Misc

Oh no!  An entire army wiped out by a giant python!

Warming his buns on Alan's stove in the morning:

Coop has decided to have his birthday party at a video arcade / laser tag place.  He and I went one afternoon to check it out (and naturally, to play laser tag):

You can tell it's winter when even the snake is seeking out moisture:

Coop attended a half-day-camp about green screen photography and created this:

Fixing the clock on Big Ben!

Legos

One of Alan's Christmas break projects was to go through Cooper's giant bin of random lego pieces and sort them by color:

Coop's been enjoying free-building:

And then he also has decided to get out some of his old instruction manuals and try to re-create the objects (and hopefully save them somehow so they don't once again turn into a big bucket of random legos?):

Happy 2016!

Coop and I visited our friends in Arkansas to ring in the new year.  Coop and Caroline:

At a museum where you were supposed to be drawing part of a snowflake and then seeing how it looks in the mirrors.  Coop opted for faces:

A Frank Lloyd Wright house:

Admiring the view at Crystal Bridges museum:

Christmas Day

Coop spent a not insignificant amount of time setting traps for Santa this year -- all sorts of noisy things in between the fireplace and the Christmas tree:

And naturally, he moved the couch in front of the tree and slept there all night:

Alas, no luck.  Santa made it in and out without detection.  He brought Coop a Lego Millennium Falcon, which he loved!  And gifts from mom and dad were a hit as well:

The finished Falcon!!

Christmas in Lyons

Playdough with the cousins:

Baby Syl!!

Hiking at Horse Thief Canyon:

Sugar Cookies:

And a new grandkid gator picture with the newest grandkid:

Dad spent about an hour looking through photos and telling stories from his time in Viet Nam: