Some of Our Favorites

Just a few of our favorite places that we will miss in Hickory!

our subdivision

 our home

 our church

 the hospital where the kids were born

 our family doctors

 our grocery store

 Reagan and Cooper's pre-school

 Cooper's "new school"

 Reagan's elementary school

 Reagan & Cooper's gymnastics school

 the bus Reagan rode for after school

 our favorite park ~ Reagan had her 6th birthday party here

the Carolina Theatre ~ the site of Cooper's 4th birthday party and many family outings

 where the kids took swim lessons

 the location of many summer camps, family outings and field trips

 the FAVORITE place for dessert

 "friends' house" where we spent every Friday night for Bible study and most Saturdays just hanging out together

 Some of our favorite people~

Ms Deb ~ the most amazing woman who loved on Reagan and Cooper with all her heart

 the Whitfords ~ we're trying to convince them to move with us!

 the Boninis ~ they're "despicable"!!

 the Mungalls ~ they're moving from Hickory in 2 weeks

 the Thayers ~ it was their "duty" to sing songs with us!

There are many more places and faces that we will miss seeing on a regular basis, but we're only a Skype away!

Cooper's 3rd Birthday Party ~ Part I

We celebrated Cooper's 3rd birthday with a fire truck themed party today. He had a great time at his party and received many great gifts from family and friends. Thanks for celebrating with us! Get ready for picture overload!!!

Cooper and the girls started the day off with french toast compliments of daddy

After a morning of playing the party was ready to begin.
The decorations

He's practicing blowing out the candles!

Don't you just love his shirt?

I think he's proud of it!

In uniform with the fireman's hat

The cupcakes

chocolate, red velvet or vanilla

The big balloon

time to open gifts

just toss the paper to the side

this is so exciting!

A firetruck of his very own!!!

A firetruck backpack

back to the firetruck

another present to open

WOW! More firetrucks and rescue cars

it has a siren too

He loves to line up his trucks

A new shirt to wear

More paper to toss

What's up with all the paper?

More presents??

A farm play set

back to the firetruck and the sirens

a book shaped like a firetruck

A rescue tow truck

Let's see how this thing works!

Cooper would move the trucks from one lineup to another

Lighting of the candle ~ it seems to soon to have a "3" on his cake

He liked having everyone sing to him

I just love his smile

blowing out the candle

He did it!

Dig in!

YUM!

MMM good!

Ms Kim came to celebrate with us!

Ms Deb is there to lend a hand

Sharing (for the moment!)

The girls got a few presents too

Lining the trucks up again

He has the corralled in the train track!

A little video of Cooper singing happy birthday to himself!