The Chapa Family: January 2011

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Happy Birthday Grandma!!!

Happy Birthday to the best Mom and Grandma!! We love her so much. So we tried to make her birthday special! Yesterday was her birthday and she had a relief sociatey activity most the day then lunch with Dad. Well Dad had to work so then her and Rhett went on a date to the movies! We all met afterwards for ice cream at Orange Leaf which is AMAZING!! :) Then today we came to her house, decorated and had a party for her!! We picked the Wicked theme because its her FAVE!! Turned out pretty cute and hope she enjoyed it!!

The cute sign Timber made!

Yummy food! We had Taco soup it soooo good! And cute pink cake pops!

Halee was baby Elphaba, I was the witch the house fell on, East was a munchkin, Timber was Glenda and Rhett was the Scarecrow!!

And the other cute sign Timber made and Angel helped hang!

Beautiful Dorthy!!! and her little toto!

Goofy lookin munchkin!!

Dad Mom and the kids!

Mom had to have German Chocolate Cake, her FAVORITE!!!

And we had a really cool cake made but it doesn't look so great in this pic. But thats my mom on the cake.

little Elphaba!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM I LOVE YOU!!!!! THANKS FOR BEING THE GREATEST!!

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Pizza at Moms

Last sunday we made our own personal pizzas for Sunday dinner at my parents. They were so yummy and the kids loved it! We even tossed our own dough! LOL!

Mom pretending she was at a pizzaria!!

Rhett taking his turn tossing!

That was some goooooood pizza! :)

Fun with a tote!!

Silly kids dumped out their toys and made a "car" :) Halee LOVED it! Briella can be such a sweet loving big sister when she wants to be and I love her for that! She is her mothers daughter!!

11 months! Almost there!

Yes as sad as it is, Halee is 11 months! I CAN NOT beleive it!! She is walking everywhere!!! :) So cute! She has eight teeth and is getting molars! She says mama, dada, bell la la (briella), hi , bye bye and uh oh! She waves, plays peek a boo, blows kisses and she even folds her arms and squints her eyes and bows her head to the side to "pray" with the family!! She also knows "touch your nose" and can show you! She gives five! She is such a fun sweet baby and makes me soooo happy!! She eats anything and everything! She loves fruit snacks and juice, olives and string cheese! She loves to get her teasing brother in trouble! She loves to give kisses and loves! We are so happy to have her!

This is Halee praying! She thinks she closes her eyes as she squints them ! Its so cute!

She loves babies and gives kisses!!

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Reading a Magazine!

I love family fun magazine and so does Briella. we love trying out the fun ideas in there. And I guess Halee likes it too!

Eating Octopus, a Favorite of my kids!

My silly kiddos! one of their most favorite things to eat, and they ask for quite often, OCTOPUS! :) I found it in a family fun magazine! You cut hotdogs in half or even fourths and stick spagetti noodles through! Then boil them. You can even be healthy and stick through whole grain pasta (see I'm a smart healthy mom lol) and let them dip them in ketchup and serve with fish crackers!!

My cutie kiddos

diggin in!

Octopus and fish crackers!

Briella

Easton

Halee has minced Octopus! lol

Halee

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Caught in the ACT!!

Little stinker is now walking! Has been totally walking since The begining of this month! And walking everywhere so she is into a whole lot of new things! Here she is digging out my kitchen drawers! And the next day it was her dresser!!!

I love how she is up on her little tip toes!

Then she got thirsty after all her hard work!

And of course she had to let me know she was so funny! This is her new face she does all the time when she thinks she's playing or being funny! I love this little stinker!

Bean Burritos from Grammy!

Briella enjoying!

Easton enjoying!

Little halarina enjoying!

Halee making sure she gets every last bite!

Mom made some really wonderful black beans, I mean they were REALLY good! ( Like the croutons mom! haha lol) So we had FREE dinner and made burritos and they were super yummy! George was like "what no meat?" then he tasted one and was like "WOW" :) "these are the best bean burritos I ever had!!" So thanks mom!!

Funny things kids say!

5-12-13
Halee- " Mom there is this girl in my class and she has red curly hair and orange polka dots all over her face!"

9-6-12
Halee is 2 and hilarious!! I need to be better about writing her comments!!

