September Happenings

September seems like a blur.  I can't really tell you what all we did.  I looked through our pictures and still couldn't really tell you anything we did other than T-Ball.  But I just told you about fall T-Ball in the last post!

Eli has started climbing the doorways.  One of his favorite shows in American Ninja Warrior.  He likes to "practice ninja warrior" as he calls it!  I foresee ER visits and broken bones in our near future.

Chad went to Eli's school for Doughnuts with Dad one morning.  I think Eli was pretty proud to show off his daddy :)

Eli finally got up the nerve to try out the rock wall.  I've figured out he's afraid of heights!  He wanted to come down just after this picture was taken.

We attended a birthday party for a friend at Chuck E Cheese.  I remember thinking Chuck E Cheese was the greatest place on Earth when I was a kid!

My mom came up for Grandparent's day at Eli's school.  We had a great weekend of shopping and eating while she visited.

Eli's school had a fundraiser of selling cookie dough.  Eli got this prize for selling cookie dough.  What is it you ask?  A 10 foot plastic bag that was supposed to a balloon.  

And that's all I could come up with for September.  Pretty sad isn't it?

Fall T-Ball

 Another season of T-Ball is under our belts.

Somehow Eli and his best friend, Tyler,  got on the same team!  They had a great time playing together.

All the players were awarded trophies at the end of the season pizza party

The 2014 Purple Snakes

The Farm

We went to the farm for Labor Day weekend and then again for opening dove season the next weekend.  We love going to the farm.  It's so relaxing and a great place for kids, big and little!

The hummingbirds were going crazy while we were down there!  There are about 5 feeders around the deck.  There were about 10 birds swarming around all the feeders at one time.  I could watch them all day.  I love them!

Eli with his twin cousins, Emma and Gracie

We spent some time riding around

Eli's finally big enough to drive the golf cart.  Watch out everyone!

Eli loved this tiny tree frog.  He was pretty cute!

These pictures are from the second weekend, opening dove season.

My boys both doing what they love best!

Playing a little redneck golf as we call it

He's obsessed with driving the golf cart now!

 A little more redneck golf with all the guys

Don't worry folks.  It's just a Sprite.

It was pretty hot outside so we hooked up the slip and slide for all the kids.

Eli loved having other kids to play with at the farm!

Eli's first dove hunt.  I think he had a great time!

Too cool for pictures

There's nothing like farm time!

1st Day, Take Two

It was not in our original plan but Eli started a new school after the first couple of days.  It was more difficult than I imagined but it was the best decision for all of us.  Eli started on "Chapel Day" so he had to wear his chapel shirt.

They have a dress code on all the other days.  Eli was so proud to wear his belt!

After the first few days Eli decided he wanted to start walking into school by himself.  I snapped this picture while watching him walk in by him.  Before he jumped out of the car he gave me a kiss on the cheek and told me he loved me, all with out prompting.  I may have had a tear in my eye that morning!  Too sweet!

Kindergarten

 I have a few days off work and we are at the farm for Thanksgiving.  I'm going to try to play catch up on the past few months just so I can have everything documented.

Eli started kindergarten back in August.  I still don't know how that happened so fast!  He was so excited and proud to be going to school with big kids.  Last year in preschool they had a field trip to an elementary school.  He has been excited ever since.  I'm happy to say there were no tears... from anyone!

We celebrated his first day of school with frozen yogurt afterwards.

My baby boy is no longer a baby.

He's a kindergartener!

End of Summer

I realized the end of July there was so much we hadn't done throughout the summer that I had wanted to do with Eli.  I quickly made a mental note of a few things I wanted to do before school started.  Next summer we are writing down a bucket list and starting early!

While we spent a lot of days with our friends, Kristin and Tyler, this day was just the four of us.  We let the boys pick out where we went for lunch and what we did.  We all had a great time!

Eli asked one day if we could go to the "cupcake place" (Bliss Cupcakes).  It's one of our favorite places to get yummy cupcakes.

We decided at the spur of the moment one day to head out to Fast Lane.  We invited Eli's friend, Alexi and her mom to join us.  The kids (and adults) had a great time!  We rode go karts, bowled, and played games!

The Springdale airport has a restaurant right on the runway called Flaps Down Grill.  We love to go and sit outside and eat while watching the planes take off and land.  The food is really good too!

Chad took Eli to the Lowe's Build and Grow sessions a couple of times.  They met up with Chad's friend, Doug, and his 4 boys.  I imagine it was a fun and wild experience with all of these boys!

Eli and Tyler helped pick vegetables from Tyler's grandparent's garden.  Eli wants a garden like this so badly!  Maybe one day we will have room for it.

We spent lots of days outside while Eli played.  He's such a little daredevil on that bike!

The weekend before school started we took Eli to Locomotion.  He had been begging to go play putt-putt golf.

We finished that same weekend with dinner at Carrabba's... Eli's favorite restaurant ever!  He loves their cavatappi side dish that he calls "spicy pasta".

All of these fun things happened in just the first couple of weeks of August!

See why I'm writing down these bucket list items and starting at the beginning of summer next year!  Whew!