Christmas Morning

Here is our Christmas morning.

Little Ethan was still asleep-he had a late night Christmas Eve, he kept waking up sporadically through out the night because he was congested and couldn't breath. Luckily, for us, Eli at least waited until the sun came up before he woke up. This was his first Christmas that he got really excited about. Eli wanted to open all the presents as soon as he saw them under the tree-even the ones that weren't his!! Eli definitely had a Cars Christmas. He has an obsession with the Disney movie CARS. Whenever I let him pick out a movie to watch, he always picks out CARS, he'll only play with cars if they're the characters from the movie, no matchbox, tonka or any other type of car. Spencer and I found some Cars on ebay and gave them to him for Christmas and now I think he might have almost all the characters from the movie-he was really excited!!

In this video Eli is continuing to open presents, including his dads one and only gift! It was a miracle that I was able to find something for Spencer, he is the hardest person to buy for. I just happened to be at Costco one day and Kyle Beckerman, from the Real Soccer Team, was there making an appearance and signing T-shirts. It was perfect-Spencer loves to go to the games and now he will have an autographed shirt to wear when he goes.

Hope everyone had a great Christmas- I know we sure did!!!

Eli Rockin Out

Instead of buying each other gifts for Christmas, Spencer and I get something that the whole family can use (Thank goodness, because Spencer is sooo hard to buy for!) and this year we got a video camera. We opened it up early so we could figure out how to use and charge the battery for Christmas morning.

It's been quite fun to catch Eli in action. He is a character and he keeps us laughing constantly.

In this video he is singing this rock song that his dad taught him, it's called "There ain't no rest for the wicked." Spencer and Eli are singing it and quoting it all the time. Enjoy!!

Christmas PJ's

On Christmas Eve the grandkids get to open their special PJ's made by Grandma Charrisse. This year the boys' PJ's match, they're sooo cute and sooo soft. They are pictures of the Sesame Street characters playing soccer.
Ethan's PJ's aren't the regular baby style with all the snaps, they are a 2-piece with footsies, and I think they make him look so much older than he already is- he is growing up so fast :(

Eli playing horsey with uncle Stev-O

Ohhh, My Boys!!

Gingerbread Houses

Every year we have a tradition-to build gingerbread houses. Luckily, it's not as competitive as the pumpkin carving, so Spencer and Ty don't get too out of control. They do try and think of new things to do every year. This year Spencer thought it would be great to melt chocolate chips and drizzle it down the roof and then blow powdered sugar all over it to make it look like fresh snow-what a mess!!! I think this is Eli's favorite activity because we have a ton of candy laying around and nobody notices him sneaking a piece every few minutes, I'm surprised he didn't get sick in the middle of the night from his sugar high!

Every family gets to build a house and take it home with them. Here's Spencer starting our house, he was our architect and builder. I supervised!

Spencer being a dork!

Here's a few of the houses in construction

Eli "helping" his daddy-I think he's secretly stealing the candy!

Spencer gettin-r done

Our finished house!! How cute!!

Our little Fuhriman Village

O' Christmas Tree, O' Christmas Tree

Every year Spencer wants to buy a fake tree but I refuse. I won't let him, growing up in Oregon, we always had the best fresh-cut trees and I just love having a real tree. You can't beat the smell of a fresh tree and it's so pretty.

We picked out our tree a little earlier than usual and unfortunately, our schedule, and life in general, seemed so crazy this holiday season that our tree sat undecorated for 2 weeks. I wanted to decorate it together as a family activity because usually I end up decorating it by myself and really what's the fun in that. Christmas is my favorite time of year and I love spending it with my family.

Eli helping decorate the tree

Eli gets the honor of putting the star on top of the tree

Eli's great tree topper skills- it's like a shooting star!

Let's try that again.

Our poor little tree doesn't have very many ornaments, but we are slowing adding a few more every year.

Eli

Our little Eli has become so so independant. He wants to do everything himself, his biggest wish is to be a big boy, like his uncles Troy and Kurt. He loves it when I let him do anything by himself. For example, when I drop him off at Preschool he wants to get out of the car and run up to the door himself, he always tells me, "Mom, you stay in the car." I keep telling him that I want him to stay little forever and his answer back is "but I want to be big". It's so sad to see him growing up so quickly. We do a preschool with 2 other girls in the neighborhood, it's been alot of fun and Eli enjoys it. We each take turns hosting and teaching the group, I love it, the hardest part is trying to get Eli to sit down and actually focus on the activities. Hopefully his attention span will improve with age.

