Ethan turns 6

Ethan's birthday was today. Since his Chase has been having a lot of games, and Ethan's birthday fell on a Sunday his parents gave him the option of not having the party, but having the party money. Ethan really liked that idea, and did not have a party. However we always have a birthday dinner so Ethan picked the meal for us to cook and we had dessert. Afterwords we played with one of Ethan's new toys. It was like a magnifying glass that shows everything on your TV. We had fun putting it on everything from our skin to inside or ears. We had a fun time on Ethan's big day!

This little boy makes me laugh...

Eli has been doing the cutest funniest things for a while now, and I forgot to write about them. So in an attempt to remember how fun and funny this boy is here are a few things he does that get us laughing.

• He fake laughs. That's right whenever there is someone and they laugh out loud Eli will follow up with a little laugh of his own. This even works when it is on TV. He will not even be watching it, but then hear people laugh so he will stop look up and start laughing too!!


• Eli also play peek a boo. I know all babies do this, but Eli started taking towels and things like that to play with after his baths. Or hide behind something and then pop out. Oh he is funny. Jacob and I also scare him a lot for fun so I have noticed he tries to do it too. He will come around a corner all fast with a smile and make and noise...so funny.


• He mimics us. For example yesterday I felt really nauseous so I make like a yulk ewww noise and two seconds later Eli does the same thing.


• Now this is the best thing (ok after the fake laugh I am pretty sure that is my fav) Eli yodools. I don't know where he got this from but ever since Memorial day Eli will make this funny yodool sound lie lowlee lowlee he does it a lot when he gets really excited or when he hears us do it. I just was reading this to Jacob and Eli hears me and started doing it. Oh man I love this little boy.

4th of July

This 4th we decided to escape the hot valley and head up to the cabin. Eli has only been to the cabin 1 other time, and he was very little so I was very excited to see what he thought of the mountains.

Our adventure starts with driving up north with Mamo and Buddy on Thursday night. I was worried Eli was going to cry because if he is in his seat for more then 30 minutes he starts going a little crazy. Since my mom and Buddy were in the back with him we had no problems. Eli even feel asleep on the way up with a little chicken nugget in his hand. It was so funny because he would be asleep and then all the sudden wake up and take a bit. Friday we just hung around the cabin and waited for the Gilmore's to get there. We went for walks, and ate and Creekside. I also learned just how much Eli likes to eat corn off the cob.

Saturday we woke up and got ready really fast to make it to the parade in Showlow. Eli and I wore USA colors to be festive with the holiday. Eli loved the parade and sitting in his blue truck. After the parade we headed to snowflake and hung out at Uncle Doug's house for the rest of the day. There were rides on 4 wheelers, forts, playing in sand, green chili, golf, and games. We had a wonderful time! On the way back we stopped in Heber to watch the fireworks. This was a funny experience because we were a little late, and the cops were not to nice to us, but in the end we won and got to watch the fireworks. I have decided that Herber police are not too nice!

Sunday we went to the lake and hiked. Ethan caught a crawdad and showed it to Eli. Eli liked it and I am sure if we let him hold it he would have tried to eat it. We went for a hike and that didn't last long because Eli started to fall asleep in his little truck. It was so cute to watch his little head bob up and down trying so hard to stay awake.

Oh yeah and Eli loved to be outside. If he could he would be outside all day long. He did not like pine needles, but he loved to throw pine cones!

I got pulled over!

Last week I wanted to go to the mall. I was over at my parents house and the kids (Gilmore's, Navaro's, and Austin) all wanted to come with me. This was a little problem because my car only hold 5 people but I figured I would chance it and take them all anyway. Well no sooner did I pull out of my parents neighborhood did I notice that a cop was right behind me. To make a long story short I tried to avoid him, but he pulled me over. Aly was sitting with Ethan and Saddie was sitting with Noah. The two sisters quickly cover up their brother's by sitting on them. The cop came up to my window informed me my dealer plates were canceled and that is why he pulled me over. He took my info and went back to his car. I looked back wondering why the cop didn't say anything about all the bodies and I honestly could not see the the two boys. Then closely looking I could see Noah's little leg and Ethan's eye ball. The cop took my plate and let me leave. HE NEVER SAW THE TWO BOYS!! As we were driving away the kids all let out a big sigh and we all talked about how scared we were. It was so funny and scary at the same time.

First trip to the ER.

This morning was Eli's first trip to the ER. On Thursday Eli bumped his eye on my sister's sick and got a really bad bruise under it more on the top of his cheek bone. On Saturday it started to get red a goopy. Eli was born with a clogged tear duct to that is what I thought it was. So I just took a warm cloth to it a few times that normally seems to help. This morning I woke up and his eye was so bad! It was really red and very swollen. After a call to the doc they thought it would be best to take him to the hospital just to get checked.



I had Jacob call a neighbor so he and our Neighbor could give Eli a blessing. It was nice to have them give Eli this sweet blessing. Plus Jake Anderson came over and this was the first blessing he was ever a part of which was nice to see. (Jake was one of Jacob priests) Anyway we went to the hospital an surprisingly we did not have to wait to long. Eli got it and we were informed that Eli has an eye infection. We were in and out in less then an hour! Now we have some meds and hopefully we will NEVER be back again.

***UPDATE*** The next day we went to our real doctor and Eli just had pink eye. We got an eye drop and it already looks a lot better. Sorry forgot to take a picture.

Father's Day

Yesterday was father's day, and I am pretty sure Jacob had a wonderful day. It started of with Eli waking up at 3 am YIKES!! So when Jacob got up he was kind enough to let me go back to sleep! Then when we were all finally awake I made Jacob breakfast. Then we relaxed before we both went to church where Jacob wore his new tie. After church we went to my families house for some food, and to visit with my dad. After my family dinner we went home and gave Jacob the rest of his father's day presents I got him a few books and a CD of a book. He seemed to really like them.

Thank you to all of our Daddy's we love them all!!

Cute faces

Eli makes some cute face, sometimes I get lucky and catch some with the camera. Jacob and I laugh often at the funny things this little boy does.