Where do the hours of the day go???

I am feeling like the biggest blog slacker ever, better yet I'm right up there with those that have let the days and weeks and months slip by. Adding #5 to our family has made life just a little busy and it always just seems like I leave blogging to last on the list. So I'm going to back track a little bit and will even post some pictures but I'll just give you a brief recap on what's been happening.......

So we had a baby......I posted on that one.......with that brought a baby blessing. We decided that we would bless Cooper on the same weekend as Jacob's birthday as all of our family was in town. What was I thinking???? That weekend pretty much did me in......I was exhausted. We kicked off the last weekend in March with heading out to the movies to see " Monsters vs. Aliens" for Jacob's birthday. He wanted to go as a family and do some bowling for his birthday. I figured this will be my last year of managing not to have a "kid" party for him so I didn't argue with his request. We left the youngest 2 with my mom and off we went. The movie was great and enjoyed by all, one that we will buy for sure when made available. I love watching my kids laugh at the movies.........mind you the kid in the row behind us was laughing ALOT.....it was even funnier!!!! On Saturday Jeff took the kids to the bowling alley for a little bit of fun, Aaron Wright and his kiddies joined up for the fun as they couldn't make it to the party that night, plus Jacob's cousins were in town and they tagged along as well. From what I gather the kids had a fun time and I got to hang out with Tanya and enjoy a little peace and quiet. That night our family joined Jacob for cake, ice cream and presents. Jacob got LOTS of LEGO and that totally made his night. He has become very easy to shop for in the toy dept. and with LEGO you can chuck it all in one bucket and not feel the least bit guilty about breaking it because rebuilding it is lots of fun!!! It's hard to believe that he is 5 already and going to school in the fall.

My 5 year old...

We had 5's all around the house....

Parents for sale, buy one get one free

( a gift from Auntie Laura)

More LEGO.......yahoo!!!

He loved his Spiderman cake....

So after Saturday's events we had Sunday left......Cooper's Blessing Day. We managed to make it to church on time.....always a good thing, fun to do with 5 little ones at 9a.m but we made it. It was a full house that day with Cooper and Eva Quist both being blessed. He was good as gold as Jeff gave him a really nice blessing. After church we had our friends and family over for a BBQ and salads and dessert. Everyone helped by bringing something and it made the day sooooo much easier and relaxing for me. It was so awesome to have everyone there to make Cooper's day extra special. Hard to believe at this point the "little" guy is 2 weeks old. We are just super glad to have him in our family and I'm thankful to have survived the month of March!!!!

Trying to get everyone to look is not easy with 10 eyes....

One of many attempts at a family picture.....

Cooper Charles Nelson......2 weeks old

( in the same sleeper his big brother was blessed in)

All the yummy eats........you never leave hungry!!

I must cut this short, it will hopefully hold you over till I come back. I have kids that need tucking in and I need to download some more pictures off the camera before I can finish. April wouldn't be too exciting if I didn't have a few pictures to post with it. Till then......