The Life and Times of the Watters Family

inspiration & thanks

Look at all this fun new stuff from Paperzone and Treasury of Memories! I am excited to make some fun projects with these new Valentine’s Day papers. All the lovey stuff with the reds and browns are great inspiration for Heather’s wedding. We are planning like mad — but everything is coming together beautifully. I can’t believe my baby sister is getting married in about 7 weeks!

I love how my sisters and I work together. We are super efficient and make a terrific team! We all have different talents and abilities and when we work together on a project — watch out– we’re gonna make something amazing happen!

I also want to mention how thankful I am for Colleen and her amazing talent! She has been one of my closest friends for 16 years. She saved the day on my wedding by jumping in, helping me make my dress, decorating and giving directions on the day of. She protected me from having to manage everything so that I could just relax and enjoy my wedding. She’s the kind of girl you want to have around when you need to get stuff done!

Colleen has subsequently helped with both Sara’s and Holly’s weddings and now is working with us on Heather’s wedding. We have all been incredibly blessed by her involvement. I can’t imagine a Cooper girl wedding without her!

the reason we celebrate

digital scrapbooking

I felt the need to create something today but I didn’t want to make a mess that I would later have to clean up. Instead I opted to create a digital layout using some of the free digital kits I found on 2peas. I like Rhonna’s stuff. Each of these elements were pulled from a different kit.

Beautiful

happy 9th anniversary!

10 days!

This is my collection of Disneyland scrapbook materials. I think I will wait until after our trip to put the book together. I like the vintage Disney ephemera- I’d like to find more stuff like that. I am getting more excited with each passing day! It occurred to me the other day that I will be flying home alone with the boys!! That kinda freaks me out. I have never flown by myself, much less had to be responsible for other people. I am sure it will be fine and the boys will be awesome.

Cam is getting excited for his road trip with Kelly. I think he’s putting together a soundtrack. I am hoping that Cam has remembered where he grew up in California more fondly than he ought to have and he’ll get over his pining- or the reverse could happen and it will increase his desire to want to live there again someday. I bet they will have a lot of stories when they get home.

It will be so nice for us to get away and get a chance to focus on having fun with our little family. We (Cam and I) sometimes struggle with the playing/having fun part of parenting. We are both oldest kids and play doesn’t come really naturally to either of us. The climate of our house is a bit too serious at times. I’m so glad that the boys (Caleb in particular) continue to teach us how to be silly. It seems that sometimes it takes removing all the everyday distractions to recognize where your true priorities are. I feel like our kids are growing up so fast and we sometimes take for granted how much time we have with them. They love us now and think we are great (especially when we make fools of ourselves for the sake of having fun). They actually want to hang out with us- in a few short years they likely will be embarrassed by everything about us (just like our poor parents had to endure). So, my hope and prayer is that this trip would be #1 a blast, #2 an opportunity to examine our priorities and #3 create wonderful memories– something we can praise and thank God for.

A Father’s Day Card for Cam’s dad.

A Father’s Day Card for my dad.