Happy 10th Birthday!!!!

On friday Elijah celebrated his 10th birthday with some friends over for a sleepover.  Elijah's real birthday is actually May 11th, however he wanted to wait till Derek G. came back from haiti so that he could come.  Thus making this weekend his celebration.

The kids played some ping pong, and swam(no picture), rode the go-kart around and played some basketball.  I think they all had fun.

Then it was time for his presents.  He got lots of candy, a purdue shirt, water guns, a game, and some money. 

Elijah asked for a guitar for his birthday cake.  So I found a cake pan at Hobby Lobby and so his wish of a guitar cake was what he got.  I don't have the most steady hands when doing cakes, and so sadly my strings on the guitar are very lopsided, but Elijah was thrilled with it and that is all that matters.

He even asked for trick candles:).  Sadly he couldn't get them blown out on his own, so Avery and Isaiah joined in and helped him.  Alas they were out.

Then it was movie time.  We got the movie "we bought a zoo", however Ive never seen it and I thought it would be a good one for these kids(and elijah requested this movie), but sadly it had a couple bad words(why in the world do they do this??) so we made them shut if off.  They ended up watching Home Alone 4 instead.

We wish Elijah a wonderful year of being 10!!  Its so hard to believe we have a 10 year old and I am sure I'll say this year after year as our kids get older.  We love you Elijah and pray that someday you will give your heart to the lord.

And now, just because I didn't want to do another post....I added these two pictures:)

Liam chose not to take a nap one day when I layed him in bed and so he messed around when all of a sudden....bang.  I ran up to see what happened and blood was oozing from his forhead.  After a clean up we assessed the damage and figured no stitches were required.  Kind of hard to see in this picture but its a good size cut so I won't be surprised if it leaves a scar.

And then I captured this picture too.  Oh how I just love my kiddos!  Especially when things are running smoothly and they are gettinng along so great and I just love to see them start to interact with Ellie too!!

FIRST'S!

We have had MANY FIRST'S in our house recently so I thought Id share them with you!!

Liam moved up to a big boy bike with training wheels!!  He isn't a pro at it yet and usually prefers his tricycle, but with encouragment he will hop on this bike.

We also went for a family bike ride, and so this was Ellie's first time out and about on a bike ride.  Yes, liam sat next to her and that is how he sadly had to sit all squished in there, but he never once complained!!

We also had a free weekend so out we went on our boat.  Ellie did awesome and never once cried.  With the hum of the motor and the rocking of the boat she could have slept the entire time, but I woke her up to feed her once.  This is her place to lay....under the dash where there is shade and she won't get stepped on:)

Now that Liam is 3 years old, he gets to go to sunday school!!  He was very excited(not shown in this picture), but he did great and had his memory verse memorized.  Genesis 1:1  In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

And sadly I have NOT caught it on video but I will keep trying.....Ellie has found her voice!!  She will coo and ahh at me many times and it just makes it so much fun.  I am now enjoying this baby stage.  She sleeps 7-8 hours at night and is such a good baby and that makes baby stage so much more pleasant:).

2 months!!

It was time for her 2 month mini photo shoot that I am going to try and do each month on the 23rd.  So here is Miss Ellie at 2 month old!!

Being Goofy!

Just some random pictures of the boys the other day....they were having fun being silly and so I was snapping away with our camera we finally found!!  Guess I was happy to have found it cause I took several pictures, but of course didn't want to bore you with them so here are just a few:)

Of course we had to get one nice picture with ellie in the mix as well.  And then today she was pretty smiley so I took one of her this morning.

Happy 7th Birthday!!

Its hard to believe my second born is 7 years old already!!  Happy Birthday Caden!!

We celebrated this past saturday(which his actual birthday is the 9th of June) with both sides of our families here at our house.  It was a good turn out with around 26 people.  I think Caden had a great time with all his cousins!  Sadly we lost our camera(and still have yet to find it), so we borrowed my aunt's camera for the night.  Not sure if there will be much posting after this post until we find our camera.  I have looked everywhere....sure hope it shows up soon cause we are missing out on some great photos of our kids these days.

Gift time....he got TONS of candy that will definitely last him till next year:).  Got a new Dsi game, a pair of rollar blades, pool toys, shirt, and more.

Time for cake and ice cream.  He chose the basketball theme which made cake decorating easy for me:).  Cant go wrong with a dome shaped cake pan, orange frosting and some black lines.  He loved it !

 I made a few extra cupcakes as well, since I knew the cake wouldn't feed us all.

 He blew out all the candle's at once....

We love you Caden!

Best to date....

Just had to post this picture I captured today.  I think its such a good little smile from Ellie.  The outfit she is wearing was sent to her from Dan and Tess Leman.  So cute!

6 weeks old

 I hear it very often....she looks like a Waibel:).  I have yet for someone to tell me she is a Gutwein:)...even my side of the family says they see Waibel!!

 One thing is for sure...she loves to be outside!!  Ellie has pretty much smiled everyday since day two of her life, but she is getting to the point where she smiles more often and not just at random times.  If you can cooo and ahhh at her she is pretty much bound to give you some sort of grin.