lily is the cutest baby ever! i just love her big ol' belly and lily adores me. she wants me to hold her all the time!!!!
Thursday, May 19, 2011
the perfect baby
i thought my girls would have been more interested in holding gavin when he came because they are always bugging me about having another baby....but they really didnt' hold gavin that much.....then i realized that lily is what they have in their head that they want. the perfect baby. she looks like a baby and doesn't talk, unless they tell her to say something and she tries to copy them, getting her to say ca-ca always cracks everyone up, she likes to be fed, but can follow direction. they can dress her and ask her yes and no questions and she nods or shakes her head no. she smiles and usually listens to them, and for some reason her stubborn streak doesn't bother halle. halle can put a diaper on her, give her a passy or her blanket and carry her around the house, and halle is totally oblivious to whether lily want to be carried or not, haha.....if halle wants to carry her, lily gets carried. but lily loves halle and loves to give all the kids hugs and play with them. she really is the perfect baby. any younger and she would still be fragile and any older and the girls wouldn't see her as a baby anymore.....if she could stay this age forever, it'd be halle's dream come true!
johnny g's
kiera and lucy are the cutest little friends. when we went out of town lucy asked lynn, are my sisters home yet? the girls just have so much fun together. the first question i get in the morning has changed from< i want breakfast. to : can we go to lynn's house?
johnny g's
a new ride at johnny g's! what could be better! this is already our favorite place to play! for 15 bucks you get a bag of tokens, 2 wristbands for unlimited rides, mini golf, bounce houses, train ride, ball pit, tubes and slides, plus a one topping large pizza and a pitcher of soda. seriously???!!! its a mini disneyland right next to home. we took melanie here when she visited and spent 4 hours there!!!!
gavin
melanie came for a visit last month. she just brought her youngest, gavin, who i hadnt' met yet. even though i was sad that her other 3 older boys weren' t coming with her, i was happy that melanie got to take a relaxing , well deserved vacation. plus me and lynn got to take turns loving on gavin. he is the cutest sweetest baby and i could not get enough of him.
we had sooo much fun while melanie was here. we went to playgrounds, out to eat, and cooked some of our favorites, like egg rolls and won tongs, a lopez tradition...yummmmm.....
we also planned an easter party for all of the kids and their friends. everyone brought a snack to share and eggs to hide. then all the kids played on the playground and went on an egg hunt. the kids all had a great time!
melanie got to spend easter with us. we painted eggs and got a visit from the easter bunny!
more pictures on flickr of her trip and more posts to come!
Monday, April 18, 2011
late night pj party!
DSC01559, originally uploaded by Our Little One.halle has been begging me to have a party for her, a late-night, pj party. i hear reminders everyday....after i crimped her hair, "oh, i wanna crimp the girls hair at my party" or if we drink koolaid, "i want to have koolaid at my party" or hear a certain song, "we should dance to this at my party".....i had a free friday, so we went around to the neighborhood girls with invitations , and we had the funnest pj party. we had 10 girls total, but since they were neighborhood friends , their ages varied from our cousin lucy, a couple 5 year olds, 6, three 9 year olds, up to 11 years old. i didn't realize how much fun this would make the party because it wasn't just chaos....all the girls came in their pjs. first we had dinner. halle wanted mummy dogs (hot dogs wrapped in cresent rolls) and kiki wanted mac and cheese. halle wanted koolaid, which was a huge treat and kiki wanted me to make jello, two things i never make....kiki wanted me to buy potato chips and halle asked for a chocolate cake, which the girls decorated with candies. after dinner i got out all our nail polish and tooth picks. one of the girls brought a nail decorating idea book and the girls did pocka dots , sparkles, ect. for an hour!! then we went up stairs and they put on make up. i put on eye liner and mascara on all the girls and they thought that was pretty cool. then they played for a while and then laid out their sleeping bags and watched a little bit of a movie while i crimped hair. then we had cake and played the wii. it was such a fun night! i can't wait to do it again! halle and kiera were so giddy and giggly the whole night. it is fun to do something so easy that i know will make them sooo happy!
we didn't want to leave our cousins out of the party , but knew it was just too girly. so lynn had a boys party at the same time for her boys and the neighborhood boys. they had a fun night too!
we are really lucky to live in such a nice neighborhood with some really fun neighborhood kids. we have been going out everyday from after school time, when all the kids get home till night. the weather is awesome and the kids are having a great time!
