final fall festival

this weekend was our last big event of the fall (thank goodness!!!!).  our church, cross park church, held it's first annual fall festival at the elementary school that we meet in.  yes, our church meets at public school, but it really isn't bad.  here are some highlights from the event.  i must say, after about 5 weekends of events and many of which kevin had a major role in, this was by far the most fun.  

kids painting pumpkins

cupcake walk - walk in a circle, you land in a square with a number, shape, etc.  when your square's number is called you get to pick out a cupcake.

eli & millie ~ always seem to be hanging out together

sac race with friends thomas and laurel

eli & thomas on the hay wagon pumpkin thing

kevin, doing his fatherly duty of carrying finn in the baby bjorn 

 

 

 

kids playing on the hay maze

me with a sleepy finn

 

 

 

pie eating contest

eli after about 6 or 7 cupcakes  :)

eli & millie again.  see, they are always together.

my hubby. 

this man cooked over 300 pounds (yes, your heard me correctly) of chicken for the event.  

i love this picture...i'm going to get it framed for our house.

the end.

our weekend

lunch after church

this weekend was pineville's fall fest.  here are a few pictures of eli enjoying himself...

driving the car

playing his inflatable guitar with the band

finn...always just along for the ride

 

 

 

 

 

enjoying an ice cream sandwich

and here are a few more pictures from the past few days....

sweet finn sleeping

eli's always dressing up these days

our two pirates

busy weekend

this past weekend was pretty packed with events.  eli [and finn :)] was so excited that mimi came from pennsylvania for his birthday weekend.  we celebrated with a family party with both his grandmothers, his aunt and uncle and cousins.  on sunday, both eli and finn were baptized at our church.  we were able to breathe a HUGE sigh of relief when that was over - it's not easy having a three year old boy stand in front of 100 people while being still and quiet.  he did great and of course, so did finn.  here are some highlights from our weekend...

eli & declan

BIG 3 year old birthday cupcake

ella & finn

sweet finn

arrrr mateys!

love the look of shock and awe on eli's face here

 

boys' baptism @ cross park church

three.years.old.

Three years ago today, at 9:58 p.m, I met this:

A year later, he turned into this:

Two years later, he became this:

And today, three years have gone by, and he has grown into this:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELI!!!!