Happy Birthday Eli!

Happy Birthday my little man! You are such a special boy. You are so smart and creative. How did you get four years old so fast? Some of your favorite things to do right now are:

Play with your cars

Play hide and seek with Brianna

Draw pictures

Write letters to Grammy

Dig in the dirt looking for buried treasure

Go on 4-wheeler rides with daddy

Look for Geo Cache treasures

Eli, we love you so much! You bring such joy to our lives! Keep making us smile and laugh with those great jokes of yours!

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And now, on to the birthday party... We had a party in the park. It ended a little sooner than it otherwise would have because it got cold and windy. That was rather unlucky since every day leading up to the party was 74° and sunny.

The first thing we did was have a treasure hunt to look for the pinata. It was pretty fun watching all of those little kids looking for all of the clues. In this picture the pinata has already been broken. I haven't made a pinata since Spanish class in the 9th grade. It was pretty fun! This one is a pig from Angry birds.

After breaking the pinata, we sang "Happy Birthday," opened presents and had cake. Eli requested a Lightning McQueen cake. Probably the hardest cake I've ever made. But it was fun trying to figure out how to get him to look right. It took me an entire day to make this.

Then the kids played on the slides until either they, or their parents, said, "Ok, I'm cold. Let's go home!" Our kids didn't seem to mind the cold quite as much. We were the last to leave, and the only way we could convince Eli to go was by telling him that he couldn't play with his new toys until we got home. It was a fun day! I've got some videos that I might post later.