The Lopez Life

{March 1st!}

I love March! It's one of my favorite months, along side of October. So....Happy March!

We've been busy around here. If you've been reading my blog long enough, you know how I love to rearrange things and redecorate a lot! Right now we are changing a few things in our kitchen. We have a new stove being delivered this Saturday and the plumber will also come to install a new kitchen faucet.

We are also putting in new kitchen lighting. Just need to pick out what we want.

Our current kitchen faucet isn't that old, but the sprayer broke and we can't find a new one. So we just decided to buy a new one.

Well Robert called and is ready to be picked up so I have to cut this short. Be back soon with more.  

{Saturday 2-12-11}

What a week!!  Ever have one of "those" weeks?  Even though we had fun this week, we also had times that weren't fun.  But, as I keep telling myself those not fun moments could be so much more worse.    Robert had baseball tryouts Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and then Thursday morning at 7:00 AM they posted who made the team.  Dave took him to the school that morning at 6:30 (because Robert is always early for everything) and they sat in the parking lot.  Robert did not make the team.  Ya know what?  Once again I am SOOOO proud of my son.  I know he was disappointed, but he was "ok" with it.  He amazes me and teaches me a thing or two every now and then. ;)  He told me , "It's ok mom, I still get to hang out with major leaguers' for the whole month of March being a bat boy and I'll sign up to play Sr. ball."  Still can't believe he'll be 15 next month. 

Ok, as for the other crap that pissed me off (sorry if I offend anyone with my language) this week?  I am over it!!!  Move on.  Life it way too short. 

We had all of our new roof stuff delivered at 6:30 AM on Tuesday.  They started on Thursday and finished late yesterday afternoon.  It looks great!  I'll need to take a picture.  I love the color! 

Here are some pictures from this week. 

A section of the roof with some of the supplies.  As I look at this picture reminds me to call a screen company today and have them come out to look at putting new screens on our front windows.  They are stating to look bad.

 

A picture from Tuesday night as we were leaving Salty Senoritas.  Robert looks reall short next to Julie since he was standing down hill.  We had so much fun.  We are going this Tuesday again and Maddie and her parents are joining us. 

 
 Thursday night we went to Johnny Rockets for diner.

 
Friday night I took Robert and Jon to the mall.  I stopped in real quick to stock up on some Bath and Body Works hand soap.  The Mango Margarita one is my favorite!

 
Well that's it.  One to a new week.  I just realized that we ate out way too much last week! 

     

{Some more decor}

Wanted to share a little section on my scrap-room that I decorated for Halloween. 

 
This little frame I made using a printable from House Of Smith's.  That link has the printable in case you want to print one out.  Super cute idea by Shelley!   

 

Today I got off early.  We bought a new mattress for Robert.  He thought we were going to buy it after he got out from football practice.  I bought it before and had it waiting for him when he got home.   He was pretty happy and surprised since he had a headache and was just exhausted.   I thought he might like this bedding (and he did) so I was glad I took a chance and picked it up while I was out. 

 
Sorry I can't get a bigger image of this bedding.  I'll need to take a picture of it from his room.  It's grey, red and charcoal. 

{Fresh Green Grass}

We seeded our grass 2 1/2 weeks ago.  Now we have a bed of nice new grass for the winter.  Love all the new grass and how green it is.  It is high and needs to be mowed now that it's all full in all areas of our lawn.  It started out like this.

 
 And now looks like this.

  
And just because I felt like it.....here's an ant's view. ;)

 
The last two nights have been nice.  I have been going to bed early and it's made a huge difference in how I am feeling in the morning and at work.  Also, football practice has been ending at 5:00 so we are able to eat a little earlier.  We are down to three games.  Tomorrow is an away game and then two home games after that.  Can't believe the season is almost over.   

{Long Days & A Pep-Rally Tailgate Party }

I meant to post yesterday, but we were SO busy!  It was so late by the time I was able to blog. By then I had no energy to do so.  So tonight it's not as late, but still late. 