Last month we put Eli into a tumbling class, he needed an activity to use up some of that excess energy, since his outside time is limited by the weather. He still loves to go out and play in the snow but he doesn't stay out very long before he comes in with purple hands complaining that he's freezing. He loves his tumbling class, he's learning to do handstands, somersaults, and flips. I think his favorite is the giant foam pit and slide!!


Eli has adjusted really well to being a big brother. Eli loves to hold and kiss on Ethan. (Doesn't Ethan look excited!! LOL!!) Usually Ethan loves when Eli will talk and play with him. Eli makes him laugh all the time, it's pretty cute to see how much they love each other.

Everyday Eli waits and waits for his Daddy to come home and play soccer with him. Here he is in his soccer outfit, cleats included. He loves to wear his cleats everywhere, friends houses, the grocery store, EVERYWHERE, I think he would wear them to bed if we would let him.

Whenever I tell Eli to smile for the camera, he turns his head to the side and does this cheesy smile.

Ethan's Blessing

We blessed Ethan the first Sunday in November. I know I'm a little behind with my postings but I'm trying to catch up. So I had to post some pictures of Ethan and his beautiful blessing outfit. Charrisse, of course, made his outfit. It turned out so good and he looks so cute in it. We had a great day, Spencer gave him a great blessing and Ethan didn't cry so that's always a plus.
We made sure and got some pictures of Ethan before Church. We learned that the hard way, with Eli's blessing day we were in such a hurry we thought, "Oh we'll get some pictures of him after church, no big deal" and that never happened because he had a blowout in the middle of the meeting and it got all over his blessing outfit! Sadly, we never got any pictures of Eli in his blessing outfit.
So, with Ethan we made sure and took lots of pictures right after we dressed him.
I had to post this picture of Charrisse, I love it!! LOL!!

Ethan pouting his lips. You can see all the beautiful smocking and stitch work Charrisse did on Ethan's outfit in the picture.

4 Generations in the Fuhriman Family

Ethan and Daddy. This picture was taken at the end of the day and Ethan was so done with everything, as you can tell he's not very happy in this picture.

Roly Poly

Ethan rolled over for the first time right before Thanksgiving. I wasn't even home, Spencer was home with the boys that weekend, I can't believe I missed it!! He rolled from his back to his tummy, then discovered he didn't like that much, so he doesn't do it too often, he would much rather roll from his tummy to his back. Doesn't like to lay on his tummy much. Here he is in action- just like a pro!! He's so darn CUTE!!!!

Trick-or-Treat

Trick-or-treating was fun this year. It's the first year Eli really got into it. He went out last year but he never said trick-or-treat and he didn't get super excited about the candy like he did this year. Eli wanted to be an M&M and it had to be the green one. As everyone knows the green M&M is the girl character which means we couldn't just buy the green M&M costume because all the green costumes had long eye lashes and sexy eyes- I didn't think that was appropriate for my little 3 year old boy. So with Charrisse's guidance I made his costume-not too hard. I think it turned out pretty cute and Eli really liked it.
First we went to a Trunk-or-Treat, Eli kept wanting to go back to all the cars that we had all ready been to-like he didn't get enough candy the first time around. Ethan is dressed as a little monkey. He wasn't too excited about the hood part being on his head and he fell asleep while Eli was making his rounds.

This is Eli getting ready to go out trick-or-treating that night in our neighborhood. We went to about 15 houses and then he was done. He was so tired from all the excitement all day long.

Halloween Party

Our annual Halloween party was great-as usual! Sterling made pizza, we carved our pumpkins, then we frosted sugar cookies and made caramel apples. We had 15 pumpkins and they all turned out really cute, we couldn't choose a winner for best pumpkin because they all looked so good.

Charrisse carving her masterpiece

Everyone checking out Troy's gigantic pumpkin, it was huge!! He carved it in honor of Kyle and Kurt who couldn't be with us this year.

Spencer helping Eli carve his pumpkin

Eli's amazing pumpkin, good job Spence!Tanner trying to climb the Great Pumpkin!

Bob helping Sara carve her perfect pumpkin

Nice butt shot Spence!!
All our pumpkins lined up and lit ready for the judging.

Everyone enjoying their treats after the long tiring pumpkin carving competition