Family Portraits!

A few weekends ago we headed to Old Clayburn Village in Abbotsford for some Family Photos. Carly from Pink Plum Photography took our pictures and we are absolutley thrilled with them.

I love this one of Madeline looking up too me.

Looking through the window of the Old Clayburn Tea house. It is such a beautiful location.

One of the many family photos Carly took, I love this one!

Sitting on the window sill of the old School in the village.

My two cuties! I love you both so much!

Christmas Open House for Lavish

Open House to introduce the new 2009/2010 Lavish line!!! Come start your Christmas Shopping, you won't be disappointed!

LAVISH Boutique Glam Party!

At my house: 4772 207A Street, Langley, B.C.
Friday November 6th from 7:00-10:00pm
Or Saturday, November 7th from 1:00-4:00pm

Prizes: Someone's name will be pulled out of the purse to be the host for either Friday or Saturday! That means a FREE purse!!!!

Optional Donation:
Gently used handbags to be donated to
Vancouver’s “Dress for Success” Program.
(Please visit their website at www.dressforsuccess.org).

This fun evening/ day will introduce the 2009/2010 gorgeous Lavish Fashion Line. This is a drop in casual party, so you are welcome to come anytime too see the line! There is no formal party!

Plus: All my remaining Lavish Demos from the 2008/2009 line will be on sale for 50% OFF, and you can walk away with it that night!

Please RSVP for yourself and your friends!
Phone 604.532-1987 or email etcooper@telus.net

If you are unable to come and see the new line, you are welcome to visit the online site at www.lavishonline.com. If you want to order anything just let me know.
I am looking forward to seeing you at my Lavish open house!

Madeline's 2nd Birthday Pictures!

I can hardly wait to get the rest of Madeline's 2nd Birthday pictures. Carly from Pink Plum Photography did Madeline and her cousin Addysen's Pictures. www.pinkplumphotography.com
We had a great afternoon with Carly out at a farm in Bradner! I will post more pictures when she sends me the rest!

Happy Birthday Dad

Today is my dad's birthday! As you can see we have had a lot of birthdays in our family in the last month! I have been neglecting my blog and thought that I should update it!

Dad we want to with you a Happy Birthday or Happy day as Madeline calls it! May this year be a great one as great as you are! Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Mom

Happy Birthday to Mom! and Aunty! I hope you had a wonderful day, celebrating your birthday! We are so grateful to having you in our lives, mom! May this year be a wonderful year! Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Mum Cooper!

Happy Birthday Mum C., we hope you had a great day yesterday! We only wish we could of been in Calgary to celebrate with you! We look forward too seeing you in a few weeks! May this year be a great year!!!!

Happy Birthday Tanya!

Happy Birthday to my wonderful sister, Tanya! Hope you had a great weekend away, shopping and relaxing! May God bless you in this new year!

Happy Birthday David!

Happy Birthday to the newest member of our family! Hope you had a wonderful day! We wished we could of celebrated with you, but the distance is too far! Just remember we thought of you a lot on your special day! May you have a wonderful year and we look forward to seeing you at Christmas!

Lavish

I am so excited to annouce that I have become an Independent Lavish Consultant. Just in case you don't know what Lavish is, it is a Langley company that sells purses, jewerly, pashminas & scarves, belts and now sunglasses and rings. Too purchase Lavish products you can either do a home party and earn a free purse or you can just purchase it through me. There products are fabulous!!! If you want to take a peek at there products, you can at www.lavishonline.com

I decided to join the Lavish buisness because I really want to stay at home with our daughter Madeline, but would also like some extra cash to spend. I thought this would be a great buisness to join, I can do work in the evenings when my husband is home.

I am thrilled to have made this decision and have not second guessed the decision at all!

New Haircut!

So I finally took the plunge and cut off my long hair. Which was halfway down my back. It was scary but exciting. I got used to putting it up in ponytails and updos. But I decided that now was the time to cut it off and go with a more stylish cut. I just love it!!!

Waterslides!

A few weekends ago we headed to Cultas Lake to go camping. We decided because of the beautiful weather, to head to the Waterslides. We had never taken Madeline to the waterslides before and thought this would be a great opportunity. The first thing we did when we got into the gate was rent Madeline a lifejacket. Then we took her over to the toddler area and let her go for it. Below is a picture of Mady heading down the slide, not knowing there would be water at the end. We did get a few tears, but once she got used to it you couldn't stop her.
Here she is trying a bigger slide all by herself, she wasn't afraid at all. We have never seen her laugh so hard!

Heading down another slide, she had to try them all. You couldn't stop her! Madeline loves water and so this was something she absolutley loved doing.

Heading down one of the biggest children's slides with daddy. The water at the end was quite deep so that's why daddy headed down with her on this slide.

We will definitley be taking her to the waterslides again. What a great family day and thanks to my mom for coming to watch Madeline so Ed and I could enjoy a few of the bigger slides.

May long weekend

May long weekend we headed to Victoria with my family. We had a wonderful time there, we stayed at a great hotel right by the harbor. We did lots of exploring around Victoria and also relaxed by the indoor pool.
Here we are on the way to Victoria, Madeline absolutley loved the ferry ride. She loved walking into the wind and playing at the play area.

Here are Madeline and my neice Addysen posing in the hotel lobby with there bouncy balls. Ready to go for dinner at the Spaghetti Factory.

While in Victoria we did a little bit of shopping. Here is Madeline checking ou the window display.

Here is my sister Tanya and her daughter Addysen posing for a girly picture. Uncle Ed was being a goof, making the little girls smile. We had a great weekend on a little get away with my family. Thanks Dad and Mom A.

