Feeding break - it worked well that Cooper would need to nurse every 3-4 hours allowing Wes to let Jake get some breaks from the car. Cooper enjoyed it as much as Jake.
So after our first stop, I was still feeding Cooper so Wes put Jake in his car seat. Then we changed diapers and got everyone in the car and proceeded to the highway. Just as we were getting on the on ramp, Jake says "BUCKLE, BUCKLE". We look back and noticed that we'd failed to actually buckle him in amidst the other things going on at the gas station. How grateful we are for a boy that actually enjoys and demands to be buckled all the time! Here's Wes buckling him in.
We got to Utah and went to my parent's house first just for the night b/c we had a Massachusetts reunion we wanted to attend with my family that night and b/c Jeremy was throwing a birthday party for his wife, Brooke. The next morning I looked at my mom and sister and we noticed we were all matching with our black and white, which called for a picture.
The kids are all so sweet, they always wanted to be near Cooper and make him smile and just watch him. Here is Dallen and Brenden watching over Cooper so much so that they both sat rubbing his head and fell asleep - what sweet boys!
Our favorite friend of the family - Leslie
My bro - Jer
Spencer was so sweet, he held and fed Cooper for me - wish I could have him around all the time! He's such a great helper!
My favorite picture of Cooper to date! He fell asleep on his daddy's arm, it was the cutest thing!
Grandma Lola was able to come with her husband Clair. There was a bit of a scare b/c Clair went to the dr. and they found he had pneumonia but he's doing fine now, thankfully. It was great that they were able to come.
The main purpose of this visit was for my parents big party, or I should say FIESTA to celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary and their 60th birthdays. My mom had it catered with yummy Mexican food and she wanted dancing and entertainment which us kids surprised them with. Shad put together this great program of fun songs. The picture below is of Shad & Jen and Brooke & Jeremy dressed up as Mom and Dad in different parts of their marriage. They both lip sang to a couple of songs - it was hilarious. My dad has always sung the song about my mom since she's Mexican and it has a line that goes "Out in the West Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl". Shad and Jen danced and sang to this one.
Jeremy and Brooke sang and danced to the song - "I love you more today than yesterday, but not as much as tomorrow" b/c my dad has always when writing in cards to my mom, he'll put the initials to that line in there for my mom : ILYMTTYBNAMAT . The grandkids came out with signs of each of the letters to that line.
My mom wanted to guys to sing "You've lost that lovin' feeling" and the girls to sing "Dancing Queen", which were both part of the program. THen the grandkids sang "A bicycle Built for Two" and "Families can be together forever".
Amanda & Scott put together a 20 minute slideshow of mom and dad through the years. We all found nearly every picture we had of mom and dad and sent/scanned them to Amanda. It was so cute. Brooke put together a photo book for mom and dad and we gave them a porch swing.
Lea and Sam made a cake of the Oakland Temple since that was the one they were sealed in. We all had a blast at their party!
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scott helped A LOT with the slide show too, i can't take full credit. he spent a few of hours on it.
i'm sad i wasn't there for the picture of you lea and mom...man, we all need to go back to utah so i can take pics...i can't believe i didn't take any. i wonder when sister martin is going to send us the family picture.
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