Coops first big hair cut!

Some summer pictures of Cooper at his great grandma and grandpa Despains backyard.




We were down in Mesa over the weekend and stopped by Jason and Kristy house to visit and Kristy ended up giving Cooper his first real hair cut. Yes i said we cut his hair. We were a little scared but Coop's so cute that we knew it would look good on him. We also knew there would be a lot of people mad at us for cutting his curls off, but they will grow back...

Coop had a hard time holding still.

Coops curls on the floor, it was kind of hard for me to see.

Doesn't he look so cute?

It was funny we went to show coop his hair and he said he wanted his ugly hair back but when he showed Gunner it he was so excited because it was short like Gunners.

Thank you Kristy for the hair cut. Cooper sure has a lot of people say they like his new hair!

My baby is getting so old!

I need to give a shout out to my hubby Josh! Josh had his 28Th birthday on Wednesday my baby is getting so old! Wednesday was so out of control with Gunner and his heart that his birthday kind of got kicked to the curb. So i just wanted to tell him HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I know that Josh would of rather had me be with Gunner and my parents then trying to celebrate his birthday, but i know he was really looking forward to my cake! ha ha, family joke! I also want to tell Josh thanks so much for taking care of Cooper the house my cleaning job and on top of that working at the hospital and post office. What a man I have he does so much for me and takes such good care of me and Cooper. I'm truly blessed with a great husband!

Update on the Gun Gun! He's doing a little better some days are better than others. He's a tough little guy. Thanks to everyone for the sweet comments, phone calls, thoughts, and prayers my family and I truly appreciate it. I hope this picture doesn't make anyone sick but i decided to post it because my family never gets family pictures and its the first time in a long time that all the family has been together in the same room.

Update on Gunner. I thought my baby brother was going to leave me.

Update on Gunners surgery. In my last post Gunner was doing great the doctors let him come home and they made it back in Snowflake on Tuesday night around ten. I clean the post office early in the morning so I decided to go over after i was done it was around seven, i knew my dad would be up since he's a early bird. I walked in the house and went up to my parents bedroom and both my parents were sound a sleep and Gunner right in the middle with his eyes wide open and a big smile so excited to see me. He jumped out of bed and gave me the tightest hug. We went down stairs and he started showing me his x-rays of his heart and he had a extra device (that's what they called the thing that covered the whole in his heart.) Gunner was showing it to me so happy. He wanted to go outside and see his hound dog Gus, but my mom told him to just take it easy his body needs to rest. Gunner was hungry and asked if he could have his favorite food french toast sticks from Arbys, of course he was going to get anything he wanted. I said good bye and was going to go home get Cooper up and make breakfast so Josh could go to work and i made some bread the night before so i decided to take over a loaf to my parents and Gunner. I drove up to my parents house as i did my grandma and grandpa Caldwell drove up right behind me. My grandma said have you talked to your parents? I said yeah and Gunners doing great you should go in and see him. My grandma just looked sick she said no they just had the ambulance here, Gunner collapsed and they rushed him to the hospital. Oh how i felt so sick something was wrong but i thought how can it, Gunner looked so good. I tried calling my parents cell phones but no answer finally a hour later my dad called and said they think Gunner has a blood clot and there flying him to st. Joes hospital so his heart doctor can look at him. They asked me to pick them up so they could come home and pack and drive to Phoenix. When i walked into the er and i saw Gunner, it was the most horrible thing i have ever seen he was so white he looked like a ghost his lips were purple i truly thought my little brother was going to die on me. I wanted to just reap my heart out and give it to him. They knew that they needed to get him into surgery right away or he might not make it. I drove with my parents to Phoenix on the way there my mom was explaining what had happen at home. Gunner was sitting on the coach playing with his new game boy that he got and the next thing he said was mom my chest hurts really bad then he said i can't breath i can't breath and he got up went into the kitchen saying he's going to throw up and calapse and my mom caught him. My mom held him in her arms saying don't die on me, stay here with me that's when my dad called 911 and his heart doctor. On the drive we received many phone calls from family and friends who were wondering what was going on. It was so hard to watch my parents repeat what just happen to them, there was a lot of tears and prays that were just for Gunner. The doctor called us we had just passed payson and said they were taking Gunner in for open heart surgery that the device they put in some how made another whole on top of his heart and his blood was bleeding out causing pressure around his heart. They said the surgery was going to last 5 hours and that they had seven to nine doctors in there with him and the head chief to not worry he was in good hands. This was one of the hardest things i have ever had to face watching my parents put all there trust into the doctors hands and watching their tears run down their checks. We got to the hospital with family and friends waiting there for us. I just want to tell my moms sisters and brother thank you for being there it took a lot of pressure off my mom and talking to them made the time go by faster, it was the sweetest thing they could of done for her and Gunner. One doctor came in and grabbed my parents to tell them what was going on. My dad came back to tell the family and said theres good news and bad news bad news is he's still a Caldwell only a Caldwell can tell that joke. The good news is there done with surgery and they took the device out and patched up the two wholes and now only time will tell how Gunner and his heart will handle the shock his body had just gone through. We got to go in and see him and hold his hand he looks so much better then he did in showlows hospital he had some color not much but a little. Thank you to everyone that prayed for Gunner, every pray was heard. I know with out a doubt that Gunner was in his Heavenly Father arms and that he was being watched over by many angels. Again thank you.