Last night it was her turn for prayer and I was helping her and I told her to say "thank you that we could go to Disney land" and she stops and looks at me and goes " I want to go again!" It was so funny we all laughed! Because she was repeating after me until that part she totally stopped her prayer!

We've only been back two weeks now and the week we got back she kept asking to go again. I promised we would but not now. So she always asks and says "Mom I want to go to Disneyland! You promised promised!!" or she'll tell me "mom I want to go on bacation!!"

Lately Halee will say something cute and when we laugh she'll say "what?!" She also will say something and say "seriously?"

When shes mad at some one or teasing her dad she will call them "poopy!" or "pelly!" (smelly)

She always tells me "Mom your my best friend ever ever!" especially when I get upset with her!! She also says " but mommy I love you!"

When its time for bed and she doesn't want to be there she'll stand at her door and call for me " Mommy I need to tell you something!" but she never has anything to tell! Its always " I dont want to go to bed!"
9-23-11

We were visiting with some family friends. Easton was crushing on Lauren who is 18 :) I asked if she was his girlfriend he says yes. I told him you can't have her for your girl friend, she's a cougar! He tells me "no mom! we are both people!"

Easton was telling me I need to have another baby, he wants 3 sisters! I asked him wouldn't you want a brother?! He says "nope, Tracen is my brother!" (Tracen is Timbers little boy who he has claimed for his brother!

Everytime we go to the store Briella asks for EVERYTHING!! I always tell her no we can't afford that right now. I read in the Ensign to teach your kids to live within your means. I am trying to teach her to save her own money when she wants a $30 doll and that she doesn't always get what she wants when she wants it. well I guess maybe I say that a little too much and her young mind doesn't get it because I have been asking her to try hot lunch at school (I hate getting up extra early to make her home lunch) and she said " no we can't afford it! we'll have to stand on the corner and a hold a help us sign!" what a crack up!!! So we had to explain to her what living on a budget means and all that! I guess I better be more careful of the way I explain things to this little smarty pants!!
8-8-11

Were having dinner at my parents on sunday and Easton tells my dad, " Grandpa, your OLD!" we all laugh he thinks he's real cute well the next day i am walgreens picking up Halees medicine and the kids are on my nerves, they are running a muck and I tell them stay by me, you guys are on my last nerve! Well an elderly lady hears me and laughs and says wait till your older. Well Easton says "what did that old grandma say to you?" so I tell him she was just saying hi "wells shes an old grandma" she is still in hearing distance and I say yep she's a grandma, " no mom she's an OLD grandma!" oh my heck!! then he saw I was trying to keep him quite so he gets his goofy grin and says it a few more times, so I try to ignore him. Morale of the story, i guess we better be careful at what we laugh at!!
6-29-11
Easton just had a birthday but has been asking for a ton of toys lately. So we tell him lets wait for Christmas. Well he has been asking me when are we gonna have Christmas and I knew why! So I told him well we just got summer we don't want the snow back yet! He says "I like snow" so I said Easton Christmas isn't about presents and he knew what was coming next so he beat me to it by replying "well Jesus gives Santa the presents to give us!" what a stinker!!!

6-21-11
Okay today Briella was the funny one :) So first I made dinner. I hate when she complains and tells me she's not eating what I made. So I said I don't want to hear it! Your eating what I made. She "sweetly" tells me, "when I am a mom and I make dinner I am gonna make my kids taste it. and if they don't like it I will make them something else, like microwave food or something" what a clown!!!
Then after dinner I was making her help me staiten up the house because they had been playing all day! I told her that even Grandma Marcie (her most favorite person!) made me do chores when I was little. Well she got mad at me and said "that's not how its gonna be at my house!!! My husband is gonna do the chores while me and my kids sit on oour bums and watch tv!!!" LOL watch out boys!!!! ;)

6-20-11
Some new funny stuff from Easton! So we were talking about seaworld and showed him pics of him feeding the Dolphins when he was 10 months old. He didn't like them and said that he didn't want to feed "the whales" I told him they were Dolphins and super nice! I told him that Aunt Tawsha wanted to swim with them because they are so nice! So he asked if Justin and Burklee were going to also? I said yep! He decided that he and Burklee would ride the Dolphins! But was Tawsha going to wear a swimsuit? Yep. Well he need to wear his swimsuit too, "so the dolphins don't get my stuff!" I was like what stuff? "my private stuff mom!" LOL he is such a boy! Why on earth would he think of that!!!

