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Christmas Day

Well the video of Ashley coming down the stairs is already on the blog if you did not see it go down about 3 posts to see it! It was a wonderful day with our little family and Jay(Tyler brother who is living with us). My grandma, Ashley's great grandma got all the girls matching dresses and she looked so cute in her dress! It will be fun to see all the little girls

in the same outfit! Merry Christmas to all and a Happy New Year!

Christmas Eve

We went to walk around the Temple with all the christmas lights! Ashely loved all the lights and we had a great time! I loved that it was only like 60 degrees and we are able to enjoy being outside at night and not be freezing cold! Here are some pictures of our night!

Our Christmas Tree is make of Barbies and Cars! The cars are tylers and of course the Barbies are mine! Love my tree!

Picture with Santa

We did try to get a picture with Santa! This was taken at our ward Christmas party! Poor girl but she looks so cute at the same time!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all our friends and family. We love you and miss you all! Here is a small video of Ashley coming down the stairs to see what Santa got her! More posts to come now that our computer is working again!

Halloween

Well our camera stopped working right before halloween so we did not get good pictures and these were all that we have! They turned out of but a little blurry!

Carved Pumkins are a tradion in our family and we look forward to it every year! Pictures will be coming!

Hockey

Tyler and I got to go to a Pro-Hockey Game on Saturday. Coyotos vs Pens. First date night in a while! We had great seats and the game was great! Went into over time and a shot out so much fun! We love living here with pro teams to go see! ( oh and we get free tickets)

Baseball game

Old post
We took ashley to her first pro-game. Diamondback last game of the season. Tyler and I have gotten to go before but this time we decided to take Ashley with us. She has so much fun. She loved the music and the crowd.

Cooper Family Reunion 2010

Well for the first time in 8 years we had a cooper family reunion. This is my grandpa Coopers family. We used to do the yearly and have not done them since my great grandma Cooper died. My grandpa's brother Steven died from a heart attack last year and I think it woke all of us up and we knew we needed to get together more often! We decided not to make it big and just spend the time talking and hanging out since we have not seen each other in so long. Everyone came here to Mesa, AZ and had dinner and lunch and hung out at our house. It was so nice to have all the family here in our home. Here are some picture from the weekend. We decided to go to the cemetery since we were all getting to together on Great grandma birthday it would only be right to remember her memory.

My grandpa is center sitting down and his two younger brothers are standing behind him.

Yeah the only shade was by the Christ statue so we have lots of pictures standing and sitting with Christ statue behind us!

Grandpa and all of this grand kids and one great grand kid.

Swimming and after many trying getting stacked 4 people high. They did try five but failed. My husband Tyler at the very bottom loving every min of it.
Making breakfast at Rath and Tori's house.
Grandpa sitting down with my mom center and uncle Devin ( living in Virginia) to the left. Tammi my mom's sister to the right.

Overall it turned out to be a great weekend. Please came from Florida, Virginia and Texas and NM just to be together! I am so glad we were able to get together. Looking forward to the next time we get together again.

Future little dancer!

New Dress and she looked like a little dancer!

1 year old check up

Ashley also had her 1 year old check up on Thursday.

18 lbs- 15 %
39.9 ins tall- 75%

Talk to her doctor about allergies and we will get her tested soon! Just hoping we can find out what it is and than she can try to grow out of it.

• She is walking, and falling and yes we have already had a couple of goose bumps.
• She can go up and down the stairs now.
• she likes to climb off and on the couch.
• she is a great eater and sleeper.
• we now at this moment have 5 teeth. 1 more is trying to break through. So 3 top and 2 bottom. And all the top came in the last 2 weeks.
• she talks and talks and talks. I don't have any idea what she is saying but she talks.
• she loves, loves music. Any music no matter were we are she will start to dance. Church included.
• overall she is a great little girl and I love every min. with her.

Birthday fun!

Well I finally have a chance to get on the computer and write about Ashley's Birthday party fun. We had a wonderful cake and ice cream, swim party with friends and family on the 4th since her birthday was on a Sunday. It was a great day. Ashley loves having everyone over. Since Ashley has been having so many food allergies I decided to make her cake myself. Oh did not work! She had the worst reaction ever to her birthday cake. So during the opening of gifts she was not feeling well and really did care too much. We decided to take her swimming and it worked. The reaction went away and she enjoyed herself a lot more. When we got back to the house she was so excited to see her gifts. Here are some cute pictures of my girl!

Just before getting ready to sing happy birthday to her.

Beginning to have a allergic reaction to her cake. This was just the start of it. She gets so itchy poor girl.

Trying to open gifts. She was getting over the reaction at this time. I did not get a good picture of her face with the full reaction. Poor thing eyes were swollen, face and whole body was red with hives. We are going to get her allergy tested soon!

Very cute tutu that Wonderful Maquel made for her. So cute!

We are going to get her 1 year old pictures soon just not sure when. We tried to go today but Ashley got sick on the way and starting throwing up so we did not make it to the picture place. I will post as soon as they are done!

