The Lopez Life

{POTD}

Thought I'd just post some more POTD's (picture of the day) here on my blog. 

 
It doesn't look like they are having any fun, but they just got through having a major water fight in the pool.  This was taken at Maddie's surprise birthday party at the end of the day.

 
During the fight.

 
Dave flies on an airplane a lot for work.  He always tries to text me right before he takes off (when he's in the US).  Usually he'll tell me where he is and what the weather is like. He text me this the next day that the landing gear wasn't working and they had to make an emergency landing.  As you can tell by my response I was a little freaked out.  This is why I don't fly.  Turns out it was the light that wasn't working, not the landing gear. 

 
Dave and Robert after we went out to eat one night.  Robert is taller than Dave, but he doesn't look it in this photo. 

 

Swimming at my sister's house. 

Ok that's all for today.  Our plans changed for tonight.  Robert is going to the movies with Maddie and we are BBQing here.  Dave and I are going to work a little in the garage today.   Have a great day! 

 

 

{Still Here.............}

Just enjoying the summer and hardly ever go on the computer these days.  I just use my phone for everything.  I need to be better about blogging.  Things we are doing that are keeping us busy.

• Baseball (last game tonight!)
• Football
• Weight training
• Going to the gym
• BBQ's with friends
• Swimming
• Going to the movies
• Movie nights at home. LOVE Netflix!
• Remodeling the master bathroom.  I love how it's looking!
• Painting Robert's room (again). 
• Organizing the garage
• Planning some sort of a get-a-way for this summer

See it's just busy, but all good.  I am seriously itching to scrapbook again.  Never thought I would say that!!  Hoping to post a card or layout soon!

{August 1st!}

This is the last week of summer break!  School starts next Monday morning at 7:20 AM.  Robert's bus will pick him up at 6:51.  That sure is early!  He's excited to take the bus since he's never had to take one to get to school before.   

We are ready for school.  Shopping is done and now we'll just wait for Freshmen orientation on Friday to see what he needs supply wise.  

Today I surprised Robert with a day out doing some fun things.  We left at 9:00 AM and went and saw Grown-Ups.  He hadn't seen it yet and really wanted to see it.  After that, we went to Which Wich for lunch.  Then to Cabela's so he could get some new fishing stuff.  Then we went bowling and bowled three games.  He was surprised and wanted to know what the special occasion was for.  I told him, "just because".  I didn't bring my camera so I just took pics with my new Droid.  Still learning how to use this fun phone.  So here's my photos from today.  I could have taken better ones, but we were having too much fun to focus on photos.  By the way.....it rained all morning and early afternoon.  That made the day even better.  We love rain!

The last game they turned off the lights for cosmic bowling. 

I just realized that with it being August 1st I am one month away from putting out my fall decorations!! :)

{The Summer Is Coming To An End!}

I have been the worst blogger!  I don't think I have ever left my blog so empty as I have this month.  Anyway....the summer is coming to an end.  Two weeks until school starts.  Starting to get things ready for the busy schedule we will be having. 

Dave and I celebrated our 17th wedding anniversary on Saturday.  We are going away this week for a night at the Jerome Grand Hotel in Jerome.  We are pretty excited about staying there (I'm a little scared) since it is supposed to be haunted and we are staying in the most haunted room they have.  I'll be taking lots of pictures and will be sure to share them when we get back.

So one of my goals this summer was to scrapbook more.  Well that didn't happen at all!  I think I made one card, maybe?  My days pretty much consist of getting up, going to work and then go to the gym right after work.  I've been doing this 5 days a week now and this is my 4th week.  I am loving my new gym!  I have a personal trainer and what a difference it has made.  I always thought I was working out pretty hard.  Turns out the 30 minutes I was doing really wasn't doing much.  Now I put in 1 1/2 hours each workout.   I eat 5 meals a day that are around 300 calories each and it works!  I thought I would starve, but I'm not.  I have pretty much cut out sugar from my diet.  Also, my soda intake is way down.  I sometimes have one can a day, but usually I skip it all together.  I can't wait to get my measurements at the beginning of August to see how I have done.  I have a lot more energy, but I am also pretty wiped out by the end of the night from working out.  I am going to bed pretty early (except tonight) and I can get up at 5:30 with no problem.  So that's my reason for not blogging. 

I will share some of my Pictures of the Day (which I seriously need to order and catch up on my Project Life album).  That's about all the scrapping I do and I am fine with that. 

Right before a storm as I was going into the mall.

This car was parked outside of the gym the other day.  Had to take a picture!

We cleaned up the yard on Sunday.  It was a mess from the storm on Friday and this was just one of the many piles of leaves we cleaned up.

The pretty flowers Dave bought for me on our anniversary.

Last day of dropping Robert and his friend off for their Bridging the Gap class for high school.

I just bought the new Droid X and can't wait to get my hands on it!  Only thing is, it won't be shipping until August 4th.  It's on back order.  We tried buying it at the Verizon store and they can't keep it in stock.