Gunners surgery

My baby brother Gunner just had heart surgery yesterday. Gunner had a whole in his heart the size of a quarter so he wasn't getting enough oxygen and most people die from this between the ages 9 to 50. The doctors said there is 1 out 100 people that have this problem and they never get it checked out and usually die of a heart attack. At the end of the school year i think around April a boy one year older than Gunner died on the bus on his way to school, this scared my mom because of the rumour's of the boys death was he had heart problems. Gunner was told when he was little he had a heart murmur but the doctor didn't seem to bothered by it. My mom just felt like she needed to get Gunners heart looked out by a specialist and good thing they did. They had a hard time finding the whole because Gunner is so active and healthy but thank goodness for ultra sounds because they found it. Gunner had such a good attitude it didn't even faze him that he had a quarter size whole in his heart. Yesterday was the big day and everything went good Gunner is doing great and is in recovery. I love my little brother and so happy that i know that he's healthy. Gunner is Coopers favorite person in the whole wide world. Cooper always prays at night that he can go play with Gunner tomorrow. Gunner is a great uncle. He has the biggest heart and loves life. Our family appreciates the prayers that were given for Gunner.

Dog Heaven

This weekend we were asked to babysit Josh's grandparents dog Max! Yes I'm deadly afraid of animals so its pretty funny they ask us, but then josh is a animal lover so he's in dog heaven. Cooper is on the fence about animals i don't think its much help when he see's his mom screaming, running, jumping fences and couches to get away from any animal. I've tried really hard to be brave when I'm around animals so Cooper can enjoy them like his dad. Max is a great little dog, he loves to just lay around the house so he's real easy to watch and Cooper really has enjoyed him. We told Cooper that he's Maxes big brother, and Cooper said, "what the heck!" Cooper was so excited to be a big brother.

We also had to water their lawn and flowers for them. They have a big lawn and no sprinkler system so we did it old school. One of the things i love about josh is he's so spontaneous. He just grab Cooper and ran through the sprinklers in their clothes. Cooper loved it! We had a good time this weekend and enjoyed relaxing watching movies and playing outside with Max!

Food network starring Cooper

Josh working nights at the hospital is kind of hard on Cooper, he loves it when his dad is around. Tonight josh was home and Cooper decided he wanted to make his dad dinner this is what he prepared fish, baby dinosaurs and one big airplane. They said it was tasty!


Cooper looked so cute making dinner he was wearing apron and a cowboy hat. Coop said, "i need my cowboy hat because I'm making cowboy dinner."
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Cooper watching TV he said he was waiting on his food to cook.

Cooper and Josh decided they were still hungry after coopers meal. Cooper said, "I'm a growing boy mom i need lots of food." He cracks me up! After having a real dinner we had a fun time making funny faces this is one we captured on the camera. I love Coops face!

Swimming in a big bath tub

Tuesday night we went swimming at the snowflake pool. Cooper was so excited to go as long as we took all the sharks out of the pool, for so reason he thinks sharks are in swimming pools! It brought back some old memories standing in line with a dollar and everything still looks the same except the diving boards where gone. As we were getting ready to go in Cooper said, "is this a big bath tub." I could hardly stop laughing. I love his comments and his observation on the swimming pool. We had a good time and no we didn't take a bath in it. Cooper was hilarious he thought he was a dolphin and was making loud squealing noises, i'm not kidding he was loud. Everyone around us kept on looking at us like our kid was nuts, then when we told them he's pretending to be a dolphin they just chuckled. It was a fun family outing and Cooper sure enjoy it! d
Cooper was so tired from swimming this is how i found him only a hour from being home from the pool.

Pretty Toes

Cooper absolutely LOVES his Grandma Caldwell and these pictures can tell you why. Grandma Caldwell lets him do anything even when it comes down to painting toe nails. Cooper was flowing over with excitement when grandma said "yes" to painting toes, and he was even more excited with the results. Cooper was so funny and kept on asking, "does it look good?" My mom is a great sport and a great Grandma she loves her grand kids and loves to spoil them. We love you Grandma!

Having fun in the water!

The weather has been so nice and the wind hasn't been blowing so we decided to pull out the old slip in slide. It was Cooper's first time trying it out. Cooper had a good running start but then when he hit the slide on his belly he kind of didn't go anywhere.

This picture cracks me up since cooper really didn't know how to do the slip in slide he had fun running on it this time he ran a little to fast and lost his legs. We all had a good laugh!

Tea party in the swimming pool. Cooper and Christian decided to have a tea party in the pool.

Cooper and Christian saying cheers! These two have way to much fun!

We had a fun time playing in the water to bad the sun didn't agree with or skin. I did put tons of sun screen on, but Cooper's back was burnt. Josh said the reason Cooper got burnt was because of his overly caucasian skin! Cooper thought it was neat because he thought his back was on firer, so it made him turn into a fireman!
I love summer! It was nice to go outside and enjoy the weather and play in the water.