We have been reading the kids book of mormon and talking about Lehi and his family. Well at sacrament the other day Easton goes to Uncle Mikey, "Laman and Lemuel were bad and they tied Nephi up with ropes. And their skin turned brown, like yours mikey!" Oh my heck! Mike is not a member so we kinda had to explain what he was talking about!!

3-24-11
Easton has been talking about getting big and still living with mommy until he leaves on his mission. I told him Jesus would watch over him while he was on a mission he said, "Jesus is gonna open up the clouds and say look at that cute mission!" He makes me smile every day!

8-30-10
I am teaching Easton school this year for preschool. So he asks me, mom are you my teacher? yes or no? I said yes East I'm your teacher. He tells me but mom you don't have black eyes like a teacher!! :) lol he makes me laugh!

8-16-10
Easton said this about two weeks ago, but I was doing my hair up in a bun and he walked in the bathroom and said, " I like your hair mommy! Santa is gonna say woot woot I like your hair!: :) lol he is so funny!

We were out eating snow cones and easton goes, "look mom, a hopping grass!" (grass hopper!)

We were out showing the kids the Idaho Falls Temple and how angel Moroni is on the top and Easton said "thats my Angel's Temple?!" thinking we meant uncle angel!

We were just talking about this the other night and laughing cuz it was last year and I wish I would have wrote it down it was when Briella was four she had a sleepover at my moms and was telling her about how I make her mad! and when I make her mad she whispers "your such a jerk!" so I can't hear her!! What a stinker!! :) too funny though that she knows how to grumble under her breath!!

6-11-10
Yesterday for his birthday Easton got a Woody doll like the one on the movie. So he takes it over to his aunt and goes "howdy little lady!" while he tips his cowboy hat!! so cute!

When East gets mad at people lately he will say " i'm mad at buddies!" meaning (everybody)

3-19-10
So Easton's new fav is Toy Story , he loves Buzz and Woody. So we are having dinner and he comes to the table " I am Buzz Lightyear, I come in peace!"

Briella woke me up yesterday morning " Mommy, my tummy is hungry!"

1-29-10
So I am dropping Briella off at school this morning and I always tell her to be nice to everyone and have a good day you know the usual :) Well Easton has heard me a lot lately telling her to be nice and that she needs to be everyones friend, things like that. So this morning as shes getting out he says "Bella don't kick the kids!" "Be nice" Well of course that made her mad and she yelled "Don't tell me what to do dumb brother!" I am trying the whole time not to laugh and I made her tell him she loves him before she slammed the door! My kids are so funny! I don't know why he thought of that because she has never been in trouble for kicking anybody at school or any place, well besides kicking Easton!

1-19-10
Easton loves his chipmunk toys! He calls them "his boys" he hugs them and says "i so love you boys!" he tries to say I love you so much cuz thats what i always say to him!

So Briella was asking me how a baby got in the mommy's tummy :) I told her they grow from an egg in the mommys tummy. That satisfied her enough for now thank goodness! She had one of Easton's toy balls in her shirt and ran off "hey Easton want to feel my egg?"!!!

12-4-09
Yesterday Briella was asking me all sorts of questions about the baby. I plan to nurse and she was asking if she could ever feed her and I told her that I would get some milk in a bottle for her to have a turn. Anyway we went on to talk about how much the baby eats and even during the night. So she thought a minute and said" ok mom here's the deal, I will sleep in bed between you and Dad and when the baby wakes up I will go get her bottle and feed her!" wouldn't that be great!

12-1-09
I decided I had to post some of the cute new things Easton has been learning to say. He is only 2 1/2 and he is becoming quite the talker!

We were late for church and I couldn't find Briella's shoes I was like "stupid shoes!" and Easton tells George " mommy said stupid! no say stupid!" I didn't even know he knew that!

Same day we were over at the Chapa's and Angel kept teasing Easton like he was painting on his face. Easton turns to him and says "hey not nice!"

Whenever I get upset with Easton I will say EASTON GEORGE! The other day that happened he turned around and said "no mommy I not Easton George, I Easton! Daddy, George!"

So I think he understands now or maybe he doesn't because he was upset with Briella two days ago and he tells Bella "Briella George!!"

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