. On occasion we clean out the frig and she is also our own little garbage disposal! The best part is when she gets loose and the neighbors show up holding her and her leash.... Oops!

2 Months Old!

It seems like yesterday that Matt & Keely were bringing the twins home from the hospital... so how can they be 2 months old already??? They are both so healthy and perfect in everyway. Can't imagine life without them already! They are starting to smile and make cute little noises. Taisley has always done funny things with her tongue since she was born and now Teagun has found his tongue as well... so cute!

A Name & A Blessing.....

Sunday, September 6, 2009, we attended the Bloomington 5th Ward sacrament meeting to bless the twins. Keely's grandfather Cleon Fowler blessed & named them. We had lots of family there including my brother Marc & nephew Blake who stood in the circle when the babies were blessed. We are thankful for these sweet little babies and love them to pieces!

Blake & Kelsie

We were so excited to get a call from Blake & Kelsie telling us they would like to come to see us in Enterprise and attend the blessing for the twins! Blake & Kelsie just got married, an due to the birth of the twins on the same day, we were unable to attend so it was fun to meet Kelsie & have them visit. We took them horse riding and rode the 4 wheelers and then they attended church with us on Sunday to bless the babies. It was fun & we hope to see all the Bowler clan soon!

Shandee & Ricky's Wedding

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

COWGIRL IN PINK

I just had to share this picture of our little Cowgirl!! She was so excited to go to the Enterprise Rodeo and catch herself a chicken.... she was all ready to go and just watching some cartoons until it was time. I snuck up and took this without her knowing I was there..... PRECIOUS!!! We love our little cowgirl in pink!!