Adventures At Seay

Cooper really appreciates the outdoors. Anytime we to go somewhere I have to carry him out the door to the car or he will run like an escaping convict down the driveway. He will do anything to play outside and will stay out there until I drag him kick and screaming (literally) inside. His Diva decided he needed his first swingset, so we went to Home Depot to pick one out. We found the perfect one (not too big and not too boring) and had it waiting for us in will call. We waited until Grampy and Grammy came in to town for Easter so that we'd have a few extra hands to help build the monstrosity (did I say not too big? ha.) This is how the pieces and parts looked in the yard:
 Grampy and Daddy worked all day Saturday and on Sunday Aunt Emmy and I joined in to make sure it got done before our extra hands left to go home. By 7pm Sunday night we were left with this:
And there is one little boy who LOVES it:
So a big thanks to Diva, Grampy, Daddy, Emmy, and Grammy (for Cooper wrangling while we built.) You all have made a wild heathen child even more accident prone. I'll be sending you the hospital bill. Just kidding, we will be careful. We really do love it....promise.

O....K.... we are finally, FINALLY back in business. The laptop has been repaired and returned safe and sound, though every time I turn it off I feel like I have to give it a pep talk or it won't turn back on the next morning. I literally hold my breath when I hit the "shutdown" button. But apparently it is fine and has been working great for 2 days now.

I got the chance to upload the 240ish pictures that I had taken in a month..gosh that sounds a little much..but we did have quite a few momentous events take place in that month. Lots of photo ops. For the sake of keeping up the blog while we are out of town and running ourselves ragged I will try to space out the blog updates. Also, I don't want to overwhelm anyone with cuteness. So on to the first:

Diva came to Oxford to visit a few weeks before Easter and we had the BEST time! We drove to Southaven to pick her up and eat lunch with her and Pawpaw.
Then we spent the whole weekend shopping, playing around the house and running wild. Just how we like it. Diva even came with us to watch our AOPi girls dance for Derby Days. Cooper got into the fiesta theme by rocking the 'stache.
and riding a pinata
We can't wait to go see Diva in a few weeks in Texas. I hope Pawpaw is ready for the cuteness that is Cooper saying "pawpaw." It will melt an ice cold heart. By the way we have had a total word vomit recently. Cooper has turned into a parrot and will pretty much attempt to say any word you ask him to say. Most of the time it is dead-on. (Mommy and Daddy are now aware that they have to really watch their potty mouths because the last thing we need is Cooper walking into Sunday School saying four letter words...not that we EVER say those in our house ;) ) He can tell you what he wants most of the time, but he really abuses the words baseball and football..also juice. Growing is happening in this house people. The kiddo is tall..I mean "reaches doorknobs and nothing is out of his reach" tall. I am so excited to travel with him this summer and watch him learn what summertime is all about. This kid loves outside like nothing else. It will be awesome.

Ok, so now that we have our first catch up post keep a lookout for another catch up post in the next couple days....like I said don't want to overload on cuteness.

You may have noticed that a few weeks have gone by without a recap of Diva's visit or of James and Danielle's visit, or Easter...well, this is due to the fact that my laptop (that I upload all my pictures to and use during the day) has bitten the dust. It is currently being repaired and as soon as it is back in my arms I will share all the adorable pictures of my little cutie pie. Also, I haven't posted because without the pictures I don't feel like anyone would read it anyway...Cooper is the draw after all. So hopefully by the end of this week we should have it back and I can catch you up. Until then....

Cooper and I have been so pumped about the arrival of Diva (my mom.) We haven't seen her since the beginning of January when we flew out to Midland during our marathon of Christmas break travels. Cooper has learned how to say "diva" which actually sounds like "deeba." We say this word nearly a thousand times a day...no joke. I ask him who is coming to see us on Thursday and he answers with "deeba...yay." We have been skyping with my mom alot preparing for her trip and Coop will now point to the computer and say "deeba?" It's really cute. I'm only slightly worried that when we see Diva (and Pawpaw by the way) tomorrow that he'll be confused about why she's not in the computer. But we have a whole great weekend planned and we have been counting the hours until we drive to Southaven to pick her up! I wish my dad had enough time to come hang out too, but he would get sooo bored sitting at my house for a whole weekend. :-(. Only three hours until she leaves with Pawpaw to come see us! I promise to post after she leaves (aww sad) with many many pictures.  but until then here are a few of my favorite Diva pictures:
And a Pawpaw picture because we can't wait to see him at lunch too! Love you both..hurry up and get here!

My friend Sarah has got me hooked on this blog called "how i met your father." Love her! Well she is doing this awesome giveaway with Marley Lilly! Marley Lilly is a company offering all sorts of cute monogrammed items like coolers, coozies, croakies, jewelry, any giftable item you can think of. My favorite item though is the precious monogrammed derby hat! So perfect for a day by the pool or on the beach! I just realized how many exclamation points I have in this post already...can you tell I'm excited? If you love huge monogrammed hats, and who doesn't, you should check out her blog and enter. But don't post too many entries...it'll hurt MY chances for winning!
How I Met Your Father -blog

Marley Lilly's website

Here are some pictures of Cooper at his first Ole Miss baseball game


And since it's MLB opening day not college, here is a picture of Cooper at his first Cardinals game last year..

We had the most gorgeous weather last week! Everyday was prettier than the last...the kind of weather that makes you feel like your at the beach. You know that warm yet slightly breezy weather? Perfection. We Cooper and I spent at least half of everyday outside. We played in the yard, at the park, even got the baby pool out. Thursday, which happened to be St. Patrick's Day was the most beautiful of all. We spent the morning at Wal-Mart getting some groceries and then after Cooper's nap we hung out in the yard taking some pictures. Here are a few of my favs:
After Ryan got home we decided that Cooper looked too cute not to take somewhere so we took him out to Irie for some po'boys. When dinner was over we decided we couldn't go home when the weather was this gorgeous so we walked around the square and stopped for some Ya Ya's frozen yogurt. Cooper really liked that part. I'll leave you with a few pictures of Cooper before we left for dinner. He decided he wanted to wear his cowboy hat. Everybody wanted to take him home!