Crazy busy weekend!

I don't know if I remember not having a busy weekend! My crazy fun Weekend started on Friday evening for me. I went to Texas Road House Friday night to celebrate a good friends 29th birthday. It was a nice way to start out a fun filled weekend.

Saturday we got up and did our normal morning routine. Then we went to Choice Tee for the 2nd annual Family Fun Day for Spring Assistant Ministries. They were having a 5K fun run to start out the events. I ran it and beat my fastest 5k time. I ran it in 27 minutes ad 48 seconds. I also came in 2nd over all. It was a really small race, though. Even though this is the 1st I ever placed in any kind of race! (except when I was on swim team as a kid). Now I'm looking forward to my next 5k on Saturday to try and beat my time! After I received my award we went and had lunch at Chick-fil-a and then ran some errands.

After Eli's nap we all went to a crawfish party at our friend's house in New Waverly. They have the best property and boy do they know how to throw a party. Eli had a blast playing with all Lucy's toys. I couldn't even get him to to go in the pool with me and it sure was pool weather. The crawfish was awesome and we ate more then enough! Eli even had his 1st sip of beer. I was hoping that if I gave him a sip he wouldn't want it but that backfired on me! By the time we headed for home all 3 of us were exhausted but boy did we have a great time.



Eli liked the pretty pink purse!


Eli was oppsesed with this pink car and chased after Reagan to try and get it back.


Eli lost the car to Reagan because he stopped to get a cracker



Ronda blowing bubbles for the kids


Gotta love the milk gut Eli is sporting


Yummy crawfish that Brad Hahn ccoked


The pink car was in use so Eli settled with a wagon


Eli wanting some beer from the keg


Still trying to get some beer

Sunday morning we all got up and made it to church and Sunday school. When I went to pick up Eli from the nursery after Sunday school he didn't want to leave. I finally got him to come to the door by telling him we were going to GG's house. We left church and went straight to Kemah. When we got there Melissa, Jonathan and Caleb showed up shortly there after. We all sat down for hotdogs with GG's yummy chili. Eli ate his 1st ever hotdog. He pretty much ate the whole dog with out me even trying to get him to eat it! After lunch we all had a nice time visiting with each other before we got ready for our walk to the boardwalk. Last minute GG, Papa, and Derrill decided to come with us to the Blessing of the Fleet. We all had a great time walking the mile there and watching the boats. Eli loved the boats. It was a fabulous day and with awesome weather. I can't think of a better way to spend a Sunday afternoon.


Heading out to the board walk!


GG, Papa and Eli


Me and my boy


Uncle Derrill











Caleb chillin waiting on the boats






Caleb and Uncle Derrill




























Walking back from the boardwalk


Derrill and I left Thomas in our dust!


All tuckered out!

Just For Grins!

The sound on my camera is not working but Eli is dancing to a song on the TV. He really liked dancing with all his new beads!

Fun at the fountain

locked keys and Eli laughing at himself

Today was a very interesting day! Eli woke up this morning before 6 am so I know I was in for a trying day. He woke up in a pretty good mood though. I made orange buckwheat pancakes for breakfast and Eli loved them! I thought they were pretty good myself! Because of Eli getting up so early we were ready to go for the day really early. So, Eli and I left for the gym at the same time Thomas left for work. I had a great time working out I ran 6 miles straight and then walk a mile. When I picked up Eli from Kids Club he was crying. The workers said he just started right before I got there. They said a kid took the toy he was playing with and Eli just started crying. I was thinking oh no it's starting now. I knew he was going to start being cranky today since he had so little sleep.

After the gym Eli and I were going to run errands and then meet up with Thomas for lunch. Our first errands were going to be go to Hobby Lobby then to the Goodwill store and last to The Dollar Tree before heading down to spring for more errands. Eli did well in Hobby Lobby, he talked the whole time. He even said colors all through the store. He started to get fussy at the check out. When we got to the car and I was trying to put our purchases in the car Eli threw an all out tantrum! I sat in the car with him while I waited for him to calm down. After he finally calmed down I stood up with him and shut the door and that's when the dread hit me, I lifted the door handle and sure enough I had locked the car and I was looking at my purse (with the keys and cell phone) locked in the car. What's worse is i could not remember Thomas' cell number. Luckily Thomas' office was just a mile down Sawdust/Grogans Mill from Hobby Lobby. So off Eli and I went to Thomas' office. It was actually a nice morning for a walk too. Eli might be a light weight for a 19 month old but he still gets heavy and he would not get down and walk. We got to Thomas' office and he went and unlocked the car for us and then since it was just about lunch time by then we all just went down to Cheddar's for lunch. We had a good lunch with just a little fussiness. I decided to only do the errands that had to be done for the day and then head home to put Eli down for his nap. What I found out later is that a lady was robbed at The Dollar Tree shortly after Eli and I walked to Thomas' office. I am amazed how God watches out for me. That very well could have been me since I am such an easy target with having to deal with a toddler. I could be very upset for locking my keys in the car but now I am happy that the Lord saved me from the purse snatcher!

This evening I left my computer on, on top of the table and Eli was going crazy over the pictures on my screen saver. So I decided that we would sit down on the couch together and go through old pictures on the computer. Eli loved it! It was so fun watching him see the pictures and point out mama and daddy. Everytime he would see some one he knew he would get all excited. I also have video of Eli on the computer and we went trough some of those too and he would just laugh at him self. I had one video of me playing peek-a-boo with Eli behind the couch and Eli was just cracking up laughing at it and kept wanting me to replay it over and over.

Before Bedtime Eli and I were upstairs playing with puzzles and Eli put one puzzle all together all by himself! I am so proud of him, he is such a smart little boy!

Dear friend and silly boys!

Today Eli and visited my dear friend Julie and her 2 little boys, Timothy and Ty. We had such a good time catching up and letting the boys play and get to know each other. Timothy and Eli played really well together we had a few sharing issues but it was not too bad. Ty was just excited to watch Eli drive a car around him and get it close enough for him to touch. He would just squeal with delight. I also got to take Julie and her boys out for lunch in celebration on Julie's 30th birthday which was on Saturday. The boys were awesome and actually ate something and they both got the last Veggie Tales CD in the Chick-fil-a series. And of course Eli and I had to listen to the CD the whole way home (it's only about a 7 to 10 minuted cd to0). After lunch we went back to Julie's house so Ty could get a much needed nap and we let the boys watch Veggie tales while we talked for a little bit. At one point Julie had given the boys each a cars sippy to drink from and they were both sippin on their sippy. At one point Timothy was sitting in the chair and Eli decided he wanted to get up in the chair and sit by Timothy and watch the show with him. This is what we found.







Eli and I had such a great time visiting. We really should get together more often, the boys played really well together!