Holy Cow Cooper is 14!

We don't know how it happened, but Cooper is 14!  We celebrated his birthday primarily on Sunday, the day after.  On Saturday, his actual birhtday he had a couple of friends over and we took them to see the movie Catching Fire--which was pretty awesome and a good book to movie translation.  The boys liked it quite a bit!

 As you can see Oma (and Opa) came over to celebrate it.  I included this first picture because of the face Spencer is making in the background.  It looks like the candle is on the pie (butterscotch of course because that's the new birthday favorite for all the boys), it's actually on a cupcake next to the pie.

 Included this picture because Cooper's face is, well Cooper.  He is always making goofy faces.

 Cooper wanted a soccer jersey so that is what we got him.  Buffon is a goalie just like Coop. Back view.

 Front view.  Can you believe how big he is!  I am amazed every day at how grown up he is.  He is still my happy-go-lucky boy and so fun to have around.  He makes us laugh all the time and brings alot of joy to our family.  Dennis says he's the best "mistake" he ever made!  We love him so much and are so lucky to have him in our family!

So this last picture of this awesome Minestrone soup that we have started making.  I love it!  We have it almost every week.  It is soooo yummy.  It's primarily veggies with some beans thrown in for protein.  It makes this huge batch so then I have soup to take to work for lunch every day.  Love it.