The Finale of Chloe's 5th Birthday

We finish up the celebrating of Chloe's 5th birthday with a kid party at Leapin Louie's Lagoon at the Radisson Hotel in Tulsa. It is perfect for this age, and I think we will do it again for Izaak's 7th birthday in March.

Chloe and her friends in the hot tub, look at that birthday girl sticking out her tongue.

Chloe and her big sissy.

Chloe and her cousin Catie having lots of fun.

My baby girl has such a sweet smile.

I'm 5 years old now, I'm going to try out what the big kids like to do.

The kiddo's got to swim for an hour and a half, and then we headed up stairs to a conference room to get out PARTY ON!

Jacyln, Chloe, Navieh

Taylor, Catie

Natalie, Emma

The only boys at the party, Gabe and Izaak.

The birthday girl, opening her gifts.

Chloe and Navieh showing off her new baby items.

Chloe's Tinkerbell cake. I was so irriated this is the 2nd year in a row that Walmart (yes, I get my cakes at Walmart, saves having to run to another bakery) has messed up on a cake for us. When we got there to pick up the cake they could not find it, and once they found it, it said Happy 15th Birthday. DUH, what 15 year old would want a Tinkerbell cake, I mean SERIOUSLY! But, anyhow they scrapped the 1 off the cake, and it looked like CRAP, but Chloe didn't know the difference and she liked. it.

Chloe for some reason or another was actually being shy when it came to blowing out the birthday candles.

But, that quickly changed............

Happy 5th Birthday baby girl!!! You had a great time, and we love you sooo much!

5th Grade Teacher

Well, today I am taking on a new title. We have decided to homeschool our 5th grader. Natalie has been having trouble with focusing and getting her work done. As parents we felt like we needed to get a handle on this, so that she would be ready for the 6th grade come August. I'm excited, and scared to death. But, today so far so good. This morning we did 2 lessons in English, and 2 lessons in Math. And right now Natalie is doing PE on the Wii Fit for 30 minutes. I'm praying for God's provision over us, and that I will have the patience in wisdom to take on the HUGE task. Please pray for us!!!

Chloe's Birthday ~ Part 3

We threw a little party for Chloe's birthday during snack time at school.

We had never ordered birthday donuts before, but they were a HUGE hit! We ordered these from OK Country Donut Shoppe in Tulsa. And I'm sure this isn't the last time that they will be seeing us.

Mrs. Lutherbeck with Chloe singing Happy Birthday to her.

The birthday girl ready to eat her flower donut, looks like Catie's eyeing her donut!

Sweet friends, and sweet cousins. Not only are they in the same class at school, they go to the same dance class, and live right next door to each other. Chloe LOVED the special attention at school.

Chloe's Birthday ~ Part 2

We always throw a party for the birthday person on their actually birthday, with just our little family.

Daddy made Chloe a big birthday breakfast. Yum! 

Here are a few things my little DIVA got for her birthday......

Barbie rollerblades, that we still have yet to try out. I remember having a yellow pair when I was little. They didn't have cool barbies ones back then. HA!

And since she had already used up all the make up she got for Christmas, we had to replinsh her make up drawer. Goodness, I can't believe they love it so early, she would put it on every morning to go to school if I would let her.

Sissy was snapping pics with her new camera.

Bubs thinking that playing cards was more fun than watching Chloe open her "girly" stuff.

Chloe wanted to go and see the movie, Princess and the Frog, for her birthday. I didn't get any pics at the theater, but here is a picture before we left. And no little DIVA can go see a princess movie without some princess loot. She got a princess and the frog shirt and purse for her birthday. Check out her eye shadow, oh my lands!