We've been putting in very long days!  Robert leaves the house at 6:40 in the morning and I leave for work around the same time.  Dave is up around 3:30 AM so he's gone earlier than Robert and I. Robert is putting in about 13 hours at school a day.  He's still loving football.  Monday was really hard.  It was so hot and humid and when you have on full football gear it's about 10 times hotter!  He didn't feel well after practice, but after he got home, showered and ate he felt way better.  Yesterday, they got a little break with the lightning.  Today was just as hot, but he felt great after practice.  I think he's finally used to the hard workouts. 

I snapped this pic of his helmet the other day for my POTD.

 

{PEP-RALLY TAILGATE PARTY - AUGUST 28TH 6:00 TO 8:00 PM}

Centennial High School is having their 1st annual kick-off to the football season tailgate party/introduction of the football teams.  They will have some food vendors ie: snow cones and ice cream and a couple of others.  They'll be selling Centennial Coyote shirts and hats.  Then at 7:00 on the football field they'll have the rally.  Come on out for this kick-off and enjoy a fun tail gate party.  The Freshman's first football game is a home game on September 1st at 6:00 pm.

So come on out and support The Coyotes!!!

Yesterday our new dining room table was delivered.  I love it!  I have always wanted a high table.   

It seems weird not having a hutch now, but we have a lot more room, which we needed with this bigger table.  We bought an extra bench so we can seat 8 people comfortably. 

Ok now it's late.  I'm off to bed. 

A little bit of my scraproom & a movie review

Today I came home from work and started to hang things up on my walls in my new scraproom.  I still have more to hang up, but here is a glimpse of what I did today.  These three stars hang on the wall above our family computer.  This room has very high ceilings.

These little shelves used to hold Robert's baseballs.  I will just buy him more next time I am at Ikea.  I wanted to keep them where they were.  I need to get a different frame for that photo.  I don't like the blue.  In this photo the clock looks like it's way too big for the shelf.  It's just the angle of the photo.  It really does look good.

And the last one is just the top of a little bookshelf I am using until I get my big Expedit Ikea shelf out of Robert's room.  I love my Scentsy warmer.  As you can tell I have a thing for stars.  

Tonight Dave and I watched "The Crazies".  It was pretty good!  I screamed several times.  It was a great (as I call it) jumpy scary movie! 

Well it's almost 11:00 pm.  I better get to bed.  We have a busy day tomorrow.  Going to Wet-n-Wild!   Looking forward to a three day weekend. 

Before and After

We seeded our grass a week and a half ago.  Here's what it looked like right after we seeded it.

Here's what it looked like today.

And a closer look.

I can't believe it was this high after a week.  Plus, we have to wait another week before we can mow it. 

The bar's open!

This is what we worked on all morning.  We still have a long way to go to finsih what's next to the bar.  We are going to make a bbq area as well.  We need to remove a tree first.  This little area if off of our bedroom on the side of the house also near the kitchen.  We are just glad it's getting a little cooler to work outside in the yard again.

Friday!

First week of school is over.  It flew by!  Robert really likes his class and thinks it's so cool to have a PE locker.  We had to buy him a combination lock and that is even cooler. 

I've been meaning to post some pictures of the knobs they installed last Sat.

I love how the kitchen has turned out.  Now we are just waiting for the flooring to go down.  I know it will all be done soon, but this remodel took twice as long as it was scheduled. 

Not much going on this weekend.  Robert has a birthday party to attend tomorrow so I plan on scrapping while he's gone.   Sunday, Dave and I will work on the new bbq area some more.  The weather is slowly starting to get cooler, but it's still hot.       

It's almost done!!!

My kitchen is almost done!  I can't believe it!  I love my countertops and new sink.   

Here's a close up of the countertops....

They still need to install my hardware and you probably can see small pieces of blue painters tape for some repairs that need to be made.  Next step in getting the floor down.  I'm tired of walking on the cement.