My little girl is 1 and I can not believe it she is too cute and so much fun and I don't know what i would do with out her.

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Happy Birthday to my sweet little girl Ashley!

more of the party will come!

Some cute Pictures!

Sorry so many posts in one day!
Ashley swimming her favorite thing to do!
Standing up by herself!

Reading her book! Well looking at it anyways!

Cool Sunglasses that match her outfit!

Man I love this girl!!!

Ashley Talking some more!

Ashley is saying bubba which is my little brother dalins nickname!

(she is not picking her nose she like to feel the air come out of her nose)

11 months old

Ashley is now 11 months old as of last week! She is walking but know crawling is faster is she is in a hurry. She talking all the time. She likes to say mommy and daddy and copy what we are saying every once in a while. She is so much fun and always has lots of energy! We are in the works of planning her 1st birthday! It will be Saturday Sept 4th at our house at 2pm for those who live near! Invites will be coming soon!

The video is of Ashley talking.

Where have I been the past month?

Sorry I know it has been a while since I have posted so here is a little bit of catch up!



I know we have not post a whole lot about anything but Ashley so here is more about the whole family!

Tyler is starting the Aviation Maintenance program in Aug and he will only have 1 1/2 left to go and I can't wait. He will continue to be a stay at home dad and he will go to school at night and will not be working!

He is really excited that a end is in sight and we are excited for him. He loves to be home with Ashley. He is still drawing but he is having a hard time finding time now a days. He is still a scout leader for the 11 yr old boys but he will not be able to continue once he is in school due to school.



Brittani-me

I am still working full time for a doctors office and I love my job. I am way excited though to be done and be able to stay home. I am still making bows and sewing when I get a chance. I love crafts and I always look for my next project. I got new glasses and a new hair cut and I am feeling good.



Ashley

She is not 10 months old- sorry I missed that post.

She is changing and developing and I can not believe it.
She is a talker. I have no idea yet what she is talking about well most of the time. She has the sweetest voice and we enjoy her little voice. She talks all day long! She can say mommy and daddy and believe me she says them both a lot. She trys to say words here and there. She like to say Jay which is tyler's brother who is living with us. She is crawling everywhere and she is fast. You put her down and two min later is in the other room and trying to go up the stairs. She loves dogs and loves to have them around her. She still only has two teeth but it seems like she is teeth almost everyday now! She is eating really good and loves to eat whatever we are eating.



4th of July

We decided to stay here in Mesa and not go to farmington since Tyler could not get off work! We went down town mesa where they were doing a car show and lots of stuff for the fourth and than fireworks later. We really enjoyed our night but we did not make it to the fireworks they were just too later for Ashley who was getting tired. So no fireworks for her this fourth of July, but I did make homemade Ice cream so the fourth turned out ok even with out farmington.



Family in Town

my parents and little brother came to town this past week. It was really nice to have them staying with us. We got to do lots of fun stuff and mainly just hang out. Tyler says he will never go to golf land swim park ever again! We got to go to a wonderful baby shower for my cousin on Saturday. Ashley enjoyed having them here and she was sad to not have them in our house anymore. Can't wait to see them again!! Love them tons.

9 months

9 Months old Ashley is now 9 months old! She is growing and growing. We had her 9 month old check up today and the results are in.... She is now 16.12lbs and 28 IN. She is still long and skinny!! She is such a happy girl and I am grateful for her in my life.

• She has two teeth.



• Crawling and getting into everything.



• Sitting up a lot and does not want to lay down at all now!



• Pulling to stand and walking around things.



• She loves her stuff animals and she loves to give them kisses and hugs! So cute!



• She is figuring out new voices and sounds. Which include DADA and MAMA!! DADA was first of course!



• She is still a great sleeper and we are thankful for that!!



• She loves to give kisses and I am grateful to get ten or more kisses when I get home from work. Lets me know I was truly missed.

She is one happy smiley little girl and I am so happy to say she is mine forever!! Only 3 more months and she will be one and I can not believe it!

Showing off her two teeth!

Weekend Fun!

Tyler and I were supposed to go to farmington for the weekend for Tyler Simkins baptism but we were not able to go! We missed a lot of family and we were sad Tyler was not able to get off in time.

Since I had Monday off and Tyler had to work we decided to leave after he got off work and take a trip to San Diego. We decided to go to Sea World which was so much fun and Ashley loved seeing all the animals. I think her favorite was the whales; Shamu! We even got her a stuff toy to bring home to play with. We had been planning this trip for the end of this month but we decided to go and make a fast trip so maybe the end of this month we will have time to maybe go to farmington. We also got to go and play on the beach. Ashley loved playing in the sand and just wanted to crawl to the water! She loves water so I was not surprised she wanted to go into the water. We enjoyed our little short one night trip but we are glad we got to go as a family.

Swimming

This is one reason I love living in AZ!

First Tooth!

Ashey finally got her first tooth!

Date Night!

