photos

My dear friend Jenica who takes beautiful pictures came to Eli's little party at my inlaws. Even though Eli wouldn't smile the entire day she still got some good pictures of him! Love you Jenica!!!
http://www.lemondropsphotography.com/2008/08/baby-e-is-one-year-old/

teething bites

I am teething right now!!!

Wow this is one of the worst times, he is whining, crying, drooling, burning up, needy, sleepy, and choking on his food cause he wont chew! He also has a runny nose and is sneezing alot? My mom says this all points to teething. He only has 4 teeth, so he is due for some more soon. Yesterday we stopped our afternoon nursing and he successfully got through the day with only morning and nighttime. But then today at Costco with him screaming and no snack, I brought that feeding right back. darn. We will try tomorrow.

cleaning out the pics on my camera

Eric being sworn into ROTC before we left Tennessee. He was so proud of this, he asked me if I would make sure to put it on my blog :)















Eli and his buddy Aiden. Nothing is better than hot Tennessee days with naked babies in the pool! This was a rare shoot to get no little wee wees in the picture.















We spent one of our last days in Lynchburg,TN and toured the Jack Daniels Distillery. It is a very cool "rare" small country town with 1 stop light and about 500 residents. This was a picture of our lunch at Miss Mary Bobo's Boarding house. Dinner is served at 1pm and all the guests sit around a dining room table and share a family style meal of fried chicken, mashed potatoes, fried okra, baked apples and different dishes daily! It was soo much fun.




















Eli's Birthday Party with his buddies!! These were the mamas I was pregnant with when I first moved to Tennessee. Little miss Charlottle is 1 month older than the boys, Aiden and Eli are just 2 days apart. Although they don't look too excited, they had alot of fun opening presents and eating there birthday bananas!














I love these people!!

update on us

So for those of you that didn't hear...Eric got accepted into Green to Gold Program, which will allow him to go back to school and finish his degree for 2 years and then become an officer. We packed up the house a couple days ago and are back here in WA. My mom flew out to help us with the move. It was nice to have her there, cause with as many times as I have moved I have never had to do it with a baby. He was a lot more affected by it than I thought too. He walked around the house whining while everything was moving, then when it was empty he started crying! About half way through the day during all the hustle of packing we realized it was his birthday! No wonder the kid was crying! He better get used to this crazy life. We figured out that we have moved crossed country/world a total of 7 times. Life is a little crazy right now trying to figure all this out, but the 2 years at home together will be worth it.

happy birthday to you

One year! Wow, I don't know what to say. I was brought to tears this morning singing happy birthday to him, knowing that the years are going to keep going by this fast. I can't believe its already been a year! It is so cool to have childern, such an amazing new connection to your spouse, to your parents and to God! To know that he lets us be apart of creation is such a special thing. I love this little boy so much! Happy Birthday Elijah!

oh mamma

Mamma Mia! I love Love LOVE this musical. I am not an ABBA fan, but eveyone loves dancing queen! I got to see this play when it was in Portland about 5 years ago or so. Just saw the the movie and they did a great job! It is such a fun movie, every girl needs to grab a friend and go! Everyone at the movie theater was singing along at one point- how fun is that?!!