Fiesta!

We love to entertain. We love to have people over with tons and tons of food. One of the things that we really missed through the "law school years" was having the funds, family and friends close for us to entertain.

This last Saturday we decided to host a fiesta for our family to show them the house and just have time to enjoy one another. It was a blast! Thank you to everyone for coming and we hope that you had fun and will join us again.

Here is Eli and his Mamaw...


He really enjoyed everyone coming over...I think that he was tired of seeing his mommy all day.

In my family, when everyone gets together we celebrate the birthdays happening around the time of the party. It was perfect timing because we had all kinds of birthdays to celebrate! Here is the cake that I made...it was divine...seriously. Want the recipe? Stay tuned- I will put it up on the ol' blog soon.


*yummo*

On to other things because I am already wishing for another piece of that puppy...

Here is Eli and his cousin Emma playing in his room. We showed off Eli's robot/rocket themed room to everyone for the first time! We still have work to do, but we are loving the direction of the theme for our little rocket scientist.


Here is Uncle Baff babysitting...

Like I said...Eli was really excited to see everyone.

Eli and Aunt Lori...

Tim, Gloria and Addy...

Amber was helping me in the kitchen!

Here are the young ladies celebrating their birthdays! Happy birthday to Madison, Nanny, Teresa and Gloria!

Mom got the honors of cutting the cake...

Kaci, Robin and Nanny...

Papaw Britten...

Nelson and Tim chatting outside on the patio...

Addy and Peyton playing with Eli...

Thank you again to everyone that came! Sorry Grandy, Alison and Aunt Linda, I didn't get a picture of you...you all did a good job of hiding from the camera!

Finally, of course here are a few more pictures of "E".

When Chris was growing up he had an imaginary friend...Who happened to be Jerry the Mouse. To this day his brothers love to remind him of his childhood "friend". Jacey sent this little treasure to us a few weeks ago...

We thought that it was hilarious! Thanks, Jacey!

I will say that I read a study a few years ago about how little kids with imaginary friends are smarter and more creative, so I don't think that Chris has anything to be ashamed of! I had imaginary puppies when I was little- I don't necessarily think that I am smarter or very creative either though.

And finally, here is a pic of the little man trying to pull up on our ottomans...