Haircuts today...Honey, forgive me!

So our warm weather has finally arrived and Eric
has gotten to the point where he was just sure he would die of heat from his hair! I'm a big fan of short hair on him, but he likes to keep it kind of floppy. Today he said he wanted a buzz cut. So, I took him in.

Before:

After:

He said he felt lighter and he was so excited to be able to feel his scalp!

So we got home and I started thinking about how much easier it would be to take care of Eli if we took the clippers to his hair too. Here's the result
Before: (This pic was a couple of weeks ago, but the just recent post also shows how long and thick his hair was.)

After:

Wow! What a difference? Is it just me or can you actually SEE Eli now? Man he's gorgeous!

The rest are just a few shots of the kids today. Yeah, they're usually all over each other, or all over me!

Eric and I went to drive the Bumper Boats today. It's a bit of a rip off, 7 bucks per person for about 10 minutes, but hey, we had a good time. Then we went inside and each one a game of air hocky, played some dancing game and really blew it at Guitar Hero. After that we did a little shopping and got his hair cut. It was some needed me and him hanging out time. I love you Eric!

Just the boys...

We had chocolate cake today. That will explain all of the messy mouths. But is there anything cuter than this look? I keep getting the feeling that my baby isn't a baby anymore. He is talking like crazy and his personality is developing so fast. He does something new every day! In fact, He climbed out of his crib today for the first time. He did it so effortlessly, it looked like he'd been doing that for months! What ever shall I do? I'm not ready to train him to stay in a regular bed! Uggggg!


A little bit of a forced smile on Eric, but you get the picture. He's an awesome kid and he's growing up so fast.


Typical Eli, I'm not really sure what else to say here. We were all really tired by the end of the day today!

Just a little dazed and confused, either that or trying to hypnotize Eli. Yeah, that could be it.

This was a happy scream, really it was! No one can say our kids aren't enthusiastic!

Grandpa Stark with Eli. In fact, Eli has taken to calling him Grandpa Stark all day every day! They've been doing some intense grandpa/grandson bonding.

Kendall loving life!

This is how much I love my husband! He tells me not quite a year ago that he wants to take this trip to Peru with his nursing program. I think it's a cool "idea" and act very supportive. Fastforward to now. He is there. He is loving it. He is helping people and using his Spanish skills, eating good and different and interesting food, etc. The only down side is that I couldn't go with him! Someday I tell you! We will go do stuff like this together! He sent a couple of pics, apparently he has taken hundreds already.

I guess this is a BABY Anaconda! I didn't realize this about my hubby, that he would be so comfortable holding a snake! :O)


Pushing a bus that broke down. Why does this story not surprise me?


I'm super glad he's having this adventure and such wonderful experiences. He said he found the church building not far from where he's staying. He went to all 3 hours there today and had a wonderful spiritual experience. I can't wait to hear more about it!
I love you Kendall!

In the last week with the Batsons...

Nikki was here for a long weekend so she could go to Kenzie's (Liz's oldest) baptism. We managed to get one night of just girls, yay! It was super exciting: dinner, talking, driving, talking, bra shopping at Khol's, more driving and sitting and talking. Funny how that can be exactly what 3 moms need! I didn't get home til 2am and I still felt revived and refreshed the next day! And, yes, we did buy matching bags! Well, it was a good sale and we all really liked it? What can we say?

Just a couple of shots from Eric's latest soccer game. We had to go to Lakeside, which is like 15 miles away! It's this tiny town and it's super pretty out there. The other team tried, but Eric's team won 5-0 and Eric scored his first goal of the season! Go Eric!

On Tuesday, the Shupps invited us and 2 other families over for a Cinco de Mayo party, pinata included! There were 16 kids between the 4 families and they all had a blast. Eli loved the pinata and went completely nuts when it broke. I've never seen him so crazy about colecting candy...oh wait, that's normal for him!

Noah got his stab at the pinata too, not that he did much damage.

Well, we finally did it. We trimmed Noah's hair! He's nearly 21 months old and he had his first hair cut! It was getting really out of control, but I was so worried about losing his curls. It turns out that even trimmed more than an inch, he still has plenty of curl left, yay! I'm not the best at cutting kids' hair, but I think it turned out okay. He just looks so different to me.

Eli surprised me a bit by really loving this corn on the cob! I'm not sure he got it all but he ate all around and kept saying he loved it and that it was really really really good! Whew! One more healthful thing he'll eat! Yay!

Noah, ready for prayer!