Eli's current favorite toy

Extension cord!

Mighty fine day for geocaching

The day's haul

Trail run

Last weekend I did a 10k trail run race at Castlewood Canyon.  I did really well (for me)!  It was tough, but I started slowly, walked the steep up and down parts, jogged most of it, and passed a bunch of people in the middle.  I ended up with a time of 1:26 (4 minutes faster than my goal of 1:30), and finished 47th out of 76 women.

Hair

Eli has some beautiful waves, but he also has this top layer of frizz that is so funny!

Plum tuckered out

The sign of a good wedding!

The boys are very into gems and minerals

What dexterity!

Goofy boy

Snakey

A few weeks ago the boys caught a tiny garter snake and named him Snakey.  They built a home for him in a plastic bin.  

Trey was very upset that night because Joe had told him that snakey was going to die. I finally got him calm down by telling him that eventually snakey would die but not tomorrow. Then the next day he let it out for some exercise, snakey slithered off, and Trey didn't seem to care. Kids!

Golf cart fun

Not surprisingly, Jonah drives with reckless abandon and Trey drives with an abundance of caution. A glimpse into their future.

I can feed myself!

Our basement is still in a state of disarray

Six weeks since the flooded basement.   Supposedly work is starting this week but who knows.

Just chillin with mommy

Someone love the movie pitch perfect as much as I do!

I love when Aunt Mari babysits!

3 more eggs today!

That almost makes a dozen

The first egg!!!

Joe had gone to look for eggs only about 15 minutes before, so this egg is hot off the press. It was still warm.

Apparently Eli is scared of the car wash

Trey is so sweet to him! He jumped up to comfort Eli.

Vacuum cowboy

Brothers

Loves mommy's shoes!

Oh library, how I love you so

Nice big boo boo

The boys took Eli outside, put him on the porch, then got in the porch swing and swung right into his forehead.

Jonah's new competitive sport

We went to the Elbert County Fair again on Sunday.  The hilight of the day was the ice cream eating contest.  Jonah might have found his calling - he smoked the competition in the 6 and under bracket.  He might have eaten a bit of the styrofoam cup.  This was his 2nd ice cream of the day too!

He won a t-shirt and sonic gift card.  

When I was cheering on Jonah I said "Just a little bit more!" I looked at Eli and he was furiously doing the sign for more.

Jonah, in a nutshell

Jonah tried to squeeze Eli's cheek and got very close to his eye.

Me: Jonah you need to be more careful! You almost poked out his eye.

Jonah: what would happen to him?

Me: he wouldn't be able to see out of that eye!

Jonah: well, he would still be able to see out of his other eye.

Typical Jonah....

My new hiking partner

Trey did such a good job on our hike yesterday that I asked him if he wanted to get up early and go for a long hike this morning.  He was so excited!  When I woke him up at 5:45am he popped right out of bed.  We stopped to pick up some hiking boots for him from a friend (too small), and we were on the trail by 6:30am.  I've done this hike at Castlewood Canyon many times, and it is 4.5 miles with a steep start, then fairly flat the rest of the time with a few step hills.  The scenery changes a lot - starts rocky up a hillside, then flat across the canyon rim, then a short section through tall grasses, then finish with 2 miles along a river.

Trey did excellently!  We even ran for a half mile through a flat section near the end.  He wasn't even winded going up the steep beginning.  How do I know?  He talked the whole time!  We finished in 2 hour exactly which included a 5 minute stop for pictures at the top.  It is a lot higher than it looks in the pictures!!

We are planning to go again on Wednesday before work and do the trail in reverse, which I have never done.  There is also another trail we can add onto this one to make a 6.5 mile hike, so we might do that one soon.  It is fun to have a new hiking partner!

I had my pepper spray in my hand the whole time just in case we met scary animals on the trail.

Smile!

Eli gives this goofy eyes shut smile when you say SMILE!  We can't say "cheese" because cheese is his absolute favorite food and he'll look around manically if you say cheese.

Could this boy be any cuter???

If you look closely you can see where his top left tooth is shorter than his top right from when he chipped it a few nights ago.

P.s. He's clutching a banana in 1 hand and a small box of nerds (from the parade) in the other.

Frankovitch family hikers

Happy 14th month birthday!!