Monday, April 11, 2011
universal studios
for my birthday this year we decided to take a long weekend and go to universal studios. we really wanted to take james and adam with us but lynn was nervous about a trip like that without her. i finally talked her into it, caling her at 4am the morning we were leaving and convincing her that we just couldn't leave without them. when the girls got in the car that morning and saw the boys sitting in the back seat, they started screaming they were sooo excited they were coming with us. it turned out to be the funnest trip and something we will all never forget. what could be funner for the kids then taking a trip with there best friends! the kids were great at keeping each other company in the car and in the long lines. they never cared about waits or long walks because they were always having fun doing whatever. the line for harry potter was an hour and when we finally got to the front of the line, the kids either couldn't do it or didn't want to, but the boys thought that walking through the line , which was through the castle, was the highlight of the trip! there are sooo many fun kid rides and splash pad , water areas, too that we spent tons of time at. we spent all day thursday, friday and half day saturday, leaving about 5pm to head back to ga. on friday we spent 9 hours at the park! we all crammed into a hotel and the kids passed out at night! the girls loved showing off what they knew about the park since they had been there before and the boys loved talking about what rides they wanted to do with their dad when he comes home for a visit this summer!
Monday, March 14, 2011
lucy
lucy is our newest bff. we are having so much fun with our cousins living across the street.
we get to play with lucy everyday. she is just one of the girls now. kiki loves having her own little sister to "boss" around. and they all get along great!
yestarday we got home from church just after noon and it was in the 70s, so nice!! we played outside with cousins and neighborhood kids till 8:30 that night! it was such a fun and relaxing day!
today we were out there again from the time the boys got home from school till dinner time! halle got a bike with out the training wheels for xmas, she learned right away and today, me and the girls went riding around the neighborhood....she was beating me up all the hills and down the hills she is much more fearless then i am!
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
we miss grandma and grandpa
halle waited for grandma's visit to use this tea set. this was the highly anticipated moment! it was so fun and something i'm sure the girls won't ever forget!
yestarday we finally skyped with grandma....the girls know how to speed dial her and call her all the time, but this was our first skype since the visit. the girls were sooooo thrilled to see grandma, they were both kissing the computer screen and hugging the computer. kiki could not stop with sweet nothings..."grandma, you are so, so pretty!" and "grandma, you are the greatest grandma in the whole world"...they showed her stuffed animals, they showed her the sticker books we made, they did cart wheels, and handstands and couldn't stop talking!!! they wanted to skype again today. i'm sure it will be an almost daily activity!
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
shoes!
tom picked these shoes out for halle for xmas. she is in love with these!!! she gets compliments where ever she goes in them and loves that!!!
quotes of the week:
halle, "mommmy, why would you even buy a car that drives this slow?!?!" (halle has to remind me everyday that she hates the truck because it drives soooo slow)
both the girls call hard boiled eggs, rotten eggs because of the smell...but they love to eat them!
kiki, "mommy, i love the cheese inside of the rotten eggs" .....(she means the yolk....thats what her and halle decided was inside of them.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
trash to treasure... a good will fix up
this was dark brown with a picture of a cow on it. when halle saw me put it in the cart at the good will, she nearly fainted. she asked why i was buying it and i said "for your room"....then she really started getting nervous. "no, mommy, please dont' put that in our room".....i painted it and modge podged scrapbook paper on it and hung their necklaces on it. they were soooo happy with how it turned out.
