Idaho Baby Shower!

We had a fun week in Idaho. Danny and I came up on Tuesday. Danny had to go back to work on Friday, but I stayed til Sunday. It was nice to get to see my family and Danny's family. We are so blessed to have such supportive loving families, thank you for making this week so much fun and so great for us.

We got to spend lots of time with Danny's parents, my sister and Logan, and my Dad. A lot of our family doesn't get to see us as much, we wish we had MORE TIME! Danny's parents bought us the travel set stroller with a car seat! I LOVE IT! It was a MP3 plug in so I can go on walks and listen to music, while still being able to hear Mateo and oncoming traffic, pretty cool, huh! Thank you Librado and Elizabeth!

For my baby shower my sisters went ALL OUT! I was shocked how great it was. We had the shower at Johnny Carino's Italian Restaurant. The food was great, the flowers, the balloons, diaper cakes, cupcakes! EVERYTHING! It was so much fun, and they made me and my baby boy feel so loved. Thank you so much!

A lot of family and friends showed up, it was so nice to see everyone. I was shocked when my 93 year old grandmother made it! Talk about an amazing family =)

We got SO much stuff for the baby and its looking like a mad house now! lol The shower had a fun theme "Time of the day" so we received tons of great gifts for traveling time, sick time, mommy time, play time, and much more! My family and friends are so creative, making homemade gifts that I just loved! Of coarse my mom made me some very cute blankets!

We are pretty much ready besides a few things we need to get to be ready, I just need to start organizing. YIKES! But thank you again to everyone that made it to my shower, I love you all so much. Danny and I can't express how much we appreciate everything!

Our little Logan

Just a week ago poor little Logan broke his leg! He was out playing volleyball and running around, the next thing you know he twisted to catch a ball and was down! He just broke his leg doing something he does ALL the time. How Sad!!! Kacie ran him to the emergency room and Logan was so tough! He had to get surgery to set the femur back in place and to get his cast.

The cast starts just under his ribs, around his hips, and down in right leg that broke. Poor Kacie has to lift him everywhere he needs to be, the bedroom, the living room etc. I don't know how she does it! Logan is such a lucky boy to have a mom like Kacie.

While Danny and I were down in Idaho we got to spend lots of time with Logan. Trying to help Kacie as much as I could, Im not much help these days since I can't lift much and I am pretty slow! Logan and I decorated his valentines with car stickers, I piled on the stuffed animals ontois bean bag, and kept tossing Kobe up onto the bean bag so Logan could pet him. I just love Logan so much and I hope him and Kacie know that Danny and I will do anything for them! We love you guys!!! Feel better soon little man!

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Utah Baby Shower!

The past two weekends have been so much fun! To start I had my baby shower in Utah. Thank you Angelique for doing that for me and to all the girls that came and took the time out of their crazy lives to spend a little bit of time at my baby shower. It really meant a lot.

Mateo got lots of great stuff from clothes and diapers and wipes! I even got spoiled a bit with a Mommy to be Massage (Thanks Carol!) and a cute diaper bag! (thanks Nic, and Ambre!)

Here are some pics to show off the fun day, we had the shower at Mimi's Cafe, so fun!

Let the Nesting Begin!

Danny and I have been so busy trying to get ready for this little guy to arrive. I am 32 weeks on Wednesday, and each day that goes by, it feels like he is READY! Man, I feel HUGE!!!

31 weeks big fat swollen feet!

We have finally decided on a baby name, for a long time we were just saying Baby Lopez. But now we can officially call him......... Mateo Daniel Lopez. I am in love with the name and I can't WAIT to meet this little man and see a face with the name!

So, since Christmas we have just been shopping, cleaning, getting carpet, painting, putting furniture together, and more shopping! HA HA.. When I say "we" I mean I have been shopping and Danny has been doing everything else. He has been AMAZING! I am such a lucky girl to have Danny. He can do it all. Such a handy man =)

The nursery has turned out SO nice. I am so happy with howEVERYTHING turned out.

We ordered our crib off of Amazon, and its the prettiest piece of furniture that I think we own, ha ha. I love it! We got a chair and a dresser at IKEA which turned out matching just perfect with the crib, we even replaced that HIDEOUS ceiling fan that was in the room before. Amazing how a little updating can totally change a room. Not to mention we got new carpet for the nursery and for the other guest room. It is so nice and comfy in there now, ready for Mateo!

the room before paint or carpet the hideous cieling fan haha putting the crib together

the dresser/changing table this chair is SO comfy

My mom came down for a couple of nights to start on the bedding and curtains. She amazes me with her talent and her eye for what looks good and what doesn't. I wanted to do mostly Navy blue and White for the colors, but we were going for a nod at Notre Dame colors, so my mom thought it would look good to add in some gold into the bedding. She was right! It turned out better than I could have imagined!!!! My mom worked her tail off all day to finish everything before she had to leave for Idaho, I felt like I was running a swear shop! But she did an awesome job and I couldn't be happier with the way it all looks. Thank you so much mom! Danny and I love how it all came together! We love you, YOU ROCK!

Now its just a few more purchases, and we will be ready! Most of my anxiety is gone, and now I am just plain EXCITED! I can't wait to meet him!

let the creative juices FLOW! so cute!

