Happy 10th Birthday Eli Boy!

Where did the years go? Can it be real? Eli is officially in the double digits! Wow! Time sure has flown! Eli, you are growing up to be such a great young boy with so much potential! I love so many things about you!
Here are some of them....
Your hugs and kisses first thing in the morning...
Your BIG HEART! You try to include everyone and make new people feel included...
Your determination to succeed...
Your constant need to have some kind of ball in your hands...
Your quirky way of needing to touch people's ear lobes...
Your funny sense of humor...
Your cute freckles...
Your OWN sense of fashion...you get stuck on 3 shirts at a time...until I hide them...then you find 3 more shirts! Heaven forbid you wear all the shirts in your overcrowded drawer!
Your loyalty to your friends...
Your sneaking into the storage room to find anything that has sugar in it (yes...I know)
Your love for little kids...I love that you hold people's babies!
Your love of sports. You're such a natural!
Your 3 point shots...
Your example of jumping up out of bed first thing in the morning when I wake you up...you don't need to lay there and have me tell you 3 or 4 times to GET UP!
Your love of breakdancing...
Your smart brain that picks up things and memorizes quickly...
Your imagination...you can always find fun things to do without asking me what there is to do...
Your testimony, you know so much and have known at such a young age!

 

This year, Eli's birthday hit on President's Day. We told ourselves that Eli is so special they called school off for the day! How fun to have NO SCHOOL on your birthday! So we took advantage of it!
We tell the kids they can have a bigger present or a birthday party. Eli decided he wanted a new bike, so opted for a family party. He chose to go as a family to AMAZING JAKES. Kinda funny, he found his way around our rule. Amazing Jakes isn't cheap Ü....but we sure had fun. We let him invite one friend, so he chose Brennen Hixon.

 

Abbie hung out with David and I. She had a ball on the rides there!

 

Mason wanted Tait to come. So he paid half of Tait's way and Tait paid the other half.

 

I don't think I've ever seen David eat so much! Seriously. IT's a buffet...so you definitely WANT to eat...just some of us can't keep fitting in the food! He loaded up a tray like this 3 times! We were there about 6 hours. We were just laughing. The kids loaded up once and then would go back every so often to grab a quick slice of pizza, but David would fill up a tray and go to the Sports Area and watch a game. THAT'S the LIFE! Ü

 

We just enjoyed the day together. Lots of fun!

 

 

 

Here's to a great year Eli! So glad you're in our family! We love you!