Tyler and I got the chance to go to a Diamondback game. I have never been to a professional sporting event before. It was so much fun. We have some friends with season tickets and we got to go and sit in box seats and enjoy the game. We meet up with our friends and ate at the TGIF in the stadium which is in the stands which is over looking the field. It was the coolest restaurant I have ever eaten in. It was also the longest I have been away from Ashley. We were fine but Ashley was not. My wonderful mother was watching her but she likes her mom and dad a lot and does not like to be away from us very long. All in all it was a wonderful night.

My wonderful mother came to town for the weekend which was nice to be able to spend mother day with my mom here with us! Thanks again to my mom for watching Ashley and coming and spending the weekend with us.

Mother's day

I am so grateful to have such a wonderful, cute girl call me mom! The best thing well besides tyler is my wonderful daugther.
This is my mother's day gift from my wonderful and talented husband. He is amazing the best gift ever!

I hope all the women out there had a wonderful mother's day weather you are a mother or not!

8 months old!

Ashley was 8 months old yesterday!! Wow I can not not believe it! What is doing now let us tell you!!!!

• Crawling everywhere! She army crawls most of the time because we have tile and she can slide and go faster. She has crawled on all fours but like to army crawl more, that way she can grab at a toy and crawl at the same time.
• Pulling up and standing up on everything she can. She loves to stand and put her elbow on the couch and watch TV. She is getting scary.
• Sitting by herself no help needed. She can go from standing by the couch to sitting and than crawling back to sitting. She is so strong.
• Loves her baby food and would prefer it over the bottle most of the time. We have given her small bits of finger food here and there and she loves to be able to feed herself.
• Still sleeping really good. Goes to bed anywhere from 8-9 and wakes up at 5-6 for a bottle which i give to her and she will fall right back to sleep.
• She loves water. She loves to go swimming and to be in water!
• Her UTI is all gone and we will be following up on that in a later date to make sure everything is still flowing ok! Her chicken pox are still healing and the red spots are slowing going away.
• She loves to talk and sing. She loves her mom and dad and she is doing a lot better with people.

All in all is one great girl and we are so grateful for her and the Joy and happiness she brings into our lives!

Wow 8 Months

This is how Tyler found her the morning after we thought if would be a good idea to lower her bed! Never thought it would be that quick that she would pull her self to stand in her bed!

3 wonderful years!

Yesterday was our 3 year anniversary. I am so grateful for the past three years and for such a wonderful man that I get to wake up next to every morning and call my husband forever. Here is to many more years to come!!

Warm Weather =

Swimming!!!!!!

We decided to buy a three foot pool for our back yard! We got it all set up and Ashley got so excted the min. we started to fill it up. She loves water so I was not suprised. It was 91 degrees out so we decided to go for a swim. Well she loved it. We are excited to have a pool to play with ashley in! We do have a big community pool but this just makes things easier for us when we just want to play with her.

Ashley Has chicken pox!

Chicken Pox

or as ty calls them poka dots

So we notice last friday that she had one spot and we did not think any thing of it since she was on antibotics I thought she was having a reaction to her meds. Not a allergic reaction just a skin reaction. I get reactions all the time to antibotics so I thought she was the same way. Sunday She got a few more not very many though. Sunday night though was a different. She was completely broken out. Yeah the drive home she broke out completely. She was already going into the doctor on Monday for her UTI so we did not have to make an apt. Doctor confermed the chicken pox. The bad thing we were around a lot of family all weekend. I am sorry to all those who were exposed to the chicken pox.

The good thing is that we are at the tail end of it now and she is now healing. No more iching and all that comes with the iching. The bad thing is we did get the UTI checked out because to the chicken pox so she has to stay on Antibotics for another week until we can get everything check out.

Weekend in Farmington

Well we got to go to farmington last weekend to see lots of family for the blessing of three really cute little girls! Tyler's Brother Joe and his wife had twins ( the two on the ends) and his sister had a little girl also ( in the middle). It was nice to be able to do all three in one weekend.

We drove and got into farmington at 1 am (12 our time). Ashley of course after being in a car for a little over 6 hours wanted to play. So we got to play and stay up for a while. Friday I got the chance to take Ashley and got out to eat with the girls for Maquels Birthday!! (by girls I mean my mom, grandma, Tammi, Maquel and Molly.) Friday night we spent at my grandma paulsons playing games. Saturday we went to Joe's house to get together with all of Tyler's family for lunch. It was nice to see aunts and uncles and cousins we don't get to see very often. It was fun to see so many girls there! There are a total of five girls which were all born with in 10 months now, and of course Jaden and Jordan some of the cutest boys ever. Saturday night we went and meet up with the Whipple's which is something I always look forward to! and also we meet up with Tyler's dad. Sunday we went to kirtland and bloomfield for the three blessing and than headed home.

I got really sick on the way home and ashley was sick ( See other post) also so the ride home was long and it took forever to get home. We were glad when we made it home. We were glad to see family but it is nice to be home now it is time for family to come visit us!!!!

Easter At the Temple