I smell Oscar....

Here is a movie trailer that I put together in iMovie after a ride at Picture Rock a couple days ago.

Riding Dirty - the movie trailer

I can see this being comparable to "Good Will Hunting" in how Afflek and Damon got their start, I think people will be referring to this as my big break.

The making of a Christmas card...

Hollywood actors often say "Don't ever work with kids or animals", which I think we can all understand if you've ever tried to get a picture of a kid or a pet doing what you wanted them to do. Jill wanted to get a picture of Cooper posing by our tree to put on our annual Christmas card.

This is the first year that Cooper really understands the Santa theory. One day when we were asking him what he wanted Santa to bring him for Christmas, he went and got this porcelain Santa decoration we had out and showed him the pages in the catalog of things he wanted for Christmas. So Jill asked him to take some pictures with Santa in front of the tree, so he went and got Santa to pose with.

From Cooper and the Tree

And of course no posing without our beloved blankie

From Cooper and the Tree

Then showing some love for Santa

From Cooper and the Tree

Jill then decided to take a little break from the photos. Cooper then told her he wanted to take some more pictures with "friends", so he went and assembled his favorite buddies.

From Cooper and the Tree

From Cooper and the Tree

Then he started assembling other "friends"

From Cooper and the Tree

From Cooper and the Tree

From Cooper and the Tree

From Cooper and the Tree

From Cooper and the Tree

And then Tigger got tossed...

From Cooper and the Tree

And Cooper got a timeout.

From Cooper and the Tree

But after that, he was back to happily playing with his trains

From Cooper and the Tree

From Cooper and the Tree

Cooper doing his Winnie the Pooh Exercises

Cooper is in the middle of his potty training, and his reward for successful deposits is a video. He loves the Winnie the Pooh videos, and one night Jill heard him talking it up as she was cleaning up the bath when he was watching his video.

The next day we got the video camera out to catch it....

Cooper and Bo at the Zoo

When Jill headed north to Alaska to see Kate, the newest Lovejoy member, Cooper and I spent a week on the farm in Oklahoma with Frumpy & Grumpy. It worked out that his cousin Bo was up visiting from Houston, so the two got to hang out together at the zoo. Roughly 6 weeks in age difference between the two, and they got along real well for their first interaction.

Some pics from the event...


Introductions over, now time to gaze at the animals

From Cooper and Bo at OKC Zoo

From Cooper and Bo at OKC Zoo

They quickly decided they were buddies and had our first hug

From Cooper and Bo at OKC Zoo

Myself, Cooper, Bo, Becky and the giraffe stopped for a pose

From Cooper and Bo at OKC Zoo

They wanted their picture taken by this leftover ghost that was up for Halloween

From Cooper and Bo at OKC Zoo

From Cooper and Bo at OKC Zoo

Cooper gave Bo a stiff-arm when he tried to get in the statue with him, but Bo is too big to be deterred

From Cooper and Bo at OKC Zoo

Then they decided they could play together on the next statue

From Cooper and Bo at OKC Zoo

From Cooper and Bo at OKC Zoo

Uncle (to me) Bob pushes the kiddos around

From Cooper and Bo at OKC Zoo

Starting to run out of juice

From Cooper and Bo at OKC Zoo

And some more statues to pose with

From Cooper and Bo at OKC Zoo

Bo posing it up

From Cooper and Bo at OKC Zoo

From Cooper and Bo at OKC Zoo

From Cooper and Bo at OKC Zoo

From Cooper and Bo at OKC Zoo

Then well all headed out to the farm to feed the two bottle calves, Halle and Henry. Cooper was busy checking out the tractors, but Bo was quite interested in helping feed.

From Cooper and Bo at OKC Zoo

Happy cows come from MJ & Yack's farm...

From Cooper and Bo at OKC Zoo

Its been a whirlwind couple months for me, working 60 - 80 weeks (plus travel time) and being constantly on the go when not working. More posts to come in the next couple weeks as I start to ease back the throttle for 2010 and hope to recharge my batteries a bit. I need to get some rest and reCooperation in now as we'll be back to having a newborn in about 2 months. Yikes!