Here is the cake that I made Chloe for her birthday. Strawberry cake with strawberry icing, our favorite! Chloe's favorite show is the Cake Boss on TLC, I sure wished I knew how to use fondant, maybe I'll try one of these days.

~~~~My big "5" year old!~~~~

Daddy and his little girl. It is so much fun watching Larry with his girls, he is a great DADDY!

The girls enjoying their cake. Maybe next year we will finally get past the Tinkerbell decor, since we have had it 3 years in a row.

One very TIRED birthday girl.

Happy Birthday my sweet baby girl. The last 5 years have been so much fun with you. You are a spitting image of me, or so everyone says. And I wouldn't change it for the world!

Chloe's Birthday ~ Part 1

My children don't just have one, or even two parties, they end up with three or more. So, I'll split the parties between three postings. Chloe's 1st party was at Nana and Papa's house, since they kept the girls while we took Izaak to Monster Jam.

The Birthday Girl

Nana's version of a birthday cake, but Chloe LOVED it! HA!

The 3 silly kiddo's and their Papa.

Nice smile there darlin'!

Thanks Nana and Papa for the swimsuit barbie, she loves to swim at the beach....aka bath tub.

What a great start to Chloe's 5th Birthday celebration!

Wordless Wednesday

I've never taken part of the blog's world, Wordless Wednesday. But, thought it would be a nice addition to my blog.

This is how my little princess passed out one night!

Monster Jam

Izaak LOVES monster trucks!

On Friday night we took Izaak to Monster Jam at the BOK Center. We took him last year, and he loved it. So, one of his Christmas presents was a jumping monster truck with Monster Jam tickets. He was excited! Nana and Papa kept the girls, so we could have date night with just Izaak.

Here's our little man getting ready to leave the house. Can't you tell by the expression on that face that he is READY TO ROLL!

When we got there, they were racing atvs, and don't you know what that did to Izaak. He was PUMPED!

I'm hoping that after seeing this Izaak doesn't want to get into racing. They slid around that concrete floor.

We got front row seats, Izaak loved that no one was blocking his view. But, the exhaust got to Mom and Dad.

These 2 are Izaak's favorites. I was so happy that they went up against each other.

Donkey Kong vs. Grace Digger

GrAvE DiGgEr

DoNkEy KoNg

Izaak loves going to eat junk food, too!

Mountain Dew, Pizza, and Dippin' Dots and with that said he was up past midnight playing with his monster trucks.

Here's a few pictures of the monster trucks..............

I had to include this last picture of the OUTLAW, because it was a woman driving this monster truck.

Bubby couldn't go without having some loot, so he ended up with the tshirt, necklace, and donkey kong toy.

My little man is so special. I'm so proud that he calls me Momma!

I love you, buddy!

KATE WHO?

I watched the Jon & Kate plus 8 series, since it began. I really admired her for being able to raise 8 children and stay so organized. I didn't admire her verbal abuse to her husband, though. I feel soo sorry for the kids, because I thought that it was just Jon going through a mid-life crisis, but then this pic arises, and looks like Kate is too.

For my reality tv shows addiction, I sure hope someone picks up this family, because yes I enjoyed watching it!! Do you think that Kate looks good with long hair? I think she looks good, but I just really hope she keeps them maintianed because there is nothing worse than bad extensions, aka Brittney Spears. HA!

My STREAKING Cowboy

There hasn't been much going on at our house the past few days. It's really COLD, and I'm trying to get the house back organized after the holidays. I was sitting here folding laundry and had a STREAKING cowboy running through the room.

He is such a HOOT!

Here we go Dos e Doe!

YEE HAW! Have a great evening cowboy, Izaak.

LAZY SUNDAY

We have done nothing, but lay around and watch football. We are Vikings and Cowboys fans, and they both won today, so we are some happy campers around the Copenhaver's house.

The kids wanted a snack while we were watching football, and what does daddy fix them......

Popcorn and Marshmellows, quite the combination!

This is my project for this week. Organizing the laundry room. This is the room where everything get's thrown, and where clean laundry sits around in baskets waiting for the maid to fold it.

The Maid = Me

My next house will have a laundry room 3 times this size. With 2 washers, and 2 dryers. With lots of countertop (folding space), and lots of hanging space. Now if I could just have a built in laundry folder, and then have it put away. That would be priceless!

Looks like I still have some Christmas decor that needs put away......HA!

The kids go back to school tomorrow after the BEST Christmas break. I'm looking forward to getting back in a routine, and hopefully with that will bring eating more healthy, and some exercise.