A busy weekend!

What a weekend! We had a packed weekend, but a GREAT one! It started off on Friday when we got to go see Ben & Carly swim in their swim meet. It was very fun to watch them-I can't believe how fast they are!

I didn't really take many pictures, but this one of Ben eating his very blue 'sport bean' made me laugh.

Eli did great at the meet-now that his tooth has finally popped through he's a much happier baby. He was content to play with his aunt and uncle, and go for walks with daddy. We had to leave before Ben & Carly's last event, but we got to watch 3 strokes. Very impressive.

Saturday we got up and I took Eli with me for a run. I had run 2 miles early Friday morning, and had planned on going 3 on Saturday. I haven't run pushing a stroller for a while because I've been trying to get up early, or go later after Edgar gets home...Now, our stroller is wonderful-we love our jogger! However, the route I went on has several hills (pretty sure I've mentioned the GIANT hill before) and when running up a hill with a jogger it's much harder...SO, I did go 3 miles, but ended up walking up 2 of the hills. I ran the rest, though, and went at about a 12 min mile pace, so I was happy with that.

After I got back I made pancakes and got cleaned up. Edgar ended up having to go into work for a few hours, so while Eli napped, I started working on getting ready for our party :)

Krista & Eliott invited us over to a 'murder mystery' party. The party was set in the 20's, and we were suppose to dress the part. After much gel and hair spray, I got my hair to look like this:

It's suppose to be 'finger curls' which were popular in the 20's. It turned out pretty good...though I don't think they used quite as much gel in the 20's as I did...and it looked pretty stiff :)

I also had a TON of eye makeup on...and if you read Jennifer's recent entry, you already know Eli wouldn't look at me with all my make-up on :) It was pretty funny. He would look at me, blink really hard a couple of times, and look away. We finished getting ready, took Eli to Ryan & Jennifer's house (You can read about his activities while we were gone here...) and headed to the party.

Krista & Maranatha-dressed to kill! :)

When ya got this stuff hanging over a chair, you know you're at a costume party :)

Edgar was a 'mobster' and I was a cocktail waitress. It was very fun. Edgar figured out who the murderer was-smart guy! Krista posted a BUNCH of pictures on her site, so click here to see more of our 'adventures' Saturday night :)
Sunday morning we got up and headed to church. When I went to drop Eli off in the nursery, he was 1 of 16 kids...so I decided to stay and help out :) I am SO excited that we will be in our new church building soon! It will have 2 nurseries, so the younger kids will be separate from the older ones, which will be very nice.

After church we met up with Abuela and went to a Fall Festival that was going on in her neighborhood.

Cousin's checkin' out each others shades...

Eli went on a swing for the first time...and LOVED it! He stayed in there quite a while!

**side note...notice his shirt...Too big on him, but today was a very important game for the Tigers, and we had to show our spirit! We couldn't watch the game, so my mom sent me text updates throughout the whole game. It was almost as good as watching the game! I was totally just expecting occasional score updates, but she sent me inning by inning updates...who got hits, who was up, who made amazing catches, who got home runs...It was awesome. AND the Tigers won! However...so did the Twins...so there will be an extra game on Tuesday to determine the winner of their division...I plan on watching the game Tuesday, though I think I would still thoroughly enjoy text updates throughout :)

Eli got to go see the K-9 unit dog. He LOVES animals...though he calls all of them 'kitty'...well...his version of 'kitty' anyway :)

Daddy took him down the slide

And Katie ran all over the place playing too.

It was pretty fun.

Afterwards we went to mom's house and just hung out for a while. Eli took a nap...and I decided he needed some company, so I took one with him :) Mom made us some dinner, we ate and are now at home.

We have a busy week ahead, though I don't know that it is 'interesting busy', but I'm sure I'll find something interesting to blog about...well...interesting to me anyway...