Duckie

Donovan has always been attached to stuffed animals. Last year at Easter Grammy Bunny bought the kids some new animals, and Donovan got a chick that he named "Duckie" or "Chompie". Since then this has been his favorite. Donovan has to sleep with him at night, he wants to take him everywhere, and he just loves him. On Wednesday Corey took the boys to J.C.Penny's to order new headboards for their rooms, and Corey let him take Duckie into the store. ( Such a big no-no, I am always afraid that he will lose him, so I make him stay in the car) Anyway, while there Duckie somehow got torn on a bench and thrown away. I then get a call from Corey who tells me what is going on, and I can hear Donovan crying/screaming in the background. I tell Corey he has to find Duckie, so he calls the store and the nice guy who answers went to the garbage and rescued him! Today Corey went back and got Duckie. After I performed a little surgery he is as good as new, with just a few minor scars. Donovan is a very happy boy!

Before

After

Good Guys Car Show

On Sunday the 30th Corey and I took the kids to the Car Show in Pleasanton. Considering it was my wedding anniversary I think I should win the Wife of the Year Award. LOL We had a great time!

Here are some of the cars

And some motorcycles

The kids having a good time

And ofcourse the boys talked us into buying them a each a car as we were leaving

Tattoos- temporary and real

The Easter Bunny brough a create your own tattoo kit for the boys. It had temporary tattoos that you put on, and then markers that you use to color them in.

Donovan got a blue snake on his arm

Alexis chose a unicorn which she decided to be green and blue

Both Uncle Tim and I messed up the tattoos that Jack chose so Tim decided to just draw his own on. Suddenly that turned into a full sleeve for Jack LOL just like Uncle Tim

Corey went last week to DV8, a tattoo shop in concord, and got a real tattoo on his arm

He had Cooper on it for years, but decided to add to it. Our last name, Cooper, means barrel maker, so that is what he got! He still needs to go back to have more detailing of the wood and to get the kids names in the bands of the barrel, but so far it looks great!

Making Easter egg chocolates

Grammy Bunny bought a fun kit to make Easter egg chocolates with the kids. They each got to make there own egg by chosing which color chocolate they wanted and then painting it in the mold. After we filled the eggs in with the rest of the chocolate, and then they got to eat the one they made.

Grammy Bunny with Donovan as Kailey watches

Jessie with Alexis, looking underneath at what her egg looked like

Grammy Bunny with Megan

Grammy Bunny with Jackson

the finished eggs

Easter

The Easter Bunny decided to come early to Grammy Bunny and Papa Bob's house, and came on Saturday. The boys loved finding their baskets and searching for eggs with their cousins.

All 7 kids Easter baskets

Jackson with his new movie

Donovan looking at his basket

showing Bella what the Easter Bunny brought her

Jack looking for eggs

Megan reaching for one

looks like Zoey found a lot

San Francisco

We had alot of fun in San Francisco. We took BART in to the city, then walked to Pier 39 where we had lunch at Bubba Gump's Shrimp Co, rode the merry-go-round, then finished with sundae's at Ghiradelli. YUM!

view from pier 39 of the San Francisco bay

Dave, Corey, Kyle, and Daniel

Kyle in Forrest Gumps shoes with Daniel next to the suitcase

Daniel and Lucy

Bella got her first french fry, which she loved

the kids meal came in cute little boats

Jackson on the merry-go-round (action shot as we are going around)

Donovan

getting off the ride

First BART train ride

We have friends visiting from out of town, so on Monday we decided to go into San Francisco for the day. The boys have never taken a ride on BART (bay area rapid transit) before so they were very excited about taking the train.

Corey and our friends buying tickets

Jessie with Van and Jack on my lap to look out the window

Jack

Jessie and Van

Haircuts

The boys hair was getting a little out of control, so Corey decided to cut their hair.

As soon as he started cutting Donovan's hair he moved and a chunk got cut really short, so he had to get it shaved all the way down.

He was not happy about it at first

But after he was fine

Donovan my cute bald headed 3 year old!

Jack also got his cut....

just not as short