The Chapa Family

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!!

Monday, January 3, 2011

New Years Eve 2010

We had a fun new years! We started at our in laws and the kids made homemade pizzas and we played ping pong tournaments! Then we went to my fams! My mom had decorated the house so cute and he had a chinese new year!! :) We played games and rung in the new year. It was super fun and I am so excited for the new year!!

The kids and Gramy suprised everyone with silly string and made a huge mess! They loved it!

Halees first toast! (yes it was apple martinelli) and she couldn't get enough!

Christmas 2010

We had a wonderful Christmas! We had Christmas eve dinner at my fams! It was delicious! Then we opened pjs and presents with my family! We headed to the inlaws and did presents with them. then we headed home to leave cookies and milk for santa and read the kids scriptures nativity story. Christmas morning we opened presents and went to hang out with family! We went on a sleigh ride with the Chapa side and had another wonderful dinner at my fams with all the siblings. Then the guys all had a b-ball game which was a lot of fun to watch. We had a wonderful holiday and so grateful to celebrate the birth of the Savior and spend time with family, especially George and the kids.

Us in our Christmas pjs!

Beautiful little girl cousins!!

The chefs responsible for the delicious meal! :)

Briella got a lot of baby stuff! A new dolly and a high chair and stroller cart.

Us on the sleigh ride!

Look at my man play ball!

Easton got everything toy story! He thought he needed every character and I guess he was a good boy!

Gramy and Grandpa with the kiddos.

Halee with her Christmas toys!

Halee 10 Months!

Halee is 10 months! I can't believe it! At 10 months she can take up to 10 steps at a time and stands all the time! She eats pretty much whatever we eat and can drink from a straw and has been able to for a month or two now. She says mama, dada, lala ("bella"), uh oh! She loves playing where's Halee? and scrunching her face so cute! I am loving this stage she is getting cuter everyday!

I LOVE this baby!!

BEHIND!!!

I know I have gotten way behind in blogging! Gosh how does that happen!! :) I have been super busy and then to top it off our internet hasn't been working for months!!! So I plan to catch up and be better! I promise! We have been great! Our christmas and new years was amazing and I am excited to start a new year with my sweet little family! And sad to see my kids get another year older!! I love my 3 kiddos and my amazing husband!

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Suprise Bag

Briella has really been enjoying kindergarten. Instead of show and tell they do a "suprise bag" where you pick something you want to take to school and write three clues and everyone has to guess. Well today was Briella's turn and she was so excited!!!

She took her play camera! :) My old polaroid camera, she pretends she's taking pics. She says she wants to be a photographer!! She is so funny. She really thinks she is taking pics with it!

Well the computer is being weird and wont let me turn this! Oh well you get the picture! :)

Ramona and Beezus

So my mom took Briella to see the movie, Ramona and Beezus this past weekend. Well this morning Briella woke up crying that she NEEDS a big sister! It's NOT FAIR that she didn't get a big sister! I tried to explain to her that I didn't get a big sister either! That me and her were SPECIAL because we were the big sisters! Yeah that didn't work! She still bawled, literally, her eyes out that she needed a big sister. i suggested that she just pick some one she like to be her big sister, like Timber. So did Grandma. So now she decided that her and Timber could be Ramona and Beezus, only Briella gets to be Beezus (cuz Selena Gomez is Beezus!).

and she said "mean Ramona moved away!" :) so just Halee and Beezus live here now!

Halee is 7 months!

Okay, boy does time fly! I swear i just posted about her 6 months and its now seven months! Where has the seven months gone!! It seems like I just had the little sweetheart!! :) Halee is getting so fun! She loves to play and get attention! She is SO smiley!! She eats everything babyfood! She also eats graham crackers and animal crackers and cheerios. She can get everywhere she wants by scooting and rolling. She gets up on all fours and rocks but then just decides to scoot! She is starting to get brave and pull herself up on things. She loves feet! I think its disgusting! But she loves to grab and try to eat peoples bare feet!! :) She got her lower two teeth in 3 weeks ago and they are staring to show when she smiles! She gives kisses and high fives and thinks she's funny! She says momma at me when I put her down for a nap or leave her on the living room floor! She is such a sweetie and we really enjoy her!!

Taken Sept. 15! We got her a toothbrush for her pearly whites!! :)

my sweetie at Timbers wedding

Halee is so flexible! She constantly pulls her legs to straddle :)

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!!"