Happy Birthday TRIP!!!

I can't believe Trip is already 1!!!! Today was Trip's 1st Birthday. We decided to have a BBQ and swim party here at the house. We a few people over. We had Zaine and Laura and their daugther Khiana (Tyrel's cousins), Slade and Kacey (Tyrel's cousin), and my friend Carrie and her two kids Trevon and Jayden. We had a great time visiting, eating, and swimming. It started to cloud over so not the best day for swimming, but they still had fun. I think the adults got cold before kids, even though the kids had purple lips. After swimming we came back we had cake and opened presents. I made my first ever creative cake! I thought I was going to do it and end up hating it and never wanting to make one again, but it was actually a lot of fun!! If your wondering what "TRC" stands for well Tyrel's dad has a construction comp call Troy Ross Construction so I put TRC for Trip Ross Construction. We had a lot of fun and as always it's a blast to have family and friends over for a good time!! And if you notice the picture with Trip and his cake he is holding up 1 finger for turning 1, not that he knew he was doing it, but it still works.

Trip is Walking!

Trip is walking!! Well I have tried to capture it on camera, but of course the second I pull out my camera he refused to walk. This is the best I could get. I got a good video on my cell phone, but I don't have the attachments to get it off my phone. Even though he is walking, like all babies who first learn to walk the second they fall they rather crawl or start walking a realize it's faster to crawl and go down to their knees. I can see though he is excited to get it down though so he can keep up with Cooper! 

Our Cruise February 2009

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Denver Zoo

Well today we went to the zoo with Tyrel's cousin Haley and her two boys and a new friend I met at McDonald's named Carrie and her boy Trevon who is Cooper and Rowen's age and an 18mo old little girl names Jayden. It was a beautiful hot day. The three older boys had a blast checking out all the animals and running off together while us mom's tried to not lose them. The last picture with all three boys looking at the camera was taken at the beginning and we knew that was the only picture we were going to get with all three looking at the camera!! Thanks Haley and Carrie for a fun day!! I LOVE WHEN THE WEATHER GETS NICE!!

Dirk and Colt 14th Annual Memorial Basketball Tournament

Well last weekend we headed to Pagosa Springs for the basketball tournament. It was so much fun. I was starting to worry about how long the weekend was going to be when Cooper kept throwing fits Thursday night because he wanted to play, but thanks to Tyrel's wondering cousins I didn't see Cooper at all on Friday or Saturday!! Four of Tyrel's cousins about 12-14 years old play with Cooper non-stop. I kept telling them they didn't have too, but they kept asking if they could take him outside or do this or that. Cooper had so much fun!!! He was still running around up and down the court at 11pm on Sat. Thank you to his cousins!! Tyrel also play 8 games in three days. His open team lost out and his 6' and under team place 6th. (Yes I said 6' and under, or I mean 6'2" and under.) Tyrel is the marker for the max height!! He had fun, but is still recovering. I haven't been able to get him up at 6am to work out. Of course I haven't either. We went to bed between 12 and 1 wed-sun. We never do that and I can't handle that anymore. Trip was great. And I was grateful my kids behaved so I could help Loretta out in the consessions whenever the guys weren't playing. It was fun to see all of his brother's get to play on one team for the 3rd year in a row even though I feel bad for Spur because he's 6'4" and only gets to play on one of the teams! Sorry not many basketball pics my camera is horrible at action shots!! I do have a way cute picture of Cooper with his four cousins that play with him,but that was on Troy's camera!!

Easter Sunday

Sunday was a great day. Cooper finally got his first white shirt and tie. He looked so handsome and had a huge grin on his face that he got to look like dad and wear a tie!! I was wearing a nice spring dress, but thanks to Trip I didn't make it to church in it. Sacrament was wonderful where the speakers tried to explain Easter to the primary children. Even Cooper listened. We then came home and had a nice ham dinner as a family. We then had a lesson on the Savior by using objects that represented the tomb,spices that covered the Saviors body, a nail, a twig with leaves- the garden, an empty plastic egg- an empty tomb, etc. We were going to do Ressurection Rolls, but I was missing an ingrediant. So that I guess we will do next year.

Easter Bunny Saturday

Tyrel and I were discussing what our easter traditions were going to be. Growing up Tyrel remember's easter egg hunts and baskets. I only remember one Easter Hunt when I was 7 or 8. I guess my mom never wanted to do hunts, but my dad did, so he won out once in a while. Since I can't find anyway that the Easter bunny related to the Savior, I only see how it relates to spring. So we decided to start a traditon in our family to have the Easter Bunny come on Saturdays to celebrate spring and Sunday will be a nice dinner and a lesson on the atonement. We haven't done the lesson yet, so I will just tell about Saturday. It started out by the easter bunny coming to our house and leaving a couple toys for the boys and hiding eggs around the house. Cooper woke up and after he looked at his basket he searched the house for the hidden eggs. Then we had breakfast and I found in the paper a local church having an easter egg hunt so we crashed that. Cooper had a blast. They were allowed 60eggs a piece all filled with candy!!! We didn't stay there long because Trip has been really sick. He threw up all over GNC in the mall and then at home and then all over in his crib that night and since Thursday has had non-stop diarhea. I mean I changed 5 diapers during church today and Trip went home in one of Cooper's pullups that luckily was in my bag!! Then when we got back from the easter egg hunt we had lunch and then dyed easter eggs. Luckily no major dye stains!! We then spent the rest of the afternoon playing with Cooper's easter bunny loot. He got the "Let's Go Fishing Game" and a tee ball set. I am so glad we did all the Easter Bunny stuff on Saturday. It ended up just being a really fun family day.