Christmas Ornaments 2009

So each year I am getting the girls an ornament that symbolizes the year, eventually they will be old enough to help pick it out and document why so that it will be a cool thing to have and to think back over the years as we decorate the tree. Here are the picks for this year.

Lexi's ornament is a Dora the Explorer holding a star. The reason I picked this one is because Dora was hands down her favorite show this year, she wanted to watch Dora all the time. The star also has some significance, Lexi sings Twinkle Twinkle little Star all the time. So I thought this was a good find.

Paisley's ornament has a very cute pink and green stocking, much similar to the stocking that she has at Pa Pa and Grandma's house. Paisley's room is also decorated in pink and green. I found this ornament on Etsy.com it is done by a very talented lady, and I just love, love, love it!

The lady who sells these will also personalize for free and she put Paisley's name and the year on the back of the ornament. I thought it was just perfect for her Baby's First Christmas ornament.

Dancing Trees

The Saturday after Thanksgiving we went to Rhema Lights. Lexi loved looking at all the lights and particularly liked the "dancing trees". They have some of their lights set to blink to the music. Lexi could have watched that all night long, in fact she protested very strongly with a royal fit when it was time to leave. Ever since, she keeps asking to go see the Christmas trees. I think she liked it folks. Paisley on the other hand was sleepy so, she slept through the whole thing. Maybe next year for her.

Lexi wanted to ride the horsies... I had to explain how these would be no fun to ride. bless her heart.

I love this man! He is the best!

The Dancing Trees

Rabu and Grandma

Thanksgiving

yeah, yeah I know Thanksgiving was a month ago, but hey better late than never right?

So we had a fantastic Thanksgiving. Grandma Rhonda came up from Texas and spent some very fun days with us. She also joined us in Tahlequah at Grandma Gail and Pa Pa's house. The siblings came with their kiddos too and we had a blast playing and chasing and eating and being family. Here are a few pictures from our day.

Paisley & Pa Pa

Lexi reading a book with Grandma and Grandma...yeah that got a little confusing :) but what a wonderful "problem" to have.

Lexi helped Pa Pa pick some peppers from their garden, here she is showing whose daughter she is and organizing them all. :)

Paisley hanging out with cousin Annalee

Cousin Annalee

Alex and Adalynn climbing the apple tree, this was 2 seconds before they told me to go get their mom, they wanted to see her "freak out" ha ha

Cousin Catherine
(cousin Aydan was having so much fun running around I did not get a picture of him, run and enjoy little guy!)

The siblings... nathan, lea, and kyna

I LOVE MY FAMILY!!

Where have I been?

OK so that title is two fold... I have not posted many things lately, I have like 3 or 4 posts that I need to do from the Thanksgiving holiday, but good things come to those who wait.

Also where have I been?...everyone has been talking about Etsy this and Etsy that. I have been "meaning" to get on there for awhile. Well my ornament search for Paisley's first Christmas ornament sent me there. And OH MY GOSH, where have I been?!?! What a wonderful collection of handmade things! www.etsy.com

So I ordered her ornament, I would show you a picture but I will save that for another post where I will show you both Lexi and Paisley's 2009 ornament and why I picked them. I can't wait until they can thoughtfully pick out their own ornaments, this is going to be a fun tradition.

So I leave you wanting more, stay tuned to the leyva life!

Big Girl

Lexi picked out her first backpack. She wanted to wear it to bed. So cute!



We converted her bed to a big girl bed.

Helping mommy cook Paisley's baby food.

Our Girls

Rabu and I are just amazed at how incredibly blessed we are to have two healthy, sweet, fun and beautiful girls. They are growing up so fast!! I know people told me that, but for some reason its something you don't believe until you are living it. Here is a quick update on our two precious ones:

Lexi Bear

• singing "crinkle, crinkle, little star" - my favorite part is when she says "uppa buppa" for "up above the" - Twinkle, Twinkle little star never sounded so sweet


• sitting on the potty when she feels like it... we have had one successful "poopy in the potty", but most of the time she just says "NO!!"


• loving her little sist-ter, Paisel-ley --- so cute how she adds an extra syllable to both sister and Paisley


• Likes "Jack's big music show" on Nick Jr.


• she is talking soooo much, she has such a vast vocabulary


• Loves her Bible, and she pretends to be reading it, it sounds much like this, " So Jesus, Jesus, So, mommy, daddy, Jesus" then she giggles.


• She thinks she is a super fast runner...we will have to see about that.

Paisley

• a crawling master!!


• gets into everything she can get her hands on, exploring the world around her.


• always wants to get Lexi's toys, and thankfully Lexi is really sweet to replace her toys with Paisley's toys so that Paisley always has something to play with.


• a really good sleeper, she does not like to be rocked to sleep, she rather you just put her in bed and let her be.


• LOVES her sister Lexi! She just glows when Lexi talks to her. Lexi also makes her laugh when she plays with her.


• likes watching the TV so we have to keep distracting her with toys that are much better for her to play with.


• likes her solid foods, she likes everything so far except for bananas and summer squash. Avocado is her favorite. She is starting to feed herself "puffs" and would eat them by the gallon if we didn't cut her off.


• loves her Johnny jump up...the girl would bounce for hours if we would let her, and maybe we should so she can work off all the puffs that she eats... ha ha

Pumpkins

Today our little family packed up and headed to Carmichael's Pumpkin Patch. They really have a great set up out there. They have tons of pumpkins for the kiddos to climb on and to choose from. Lots of farm animals, pony and camel rides, a corn maze, and hay ride. We spent our time climbing on the pumpkins and visiting the animals. Lexi also rode a pony, she of course loved that!

at first Lexi was not sure what to think

then she quickly caught on to how much fun it was to,
"climb, climb, climb"

Daddy got caught by a scarecrow!!!

Lexi to the rescue

Photo opp, could not get one with both of the girls looking and smiling...oh well

Lexi and Cherokee, she was such a big girl, she rode all by her self and loved every minute of it

Our little pumpkin!

Look Daddy, Chickens, ducks, turkeys and... .what is that?

Anyone know what the heck these are??? they look like deer-rabbits. Crazy!!

We had a great time. And for those of you who are looking for some inexpensive fall fun, try a pumpkin patch. This one was free admission, free petting zoo, $4 pony ride, and we spent $5 on pumpkins. Good Family Fall FUN!

Have you Smiled today?

These girls make me smile everyday, I thought I would share the love. :)

Sleepy Cereal

Tonight we got home from work and I made dinner super quick so that Rabu could eat before he headded off to ref a football game. Paisley was really ready to eat her dinner once I got the rest of the family fed. So we sat down to feed Paisley her cereal, which she loves. She makes the cutest faces when she is eating. My sweet little Paisley was so tired from her fun day at school that as soon as her belly started getting a little full this is what happened...I could not stop laughing:

mommy I think I am sleepy

mmmm, but this cereal is soo good

Cant. fight. the. sleep.

... zzzzzzzzzzzz ...

Paisley Noelle ~ 6 Months old

OK I realize it has been a month or more since I have posted something. I cannot begin to explain how busy this last month has been, blogging was just not on the priority list. I must live by my own advice..."a blog is an outlet, not an obligation" :0)

Back to the precious point of this blog... our baby is already 6 months old! A few highlights of Paisley's 5th month:

I began to sit up on my own!

I love sitting up and playing!!

I started eating rice cereal!

YUMMY!!!

Yay Food!!

We go for her 6 month check up at the doctor on Monday and I will post her stats when we get them. We are having such a good time with our little Paisley, she is such a sweet blessing to our family.