*Happy 1st Birthday Eli*

Happy happy birthday my sweet baby boy!! I really can't believe you are ONE year old, it feels like you were born yesterday. Today has been an emotional day having it be your great Grammy's funeral but I promise mommy and daddy have special birthday plans for you!!

Stats on Eli:

Weight: 17 lbs 13 oz

Crawling: YES also pulling yourself up to stand!

Nursing: Nope, you stopped taking to mommy at 10.5 months but still got breast milk from a bottle, so mommy considers it a year!!

Food: You love everything!!

Sleep: Your a great sleeper!!

Teeth: Your still teething and it's no fun

Eli stuffing his face with birthday pizza!!

We love you sweetheart and could not imagine our lives without your sweet spirit in our home!!

*Light Rail/Tempe Town Lake*

Just realized this post is out of order but oh well. So Josh had two whole weeks off of work during the Christmas/New Year holidays so we took full advantage of having lots of fun. One of the days we decided to take the light rail train down to a beautiful lake and park in Tempe. Jaden and his friend Matt of course LOVED the light rail ride and running all around like crazy kids. My sister and her little family were also visiting from London, along with her sweet in-laws who were visiting from Pennsylvania so they could meet their new grandson and my sweet baby nephew Hudson. It was a beautiful day and we had lots of fun just walking around and talking.

My sissy!

My sweet little nephew Hudson

Jaden and his best friend Matt

Jaden and his new baby cousin Hudson!

*The Polar Express*

Jaden is beyond obsessed with trains (especially Thomas). So of course when Papa introduced the Polar Express movie to him a month or two ago he was hooked and that's all he wanted to talk about and watch. During the holidays they have an actual Polar Express train ride that goes to the "North Pole" and back, so of course we just had to do it with Jaden. Papa booked the tickets and in the beginning of January off we went to Flagstaff for our Polar Express adventure! On the train ride you get yummy hot chocolate, cookies, sing Christmas carols, and Santa comes on the train and gives all the kids a bell.

Eli, Brityn, and Jaden

Cousins!!

Such a fun and magical experience for the kids, so worth it!! Although it's a pretty long drive from Gilbert to Flagstaff, so I think next year we will maybe make a weekend trip out of it and get a hotel.

*Super late...... Christmas 2013*

Life has been so busy for our family lately that I have not gotten around till now to post about Christmas, and many other fun things that have happened. Anyways, Christmas was tons of fun this year, Jaden understood for the most part the whole Santa thing and was pretty excited on Christmas morning to see what he brought. I truly LOVE to buy toys and fun things for my kids and I had to stop myself from going too crazy otherwise we would of gone totally broke hahah. It's so fun to see there faces light up on Christmas morning and get so excited with all the new fun things to play with (being a parent especially on birthday and holidays is the BEST)!!

All of our family lives close so of course we had to make our usual round to both my family and Josh's on Christmas Day.First we started at our house with Santa's and Mommy/Daddy presents:

Santa left a message for Jaden on his new Lego table!

Love our new personalized stockings!!

Eli's 1st Christmas/11 Months old

The Thomas the Train Lego's were a huge hit!

Then we go to Grandma and Papa's house:

My present..enough said!!!

My sweet Eli turned 11 Months old on Christmas Day!

Jaden and Eli's big present from Josh's parents, a new swing set!!

Last we went to Grammy and Grandpa's house:

My dad took all the pictures on his camera so those pictures to come!

We had a wonderful Christmas and a calm, stay at home watch Netflix New Years!! Excited for 2014 and all the new adventures it has to offer!