Ok, I feel like I was good since I blogged.  I don't feel guilty now! :)  I'll be back soon with hopefully some ghost pictures?? 

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. 

Been awhile....

Updates of what we have been doing:

• Working out
• Reading
• Renting movies
• Switching Robert's room and my scraproom.
• Waiting for the first monsoon storm to hit.
• Math camp
• Weightlifting at the high school (Robert)
• Dentist appts.
• Sonic runs for drinks (it's hot!)
• Haircuts

See nothing too exciting. :)  It's finally getting really HOT and a little humid too!  Today we had 10% humidity.  I know that's nothing compared to how humid it is in other places.  It reached 112 degrees today. They said we might have some rain, but I think it's too soon.

I am reading this book before we go see Eclipse on Saturday.

When I was coming home from the gym tonight we had some very low, dark clouds hanging above my neighborhood.  Since I hadn't taken my picture of the day yet, I took this one for my POTD.

I was hoping maybe it would rain, but no such luck.

We are staying in town for the 4th.  Planning a fun weekend.  Trying some new recipes, hanging out at Wet-n-Wild, having family over for a bbq.  That's about it for us. 

A much needed blog update!

As promised....I am taking the time to update this blog before I call it quits.  I have 5 years of our life blogged, so I cannot just throw all that away.  I need to make a blog book, so if that one day does ever come, I have all this history in print. 

We are in the full swing of summer, even though it doesn't feel like summer.  I can't remember when we have had weather this nice this time of year.  This past weekend it was in the high 80's/low 90's.  This week our temps will look this:

Tuesday: 101 degrees

Wednesday: 100 degrees

Thursday: 100 degrees

Friday: 102 degrees

Saturday: 103 degrees

Not too bad!  Plus, we don't have the high humidity like most states so it's beautiful.   

So we've been doing some fun things around here.  Working on some summer decorating.

Hanging out with friends.

Went to Wet-n-Wild's first dive-in movie.  It was a blast, but it was COLD once that sun went down!

We received Robert's graduation photos.  I really like how they turned out.  I am glad I ordered them. 

 

We went to the Diamondback's game over the weekend.  Had a good time.  The game was pretty exciting with a lot of action for once!  D-backs won the game!! 

 

I made Robert pose for this pic.  Gus was all for it, but Robert...not so much!  He hates when I pull my camera out.

Today Robert started Summer Math Camp for two weeks.  He said it was fun.  Glad he likes math!

Well that's all I can think of for now.  I'm really going to try to keep up with blogging more often.  It might be boring, but I'll be blogging about something.

Memorial Day

We've had an awesome weekend! Wish we had a couple more days off.  Saturday, we celebrated my dad's birthday. 

On Sunday we went to Wet'n'Wild.  It was our first time going for the 2010 season.  We got in fast, got great seats to set our stuff on.  It was very crowded after a few hours, but we stayed the whole day. 

 

When we were leaving, we saw this hurst parked in the back part of the park.  We all laughed and hoped that it wasn't there in case someone fell off a slide.  Then I remembered that they have fright nights during Halloween and it must be a prop for that.

 
A bunch of the kids all bought season passes for Wet'n'Wild this year.  We went again today.  I must admit that it is just starting to reach 100 degrees here so the water is still a little cold and it was a little windy this weekend.  When you have no humidity it is cold.  We can't wait for it to get a little warmer so the water isn't so shocking.

Let the Summer Begin!!

I'm slacking off on blogging.  I have pictures to share, but will have to post them later.  We are settling into summer and planning fun things to do.  One thing I really want to spend more time doing this summer is scrapbooking.  I haven't scrapbooked in ages!  I just haven't had the time or motivation.  We are still planning on what family vacation we are taking this summer.  Since we have waited until the last minute, we will not be doing anything big.  Probably just a long weekend away somewhere. 

We are getting season passes again to Wet n' Wild.  We had so much fun last year.  We went at least 10 times.  We are going to go this weekend.  This water park is a blast! 

Looking forward to BBQ's, spending time with friends, movie nights and lazy summer nights!     

Summer re-cap In Pictures

         

  

     

• Friend get togethers
• Basketball games
• Dad's 70th birthday
• Baseball games
• Junior Police Academy
• Circus
• Game nights
• Saw "Wicked"
• Wet-n-Wild
• Hoover Dam
• Las Vegas
• Movie nights

Just a few pictures I wanted to document from our summer.  I am going to print out these photos this size and do a summer 2009 layout. I'll add the layout to my Project 365 album.

We are up early this morning.  Robert is outside practicing his baseball swing with his "at home batting cage".  It's going to be super hot here again so he got up early.

I am going to Caitlin Court in about an hour with Jan.  We are spending all of our Caitlin Cash that we have earned all summer shopping in Downtown Glendale.  Later today we are going to go see Final Destination 3.