Phew!

We had a pretty full schedule of family and celebrations this past weekend. My parents came in late Friday evening to spend the night before we headed to Winston-Salem to celebrate the birthdays of our two oldest nephews, Jacob and Isaac. Mark was even able to have the entire weekend off to join in on the fun! On Saturday, we celebrated Jacob's 10th Birthday. I can't believe he's already in the double-digits! Unfortunately, Mark, Eli, and I were unable to make it to his actual party earlier that morning, due to a little confusion about the time, but we did spend the rest of the day just enjoying some time to hang-out with the family.

Caleb and Bekah helped feed Eli his lunch...





We went to feed some goats that live in the neighborhood.






Eli napped with Grandma while we played outside. This is their newest dog Fresco...he's not even 2 pounds! We think Candy might try to eat him if they met!



Grandma snuck Elijah a taste of pink lemonade cake, but the evidence was all over his face! He loved it!



Eli wanted to feel the wind in his comb-over riding in Grandaddy's convertible!




(I just realized that we didn't get ANY pics with Jakes in them. I promise he was there and we did hang-out with him. He is just so hard to get on film and was pretty focused on building his new Lego sets! It's amazing to watch him go through the process of building those things! I'll have to steal some of my brothers pics to share!)


On Sunday, we drove back out to W-S to celebrate Isaac's 7th Birthday a few days early. Since his favorite place to eat is Moe's, we met everyone there after church for some yummy food and balloon animal fun. (There's a really nice guy there every Sunday who makes balloon animals/creations for all of the kids...which they love!) After lunch, we went back to the house to open presents and eat some cake and ice cream. Again, I'm in disbelief at how quickly these little guys are growing up! It seems like only yesterday they were Eli's age!

My older brother, Rick, made Isaac's awesome Buzz Light Year spaceship cake!




On a different note, Eli started to show signs of congestion with a pretty bad cough on Saturday, which progressively got worse on Sunday and Monday. Thankfully, it looks like he is on the mend. We're ready to get him all better so he can play with friends and go swimming at the pool. With the ridiculously hot and humid weather we've been having lately there is no doubt that summer is definitely here to stay!