a little cooper sunshine: September 2010

Arden named MVP

tonight we went to a banquet where arden was named MVP - most valuable peer in spencer county - i had to give a speech introducing her and then they brought her up on stage and unveiled her poster! there will be 100 of the posters posted all over town!

the cul de sac kids

we have been so busy with everything since school started... arden's cheerleading and band, daniel's soccer and drumline, mason's football, and sam and brynn's soccer - whew! it's alot to do!!! and it keeps us hopin'!!! that's what really makes this pic special - the neighborhood kids were all so excited to see each other today....... they stood like this forever catching up on what was going on in each other's lives........

more of mason's football

mason's really struggling this year in football........ he's in 6th grade but playing on the 7th grade team cause he's soo dang good ...... however - the 7th grade team wont play him cause he's low man on the totem pole and the 6th grade team wont play him because he's on the 7th grade team...... so the poor kid feels lost and like he doesnt have a spot at all......poor kid

book club refreshments

daniel and mason are in a book club. each month they read a book and then get together and talk about it. the book this month was called flush and it was about a casino boat that was flushing their toliets straight into the ocean and polluting the water... since we were in charge of refreshments this month they decided they wanted to do something themed.... here is what they came up with - the drink was #1 and the snack #2..... it looked totally gross!!!

what it really was was lemonaide and melted chocolate served on toliet paper..... the boys wanted different shades of #2 - so we had to melt milk chocolate and dark chocolate and then we even tried chocolate with carmel....... then they decided there needed to be chunks....... so we had to do chocolate with almonds!!!!! it was totally disgusting!!!!

more water park

water slide

we discovered this new pool with a water slide and spent the day there this weekend - the kids got free passes from the library reading program this summer!

daniel playing ball with his cast

daniel is also number 3 on his soccer team - he is playing really good with his cast on........ at first if effected his balance but he's gotten used to it and is playing great!!!

brynn starts soccer

brynn is playing soccer this year... she's number 3 - she is more concerned about how good she looks rather than how good she plays... in fact the picture where she is looking at the camera and smiling - she was actually running down the field with the ball... and then she saw me with the camera .... she immediately stopped and posed for the camera and then started running again........crazy girl!!