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WE ARE SOOOOO PROUD OF KOOPER!!! This is the first time Kooper has been able to walk where I haven't had to hold onto his prosthetic. We had an appointment with Shriners a few weeks ago and they are in the process of making him another new leg. They are very hopeful and 99% sure that this new leg will have a knee joint in it. YAY!!

A Star Wars Halloween

This year for Halloween we went for a theme with the costumes. The boys are really into Star Wars so that just seemed like the logical theme to choose. We all dressed up. The twins were the cutest ewoks there have ever been! They were beyond adorable! Kyler was "Doctor Baider" and we don't know why he calls him that but he does. Walker was really excited to be Yoda and I was really surprised he picked that one. Hunter was either Luke Skywalker, Obi Wan Kenobi or a jedi, it changed every time someone asked him. And I even dressed up as Princess Leia. Rikk was going to be my Han Solo but he was working on the 30th, the day we celebrated. We went to our church's Halloween party where the boys went trick or treating and then to a neighborhood Halloween party. At the neighborhood one they got to go bobbing for apples and that's all they have been talking about since!

Firefighter's Ball

This is a picture of Rikk and I leaving for the firefighter's ball. I love this picture and how handsome...no, how HOT Rikk looks in it!!! I think we look good together. We had a really good time together and I love that I got to wear a fancy dress. I LOVE the color of the dress and it really went well with Rikk's ribbons on his mess dress blues. I can't wait until next year's ball...but I think Rikk will be deployed still. Oh well, there's no harm in looking at dresses still!

School Pictures

I am sorry ladies but you will have to get your little girls restrained in some way before showing them this post. Hunter and Walker are looking pretty darn handsome and I would hate for your girls to get soo flustered when they see them that they attack the computer!!!

Here's Walker. I like the one in color but I think I like the second one best.






Here's Hunter. I like the one in color but I think I like the second one best too.

Wedding Anniversary

(My posts for the next little while will be out of order of when they truly happened, but at least I am posting!)

Rikk and I celebrated our ninth wedding anniversary on September 14th. Before I could even ask him what he wanted for our anniversary I apparently had already bought him the best gift ever...a new scope for his rifle (I really love it when I get him something he loves and I don't actually have to get it!). So he of course got his present before our anniversary because on our anniversary he was out hunting. He asked what I wanted and I just said, "A date would be great!" No date and no gift before he left for hunting.

A couple weeks after he got my present was ready to be picked up and I was quite curious. I knew it was going to be a picture because he accidentally let that slip but I had no idea of what. This is what I got and I LOVE it!!!



It is a 30x30 canvas of one of our wedding pictures. IT IS BEAUTIFUL!!! Rikk is great at getting me thoughtful gifts, ones that he knows I will truly love and cherish.