Birthday fun!

I just celebrated my 29th birthday yesterday. It was a beautiful day with the weather being bright, sunny and warm and good times with the family. Eli and I started off our day inviting Grandma to watch his swim lessons and she came prepared with the camera. He did such a great job again and even tolerated being dunked under water for the first time :)

Getting ready to go under the water sprinkler…

  Getting instructions from the teacher…

Learning to back float…

Up close view of his back floating skills :)

Kicking off the wall with his buddy Nicholas (Eli loves kicking off anything!)

Front facing, kicking off the wall. Hi Nicholas and Jacque!

We start by using these cups to pour water over their backs (1), their necks (2) and then finally on the count of 3, their heads

At the end, the last 5 minutes or so is “play time”

I hope I’ve convinced some of you to give this a try. It seriously is sooooo much fun. Only draw back is that mommy has to get into a swim suit while baby is still too young to go by himself :/

Next we went over to Grandmas where she fed us delicious food (Eli got to “taste” it later, wink*wink), and we opened presents. Steph came with her hubby, and Jac came as well since her birthday is the 19th. Everything was scrumdiddliumpscious! Thanks mom!

Don gives us a rose for every year. This is our pageant pose :)

Another Don tradition is a lottery ticket for every year.

We’re each modeling some of the hair accessories I made Steph.

Steph’s in what I call an “Accessory phase”, so we decked her out. (Bracelet, flower watch-ring, silver ring, and feather hair clip) 

Steph and I got her this leather coat from Guess. I wanted to keep it sooooo bad!

The 29 roses brightening up my kitchen.

A “good luck” plant from my momma :)

And Eli supervising to make sure the party didn’t get out of hand

All in all I’d say I was totally spoiled rotten. Thank you all for the birthday wishes!

-Linds