A Baseball Date

When the Tiger's come to town I always try and get to at least one game. Fortunately, Edgar's mom was able to stay with the kids and Edgar and I got to go to the game without the kids. We had a lot of fun. We got there really early so we were able to watch some of the players hit batting practice. We saw Miguel Cabrera...not my favorite player in the world, but still kinda cool that we got to see him up close.
Jim Leyland

Justin Verlander warming up. I was pretty excited to see him pitch :)

The game started right on time, and Verlander was awesome :)

I need one of these hats...

Valverde closed out the game...made it a little more exciting that it probably should have been, but the Tiger's won :) Evan Longoria hit a home run in the 9th, and it landed quite literally 3 rows in front of us. My mom and dad saw us on TV :) Does that make us famous? Haha. Kidding.

We had a really nice evening together...failed to get a picture of the two of us...but oh well :) We'll be sure to go again next year!!

Gymnastics Birthday Party

A friend of ours had a birthday party for her little girl at a gymnastics gym. Edgar stayed at home with Leah and Eli and I went for some fun :) I thought Eli would love the foam pit...but in the end I had to throw him in...then he never went in again :)
Eli's friend, Kaeden liked it though!

Eli was much happier lining up the little frogs...

...and playing with balls.

There was a lot of equipment for the kids to climb on and have fun on. Eli seemed to have a really good time-I might have to sign him up for gymnastics this fall :)

Getting Closer!

Leah is getting so close to walking...she can stand on her own for several seconds before grabbing something, and has recently discovered this 'walker' thing. Enjoy a couple of videos of her!

Eric & Leilani's Shower

There is another baby in this family that is about to arrive! Eric and Leilani are expecting #2 in just a few weeks (if not sooner!!) We had a shower for them with family and close friends. Krista made the cake (She's such a pro-seriously!)
I made cake pops (Fun...challenging...tedious...but I'll try them again :) )

and cookies (of course!)

Krista brought some cute little baby socks with kisses inside (of the chocolate variety)...and mom made most of the food. There was TONS of food-all delicious!

Leah was oh so happy to eat! (And so was I, quite honestly)

Eli is taking after his Uncle Ryan...ya know...reading a book whenever he can :)

The mommy and daddy to be!

So excited to meet ______ (they haven't shared the name yet)

Leah was entertained by a 'few' beads...

We had a wonderful afternoon with each other. We took time to pray for Eric & Leilani...and Isaac too :) We can't wait to meet him!!!

Documentation...

Everyone knows how important it is to document the first time someone eats spaghetti, right? Or wait...is that just me?

(By the way...I thought she was actually fairly clean for a first attempt!)

YUM!

Never
ever

waste

your

Ice cream!

VBS

This year I was able to help out at VBS. I got to teach the 2 & 3 year old class. It was SUPER fun. A lot of work...but a lot of fun. It was fun teaching all of Eli's buddies :) There was lots of dancing :) Every day for 30 minutes we went to music time where the kids learned 6 songs and motions. I'm not sure how much of the songs the 2 & 3 year-olds actually learned, but they had a BLAST running around to the very loud, very fun music. Ryan actually taught the class, and he was very good with the kids. Thanks for putting up with the crazy toddlers, Ryan! It was amazing to me how much of the songs Eli actually picked up on. I play the music and he does sing along to some of the words. It's very cute!
There was also a LOT of painting.

We painted every day. Edgar let me borrow some old shirts of his for the kids to wear...though Olivia didn't want to put them on :) The painting is pretty much what got Olivia in the door :) I think she had a good time (and according to Christine, still asks to go to 'BBS' :) Love that kid!)

We had snack time every day. This is also when I told the Bible story. The kids would actually sit still and listen when they had something to eat :)

The learned their 'Bible Verse' too...it was 'I love Jesus!' SO cute when Eli says it :)

We did lots of crafts throughout the week too.

We had a LOT of fun with the kids. It was an exhausting week, but well worth it. I'm looking forward to next year!!