The next two weekends will be a lot of fun. I have a good friend here in Utah, Angelique, that offered to throw me a baby shower in Utah for friends here. That will be this Saturday. I am so grateful to Ang for doing this, I know its bad timing in her life and I was so surprised when she wanted to throw me a baby shower. Thank you Ang, you have been such a great friend and so much fun! I love you!

me and Angelique in Park City

Then, the weekend after that my family is throwing me a baby shower in Idaho! I am so excited to see all my family and friends and catch up with people I don't get to see all that often anymore. Its so weird to think that I am having a baby shower, WEIRD!! ha ha... My sisters have taken on a lot of the not so fun parts about throwing a party and I am so grateful to them for doing it. I know its a lot of work, and A LOT of people were invited, so thank you Regan, Kacie, Leah, and Mom for going the extra mile you guys are so important to me and Danny and we can't thank you guys enough!

So as far as everything else, I am pretty much done working. I am just too big to continue to work efficiently. Which makes for long days when Danny is at work. Kobe keeps me company though, ha ha!

Thanks for all the sweet messages, checking up on me etc from friends and family. Things are great over here!

Life is Good...

Xmas Fun!

Merry Christmas Everyone!

We had such a fun Christmas break, Danny got some time off so we got to go to Idaho. We were there for 4 days, probably the longest we have got to spend over there in a very long time. It was so nice to get to spend time to friends and family and not feel like to were buzzing around like mad people.

We always stay at my dad's house when we visit, we appreciate it so much and we love that Kobe is so happy there. It's kind of hilarious to see how my Dad and Kobe act around eachother. They are totally in love with eachother, and it doesn't matterwhat we say to Kobe, he just sits on my dads lap and ignores us! haha

We got to see friends, which never happens when we are in Idaho because we are usually SO busy! It was fun for Danny and I to have our nights away with our girls and guys to catch up and laugh. I had some great laughs, the first friend night Me, Nichelle, Brandi Hoskins, Ambre Simmons, Beth Ferris, and Ashlee Misseldine went to Texas Roadhouse, shopping, and to Orange Leaf yogurt. I laughed so much and talked girl talk. I miss my girls so much and I am so glad I got to see them. Im so bummed I didn't get any pics of this group!The next day I went to lunch with MORE friends ( I know I have SO many friends, haha jk) Me and Nichelle met up at Johnny Carinos with Holly Clark, Katie Abrahms, and Brittany Cook. It was so fun to talk babies, andpregnancy, and catch up with them. The girls were so sweet and got Baby Lopez a bunch of clothes and toys, THANK YOU! I felt bad I wasn't thoughtful enough to buy a present for anyone, but trust me girls I will hook you up on your baby showers!

Danny took off that night for dinner and drinks with his boys, Troy, Carlos, and Jose. When I picked them up after their night out, I couldn't help but smile, they have been such a big part of Danny and I's life and they make Danny so happy, Im glad that they got to spend time together and just be "dudes" haha. I wish we had all of our friends here in Utah, it would be so much fun! We love you guys all so much!

Of coarse we got to spend some great family time as well! Every year Danny's family opens gifts and celebrates Christmas on Christmas Eve. We got their around noon and Danny took his Dad and Brother to go shooting. The girls sat around, played board games, talked and caught up. It was nice to be able to sit down and just relax and enjoy everyone's company. Every year Danny's mom also makes Tamales! I think I ate 15 of them! They are soooo good! Plus pecan pie, and I was a happy chubby girl haha. We got spoiledof coarse by the family, We go a toaster oven (danny's has wanted one since I have known him) Thank you Muneca and Reyes! New sheets, which were very much needed! All in all, it was so much fun at the Lopez's !

On Christmas day Danny and I slept in, we stayed up til 1:30 am the last two night before and it was MUCH needed to get some sleep! We got ready, dressed in our xmas pajamas the elves made for us =) We had christmas as my sister's Regan's house. Thank you guys for having us at your house, it was perfect. We had TONS of food, goodies, and laughs. I just love my sisters, sister inlaw, and brother inlaw. It makes me so happy to be around all of them at once, we are a pretty fun group if I do say so myself, haha! We again got spoiled from more Baby Lopez clothes, gift cards, and a Kuerig Espresso Maker! I am SO excited to use it, Thank you Fregoso Family! It was fun to see how big all the neices and nephews have gotten. Abigail has totally comeout of her shell, she has been so shy around all of us, NOT this year! We were so excited to hear to chatter and giggle all day. Justin and Leah's son Marshall isn't a baby ANYMORE! He is so big and growing so much, unfortunaletly he cut his hand on a broken ornamnet, that was so sad. Nurse Aunt Regan and Uncle Danny plus his AWEsome parents came to the rescue! It wasn't too bad after they got the bleeding to stop, but it was so sad... After it all calmed down Marshall sitting with his dad, says "Jingle Bells are sharp!" awwwh, poor little guy! I was so happy ALL day, thank you family for making it such great Christmas Day!

Also, Danny gave me my bday present early, a kodak camera 30x zoom! I am in love with it! All my pics were taken from my camera. Im looking forward to having at home photoshoots with Baby Lopez! Thank you babe, you always know exactly what to get me, I love you!

2011 has been such a GREAT year! We have been so blessed with family, friends, and amazing miracles. We are so grateful for our families and even today we talked about how good we have it and how happy we are to have a family like ours! If you want to see ALL the xmas photos, go to my facebook!

SIDE NOTE

****This next weekend everyone is headed to Utah for the New Years and my cousin, Cade, farewell. He is off to Anahiem, Californina. We will miss you Cade and love you very much! You are one awesome guy!

Cade is the the young man with the EXTREME mustache haha...

From left to right, Uncle Trent, Brooklyn, Aunt Lori, and Elder Cade Walker!