isabel's artwork

how cool is this... an online gallery of your child's work from art class! it's called artsonia.com and i was just able to see 2 of isabel's pieces from kindergarten. i still cannot believe that my baby is a kindergartner!

 her house

a sheep

this week via instagram...

Isabel's Kindergarten Class

isabel's teacher, mrs. fries, has created a blog for the class! if you're interested in watching isabel's kindergarten journey click the "isabel's kindergarten class" link on the right hand side.

Sunday Brunch

we surprised daddy with a visit to the blue moose this afternoon and violet had her first limo ride!

Shatto Farms

this weekend the lopez five made a journey to osborne, mo to tour shatto farms. we absolutely love shatto root beer milk at our house! isabel and mommy had gone on a tour when jax was a baby and we decided that it was time for another trip.

while we were there we got to visit the calves and jax got to milk a cow! we also got to see how they milk the cows and how the milk is piped directly from the cows to a cooling tank. next, we were able to do a little milk tasting in the shatto store... delish! our let stop on the tour was watching how the milks bottled.

the highlight of the tour was of course sampling the different milk and trying their oatmeal raisin with sea salt and caramel ice cream sammich... yum!

10 Months Old!

it's official, we are only 2 months from Violet's first birthday and i can hardly believe it! she is such a doll... except when she wakes up in the middle of the night.

violet has now eaten: chicken, avocado, cheese, bananas, watermelon, mandarins, corn, pancakes, ham, biscuits, pineapple, green beans, and yogurt.

violet has said: momma, dadda, and hi

violet's tricks: waving, pointing her finger, and growling