Happy Birthday Elli!!!

Princess Elli turns 4 today!!!!

Her brothers spoiled her with lots of sweet gifts...

Brandon she loved your gift…and she can't wait to shoot you with it when you come home :)

Trevor and Joshua gave Elli extra bullets for her gun...

Thank you Grammi Faith for the Princess Gigi books…

…LOVE THEM!!!

Gramma Pauline gave Elli some sandals...Thank you Gramma!

Thank you Aunt Hopi, Jade and Grace for the Pj's and books...

Birthday Elli…ready to celebrate ALL DAY!!!!

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Elli had her Princess party last night…with CUPCAKES!!!!
She was all dressed up in her Princess clothes...

 …and she was VERY EXCITED!!!

 She was so excited she blew her candles out…TWICE…before we even finished singing to her :)

Happy Birthday Elli!!  We love you soooooo much!!

Happy Valentine's Day!

The Kopp Home was full of LOVE this morning ;)

I LOVE making lots of yummy treats for Valentine's Day!!

For breakfast we had Lemon Blueberry Coffee Cake…Heart-shaped Cinnamon Streusel Coffee Cake…and Banana Peanut-Butter Muffins... 

 Of course we shared Valentine's with each other…it is a Kopp Family tradition to make Valentines for each other…and it is always so fun to see the creativity!!!

Daddy spoiled Elli and I with t-shirts…a pretty pink one for Elli and a Supermom one for me.  They were a perfect fit…even for the pregnant mom…"I have room to shrink" as Chris said…

Someone decided to be silly for the picture :)

Mommy also made sure that there were lots of yummy chocolate treats…what is Valentine's Day without chocolate? ;)

Due to the 1/4 cm of snow on the ground…we truly live in Drama land…Daddy's work was delayed 2 hours…which gave us lots of time to ice a tray of cookies for him to bring into work :)

They are smiling because we did keep some home for us too :)

Hope you all have a super Valentine's Day!  I will post more pictures later with the big boys when they get home from school :)

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Snow and Crepes...

 We woke up this morning to 7 inches of fresh snow…it was beautiful.

Joshua, Trevor and I went out and shoveled really early.  The snow was so powdery and fluffy that I used a broom to clear it away.  No one was out and about except us…all you could hear were a few birds and silence…It was such a great way to start a day!!

After all our hard work we headed in to have crepes for breakfast…all mornings should be like this :)

Trevor and Joshua are now out shoveling driveways…Trevor earned 40$ this morning so far!  I will keep you posted on how much they earn today :)

HAPPY SNOW DAY!!

Happy Birthday to the BEST 7 year old twins on the ENTIRE PLANET!!!!

It's a Camo/Iron Man birthday for Jason and Reagan this year!  We started out this birthday just like any other…before the sun woke up and with cinnamon rolls…Camo cinnamon rolls!!!

 Camo and Iron man decorations...

 and PRESENTS!!!!

 Jason and Reagan look older I think…Reagan says he grew overnight!!

Jason and Reagan got their favorite books from Grammi…thank you Grammi :)

 Gramma Pauline…the money was very much appreciated!!! :)

 Brandon made sure his gift arrived on time…the boys saw the box and it was the first gift they wanted to open…I wonder why….

 Thank you Brandon for our Nerf target and gun holder…woohoo!!!

Trevor totally spoiled the twins with Batman Lego Wii 2….I think they like it :)

 Our kids totally love legos…anything legos…but their ultimate favorite are the Lego Mini-Figures.  Joshua got the twins new Mini figures and a case to put them in…SWEET!!

 Mommy and Daddy got Jason and Reagan Iron Man and Captain America guys.  

This is the BEST BIRTHDAY EVER!!!!

Did you think that was the end of the post…not yet.  

Daddy couldn't leave his princess out of the picture…he got Elli a Doc Mcstuffins puzzle with a sweet purse carrying case…Elli LOVES it!!

Thank you Daddy, I love it!!!

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UPDATE

Had to post the pictures of our first ever attempt at making Twinkies.  Hope gave Chris a Twinkie maker, so we made Twinkies for Reagan and Jason's birthday party.

 We used the recipe that came with the Twinkie maker…they tasted just like Twinkies, but they were not sponge-like like Twinkies are…they were dense and cake-like…

 They were difficult to fill due to the dense nature of the cake, but they were yummy :)

 Of course we had our friends, Ryan, Devon, Reese and Ella, over for the birthday cake…everyone wore their army clothes…Ryan showed up in his Dress Uniform…it was a ton of fun!!

Kopp Kids Videos...

I found these videos on my camera…had to share :)

They haven't learned about proper lighting while shooting, so some of these are hard to see :/

Getting Ready for Baby...

Only 10 weeks left until our #7 bundle of joy finally arrives.  Elli has been helping me gather and organize baby stuff…she is very excited to meet her new brother.  Today she was playing with her brothers as usual…except she was balancing her doll on her hip the entire time.  She was being very careful not to drop the doll, bouncing it around and patting its' back…and then I noticed what doll she was carrying.  It wasn't her pretty new dolls that she was balancing on her hip…it was my ratty old doll that I got when I was maybe a little older than she is now.  I still remember the Christmas that I got it…my mom had a silver aluminum tree that year.  That poor doll has had soooo many baths that the hair is completely in disarray and the color of the dolls skin is fading…but Elli calls the doll Max and loves it!!

Reagan and Jason had to pose with their nerf guns…they wanted to be on the blog :)