My baby is 5!

It is super hard for me to believe but our baby is 5.  Again I am behind on posting this since he turned 5 the end of May but still hard to believe.  For the first time we decided to let him have a small friend party since he was in a small preschool.  Well the small turned into a party with 16 kids.  We were going to have it at our house but decided to rent a park shelter instead.  That was the best idea my wonderful mother in law had.  Elliott decided he wanted a Lego Star Wars party which then turned into a Star Wars party.  Thanks to Elliott's Kuncle (my brother) and his Star Wars obsession we had plenty of decorations plus I had made some banners.  The week before the party Wes and I made water noodle light sabers as party favors and came up with all sorts of Star Wars themed food names.  the weather looked very questionable the day of the party but God blessed us with no rain and the party was a hit!  Here are a few pictures. 

Daddy Spent the weeks before the party building Corn Hole (aka Bean Bag toss boards)

Elliott got to choose his cake this year so this is what mommy got to make!

Some of the guests eating the Star Wars foods!






Present time is always a little crazy for this mom but we managed to make it through.


Here is the best that we got of Elliott getting ready to blow out his candles.  It was windy so I think that he ended up blowing out the flicker:)



After we were done with presents and cake we gave all of the kids and some grown ups the water noodle light sabers and I am here to tell you it was a super fun free for all in the field.  I am not sure who had more fun the kids or adults.

 


We feel so blessed that we are able to have such a wonderful, loving and caring little boy.  He has brought so much joy to our lives the past 5 years and we are excited to see what the future holds for him.  We Love You Elliott!

Easter 2012

I know that I am super late with this post but I am determined to get caught up this summer with blog posting so be prepared to be inundated with updates.  So this year we had Easter with my family at our house.  It is always fun to to have everyone together.  we started out the morning with our favorite thing, Church with our wonderful church family.  What a better way to celebrate our Risen Lord.  We love that we get to go to church with some of our extended family, Gramma Lynnie and Papa Wayne.  They have know me since, well forever, and I feel blessed that my kids get to grow up knowing these 2 wonderful people.  

After church we headed home and played in the yard for a little bit and took some pictures while we waited for the rest of the family to show up.  Our great neighbor came out to take this family picture for us.  It is probably one of the best pictures of the 4 of us in a long time.

This year we spent Easter with the Linington family.  As usual we tried to get pictures of the 4 kiddo's together.  This is the best we got this year.  Not bad when trying to organize 2 5 year olds and 2 2 year olds.  Everyone thinks that Edith and Mr T. look like they are going to a 50's prom.

This is probably one of my favorite pictures of my kiddo's.  It is proof to me that they actually do like each other!  



Even the grown ups got into the Easter spirit!

 

We had a great Easter with the Family!  

Here is just a picture that makes me laugh every time I see it.