Birthday Party for Eli!

We had a fun time celebrating Eli's first birthday with family!

There's something about a fresh cake from the bakery that I just LOVE!

So we splurge a little on birthdays... :)

When we went to pick up the cake...we were surprised to see the little cake that came with it! :)

That's a lot of cake for such a little guy!

Hmmm...I kinda like this :)

Digging in for more! :)

YUM!

Cleaning up after a messy cake!

All clean and ready to party! :)

Opening presents!

Lots of cousins to help Eli open his new toys!

Goofy Girl!

Thanksgiving!

We had a wonderful weekend with family!

Eli (12 months) & Cousin Adam (16 months)

Adam!

Cousin Kyle

Who's this goofy little guy??

Eli!

One of the many many card games that were played this weekend...

Buddies!

Grace had so much fun playing with Cousin Noelle over Thanksgiving weekend!

Ahhh...I love this one! :)

Birthday Morning!

On the morning of Eli's birthday he got to open his first present!

As you can tell...Eli was quite into his present :)

Or other things like...the TV remote and the TV itself!

Grace showing Eli that his new toy really was cool :)

Eli's Birthday!

Here are pictures of Eli on his birthday!

I still can't believe he's already a year old!

Birthday Fun!

We had a fun evening celebrating Eli's birthday!

Ohhh...what's in there?

Trucks! Eli's very happy to have some boy toys around the house! :)

Thanks Grandma & Grandpa!

This is great! :)

Waiting to taste some cake for the first time!

Happy Birthday Eli!

(Gotta love a free 1st birthday cake from Byerly's!)

(Guess the picture decided to be sideways...and I'm too tired to fix it! :)

Helping Eli blow out the candle!

Yum!

Grace agrees :)

Grace with one of her favorite people...MARLENE! :)

Birthday Boy!

Today is Eli's first birthday!

Can't believe how fast this year went!

Here's Eli's first year in pictures...

Go Broncos!

Grace was ready to cheer on the Broncos with Daddy!

Crazy Minnesota Weather

We had wonderfully mild and warm fall weather during October and early November.

Today was absolutely perfect. It was nice and warm.

We didn't even have to wear coats! (Now that's my kind of weather!)

I think Eli knows winter is coming...

Saying "Good bye" to the parks and sunny weather is tough stuff!

Playing in the sand...

We love our walks!

(Especially when our destination is to the park!)

Just three days later...

Good bye grass! See you again in March?? :(

Little Stinker! :)

Appearing all sweet and innocent :)

Eli...

Who needs toys when you these fun buttons to play with... :)

B-day weekend

A cake from Dave...isn't he sweet!?! :)

The cake was delicious! :)

The start of Eli's walking!

Eli took his very first steps today too! :)