Birthday Bash and Fall Fun

We celebrated Eli's Birthday on August 30th and had so much fun. I can't believe my little baby is already one, he's getting to be such a big boy. We had a friend party for him and later that night we had a family party. Eli loved all his gifts and having friends and family around. The next day we took Beau to the MTC and with lots of parting advice sent him into start his training. Eli and I spent a week in St. George while Jared worked in Mesquite. We had lots of fun and it was so nice to see everyone, thanks Joey for giving up your room for the week! We have been on some fun and beautiful bike rides and Jared has spent even more time in Mesquite. We can't wait to have this project done so that we can have our Daddy back. Here's a look at all the fun.

Grandma Donna's present came early and Eli got caught trying to open it before his Birthday!

Eli's Birthday Party!

Trying to blow out the candle!

 Friends at Eli's Party!

We drew a race track on the deck and let the kids play with cars. Eli would not eat the stuff from my plate, he would wander around and eat off everybody else's plate.

Eli has such great friends, thanks everyone for coming and celebrating with us!

Lightning McQueen! Eli just loves to push his car around. He will walk up and down the sidewalk pushing his car and squealing in delight!

Grandpa brought Eli back some great gifts from California, Shamo from Sea World and Pirates blanket from Disney land!

 Look who showed up to celebrate Eli's Birthday!

We got Eli a great big dump truck, he loves to put things in it and push it around. He also likes to sit in it and get pushed around!

Thanks Grandma and Grandpa!

Eli's Dump truck cake! Thanks Sharla for the great idea!

We tried to get Eli to blow out the candle but he just didn't get the concept so with a little help from Daddy we got the candle blown out.

Yum! Birthday Brownies!

It took him awhile to warm up to the brownies and ice cream but once he did it didn't take long for them to disappear!

The oldest boy and the current youngest boy of the Williams clan! What a great example Eli has to look up to.

Already served, currently serving, and future missionary!

Beau's fan club sending him off to Hawaii!

It's 6:30 in the morning, I had to turn on a light to take this picture. Eli never wears his sunglasses but at 6:30 in the morning he decides that he needs to wear sunglasses.

To my surprise he kept them on for quite a while. Walking around in the dark with his shades on!

While in St. George we went and did the crack or at least I think that's what it's called.

I just had to take a picture of my sleeping boys! Enough to melt a mothers heart!

 He's just so dang cute, blond hair, blue eyes, what's not to love!

 This is our bike ride to diamond fork hot springs, My dad and Brandie walked Eli along a two mile trail and we too a 15 mile loop around and met them at the springs. It was good fun for all, I did almost die because I am out of shape, but other than that we enjoyed the beautiful fall weather and colors! Eli loved being with his Grandpa and Aunt.

We finally caught up to them, Eli was having fun playing in the stream nearby.

Hot springs felt so good after a long and brutal ride! Okay brutal for me Jared was loving it, I don't think he even got tired.

Eli photo shoot!

Conference weekend bike ride! We went up near strawberry reservoir and did a loop. We got a little lost but it ended up being for the better. Fall colors as you will see were just fabulous. Eli loves to bike with his daddy!

We're not prepared for the winter but sure are enjoying the fall. We have been getting some great tomatoes from our garden and the jalapenos did pretty good too. Eli is practicing his talking and it is so cute! He can say dump truck, tractor, mum, dada, cracker, wow, and others but they aren't as consistent.