18 months!!!

(Here is Madeline 1 day old!)

(Here she is at 12 months old!)

(Here she is at 18 months old in Calgary)

Time has flown by so fast! Our baby is just over 18 months old! She has been such a joy to us. She is a very healthy and busy little girl. She runs all over the place, talks a mile a minute, sings all the time, loves animals (even cats, her mommy is not so sure about them though), loves doing puzzles, reading books, playing outside, help in the garden, playing with friends, my list could go on and on ... I really feel blessed to have been given such a wonderful little girl to be a mom too!!!

Lori and Dave's Wedding Reception

This past weekend we headed to Calgary for Ed's sisters wedding reception. You may remember us going to Mexico in January for her wedding. We had a great extra long weekend, it was full and busy and not too cold. We were a little worried about how cold it was going to be in Calgary because of all the recent snowy days they have had, but it was beautiful while we were there.




The theme of the reception was the beach, so there was a lot of seashells and blue fabric. It was beautiful! Lori and I had a great time decorating the tables, making the cake and organizing the wedding reception.

Here is Madeline in her flowergirl dress!

My cute little girl sitting pretty on a chair in the reception hall!

Here is the wedding cake and table that I decorated. The cake didn't turn out exactly how I had imagined. I didn't make the cake, a bakery in Calgary did, but I decorated it. It turned out okay for decorating the cake at the reception hall an hour before the reception.

Here is the table we decorated. My mom made the blue scarves that are in the middle of the table. The vase was filled with water and there was a floating candle on top. There were 4 votive candles around the table with seashells and crystals. It looked great!

Congrats again to Dave and Lori!

Calgary bound!

The cute couple in Mexico, enjoying the beautiful sun filled day!

Our little flowergirl checking out her basket of flowers!

What a great place to have a wedding!

This weekend we will be heading to Calgary to enjoy Ed's sisters Lori and Dave's wedding reception. We attended there wedding in Mexico in January and now they are having a big reception because most people could not attend the wedding. We are looking forward to a nice get away in Calgary. If only the weather would get better there, it has been cold and snowy. I am trying to pack this morning and feel lost to what to pack. I guess we are going to have to pull out all of our winter clothes again. I will update my blog when we get back from Calgary!

Our new Playhouse!

We got a belated Christmas present delivered to our door for our little Madeline. We have waiting since Christmas to get this special present, but it has been on back order. When the delivery man brought the playhouse up the stairs, Madeline was so excited. When daddy got home we opened up the box and got all the parts out and made the beautiful little playhouse. She has been having such a wonderful time going in and out of the playhouse. Looking in the door, looking out of the window at us....It is wonderful that she has a great little play area on the patio and mommy & daddy have a nice relaxing area on the patio to watch her. Thank you Grandpa and Grandma for the great playhouse. Love Madeline

Arden's 2nd Birthday

Easter weekend we headed down to Everett, Washington to celebrate my cousin Taryn's daughters 2nd Birthday. We had a great time at the party, as you can see above the party was a Cupcake theme. Taryn did a great job decorating for the party and making a cupcake cake.

Here are Madeline and I watching her open her gifts.

Playing the cupcake game, Madeline loved playing the game. It was pin the cherry on the cupcake.

Here is the 2 year old and her parents, she is a sweet little girl with a joy for life.

Thanks Arden for inviting us to your birthday time we had a great time!!!

Happy Birthday Dave!

Happy Birthday to my brother in law Dave. Dave is my sister Tanya's husband. May the coming year be full of wonderful blessings. We enjoyed celebrating your birthday with you last night. Love Ed, Trista and Madeline

Happy Easter!

Christ has Risen! Happy Easter to everyone, I hope everyone remembered the real reason we celebrate Easter! 1 Peter 1:3 "Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead..."Here is our family at my parents house for Easter dinner!

Here is Madeline posing with her new bunny from Grandpa and Grandma A.

Madeline's Easter Basket from Grandpa and Grandma A.

Madeline holding Grandpa A.'s Easter bunny! She must know there is Chocolate in it!!

We had a great time with my family this Easter. We wish we could have spent time with Ed's family, but we will be going to visit them in Calgary in a few weeks for Ed's sisters reception.

Wishing you all a blessed Easter!

Happy Birthday Arden Emilie!

Tomorrow is my cousin Taryn's little girls birthday and we are heading down to Everett to celebrate with them this weekend.
Happy 2nd Birthday Arden Emilie! Wishing you a blessed birthday! How fast 2 years flies when your having fun! Looking forward to celebrating your birthday with you! Love Madeline

There is Spring in the Air!

Giving her daddy loves!

My cute little girl enjoying the Spring weather!

Spring is such a great time of the year. I love seeing the sunshine outside and seeing the flowers start to grow. God is such a wonderful creater!

Madeline has been enjoying being outside so much, when she wants to go outside she says bye, bye...it is so cute! She has been helping her daddy in the yard and exploring everything and anything she can. Don't you just love Spring, the sun, the flowers, the warmth.

"And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the third day."Genesis 1:11-13

Children are wonderful!

We thank God everyday for giving us a wonderful little girl. What a blessing to have her in our lives and watch her grow & learn so much. We had FAITH that God would give us a baby and he did. That is the reason why her middle name is Faith. Thank you God for our wonderful little girl, she is a wonderful gift.

Psalm 127:3 "Children are a heritage from the LORD, children a reward from him."

Happy Birthday Trudy!

Happy Birthday Trudy! May God bless you in the upcoming year. We wish we could celebrate with you, but the distance is so far away! Just remember we are thinking of you on your special day! Happy Birthday!!!