Love These Cards!

I love searching for that perfect Christmas card design to send out each year. But this year I have had a hard time finding something that I really like. There are plenty of different sites to choose from and I've used a couple different ones the past few years. Then I found this company . I have ordered products from them before and have always loved the way they turn out. There are so many great designs to choose from! I even ordered one of these as a sample card and it came today. Love it! And it came so fast too. I hate when you order something online and then it takes forever to come. That's really annoying when you have something time sensitive like a Christmas card. This card came within 3 days of when I ordered it---fabulous! You can check out more here or here. Now I just have to decide which one to choose---or maybe I will even go with a couple different ones. So many choices.....

Eli's Birthday Party

This year I decided to do a birthday party for Eli and his friends. I asked him what he wanted to do for his party and he said cowboy stuff. (Probably because he was a cowboy for Halloween.) I found cowboy hats, bandanas, and horses on a stick to use as favors along with harmonicas. We panned for gold, played horseshoes, and played pin the badge on the sheriff. I had it at the park so the kids could play on the toys as well. We had food to snack on and cupcakes. All the kids loved helping Eli open his gifts. :) Kelsey took some great pictures of the kids all having a good time. Thanks to Brookie, Jhett, Dayson, Ellie, Gavin, Brody, & Gio for coming!

Family Pics

Kelsey once again showed us her awesome skills and got some really great pictures taken of us for our yearly family photos. Check her out here: www.bellapassione.blogspot.com. I'm keeping the one we will use on Christmas cards a secret, but these are some of my favorites!

9 Months & A Tooth

Ava finally got her first tooth at 9 months. We went in for her check-up a few weeks ago and she is doing great with everything, but still doesn't sleep through the night regularly. She was just under 19 lbs, which is just above average. Her length was in the 90% (of course), and she is eating anything we give her. Yay! (Eli was a super sleeper but picky eater. It looks like she is just the opposite.) Here is a picture I took of her in her halloween costume where you can see her tooth barely above the gum. The other picture is one from our family pictures that Kelsey took on Monday. You can see it has come in more!

Halloween

We celebrated on Saturday at our ward Trunkival (carnival/trunk-or-treat). They had a chili, cornbread, and pie cook-off along with lots of fun carnival games for the kids. Eli loved getting a ride in the wagon and his balloon, which he won at the fishing game. As you can see by their costumes, Eli was a cowboy and Ava was a lady bug. I think I might have to do a cowboy themed birthday party for him because he loved his costume so much. Kaelub found him some guns & holsters to wear. I made the chaps and Eli calls them "shaps". Ava's costume was really easy to make and I think it turned out really cute. I'm already excited about next year!

Vertuccio Farm

On Friday night Kaelub stayed home with Ava so Eli & I could go to Vertuccio Farm with Kelsey & Brookie. We had so much fun! They both loved their ride on the train, so we ended up going on that a couple of times. Brookie was not afraid to pet the animals. We saw pigs, goats, chickens, a donkey, and a cow. They even had a wooden cutout cow with udders the kids could milk. They chased each other through the hay maze, rode the teeter totter, played in the bounce house, and cried when we had to leave. Thanks for the fun Kelsey & Brookie!