HaLloWeEn!!!

We had a great Halloween.
First, we took Eli to one of our neighbor's house to take pictures of him by their giant pumpkins. But they weren't home and had the pumpkins covered. We just decided to take some in their hay bales.


I was going to be a mummy (the mummy to be) but couldn't find white sweats anywhere. My brother and sister in law were dressing up in my parent's old rendezvous clothes so we decided to dress up with them. It was kind of emotional as we dug through all of my dad's stuff, brought back alot of memories. We went to our ward's trunk or treat then took Eli around to see family.

We couldn't keep the frog out of the candy!!

Baby...

We had our 3d ultrasound today..it was really neat to see the baby up that close. I'm thinking he's going to look alot like Eli did when he was born, but we'll see..For now here are some fun pictures of what we saw...

Bday Fun!!

Eli's party was alot of fun. It rained a ton before the party so he enjoyed jumping in the puddles while we were setting up the pinata. I had a pull string pinata so each kid took turns pulling on a string until one would open the pinata. He loved his monkey cake but we just ate the cupcakes and then he decided to tear into his small one I had the candles on.Then he opened his presents. He loved all the trucks he got! He also got a rocket thing that he, Will, and my nephew Riley had too much fun with. Then they all attempted a ride in the wheelbarrow. haha it was really funny. Overall it was a fun party and I can't believe my baby is almost 2!!

This was his cake

He loved his monkey cake!

Eli getting some help blowing out the candles and
opening his presents!

my sweet monkey!

the wheelbarrow race


Happy birthday my sweet baby!!

And the results are...

We had our big ultrasound the last week of July and found out we are having another BOY!! We are really excited but I'm a little worried about the trouble they are going to cause together!
I am now 20 weeks so exactly halfway, so I decided to post some pics of my baby bump...

Eli is SOO excited about the baby. He really loves being around babies and I hope that he will be as good with his brother as he is with other people's babies (granted these are both girls, but he seems to love baby boys just as much). He loves to kiss the baby (my belly).

fun at the lake!

We went to the lake twice this summer. The first time we went Eli wasn't too sure about the water. This last time he warmed up to it more. But playing in the sand seemed to be the favorite activity of the day. We had a lot of fun with Eli's aunts, uncles and cousins!

swimming fun!!

Tess came over the other day while her parents packed to move. They both had so much fun in the pool. Eli usually doesn't like to get wet above his belly but Tess was quite the fish she was down in the water first thing.

Then she got really upset and was screaming: "Bug, Bug" Good thing Eli is not afraid of bugs he got the boxelder bug out of the pool for her. It was kinda squished in his fingers but he likes to show you what he got...

Then I showed them how to blow water out of their noodle. They thought that was so fun. We are sure going to miss Tess and her family but wish them the best in their new adventure! :)

Summer Fun!

I'm so glad the weather has finally warmed up so we can enjoy the warm sunshine! We have had a fun summer thus far. We babysat my nephew for 2 weeks while his mom was at training for work. Eli really loved having someone to play with all day long! Here are some highlights from June....

We have been working hard on our yard. We had to connect to the sewer and Eli loved helping his dad dig the trench. Now we have to till our front yard and replant the grass because digging the trench made such a mess but it wasn't very good grass anyways.

We also got our back yard planted and it is doing really well. I love having grass back there! Eli loves helping his dad mow it. I know, I know this is totally not safe, but it was fun this one time!

Will also caught a hummingbird that was trapped in our garage and Eli thought it was so neat seeing it up close.

Eli also loved playing in my nephew's tent and tunnel. They seriously spent hours in there, watching movies and wrestling...so fun!!

Just a cute picture of me with Eli and one of him with his cousin..