Happy Birthday Eli

My little man is 3 years old. I can't believe it! He is such an amazing kid, we are so blessed to have him in our lives. We're constantly amazed at how quickly he learns and grows. He's such a character, he always keeps us laughing!!

We had a little family get-together for his B-day party. We BBQ'd, had cake and presents and Eli's favorite-a pinata.

The day after his party he wanted his red race car pinata back. Then I had to explain to him that we broke it to get all the candy out and that he could have one for his next birthday-that was a mistake! He's already started talking about his next birthday-it's going to be a long year!

Eli's getting ready to do some damage to his pinata.

His little red race car pinata doesn't stand a chance against our little sports star!!

After a few minutes of whacking on it he finally broke one of the bottom wheels off. After that a couple pieces of candy would fall out every time he hit it. So, then he had to stop, pick up the candy and put it back into the pinata-silly boy!!

Eli got to the point where he couldn't hold the bat up any longer so we let Kurt finish it off. As you can see, the candy flew everywhere!!

Eli opening his presents. He was sooo excited and got lots of good toys.
It took him a couple tries to get ALL 3 of the candles blown out-but he did it. Don't worry, there was only minimal droolage on the cake!

Eli and his little cousin, Tanner.

Spencer's hair is finally starting to grow back-very slowly. He hasn't cut it at all since he shaved it off last month.

I figured I better take at least one picture of me while I'm pregnant with baby #2. When I was pregnant with Eli I took a picture almost every month. But as most of you know, things get a little more crazy after you have kids and I haven't even had time to think about it. This is me at 37 weeks.

Little Artist

The other day Eli and I were wandering through Walmart, I was picking up some baby diapers-trying to get somewhat prepared for the new little one. Well, they have all their school supplies out so we picked up some kiddie scissors and watercolors. You would have thought it was Christmas the way Eli was so excited and worked up. We got home and he spent ALL day cutting and painting.
He's growing up too fast, I can't how big he looks in these pictures and to think he's going to be turning 3 in just a couple weeks, where does the time go?!?

Look at that tongue-he is such a Fuhriman!! LOL!!

Eli keeps me constantly going and the other day I just needed to lay down for a few minutes to rest so I told him to go to his room and play for a little bit. All of his toys were in his closet but instead of pulling them out to play with them he just went and sat in the closet and closed the door. A little while later I didn't hear him-and that makes me nervous- so I went to check on him and he had fallen asleep. He was sitting up holding his tractor and stuffed animal-I don't know how he falls asleep in these odd positions (He must have inherited that from his Grandpa Bob)!!

4th of July

We had a great 4th of July!! Spencer only had to work a couple of hours in the morning so we spent most of the day with family. The weather was so great, Spencer took Eli in the pool with the other kids. He was really excited at first because he loves the water but as you can tell he wasn't really loving it today, there was too much splashing and it didn't help that Spencer just tossed him to begin with!!

After swimming we enjoyed the best part, the food!! We had tons of yummy food. Then the kids got to play with the sparklers and pop-its. This year Eli really got into the fireworks, he was so excited to play with them and was really looking forward to going to the park to see the BIG fireworks show. Unfortunately, we had such a busy day and he was sooo tired from being out in the sun that as soon as we got to the park and sat on the blanket he crashed-totally missing the entire show!! Oh well, there's always next year.

Bye Bye Hair

Sunday night Spencer did this! What more can I say?
He had just finished cutting Eli's hair when he took the clippers to his own head and got rid of the little hair he had. He's been saying for years that he's just going to shave it all off but I never believed that he would do it, well he proved me wrong. I was a little shocked at first, but like everything else, you just get used to it. The funniest part is that Spencer has these DEEP wrinkles on the crown of his head, (he wouldn't let me take a picture of them) we had to tease him that he was dropped on his head as a baby! LOL! Luckily, Spencer told me he'd grow his hair back out if Ididn't like it-We'll see what happens.

I just had to post these pictures of Eli. I don't know where he found these glasses, but I think they're hilarious, he reminds me of Harry Potter!

Water Fun

We happened to be over at Mom and Dads one day when they got their irrigation water. It covers the whole backyard. It was a beautiful day and the kids decided to make the most of it since the swimming pool hadn't been set up yet. Eli loved it!!! He was running back and forth chasing his aunts and uncles slipping and sliding along the way, he also loved throwing the lacrosse balls into the water and watching the splash.

We were done playing in the water (or so I thought) so we got Eli undressed so we could clean him up. When I went into the house to get him a towel this is what I came out to!!! He sat down on the back step and was splashing around with his feet, doesn't he have the cutest little bum!!