new decor for their room
i bought the girls each a shelf at the good will and the frames at the dollar store and i asked the girls what kind of pictures they wanted in their room, they said puppies and kitties so i bought a calendar at the dollar store too.....painted everything with left over pink paint from the walls and hung it all up. when i was done i told the girls to come in the room and see what i had done. they were screaming and jumping up and down, so happy about their new room. then i told them they could each get some of their special things and fill their shelfs. i should have waited a couple more days before i took the picture because their shelfs are twice as full and really cute! when people come over they love to tell them whos shelf is whos and point out different things that are theirs and why they are special.
dino pic
tom decided this would be a good spot for a picture.....halle was scared to death and would not even look up. there was a few things at universal studios that scared halle and so kiera enjoyed acting like she was so brave. kiera kept saying things like, "are you scared of 'twister', halle?" , "i liked it, i'm so brave, huh, mommy?"
so this picture makes me laugh cuz its just another time when keira, who probably was a little scared, was acting fearless just because halle was freaking out. kiki is even doing little t-rex arms just to try to prove how much she was liking this moment.
little ham
halle has become such a ham lately. this pic. is from this summer at busch gardens. she loves to pose and say, "don't you want a picture of me doing this?" and then i say, oh yeah! and it just encourages her more.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
apples nursing
tom, "i just feel so bad for apples. she has to nurse them all the time."
me, "yeah, so did I and i dont' remember anyone feeling sorry for me"
knuckles
so we gave away knuckles and guinea nibbles. the girls wanted me to take pictures of them with all the guinea pigs and hang up the pictures around their beds. i bought little frames at the dollar store and took the pictures. such a cute little piggy and kiera looks like a little model!
the babies
having babies last year, was really fun. i'm tempted to make some more. they really were sooo cute, and you can hold them right away, so they were so fun for the girls. lynn was supposed to take 2 for her boys for xmas. that was why we did this in the first place. but then when their family stayed with us before xmas, she found out she and her son were allergic to them. well, their really wasn't a better xmas present i could have given the girls then to tell them lynn couldn't take the two babies. the girls were almost crying tears of joy. from day one the girls each picked their favorite. the ones pictured here. halle , the darker one, and she named her brownie, and kiera the lighter one, she named him lovey. well, then guinea nibbles had her babies. they came out a little weird looking and halle wanted to give those to lynn. but after the girls named them and they got bigger and cuter, they cried when ever i told them they were still going to lynn's family. so, at this point we still have all the babies. kinda rediculous , ok, very rediculous, but still very fun.
slime
this year for halle's birthday party favors, we sent each kid home with a bag of green slime....it was a halloween theme, and there were like 30 kids so i had to go cheap! you can make slime with borax and glue and food coloring. it is very easy and fun to make and very fun to play with. since halloween was on a sunday this year, i decided to make slime for all the primary kids. the girls made me do each batch a different color. the slime is like the slime from the bubble gum machines , not sticky, so we made a big mess, but not impossible to clean up. and we still have a big box of borax, so i'm sure the girls will talk me into doing it again
guinea pig tent
everytime i go the good will, i find the coolest things for the girls. well, i happened to find this little tent, which i thought would be great for barbies, but as soon as both the girls saw it they both were so excited to put their guinea pigs in it. knuckles loves this tent. this fall we went for a walk every evening....halle on her razor and kiera in the wagon with knuckles in his tent. the girls even convinced me that we had to take knuckles trick or treating. he was in his tent for awhile, but then i just had to hold him from house to house. the girls LOVED showing him off and getting all kinds of attention....aka weird looks from the neighbors. last week we gave knuckles away. we have a cage of the girls and a cage of the boys. knuckles had to have his own cage since boys cannot be housed together unless they are very young and used to each other. so knuckles we getting less and less attention and we really have just too many guinea pigs, so we parted with him. we were sad to see him go. ok, i was the only one who cared because he is just so dang cute. but the girls like playing with their babies the most and he went to one of their friends so they were excited for their friend to get him for his birthday.
and the award for best grandma goes to.....
mom found corn in her teeth and cracks for who knows how long. speaking of cracks, halle told me when we got home, grandma has two cracks, one in her tongue (weird deep line down the middle) and one in her butt.....haha
kiera has so much dirt on her face that it looks like a 5 o'clock shadow!
