Oh August

Oh August....We are excited to see August come to a close. I have been pretty sick with baby (yes, for those of you who don't know, we're pregnant!!!), we had some upsetting news regarding future plans, I had a scare with baby and then I got in a car accident with both Miley and Cooper in the car. Praise God, we are all doing fine "no boo boos." Miley does say once in awhile "mommy, next time we bump in a car can you not cry."

We are excited that September is around the corner. We have fun plans to see family and the weather is getting so nice. I put a few pictures of our much needed getaway to Frankenmuth, MI and a few pics of the accident. We hope to get our van back at the end of the week.

July

Miley and Cooper both love playing in their pool....there is really not much more they can do outside in this heat.

Copper loves to crawl over and through everything. I have to "unstuck" him at least 3 times a day. Cooper managed to open the large pantry doors and some how crawl over the food items and ended up stuck (as you can see in the picture) in under a minute. Thankfully the shelf he is sitting on pulls out! I'm not sure if this is a good mommy reaction but I ran for the camera before pulling him out :)

Miley is loving learning her letters and how to write them. But her favorite thing to do is dance with music in a twirling dress. She tries dresses on all the time and then spins around to see if they have enough twirl. We spend at least 5 min. each morning convincing her that her dress has a nice twirl.

Pow Wow!!!!

After knowing Eric for over 10 years Eric finally made it to my town's festival, Pow Wow!! The weekend started off with Miss Mtn. Lake Pageant which was fun to bring Miley to. We then went to the baseball alumni game which my dad and brother played in.

Sunday morning started with pancakes in the park

Then there was church service in the park

The entire "Schroeder gang"

Eric played in the 3 on 3 basketball tournament which their team won their pool and got 2nd place over all (lost to my cousin's team)

The girls (and kids) walked in the road race


Eric finally got to try all the food at Pow Wow. Here he is eating his first pow wow pup

Miley and Molly were so cute


Miley LOVED all the rides

Loving the car ride

The parade is about to begin!

Awwww...what a great family

Waiting for more candy with daddy

Ended Pow Wow with Miley riding the Ferris Wheel with Gram Gram, Pa and Uncle Dusty. We have never seen her smile that big!!! What an amazing time we had!

Happy Father's Day!

Eric you are the greatest daddy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cooper's 1st B-Day with the Schroeders

Meeting Kamryn!!!!!

Happy 1st Birthday Cooper!

The birthday boy. He was ready to party.


The party is about ready...

Let the present opening begin.

Happy family celebrating Cooper's big day.

Cooper had no problem eating all the cake that was given to him

Loving the cake


The party people. Grammy J and Grandfather were able to make it as well as Ashley and Dan and our neighbors LeeAnn, Michael and Harper

Another attempt at a birthday cake.. At least when I asked Miley what the cake looked like she said "mickey mouse"

We had a wonderful day celebrating a year of Cooper. We went swinging and down slides. We played with cars, the kiddy pool and then had our party. We love Cooper so much. He laughs and smiles so easy. It has been a joy watching him grow and learn this last year. It is a true blessing to be his parents!