My Favorite People

This past week we got a visit from two of my favorite people in the entire world - my grandparents. They flew in from Illinois and stayed for a week - the first few nights at my parents and the rest of the time at our new home. I was in a mad rush to get everything ready and organized before they got here so my Grandma wouldn't feel the need to work on her vacation.

They arrived late on Thursday night so we rushed over to my Moms early Friday morning. They were so happy to see how much Cooper has grown since they saw him last. He showed them how well he can crawl now - motoring all over the place.

Great Gramma feeding the little monster.

On Saturday we spent quality time around the house - catching up and relaxing. Sunday we decided to go shooting. We brought a few guns and Coopers ear muffs and headed out to Boulder City's shooting range. It was a beautiful day, the wind had died down just enough and the sun was shining bright.

Cooper & Uncle Mike

Great Gramma & Coop at the range.

Happy boy!

Josh shootin' the 22.

Papa taking aim.

Cooper & Daddy

My little stud.

Gram taking a shot.

Me & my littlest baby

Every week it seems he has a few new "things." This week he's beginning to pull himself up to stand on his own... mostly on the couch - I'm afraid walking will be coming any day now! He's also started sucking his bottom lip into his mouth and blowing spit bubbles - it's cute for now, let's just hope it doesn't last long, he slobbers EVERYWHERE! No teeth still - (thankfully!) but he chews his nipples and binkies like he's teething.

Chewing on the bottle.

Pulling himself up onto Daddy.

Blowing bubbles.

Monday was another relaxing day around the house - cleaning, doing laundry, and spending time in the backyard enjoying the beautiful weather. On Tuesday we spent some time at the Veterans Memorial Park in Boulder City. They have two ponds that get stocked with Catfish in the summer and Striper in the winter - it was a bit too breezy to fish so we just walked around and played in the grass for a few hours.

The larger of the two ponds.

Cooper & Great Gramma

Enjoying the weather & the grass!

Cooper & Great Papa

Blowing spit bubbles again!

"My First Fishing Hat"

My brother, Michael, forgot to wear a hat - he is bald and burns easy so we made him a makeshift hat out of one of Coopers blankets we had laying around in the truck.

Michael in his turban.

Wednesday my mom took off work and spent the day with us. We spent the morning around the house then went out to the Springs Preserve on the north side of town - it's beautiful there this time of year, not too hot yet. They have all kinds of hands on museum exhibits for kids, my mom loved them go figure ;)

Cooper trying on his winter hat.

In a cave @ the Springs Preserve.

Playing with Grammy.

Yelling at us to move faster!

They also have a small live desert animal exhibit - with snakes, scorpions, and the cutest little kit fox!

Kit Fox!

Gramma, Mom, Me, & Mike

They also have a little cafe by Wolfgang Puck - we stopped in for lunch and sat on the balcony.

Cooper, Great Papa, and Great Gramma Eggemeyer

Helping Great Papa read the map!

We ended the afternoon walking around the gardens - the flowers were in bloom and the weather perfect. We couldn't have picked a better way to spend the day!

The stream at the gardens.

Me and my beautiful boy.

Scoop & Grammy

Me & My Gram

The Group!

My grandparents left Thursday afternoon shortly after brunch. They arrived safely back home and we can't wait until May to visit with them again!

This weekend Josh and I both came down with the nasty stomach flu, we were miserable - luckily Cooper didn't catch anything! The Hohn's babysat for us so we could recooperate. We are so blessed to have such amazing family and friends in our life :)