Potty Mouth!

Eli has certainly proved that he is developing a sense of humor. For the past few weeks, he has loved to go through the list of names that he knows, asking where each person is. Usually it goes like this...."Dayee? (Daddy), Mayee? (Maddy) Jor? (Jordan, Maddy's brother), Em? (Maddy's sister) Bayee? (Bailey, our dog), Bayin? (Braden, he's buddy he shares Maddy with), and so on.

However, today he decided to take a little venture into the land of bathroom humor. After each person's name, he now asks, "Toot??"...."Mayee, toot? Dayee, toot? Bayee, toot?" and so forth. He's even brought his Lambie into the little joke. How exactly do you firmly correct your child when you are laughing behind your hand??

Eli's 2 Year Portraits

Some friends taught Eli how to "raise the roof"...it's pretty cute.
This was the second time we got a photographer who was a complete dud. She just stared at him and kept asking if I could get him to smile...lucky for me, Eli was feeling cooperative and eventually warmed up to the idea! And for those who don't know, Eli comes from a heritage of hunter's so the Coon skin cap, camo, and bow were a must!

Eli's New Shirt

I'm way, way behind on posting! However, I wanted to be sure everyone got to see Eli's adorable new shirt! It's a bit big yet, but should fit perfectly by April 12!

Heather's Birthday Surprise

My older sister, Heather, turned 30 last month. We wanted to do something extra special, so my little sister, Sara, and I put our heads together to come up with a little surprise. My mom helped us pull the whole thing off. We showed up at her doorstep at 7 am and sang her Happy Birthday with a candlelit muffin. Then we rushed her into the shower and out the door to begin the Scavenger hunt that Sara had planned. Each clue in the hunt lead her to something relaxing/special/that mom's never get to do. She started at Starbucks, from there did a little shopping, then off to lunch with a friend, next a manicure/pedicure, a little more shopping and finally a dinner date with her husband.

Meanwhile, we were back at her house having a blast transforming her bedroom. I'd been plotting, scheming, and otherwise planning the bedroom makeover for about a month, so it gave me a chance to have all of the sewing and painting (aside from the walls, of course) done in advance. From 7:30am to 9:30pm we emptied, painted, reorganized, re-furnished and re-decorated her room. I just found out that "Trading Spaces" takes 2 whole days to do what we did-ha-take that! It was an absolute blast. Andy, Heather's husband, had a bunch of her friends come over at 9:30 and they hid in her room to surprise her too. Needless to say, she was surprised! It was such a fun day. Heather is the sweetest, most giving person so it was especially fun to do something special for her!

Arizona!