Happy Birthday Eli!!

I am a little late posting this ,but better late than never. =)
My little boy Eli turned 3 on July 20th! It is so hard to believe that he is already 3!

We had a birthday party planned at our house and an unfortunate series of events at my house (one including half of my deck collapsing) lead us to change plans last minute and have the party at the tuttle pool that we always go to. Usually you have to give a 3 day notice to the pool for a party, but since my sister mollie is a lifeguard there they let us do the party with less than 24 hour notice. Thanks mollie for pulling some strings for us!
It was a lot of fun and we had a great turn out! We had a Curious George themed party with pizza, cupcakes, a pinata and of course pool fun! We did it around dinner time so a lot of the dad's were able to come and hang out at the pool and have pizza and cupcakes with us. It was a family fun night celebrating my big boy's 3rd birthday! =)

After the party we came home and the boys played with Eli's new presents .His favorite gift was his new spider man man bike from his grandma & grandpa walser. (my parents)

No more tricycle for this big boy!

Thanks everyone that came, we had so much fun!!

Eli's Stats:

Weight: 36 lbs.

Height: 37 inches...just over 3 ft. tall

He is a pretty good eater, not to picky. Some of his favorites are strawberries, rice, anything chicken and Nato which is this Japanese sticky bean type food. He seriously would eat Nato for breakfast, lunch and dinner. He recently had Sushi at Kentas parents house and he loved that to! I guess has some Japanese genes is him or something =)

He is very much into trains and cars still. He loves playing super hero's and flying off the furniture. He is so funny and is always copying his big brother and has to do anything he is doing or says anything he says. I guess you could say he is Noah's little shadow. Noah and him play really well together. They are definitely best friends. The two of them can also fight a lot but it is always over the same toy or something like that.

Eli is such a good big brother to Kai also. Eli is always the first person up in the morning and as soon as he hears Kai wake up he goes and crawls in his crib with him and plays with him for a while. He always calls Kai "baby Kai" not just Kai but "baby Kai". It's pretty cute.=)

Eli is the comedian of the family. He is always doing something that makes us laugh and smile, or else he is doing something that makes us so angry such as coloring on walls or doors (yes, he still does that! GRRRRRRR!!!!!)

Eli gets to start preschool in a few weeks now that he is 3. I have Noah and him in the same preschool class and they are both so excited!

Happy birthday Eli, we love you so much and we cant wait to see how you grow over this next year and hopefully STOP coloring on everything! =)

Kalahari Resort

Before we went to Cedar Point a few weeks ago we went and stayed at the Kalahari resort. ( read previous post about cedar point if you haven't already) My brother Chance and his wife Jessica were in town and mollies boyfriend Tyler came along. So we had a nice group of us!
Kalahari is a HUGE african themed resort. It has an idoor/outdoor water park with an arcade, indoor mini golf course, a bigplay area, a pottery making shop and some other stuff. It's a fun little vacation spot. We did not stay long enough to do everything but we want to go again and just stay there a couple of days.

Here is a birds eye view of some of the indoor water park.

Here is Noah coming off of a water slide. He is fearless when it comes to water slides and pools! He is such a little fish.

Auntie Jessica with Kai

I was having camera difficulties, and they were turning out dark so I didn't take very many pictures in the waterpark.

Here is everyone waiting for the huge bucket of water to tip over on them =)

Outside of the hotel there is a petting zoo you can walk to. That night after playing in the water park for hours we decided to play at the petting zoo for a while. They had pony and camel rides you could do. I tried to get Noah and Eli ride the camels but they were to scared, they just wanted to ride on the little horses. They also got to feed all the animals. It was so cute to watch them feed the girrafes and kangaroos .

If you live in Ohio and have not been there I highly recomend going! I think it will be the perfect getaway in the winter. =)

Cedar Point

We have lived in Ohio for almost 4 years and have never been to Cedar point until 2 weeks ago. For you non-ohioans Cedar Point is one of the big amusement parks in Ohio. This one is in northern Ohio in Sandsuky. Cedar Point is on a narrow pennisula jutting into lake erie. It currently holds the world record for the most roller coasters, one of which, The top thrill Dragster, is the world's second tallest and second fastest roller coaster. Reaching speeds of 120 mph and a height of 420 ft. INSANE I know!!
We wen to cedar point with my parents ,my brother Jackson, my brother chance and my Sister in law Jessica, and then my sister mollie and her boyfriend Tyler.
This was also my boys first time at an amusment park, so they were sooooooo excited!!
I spent most of my time taking the kids around and they were having the time of their life!

Later in the day Eli surprisingly took a nice little catnap.

Moster truck ride...we did this ride 3 times (myself included)!

Uncle Chance and Eli on the boat ride.....

Auntie Jess and Noah =)

Kai spent most of the day in grandpa's arms=)...Have I ever mentioned that my kids have the best grandpa in the entire world! Seriously dad your the best =)

Did I mention how crappy the weather was that day. The high was 65 degrees and it was raining off and on all day! I had to buy all the boys jackets and my mom carried this blanket in from her car and wore it around when it was raining.... Brrrrrrrrrr....

Daddy and Eli in the swings

Kenta,Eli,Chance and Noah up in the bus.. They thought that was pretty fun!

Here is the SCARY Dragster roller coaster I mentioned earlier. My people are actually on that one I took the picture of,Jackson said he was excited but I could see him fighting back the tears...lol.. just kidding jackson =)

Chance and Jessica trying not to freak out!

Mollie and Tyler also trying not to freak out! Although Mollie did kind of freak out. She was pretty much hyperventalating and I even saw a tear or two =(..I dont blame her though, you could not pay me enough to go on that ride!! SO good job little sister and everybody else!!! =)

Here are all my brave people after they survived the dragster! =)

Here is kenta and I sitting on the sidelines while everyone else was waiting in line for the dragster. Kenta would have gone but he didn't want to leave me alone for an hour
waiting for everyone to get done with the roller coaster. My parents were off with the kids at that time.

We had a good time and will probably make it a yearly event to go. But going there made me realize what a scaredy cat I have become. I would not go on half the roller coasters there. What happened to me in my old age!?