Happy Easter!!

Easter 2010 was a fun one for us. We spent it with the Hernandez side of the family. Leilani got to look for eggs and got spoiled by her Abuelita and Tias. We barbecued up some carne-asada and enjoyed each-others company. It really was a great day.

She looked too cute in her little easter dress.

This is her unwrapping the easter basket grandma got her.

She started the hunt in her little dress. Then we decided to changed her into something a little warmer and more comfy.

An Elmo basket and Sponge Bob shaped eggs. I imagine that is what a 1 year old would think heaven is like.

She fell and reached up to me saying, "Hand....Hand" and being the great dad that I am I took a picture. Then I did give her a had eventually.

When there is only one grandkid on that side of the family a kid can end up with a lot of eggs.

We took our eyes off her for two seconds and she found a way to get her basket down from where it was safely stored and make this awesome mess. Love you baby!!

The other day she tried to hide from her mom. This was her great vanishing act.

We made some oatmeal cookies on saturday and I had to snap some pictures. She got so messy. I was proud of her. It was a ton of fun. She loved eating the dough but was not a huge fan of the cookies when they were finished.

Some new pics!!

So with a long time between postings comes more opportunities to take pictures. So my laziness has given me the chance to have plenty of cute new pictures to post now. Enjoy!!

Leilani Smiling with Mammy!!

Leilani Chillaxin with Abuelita Hernandez

Leilani's Great Grandmother Peterson is down visiting for the first time in over ten years. It was a lot of fun to get to spend some time with her.

She still likes her tub time.

With the curls hidden you can tell her hair is actually getting longer.

I asked her to brush her hair before we went to church the other morning. The brush stayed in there for quite a while. It was pretty funny.

Hygiene is very important to our little princess. She walked up to me like this the other day. I had to take a picture.

The faces are getting funnier with age.

She did manage to get a few little bubbles out.

I really have a hard time saying no to that face.

This was her first milkshake. She did pretty well with it.

Leilani's New Trick

Well...... it has been a long time since we have posted. After getting a fun picture from my Sister Kristin and getting some encouragment from my Sister Michelle to post something new I knew it was time to put something on here. So here goes.

Thanks Kristin for the picture. Leilani loves to do this. She actually balances really well can last longer than Daddy can. I'll work on adding some more pictures this weekend. Leilani is really growing and getting to be even more fun every day. We love you Princess.

Long Weekend

So I have been working a lot of hours and even weekends for over a month now. I have been looking forward to this long weekend for a long time. We spent the week deciding what we were going to with a free day as a family. We finally decided that we would spend the day at the Los Angeles Zoo. It has been a while since any of us have been there. I know Leilani would get a kick out of the animals. But it was not meant to be. Leilani started feeling sick on Friday and is still congested and not doing very well tonight. It has been a relaxing weekend. We have spent the weekend snuggled up with our sick little princess watching the winter games. She has shown little glimpses of returning to be herself again but it has been sad to see her so down.

Leilani's little play pal Elliot had been sick last week too. Her parents surprised us with this cake saturday night. It was so cool. Thanks Pat and Rachel. You two are too funny.

Here are a few shots of Leilani for Chase and Savy. We love and miss you guys. She always points at your pictures on the fridge and says Chase....Savy.... It is so cute.

Happy 2010!!!!!

Happy New Year!! So here are a few shots from the past few weeks. I have a lot of catching up to do so lets get started.

Leilani's third favorite thing in the world is Elmo. (First and second are Poppa and Momma.) She loves Elmo's movies, Elmo's books, and Elmo dolls. She is in love with this little red monster and it makes for cute pictures.

We recently had some friends from Canada (Ryan, Joanne, their adorable daughters, and macho boys) swing by and visit while they were down here checking out disneyland and enjoying 70 degree weather. It was a blast to see you guys.

There daughter Mya was so sweet with Leilani. They have an awesome family.

We took some family photos recently. It was fun getting everyone together. Here are a few shots I took for fun.

What could possibly be cute enough to get everyones attention like this???

Yeah that is pretty cute!! Welcome to the family Makai!! Congrats Monty and Kristin.

Leilani loves to watch the other kids play.

These are two of my favorite people in the world.

It was a fun day. I will post the family pictures another time. Thank you Michelle for your patience with the kids.

My nephew Kyle had a really fun birthday party last saturday. There was tons of food and fun. there was a jumper for the kids and a Wii tournament for everyone. It was really a great day. Here are a few of my favorite shots of Leilani from the day.

Ok I am a bad dad. She falls and my first thought is take a pic cuz I think she looks cute!! I knew she was not hurt that bad.

A few seconds later she was in the jumper and super happy.

Here is a shot off all the Peterson girls in the jumper together. Cute girls.

For new years we went to a party out on San Bernardino with my in-laws. Here is Leilani dancing at about 11:45 at night with her grandma. She can groove even when she is being held.

We got to meet Lizeth's cousin Jocelyn's new baby Alexis. She is adorable. Leilani loved watching her.

Fun stuff!!

If there is any one thing in this world that is going to drive me to drinking it is a show called Yo Gabba Gabba. These very odd characters sing songs that remain stuck in your head for days and days. Hit tunes like "don't bite your friends" and "I like bugs." My daughter has fallen in love with these monsters and as my bid for the national father of the year award continues I will sit and endure it along with her. It helped me capture this precious moment as they sang a song about wiggling and holding still.

Christmas 09

What an awesome time of year. I have been enjoying two weeks off of work and getting to spend time with my ladies. It has been a wonderful vacation and Christmas was wonderful this year. We got to spend some good quality time with family. It really has been nice.

Christmas was a lot more fun this year for Leilani than it was last year. She loved seeing Christmas lights, trying to peek in the bags around the tree at grandmas house, and seeing the christmas cartoons that would come on tv. Her excitement made it fun for Lizeth and me.

Christmas eve we went to my my parents house and had the traditional pizza and rootbeer floats.

Leilani struck a few posses for us in her cute little outfit.

The kids all dressed and did the nativity story. They were cute and really good sports about it.

Leilani was that angry shepherd that you read about in the bible somewhere. She played the part well.

Leilani and Savy in their pj's before we headed home.

She slept well that night. I love it when she sleeps like this. She's got a biggo ghetto monkey booty going on there.

She enjoyed her kitchen set. She picked up the phone right away and begain saying lollo. I'm guessing it is Leilanesse for hello. She actually made me some plastic spaghetti and hot-dogs tonight. Yum!!

She did a good job unwrapping her gifts.

After we had our own little christmas that morning we went to Lizeth's parents place to spend christmas day. They had made tamales so we pigged out on those all day. Leilani was the center of attention there and everyone was super sweet to her. Here she is getting spoiled by grandma.

My mom gave this scarf to Lizeth. She brought it back as a gift from her recent trip to Israel. I thought Leilani looked adorable it in. Thank you mom.

Leilani's dirty little secret....

So we know she is cute..... but did you know that she wakes up in the mornings with an afro??? From the front you can see that it is out of control but it is not until you look at it from behind....

....that you can really tell how wild it is. We love you baby.

Thank you everyone that helped make this such and awesome christmas for our family. We feel blessed to have the wonderful family that we do.