Happy Birthday Carly!

Tonight we got to celebrate Carly's birthday.

If you read Jennifer's blog, you already know we were at Olive Garden :)
Singing Happy Birthday! (This is currently one of Eli's favorite songs...)

BLOW!

I can hardly believe she's NINE! I still remember visiting when Jennifer was pregnant (and fairly miserable...) with Carly. Time flies!

We came with the kids. Leah enjoyed her first visit to Olive Garden :) It must have wore her out, because she went right to bed tonight. Hopefully she'll sleep for a LONG time.

Eli enjoyed Carly's puppets that she got. Can't wait to see a puppet show!

I hope your birthday was everything you hoped for Carly :) We had so much fun celebrating with you!

Two Cuties!

On Friday we got up and went over to Eric & Leilani's house. Eric & Leilani were getting some Black Friday deals, so Abuela was watching Isaac. Edgar was going to paint and wanted the kids out of the house, so we went over to hang out with Isaac & Abuela. Shortly after we arrived we walked to the playground. Eli enjoyed having someone ride with him in his stroller. (I put Leah in Isaac's stroller so the boys could 'hang out' in the double stroller) I was a little irritated that my camera was on the wrong setting...the pictures look terrible :( I didn't realize it until about half-way through the playground fun.

Playing with AbuelaEli has been trying to figure out how all of the big kids climb UP the slide. He's still working on that...

Isaac just keeps getting cuter!

The boys had fun playing. Eli climbed all over the playground equipment while Isaac was content to play in the mulch.

It was a beautiful day to play outside!

Thanksgiving

The table is set
The Turkey is carved (I think the 'carver' is sneaking a taste...)

The food is ready
Abuela is snuggling her grand kids

The family is together

It was a good day.

This year we were able to have Thanksgiving at our house. It was fun to host Thanksgiving in our new kitchen :) We had enormous amounts of food (which is really the way it should be, right?!) and a wonderful time with family. This year Krista & Eliott spent Thanksgiving with her parents, so they were missed.

It was really nice to have Grandpa come. He stayed all day, and beat Edgar & dad at dominoes. Eli had a blast with his cousin, Isaac. He also seemed to really like Uncle Eric :) Someone else to play with :)

I hope your Thanksgiving was as happy as ours!

Spinning with Daddy...

...is oh so fun!

11.19.2010-Thanksgiving Party!

On Friday we had a few friends over for a little Thanksgiving playdate. I had turkey sandwiches, and all of the moms brought a little something to add to our pre-Thanksgiving 'feast' :) As I was preparing for the 'event' I saw a dessert my sister had made... ...so I had to copy her :) I thought they were super cute. If I could eat chocolate right now I think I would have enjoyed them even more...but the kids seemed to like them.
The house was full, but the kids had lots of fun.

I also got the craft idea from my sister (she's good to have 'around'...). The moms painted the kids hands,

..then they put their hand on paper to transfer the paint. Then the hand prints were made into turkeys. They turned out really cute.

It was fun to have so many friends over at once. Eli had a blast-though he was EXHAUSTED by the time everyone left. I think he was GLAD to get into his bed :)

11.18.2010-My kids

Nothing makes

me smilemore than seeing my kids

smile.

11.14.2010-Eli's Birthday Party...take 3!

Sunday the 14th we had yet another birthday celebration for Eli. It truly was a birthday WEEK for him :) This time we celebrated with Edgar's family. We had gotten home from church and Eli ate and went down for a nap (that he never actually took...). Everyone arrived around 1 and we ate (and Eli got out of bed). We had (you guessed it!) chicken & rice :) Eliott got tricked into reading a book to the kids...and they just kept bringing him more :)
After we ate Eli got to open his presents. He got some more wonderful gifts!

Krista made yet another fabulous cake. Eli is completely obsessed with shapes right now-so he LOVED this cake!

He still loves blowing out the candles :)

He wanted that cake!

But we wanted a few pictures first...

'MOM! I REALLY want my cake!'

'Why won't anyone give me my cake?!'

In the end he got his cake...but didn't eat any of it. He just played with the fondant shapes on it.

Leah was completely entertained... ;)

We got Eli a tricycle. He loved riding around on it...

...and he liked pushing Katie on it too :)

Abuelo got some snuggle time with Leah...

...then went out on the porch to push Eli.

Uncle Eliott got a turn pushing him too.

After a while we went to Abuelo's house. It's terrible, but we hadn't been able to get over there to introduce him to Leah. He had a cold, so he didn't get to hold her-yet. Hopefully we'll get over there again soon so he can snuggle her :)

Right before we left Edgar's uncle let his dogs in. Eli was THRILLED :)

It was a fun day. We got so caught up in the activities and excitement of the day, that I completely forgot to give Eli dinner...oops. He woke up the next morning, and the first thing he said to me was 'Breakfast?!'...ummm...I think he was hungry :)

Something tells me he got a bit spoiled this year. Hopefully he won't expect 3 birthday celebrations every year ;)