Hi there! I am Cooper and we came to a beach music festival today! I met lots of wonderful people who just thought I was as cute as pudding today - I just walked up to them on their little blankets and smiled just like this!
Here I am playing with the camera while everyone else was busy playing ball - see my sisters in the background?
I love dancing! Everyone thought I was SO cute dancing with my hands in the air!
We went on a three mile hike (no four milers like my cousin Brooke!) to see this amazing "waterfountain", which is more of what it was than a waterfall.
The fam at the top of Chimney rock. What an amazing view!
Snack break!
Sisters!
The Northrup girls being silly! Even Claire can be as silly as we are!
Dad completed his first Olympic distance triathlon and then we got to go to Sliding rock - you'll see why it is called that! The water was no Lake Anna, though, at between 48 - 58 degrees in the summer. Quite a shock to our southern systems!
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! BUrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Emma brought Paco along to cheer on Daddy in his race. Barney stayed at home for this trip, but that is okay because Emma left him a pizza on her pillow for supper for him. Daddy and Mommy hoped that there was no "real' pizza on the pillow. Barney was fine when we got home and there were no traces of pizza.
"Gypsy" took us on Emma's first horseback ride ever! We stopped on our way up to Lake Logan in the mountains of NC and Emma loved riding Gypsy. Now every horse we see in a pasture must be Gypsy!
While big sister was riding, Cooper and Claire made new friends.
Tuesday is always exciting - we race out of the house to watch the garbage man come by in his big truck and pick up our trash - this is just one of the many fascinating events that occurs at the Northrup household on a regular basis! Sometimes, as a bonus, we even get to see the street cleaner!!!!!
Emma got a new double-bike - now she can ride super fast with Mom and Dad! We went on a 6 mile ride and Emma did great - the ice cream in the middle of the ride was a little incentive for everyone!
Cooper and Claire got prime rides behind Dad. They loved the ride once they got moving. Now they are just like their cousins Keira and Grant!