last month , grandma and granpa lopez came to visit us. will post pictures soon. halle and kiera loved every second of their visit and getting tons of attention....when we dropped them off halle was acting fine but as soon as they went out of view, halle and kiera both burst into tears, not a tantrum, just plain sad....halle said, "momma, i dont' want them to leave" ....it made me sad, we went straight to walmart to pick out something to cheer us up. right away we passed the card section and the girls spotted guinea pig , valentine stickers...they were freaking out. i told them that maybe Heavenly Father put those where they would find them so they wouldn't be so sad. halle said, "yeah, i think so because i'm feeling happier already!" it just so happened that the next week in tom's birthday card, my mom put some stickers in there for the girls, the same guinea pig ones....the girls were so happy to get more stickers!
Monday, February 14, 2011
style!
halle and kiera love to mix up their clothes and make different combinations. they call it their "style"....they go in their room and then come out and say, "mommy, you like my style today?" ...then they usually ask me to take a picture and they love to pose
more crafts!
the girls had sooo much with this craft. we filled different bowls with rice and then dyed them with food coloring . i drew whatever they requested and filled the whole area with glue. and the girls put the different color rice on the page.
halloween party
the girls dressed up as differnt things for every halloween party/fall festival we went too. this was my favorite. kiera was a bride and halle a pop star....totally fit their personalities!
more projects
this is another project we did. it is from teh web site
http://madebyjoel.blogspot.com/
so is the paper city.
this is a aquarium. the girls colored the fish and then we hung them from a button...then the girls lifted the buttons to make the fish move. then the girls put on a show for me. we've done quite a few crafts from this site. its very cute!
more home made projects
at the nice toy store in town they have a little mini sand table with mini tools. the girls always want to play with it. so we used food coloring to dye salt. then i collected little toys from around the house and the girls love playing wiht this. they pull it out all the time and play with it.
paper city
we got this idea from a blog, ca'nt think of the name of it.....will post link later...you can print up buildings, cars and people and then we made roads out of black poster board. the girls and me had a lot of fun making it, coloring it, setting it up and then playing with it.
preschool
the girls love crafts. i set up some bookshelves in the kitchen and filled with every craft supply you could ever want, stickers, glue, scissors, google eyes, brads, markers, paper, ect....the girls and me sit down and do crafts EVERY day....its been a lot of fun to have it all accessible to them, they will sit for a long time and work on projects. sometimes i call it preschool and actually make it educational. they like that too!
halloween fun
the day after i got home from AZ, my bff came to visit. we were roomies in college and just so happened to each have two girls the same age, destine to be bffs as well....the stayed for the week and we had soooo much fun!!! jen bought all the girls halloween pjs and it was like a slumber party every night! we made halloween cookies and took them to the neighbors, "you've been booed". the girls loved ringing door bells and running. luckily, one of our neighbors booed our house the next night!
hee haw farm
more from the farm on our ut trip....kiki could have held this dirty little chicken all day. she was nuzzlin' and snugglin' it for a long time!!!
hee haw farm!
we spent the day at the hee haw farm. petting zoo , slides , hay ride, corn maze, pony rides, and more. it was a fun, fun day!!!
trevy
kiki called trevor, trevy.....so cute. during the day aidan was in school, which meant the girls played with trevor. halle and trevor could sit in the tent in the playroom for hours playing "camping" .....
feel the love!
these kids could just play together forever. halle still tells me when she grows up , she wants to marry aidan and wants kiki to marry trevor.
temple square
our UT trip...we visited temple square. the girls were excited to see where me and tom where married. the first trip where everyone stayed healthy and we had sooo much fun. even tom surprised us and came for one weekend! typically i hate surprises, but this one was fun and a well kept secret....tom bought the tickets a year before!
bffs and big hams
this is halle and her bff shreya. they are big time hams for the camera and this picture just cracks me up. this was our church fall festival.
updates
i have not blogged in a long time so i'm jsut going to start posting pictures and try to catch up a little bit on the last 3 months. this is from our trip to UT in september. these cousins are just too cute together. the girls and me miss them everyday!!!
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