My Friend Grant

This weekend Chad's brother, Brian, and his son, Grant, came to visit.  Grant and Eli have such a good time together.  I hope this is just the beginning of a close cousin bond between the two!  They are leaving tomorrow and I know Eli will be sad when he wakes up and realizes Grant is no longer here.  Each morning when Eli wakes up he asks "where's Grant?".  "Grant's my friend", Eli says.  It's pretty cute!

We tried going to the Bentonville Square for their monthly "First Friday".  It was so packed we didn't stay long.  Grant was taking a cat nap in the car and missed the pony ride.  This was Eli's first time to ride a real pony!  He wasn't so sure about it at first but ended up liking it towards the end.

One of Brian's favorite places to eat here (and ours too!) is Gusano's Pizza.  They have great chicago style pizza.  Well great to Chad and I seeing how we've never been to Chicago and had REAL Chicago style pizza from Chicago!  Ha!

Notice what is sitting in front of the boys on the table?  iPhones are one of the greatest inventions!  The boys loved watching Go Diego Go after they were finished eating dinner!  It's a nice way to allow us to finish our dinner in peace!

Poor Grant is so tired.  He was definitely a trooper since he had to wake up at 3am to catch his flight to come visit us!  I don't think Eli would have been such a sport ;)

Sweet cousin hugs!

Can you find Grant?  He was hiding from the picture!  Chad's Dad came up for the weekend too!

This past week Chad had a birthday.  We were both working most of the week and didn't have time to properly celebrate with a cake.  We saved the cake for the weekend when there would be other people to help eat it!  Good thing we did too!  That cake is delicious!  It needs to leave our house ASAP!  I'm eating way too much of it.  Shelby Lynn's Cake Shop is our new favorite local cake place!  Their cream cheese icing is to die for!

Of course they had to take a bath together!

On Saturday the Hogs played S. Carolina.  We had a big tailgate of the year.  The weather was great, cool and sunny!  We tried something new this year, I made chili instead of BBQ!  It was a nice change, especially since the weather is cool now.  Eli was a fan of the cupcakes for sure!  I think he had three. 

Here he is asking for his second one.  Which I gave him.  Hey, we were tailgating.  There are no rules when tailgating ;)

One happy boy!

I had the bright idea of taking riding toys with us to the tailgate.  Good thing we did!  They were a hit with the boys!

Eli trying to sneak another cupcake!

I actually remembered to get a picture of Chad and me.  And forgot to get one of pretty much everything else.  Go figure...

Today the boys played outside most of the day.  We got out the bike trailer and let the boys take a little ride in the neighborhood.  Eli loves to ride in the bike trailer!

I have more pictures of the boys playing outside but my computer is being a pain and won't recognize my camera so I can download the pictures.  I will upload them when my computer quits acting stupid.

Poor Eli.  He is going to be so sad in the morning when he realizes "my friend, Grant" isn't here!  Good thing he is going to Nana's (his babysitter) and will be with Alexi the next two days!  Hopefully she will distract him from missing his cousin!