Life Lessons For My Son

Recently I was able to teach Eli a valuable lesson about what it means to be a man. A man does not pay $50 for a Christmas tree from the hardware store a mile from our house, because that would be easy. A man forces his family to drive to a Christmas tree farm an hour away from home where he can pay $50 for the privilege of picking amongst the few sad looking trees left so that he can cut it down himself and drive home with it on the roof of his car. Why does a man do this? I'm not really sure actually. I'm kind of learning as I go along here.



Here we are picking amongst the extensive collection of sad trees.



Here Eli is telling me how to cut down a tree.



Success! I killed a tree and tied it to the roof of my car!

Meet Harry

Harry is the pumpkin we carved. Eli was pretty excited to pick out the pumpkin & get out the tools but not so excited about the actual carving. Mom and Dad ended up doing most of the work.

Happy 3rd Birthday

Gramma Michelle & Grampa Chris made the trip to help us celebrate Eli's birthday. Per Eli's request, the party was Super Hero themed with masks and capes for everyone. The menu consisted of a Batman themed ice cream cake from the Donut Room (aka Dunkin Donuts) and Jonathan's amazing pulled pork sandwiches.

Eli's actual birthday consisted of homemade cake and a shirtless Eli opening presents. The cake was a disaster due to a forgetful baker (me) who left out the sugar. The presents were a big success especially the Bat Cave.

End of Summer Recap

Here's a quick recap of the end of the summer...we went to the zoo a lot, I won a rocking horse & Eli continued to grow and become even more fun.

We also bought a new computer which has for some reason caused us to stop updating the blog - sorry we'll try and be better about this.