NYE 2010

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NYE 2010 was spend at the Brister home in Matteson, IL. A winter storm in South Dakota made us change our plans change to travel home a few days sooner. We had a great time at the Brister home with our family and their friends. The kids really enjoyed the games and dancing. Max woke at 11:45pm just in time to take in the New Year with his family. Cheers to a great 2011



Abby & Max Christmas 2010

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We had a wonderful Christmas season with our family. Abby's 3 Christmas turned out to be the best so far, and Max's first Christmas was very special. Our visit to South Dakota was wonderful as we got to spend lots of time with our family. A trip to Huron to Mina Lake to Langford, all great memories for us. We had to shorten our trip by a few days due to a winter storm that was approaching....good thing we did, South Dakota was hard to get out of come the few days after our departure. We also celebrated with the Cooper and Carters in Frankfort for the holidays. We love our time with our family and hope for another great year of 2011 with them.

Abby's 1st Christmas Concert

We were so excited to see Abby perform in her first Christmas concert at her school. They had practiced everyday for the month of December on their songs and performance. The 15 minute concert included an opening song of "C" is for Cookie and with a finally of "Jingle Bells". The kiddos all did their formal bow at the end of the concert filling the room with many clapping hands. Abby was such a great performer with smiles and signing throughout. Afterwards Abby, daddy and mommy went to McDonald's for a quick dinner together. (Max was still at the hospital) Abby loves her "Cheeseburger happy meal". We are so proud of how well Abby did, Great job Abigail!

Hospital Visit

After a few days of Abby coughing, soon enough both Max and mommy were doing the same.  Our little Abby loves to play with her brother, thus he was coughed on a few too many times.  Cold weather combo with coughing in the house, our poor little man ended up in the hospital for a week's stay.  They say he had a small case of  pneumonia.  We know our little man is so tough because all the nurses said he was the best kiddo on the floor; always trying to give a smile to us all.  Because it was the week before Christmas he was blessed with several morning visits from Santa and Mrs. Claus, along with 2 huge bags of gifts from the volunteers in the hospital.  We were happy for the good report from Dr. B on Friday of that week that we could all head home.  Another good report at the 4 day follow up visit to Dr. B allowed us the good news that the Coopers could travel for the Christmas holidays.  Thank you Jesus for healing our little man!

Getting back in the swing of things

It has been a busy few weeks in the Cooper house.  Transition from vacation to 'real world' can be a little shocking when you have a 6 month old (still waking 1-2 times a night) and have a little girl who had a fever reaction to the flu shot.  We spent lots of time cuddling with the kiddos and watching Abby's two favorite flicks of all time; "Alice in Wonderland" (yes the one with Johnny Depp) and "Toy Story 3".  It was a good week of family time, but lots of rest, medicine and love.  Everyone is doing well, just going through the winter season of colds, yucky.  Wishing everyone a wonderful and blessed 25 Days of Christmas!  (make sure you are watching abcFamily's 25 days of Christmas series, the Coopers will be watching all the classics).