All Caught Up :)

So I know I left out quite a few pictures we've taken over the past 4 months, but I'd be SO OVERWHELMED if I tried to put them all up.

So here's something that happened in the last weekend!!

We took Eli to the Shrine Circus. The circus was SO MUCH FUN!!! He was WONDERFUL!! Everything was "Oh Mommy look" or "Daddy elephants" He sat thru the whole thing... 3 hrs!! We were shocked. They did have a 15 min intermission where Nico and Eli walked around, so that was good. Nico also bought him a light up spinning toy, so when things got a bit old sitting. He's play with that.

The dang toy cost like $12.00. I was SHOCKED that Nico spent the money. He said, "when we went to the circus when I was little, mom and tot NEVER let us get one and they were so cool, so I want Eli to have one." It was so cute and Eli LOVED it!

It didn't get over until 8:30 and so the WHOLE WAY home, and even putting him to bed Eli did nothing but talk about the circus. Even laying in bed he was talking to himself about it. Then Monday morning when he got up he was talking about it, when I left him at Kim's Monday morning he was telling Kim and Brenna all about it... so needless to say he LOVED IT!! I'm SO GLAD we went!! It was a WONDERFUL family time for all of us!!

Christmas X5

We SO looked forward to this Christmas because Eli would "get" it. And he did... between Santa Clause (which he HATED) and Baby Jesus (which he LOVED) our Christmas was FULL OF FUN!! Between our familes we had 5 Christmas:

Baba Mila

Tigulis Family

Christmas Morning just the 3 of us

Hendricks Family

Extended Hendricks Family

So here are some pics from all 5:

Baba Mila's

Tigulis Family

Christmas Morning

Hendricks Family

Extended Hendricks Family

Our Baby Turns 2

So I guess that means he's not a baby anymore!! :( As I think back of all the stages he's gone through, I can honestly say they just keep getting better. Not that I didn't love the newborn stage or the crawling stage but each time something better kept coming up. I never thought it could get better, but it did.

And now as a 2 year old... he is his own little person with his likes, dislikes, habits (good and bad) sense of humor, sense of right and wrong, love for so many people in his little life, and just his "Eli-ness"... that his dad and I just absolutely love!! We are so blessed with our little chatter box son, who tells us often "Love You" We couldn't ask for anything more.

We celebrated his birthday on the Sunday before the actual day so we could have our family and friends with us. :) I let him choose what kind of cake he wanted and he chose Diego. So I made him a Diego cake. I have to say, this being the first cake like this I made, I was pretty happy with my creation.

Note: I really did make Diego with 2 eyes, but Eli got into the cake before we could take a picture. So this is the best we got. He had a GREAT time playing with friends and family, opening presents, but HATED the singing of Happy Birthday. We think he was just so overwhelmed with all those people singing to him and focusing on him that got nervous and started crying.

Nico and I got him a small fish bowl and some "fishies" Here are all the kids looking at the fish!

We did want to make sure that he got something on his actual birthday, so for lunch on the 24th we had a family lunch together and let him open a final birthday present. His very first Etch A Sketch. He LOVED IT!!

Between his birthday party and our little family lunch, we celebrated our little man's birthday and his future and all it will hold!! Love you Eli!!

Halloween

So in our house Halloween ensued an argument... about Eli's costume. I wanted him in something cute, I mean he is only 2, but his dad wanted him in a super hero costume. So we compromised... and did both. :) I had found a cow costume that I loved and had bought. I couldn't find a Super Hero costume small enough... Aunt Nana and MawMaw to the rescue... they found BOTH Spiderman AND Batman

When we took Eli to the zoo and it was chilly, he wore the warm cow costume. Then for costume day at gymnastics he wore Spiderman. On actually Halloween I let him choose, hoping it would be the cow, but Batman won out. So here's Eli in his THREE Halloween costumes.

Jason & Sahsha's Wedding

On, Sat. October 4th the Tigulis' family was LUCKY to welcome in another member... Sahsha. We are so blessed to have her in our family. She brings humor, happiness, and a whole lot of love to not only Jason but to all of us.

It was a busy day in our house, being that all 3 of us were in the wedding!! But oh what a day it was!!

Here's the boys:

The girls:

What a BEAUTIFUL wedding party, if I do say so myself!! :)

Eli and Ava (Sahsha's niece who's 6 weeks younger than Eli) were the ring bearer and flower girl. We didn't know how it would work out, but with some brainstorming at the Rehearsal, we figured out a way to get them both down the aisle... with their parents:

Eli was the ONLY boy who got to see Aunt Sahsha before the ceremony, lucky him!! They got some AWESOME pictures taken together!!

And this one just makes my heart melt...

The ceremony was a good mix of both Jason and Sahsha. Here's a pic of them saying their vows.

Of course, after the ceremony was picture time. While I am a bit biased, I think this one stole the show...

Sorry, Jason and Sahsha it's taken me 4 months to finally blog about your WONDERFUL day!! Thanks so much for letting all of us be a part of it... it's a day we too will never forget!!

Love you both!!

Been A LONG Time...

I'm embarrassed to say it's been almost 4 months since I've posted a DARN thing on this page. And trust me it's not like we've not had lots going on in our lives:
-Jason & Sahsha's wedding
-Halloween
-Eli's 2nd Birthday
-MANY Christmas'
Just to name a few.

So because those events are pretty important in our lives, my plan it to post about those, so I'll be caught up AND THEN continue from there... hopefully once a week. :)

But what would a post be without a picture, I'll give you one from today... AKA Snow Day in our house!! :) Enjoy!!