Cute Crazy Cousins

Grandma got these three cousins matching dresses for them to wear to church while they were here in Arizona. Kylee loved being matching with Haley and Claire bear. They had the same bows and shoes too. Kylee had a lot of fun playing with them despite the fact she was getting a double ear infection and she is almost three and horrible. Hopefully Hales and Crair had enough fun in AZ and with Kylee that they can try to convince their mom to move here!! :) Here are a couple more cute pics of them before church being silly.

Haley and Kylee being monkey's!

Cute Claire giving sissy kisses.

Grandpa & Grandma

This weekend we had some of my family here visiting. Payton had a lot of fun with Grandma and Grandpa. She liked watching TV with Papa and when he would lift her in the air. Grandma would talk to her and give her kisses and she would just smile. Here are a few cute pictures with them

Family Pics

As you can see from the new family pic at the top of my page we took some pics. So apparently as kids get older they get less photogenic. We had a wonderful photographer, Tiffany, and she will attest to the fact that Kylee was not haven it. She was in no mood to take any pics. We took what we could get though. Here are a few of my favorites... mostly kind of candid. Big huge thank you to Tiff for taking them!!

Payton's Eating Cereal!

Annoying Commercials

So you know the lame commercial people that always get stuck in your head... Examples: Carrot Top, Totally Awesome Computer Guy, any attorney commercial, and my favorite "it will hurt if I swallow, it will hurt if I swallow, It will hurt if I... MOMMY" little girl. Well apparently Kylee was listening to Paigee, Jess and Nicki Christensen when they were over and saying she should be in commercials cause this morning she was auditioning in my bathroom mirror saying " IT'S MY MONEY AND I NEED IT NOW!" Seriously, of all things to pick up on in all of the many commercials. Crazy kid! Here is her audition still shot....

Lawn Body Surfing

We went to our good friends the Orvin's yesterday for a little photo shoot. Payton didn't like the feel of the grass on her skin so she would keep her arms and legs up like she is swimming. Payton is a very serious baby so it was nearly impossible to get a good smiley picture but Tiffany did a good job getting some cute pics anyways. Here are a few more of Payton and one of her cute friend Kennedy...

Thanks to Tiffany, Grant, and Kennedy for a fun time... as always!

Quickest 4 Months

I can't believe my Payton is already four months. She is such a great baby. We are very lucky to have such good girls. Kylee likes to do a baby voice when she talks to Payton and it is really cute and funny. Payton just will just watch Kylee when she is in the same room. I think they will be great friends as they grow up. I am sure that is mostly wishful thinking. Well, Payton had her Dr.'s appointment today. She did really good and I remembered to give her Tylonol this time when she got the shots. She really hasn't been bad except this last hour that I forgot to keep up on the Tylonol and her little legs hurt. She is still a big girl. She is 14 lbs 3 oz (75th percentile) and 27 inches which is off the charts for height. The Dr said she is the average height of a 8 month old. It is hard to find pants long enough for her... especially pajamas. All in all she is amazing!!

P.S. I love this picture cause she has a crooked Peter Petrelli/Jess smile!!

Happy Lovers Day!!

Ok so I got send a shout out to my dead sexy husband on this day of sweet love! I know you all THINK your husbands are great and all but ... MINE IS BETTER! Not only do I have a man with good looks, an incredible personality, sense of humor, kind, compassionate, serving, but man he is good in the kitchen :) Most mornings he has made breakfast for him and Kylee before I even get up. Yeah, that too ... he gets up with Kylee most mornings he can and lets me sleep in. He works really hard for us too. He always works so hard and long hours so that I dont have to go to work and stress about money. On his days off he still works here at home. He is always bettering our home with all his handyman skilz. He is very talanted. He loves to help people in anyway he can. It seems like he is always offering to help someone. He is the best dad ever. Dont believe me, ask Kylee. Her dad is her best friend and she will do anything for him. He feels the same way. We went to the temple last night and it just reminded me how lucky I am to have him... even when we had to stop everything so he could go potty. I enjoyed the break and being able to see him since we sat so far apart. I truly am blessed to be able to be a part in his life and to have his babies so that he could never leave me! Here is a little look at what I get every night.

Hot or Cold??

As I got up this morning and looked out this window in my kitchen and saw the beautiful sky I started to wonder why anyone would want to live in the snow. I know there are people who like the snow so of course they wouldnt mind it but the people that dont really like it and still live in it, why? I know Arizona is not perfect but I would rather be 15 degrees hotter in the summer rather that 40 degrees colder, on a good day, in the winter. The heat doesnt make you go shovel outside or make driving conditions bad or make you have to scrape down your car after it runs for half an hour before you go drive anywhere or even slip and fall on your butt (thank you Leigh Robins for reminding me)! I know that is just me but I am curious to how all you bloggers, and non bloggers (Weedle), feel. What would you rather deal with? Hot or Cold?

