Andy's 9th Birthday

 This year, Andy celebrated a sports themed 9th birthday.  He started the festivities off with an outing with 2 friends to a cheer on the Comets, our undefeated hometown indoor soccer team.  They won, of course.

birthday breakfast pancake 

The sports theme continued with the birthday gifts.  

opening his sister's gift

From Grandma Faye

Halloween 2014

The pumpkins

This year we had another fun and exhausting Halloween!  Sammy was Elsa (one of 5 in her class) and Andy was Cristiano Ronaldo from Real Madrid.  

Halloween Parade 

Mrs. Mellen mummy

Elsa mummy

decorating her cupcake...very serious business

The boys after powdered donut stacking on their face

Neighborhood party

Sammy's favorite neighbor

Sammy and her Kindergarten pals

Trouble!

The World Series

Game 1

After a 29 year drought, the Royals finally made the postseason.  They swept their way into the World Series where they were defeated in a heartbreaking game 7 loss to the San Francisco Giants.  Scott went to Game 1 and took Andy to Game 7.  It was an amazing experience!  Apparently, however, the Coopers do not bring luck to the boys in blue, as they lost both games.

Game 1

Game 1

Game 7

Game 7

Pumpkin Patch

On Saturday, we made our annual trip to the pumpkin patch to pick out our pumpkins.  It was a perfect fall day.

Lost in the Corn Maze

The End of a Season

Andy played his last game of the fall season on Sunday.  They won their final game, going undefeated again.  We celebrated the season with a post game frozen custard with the team.

Renaissance Festival

The kids and I checked out KC Ren Fest for the first time this fall.  They had a great time making magic wands, playing medieval games, getting their face painted, meeting a mermaid, watching pirates sword fight and gypsies dance, shooting a cross bow and eating a turkey leg!  For me, the people watching alone was worth the price of admission.

We found a fairy!

Rapunzel Rapunzel let down your hair.

Face Painting

Turkey Leg...mmmmm!

Meeting the Mermaid, for the girls, it was worth the 20 min wait!

Soccer Saturday

On Saturday, Sammy was blessed to have 2 sets of grandparents at her soccer game.  In honor of the occasion, she scored 4 goals!  This is a new record at our house.  It helped that it was 3 v 3 with no goalie.

"teamwork"

half time huddle 

driving down field

GOAL!!!!

celebration hug