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!

Aunt Stacey and Uncle Tim

Last Thursday Stacey and Tim came to visit from Hawaii. They stayed through the weekend and left on Monday to go to Ohio to visit Tim's family. The boys had so much fun with them, and can't wait to play with them again in January when they come back for a week before going home.

Aunt Stacey and Uncle Tim

Aunt Stacey and Donovan on the slide at the play area at Valle Verde Elementary School.

Uncle Tim pushing Jack on the swings.

Exploratorium trip in San Francisco

Last week Aunt Jennie, Uncle Tim and the girls were able to stay for a day when they drove home from Oregon, so we decided to take all the kids to San Francisco to the Exploratorium. It is a really fun place with lots of exhibits to touch and play with different things!

When you picked up this sand and placed it on the pile it stuck up in little spiny formations!

The plate in the center was spinning and you could place the circles on it and see where they would land.

Here you could pick disks that were all weighted differently and guess which one would win the race. Uncle Tim is helping the boys out.

Here was a cool exhibit that you could use different tools to shape the sand as it spun around.


Grammy Bunny and all the kids are pushing on this exhibit and a puff of smoke would go up into the air.

There was a place that showed a dust tornado. This is the kids running around it...

...and what it looks like without five little ones running around.

The had a place where you could make huge bubbles

Here are Kailey and Uncle Tim playing with the bubbles

And all the kids (except Bella) got to choose 4 colors and make their own drawings by swinging the platform around. Here is the start to Jacksons.

Beautiful girls! Megan and Isabella!

More beautiful girls! Aunt Jennie holding Zoey and Isabella!