Pics of my girls.. I know.. Cute

Out of the Mouths of Babes

blah blah blah...

check out clerk: who is that in your basket?
Kylee: that's baby Payton
clerk: your baby sister?
Kylee: she eats mommies boobies
clerk: (laughs and looks at me) out of the mouths of babes!

yeah .... just a little embarrassing. Still working on the boob word, obviously!

Kids say the darndest things!

Anyone who knows Kylee knows that she likes to talk. Well, she remembers everything so I have to be careful with everything I say. Last week when I was putting her to bed she asked me to lay down with her. I laid next to her on my side and started to talk with her. She looks at my chest and says " you got owie on yous boobs?" I look down to see what she is talking about and see my cleave is extra high because I was laying on my side. I told her no and it was just my chest crack, I am trying to get her to say chest instead of boobs. I tried getting her off the topic but shortly after she says " Can I put my finger in yours crack?" I tried not to laugh then told her we don't put fingers in any cracks. I thought it was so funny. She asked me today as I did laundry. Who wants to stick fingers in peoples cracks anyway??? She hangs out with her dad way too much!!

I'm blue.. daba dee daba die

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To the right, to the right ... (sang like Beyonce)

I have added a poll to my blog as to what we should do about Melissa's blog. As you all know she has come up with some lame excuses for not updating her blog and I don't think it is right. As her fellow bloggers I think it is our decision as to what to do about this blogging behavior. Please vote on the poll on the right. Ah thank you!

p.s. Melissa is scared of Gremlins... still!

Better late than never?

So I know I am late posting these but oh well. Paigee got home from here mission on December 14th. When we got off the elevator she was there to surprise us. All our pictures are in the parking garage at the airport ... ghetto I know. So then the next pictures are just some fun pics at the park when we had a little picnic. We had Santa come and visit us the Sunday before Christmas for the kids. He brought them a little something to prepare them for Christmas day. They were so excited he came. Lastly there are pics from Christmas day. Again, lots of fun. I was a wonderful time and we were glad to be able to spend so much time with family.

Belated 2 Month Checkup

Payton had her two month check up today. She has grown so much. She weighs 13 pounds and is 24 1/2 inches long. That puts her in the 95th percentile for both. She had to have her shots this appointment and she cried the hardest she ever has. Of course she thinks I caused her the pain cause the nurse makes the mom hold the arms down. She looked at me and smiled then came the shot. Hurt my heart. As if that wasn't bad enough I forgot to get Tylenol to give her like the Dr said so when she woke up from her nap her legs were hurting. She cried as hard as when she got the shots anytime something touched her legs. So dang sad! I am such a bad mom for not being prepared for that.

Here is a picture from last night when the girls were hanging out on the couch together. I like to remember the good times instead of the sad.

Do they look alike?

Here are pictures of Payton and Kylee at the same age. Thought I would compare them. I guess they do look alike. The picture of Kylee was taken with a crappy camera, pre-digital. Man what a difference.

A DiPadova Thanksgiving

This year we spent Thanksgiving with Mike's family. It was a lot of fun. All of his siblings were there except his oldest bro in Michigan. Kylee had a blast with all of her cousins and Payton got to meet her cousin Kendall who was born the same day she was. Thanksgiving day was great. Mike's mom made a delicious dinner and there was lots of family there. I had a hard time narrowing the pictures down but here is what I ended up with. No pics from the actual Thanksgiving day but what are you gonna do.

All the cousins ... except the 2 boys in Michigan. Left to right: Kylee, Taylor holding Kendall, Camryn holding Payton, and Ryan.

Payton is kissing baby Kendall... OK fine, she is trying to eat her head.

Mike is trying to teach Taylor how to blow a bubble with some Bubblicious!

Kylee fell asleep eating. It was so cute. She was so tired from playing all morning with Nana and cousins.

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I hope even more that you update your blogs cause I am getting sick of seeing the same pics every time I look.

Some random pics

Here are some pics from the past couple weeks. We blessed Payton on the 4th while we had both of our parents here. It was a really nice day and her daddy gave a beautiful blessing. This is a picture of our family that day.

I took the girls to the park to try to get some cute pictures of them but Kylee wasnt having it. She just wanted to watch the kids playing with the ducks. Here she is contemplating why she got a mom that is so mean and didnt bring bread for her to feed the ducks.

Payton just chilled the whole time. Surprise suprise!

The closest shot I got to a smile on Kylee.

Kylee loves bubbles. She was about to give herself a bubble beard in this picture. She thought she was helarious.
Last one... Payton just hanging out on the bed.

No Tricks!!

Here are some pictures of mi familia on Halloween. As you can tell Kylee was Minnie Mouse, Payton was sleeping, Mike was a dirty door to door Gyno, I was fat! Kylee loved dressing up. She was so cute at the trunk or treat. She would hold her hand out, instead of her bag, and say trick or treat and then when she would get the candy she would put it in her bag and stick her hand out again for more. Mike hooked up her wagon to his electric scooter thing and drove her around and people would just keep putting candy in the wagon. She thought she was in heaven. Speaking of Mike, just in case you are wondering, he cut his hair to be bald on top and made a mustache for the costume. That is not his new Arizona look. OK that's about it for Halloween 07.