life is good.

Thursday, Alex and I took Maliah to Disneyland all day while everyone else was at the hospital. It had already been planned before Celeste went into labor so it actually worked out that we had Maliah all day. We had fun even though it was at least 95 degrees or hotter ALL day long!

welcome to the world baby sophia!

Yesterday, Sophia Angelina Lopez was born! She is 6 lbs. 13 oz., and perfect! Alex and I are excited to meet her today...we had Maliah at Disneyland all day yesterday while everyone was at the hospital so today is the day we meet the little one! Today is also the day that we will have a picture of her!

hawaii is awesome and so was our honeymoon

we're totally married

alex and i are back in California and getting back into the swing of things! we are still sorting through all of the pics from the wedding, but here are a few of our favorites ::










we took some photos from other people's sites, and hope to have some of the actual pics from the photographer up soon! we had a great day, and appreciate ALL of the help and support that we received. We definitely left feeling very loved! We had a great honeymoon and are loving being married!

hot, hot and hot!

It's 84 degrees in north tustin right now...alex is currently installing our brand new room air conditioner, and I am dying of heat! We are very excited that we had received some money as an early wedding present and were able to get a sweet little A/C unit at home depot! I can't wait for it to be working!!

two weeks!!!

Today marks two weeks until the big day!

There are still a LOT of things to do, but the biggest cause of stress is actually the moving piece...thankfully alex is pretty much done with school as of this week and will have more free time to help! But when it comes down to it, I'm just excited to be married to him! but really, who wouldn't want to marry this ::

happy birthday emma!

This weekend, little Emma Platt turned one! Alex and I were happy to be a part of Emma's special day, and see all of our friends from Revolution. Emma was also dedicated at her party which was awesome to be a part of. Here are a couple of my favorite photos that alex took (you can find the rest at alex's flickr site)




(Beth Hutton took the picture that alex took a picture of)

oh the craziness...

life is one big wonderful mess of crazy right now! as the big day is getting closer, excitement is growing and so is the to-do list! I thought that i'd be making a dent in it at least, but it seems that the more I do, the more I need to do! But, I'm having fun and soon alex will be done with school work which will be GREAT!

in other news of craziness, my best friend (and maid of honor) Kristin messaged me today...she's no longer in South Africa, she's in Sri Lanka! Just in case you were wondering, those are about 5,000 miles apart! Then she's back to Hawaii where she lives (about 8,000 miles from Sri Lanka to Hawaii) then she flies to Watts (another 2500 miles) to do ministry, THEN she'll be in Orange County with me getting ready for the wedding!! So basically she's still got about 16000 miles before she's here! now THAT is crazy!

The last couple of weeks, Stacy and I have been meeting in the 5th grade classroom at 8am for pilates! Kathy and Ashley have both come once, but mainly it's just Stacy and I. It's been really fun, and we're already feeling stronger! It's super fun, and although we're both pretty tired during the day, it's totally a great way to start the day. Hopefully we'll be able to keep this up through the summer...minus the honeymoon of course!

Speaking of honeymoon and wedding...we have less than a month to go! We have definitely hit the point where we are busy 100% of the time...not that we weren't already busy 98% of the time....We've started all of the buying, and prepping...alex really likes cutting ribbon for the favors...well, actually he totally hates it! We're meeting with Michael tonight to plan the ceremony, so that's exciting...so many fun things happening!!

summer is here!

Well, the temp was 96 yesterday and that tells me that summer is definitely here! Alex has a pool at his place, and we figured we'd never go in because it's not heated, but we didn't care yesterday!! We had fun being cold on a super hot day!! Thankfully, my bridal shower was this weekend, so we had some giftcards to Bed, Bath & Beyond and were able to go get a new fan to help cool off his place.

So, the bridal shower was awesome! There were so many awesome women there who definitely made me feel loved! The most special part for me was when the hostess invited everyone to share something with me. Of course I was on the verge of tears the entire time, but it was very affirming to hear nice words not only about me, but about Alex too. I'm so lucky to have so many people in my life who really appreciate him too. I got lots of presents which was fun too! All in all, I couldn't have asked for a better day! Here are some pics from the shower...

opening presents:

me with my neice Naomi:

my sister Celeste, sister-in-law Vilay, Alex's mom Karen, and Grandma Angie:

catherine and i

Laura, Traci, Linda and Gina

Stacy, Amy, Kathy and Brandi

Ashley and Gina R.

busy.

Fridays are typically my one completely free day and it's usually the day that I have a couple of errands to run, and then I get to relax. today is not that kind of Friday. I have a feeling that from now until after the wedding, I may not have another "normal" Friday. My to-do list is about a mile long today, but i do think I'll feel a lot better when everything is done, and I can just relax with alex!

in happier news, my friend Jaci sent me an awesome gift for the bridal shower. She isn't able to fly down, but she sent an amazing package that made me feel very special, and that was super fun! She sent me just about everything anyone could ever want for a wedding scrapbook. I don't scrapbook, but now I definitely think I will start..everything looks so fun!!

the shower is tomorrow, and I am very excited to see everyone and have a great start to the weekend!

it strikes again...

Today I was woken up bright and early. Alex was calling to let me know that his back was out...AGAIN!! Such a bummer. So I packed up the heating pad and headed over to deliver some things that would hopefully at least help him cope with the pain. This time he was not about to wait for the doctor that pretty much did nothing for him last time and happens to be an hour away, so...he went to see the chiropractor for the first time. Thankfully, it seemed to really help, and he sounded so much better afterwards and was even able to make it to class. So, alex is now a believer and I don't think that will be his last time to visit Dr. Dean!