First Steps!

On Tuesday Eli took his first steps between Blake and I. I can't believe that my baby is getting so big. It is so fun to watch him learn new things!

Driving and daddy

For the 5th of July we went up to Bone (Blake's dad owns some property up there) to ride 4 wheelers and roast marshmallows!

Paige wanted to drive the car on the way in and did an awesome job at it. Blake had to help her on the turns but other than that she steered all on her own.

This is my new favorite pic of Blake and Eli!! I got him a new hat before we went up and looks so stinkin cute in it.

2 of Eli's favorite things to do. Cross his feet and eat a graham cracker. Ever since Eli was born he loves to cross his feet. And i think he is addicted to graham crackers. We go through so many boxes of them because he always wants to eat them!

Turning 1!

I can't believe that it has been a year since this sweet little boy has come into our lives! It has been a crazy but awesome year. There is something about little boys that amazes me. He can make my heart melt with pretty much anything he does.

His new fascination is balls. He will sort through all his toys until he finds one. It is so cute.

He got this gorgeous minkee blanket for his birthday from his grandma Sherri. When I was about 5 months pregnant with Eli I saw someone with a blanket like this and fell in love with this so I asked Sherri to go ask where she bought it from. She said that she would but if it was homemade she wasn't making me one. Well she came back and told me that it was homemade. I looked at her and said "so your gonna make me one huh?" And she said ya I am! Well she finally got it done and gave it to him for his birthday and he loves it. He loves to snuggle into it and when you put it on the floor he dives onto it!

He was so cute with his birthday cake. With our girls we had to help them eat their cake. Not Eli! He dug right in and loved it.

I am so grateful that Eli has joined our family. He is the sweetest, funniest, cutest baby. I took him to his 1 year Dr. checkup yesterday and he was 20lbs 1oz so he was in the 12th percentile and he was 29 and 3/4" long and in the 51 percentile.

Have I mentioned that I Love this Little Boy!!!! Happy Birthday Eli!!!!

To Bone and Back

Last Saturday I ran in a 40 mile relay race. There were 8 people on our team and we each ran 5 miles! This was the first race I have ever ran in and it was hard but so worth it.

This is not your ordinary race either! It is a lot of hills. And mine was pretty much all downhill, and I started running at about 1pm so it was the hottest time of the day.


All I can say is it is over and I did it!




Our team finished 8th in the Womens Open! We were only 20 minutes behind the 1st team, so maybe next year we can win it!













This was our team (minus 2 girls)!