The Lopez Life

{Amanda's Swim Meet}

My niece, Amanda, had a swim meet last Friday. She's quite the good little swimmer. She's 11 and because of her birthday she was moved up the 12-15 year old bracket. She does pretty well and came in second place for her free-style event!

{Good-bye January}

I was going to start out by saying, "I am glad January is ending." Although January was sad, it also had lots of good. On January 16th, my dad's twin brother, Tom passed away. My Uncle Tom. 

Uncle Tom wasn't sick. He was 72. This has been so hard for all of our family. My heart aches for my dad. My heart aches for my Grandmom. She is 98 and no one should have to bury their child.  My heart aches for my Aunts. My heart aches for my cousin Tommy.

My sister and I flew back to New Jersey with our parents for my uncle's funeral. My uncle is a retired police detective. He also worked for bridge police (after retirement) and also as an EMT. He never stopped giving or helping people. His funeral was HUGE! They even closed the freeway.

This photo is when we pulled into the cemetery. They had a flag hanging from a fire truck in his honor. It was rainy and cold and had snowed two days earlier.

The Navy came and they folded the flag that was on his casket. There was a bagpipe player. Even though it was so sad it was a beautiful funeral.   One I want to remember because I never realized my uncle had made such a big difference in so many people's lives. He was so loved and never asked for anything in return. 

So the reason I am not happy to see January go, even though it was a tough month.... I got to see this lady smile.

 

My Grandmom. She's 98. She's seen a lot in this world. It was hard for her, but to see her sipping her wine and reading her paper at the end of the day is a good thing.  Again.....this is why I take pictures. I took a lot on this trip. I got to meet, for the first time, 1st cousins and 2nd cousins and see relatives I have not seen in 28 years.  I won't share all the photos I took. These were just on my phone. You can read more about Uncle Tom's funeral here.

My uncle was a happy person and we laughed a lot and shed a lot of tears in January. That's the way he would of wanted it.  We will forever miss you and never forget you, Uncle Tom.

**photo taken 1-13-12
 
 

Fun Family Photos

Yesterday we celebrated my mom's birthday.  Had a nice dinner with family and friends.  I wanted to take  a bunch of just because photos. We always miss out on taking pictures.  We just forget because we are having so much fun playing games, swimming and just being together. Here are some from yesterday.  My parent's are leaving soon to take a trip out of the country so we wanted to get some pictures with them with the grandkids.

 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

The original Jersey boys.  These two have been saying "Yeah Buddy!" way before Vinny and Pauly. 

 
 
It was just a little windy out!

 
Robert helping my dad with his iPad.

 
 

{Third Post this Month}

 
 
Thought I'd post since it is the last day of November and this is only my third post for November.  I need to blog more.  Dave's dad is visiting us right now and we've been having so much fun.  I'm glad Robert is getting to spend time with his grandpa Lopez.  He's getting out of school early today and the guys are going out to lunch.  Tonight my parent's are coming over for dinner.  Ramon leaves tomorrow morning to head home.  I will post pictures from Thanksgiving and catch up on blogging tomorrow.   

{Blog Slacker!}

I haven't blogged in two weeks!  I haven't been on the computer much in the last two weeks either.  In the last two weeks we have been:

• Working on some home improvements. 
• Robert has been playing baseball.
• I've been very busy at work so the days are flying by.   
• We bought a new car.  Sold Dave's car.
• Celebrated a 30th birthday party of a friend (oh to be young again!)
• Dave and Robert are training together at the gym again since football has ended.
• I started to exercise again a little.  Since my eye issue I feel like I've aged a lot! 
• Getting ready for our annual block gargage sale next weekend.
• Putting up our Christmas tree next weekend.
• We'll be in Northern California for Christmas this year (that's why the tree is going up early).
• Dave's dad will be here the Saturday after Thanksgiving for a five day visit.  Excited to see him!!

Here's a photo of Robert and my dad on Veteran's Day.

 

Here's a photo of the car we bought.

 
 

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!

We were up and out of the house early to take Jamie to the airport.  She made it home safe and sound.  We really miss her a lot!  Looking forward to seeing her at Christmas. 

 
We stayed home all day.  I watched a lot of TV and caught up on some DVR'd shows.  Robert had no intention of trick 'r treating this year until some friends started calling and asking him what time they were all meeting up.  So he decided to go.  My parents came over and we played games until Dave got home from work.  Then Dave and I watched the same movie we watch every year on Halloween night.  Night of the Living Dad that was made in 1968. 

 
I picked up Robert from where they started trick 'r treating when they were done.  Luckily, I was able to get this picture of the kids that were still waiting for rides. 
 
It's been a fun week and it's all back to work and school tomorrow.  Football is over.  Now it's just baseball.  Just one game a week until Thanksgiving. 

This also ends my 31 days of blogging for October.  Glad some other blogging friends got to join me this year.  :)   

{Jamie's last day}

Today is Jamie's last day here in AZ.  She leaves to go home tomorrow morning.  We've had such a great visit.  We are all going to really miss her.  Today we went and saw Case 39.  It was an ok movie.

 
After the movie we stopped at Ulta.  Jamie and I bought Bare Minerals makeup.   We have both been wanting to try it.  We love it!! 

 
 
 

After that, we stopped at Block Buster and rented a few movies.  I just made homemade enchiladas and rice.  Be back tomorrow with more pictures. 

Have a great night! :) 

 

 

 

10-26-2010

Today was a nice day.  Dave, Jamie and I went out for the day.  Robert had school.  I had an eye appointment first.  I had a really good eye appointment today.  I could read the eye chart that I could not even see before.  I could see the numbers in the color book.  The inflammation is gone, but I do have damage to my nerve.  I go back again on December 8th for another check up and an infraction exam.

We went and watched Robert's last football practice this afternoon.  Last game is tomorrow night.

We felt bad that Robert missed out on all the fun today so we told him he could pick where we went out to eat tonight.  Of course he picked Famous Dave's.  We were still stuffed from a late lunch.  Then we headed to the mall after dinner and did some more shopping.

 
Tomorrow Dave is working and Robert will be at school so Jamie and I are going to go see "Life As We Know It" 

I'll be back tomorrow night with pictures of the last football game.

Fear Farm

Tonight we went to the Fear Farm.  We had so much fun!  It was fun to have Jamie with us. We are all so tired we are calling it a night.  Here's some photos from tonight.

 

 
 

 

{Family}

Today we went to a baptism for a sweet baby girl.  Allie is so cute and just beautiful!  I can't believe I didn't takle any photos of her when we went back to Debbie and Tyler's house.  I did, however, get to hold her and get my baby fix. 

After we got out of church I did snap a few photos of Robert, Matt and Amanda.  Amanda will be 10 next Sunday.

 

 
Love spending Sundays like this with a lot of family.  After we came home, Kylie came over and we had a game night and we played this game.