Zay Isaac Noble

Zay was born at 7:43 am. He was 8 pound 5 ounces. He was 21 inches long. Mom, Eli and I are super proud and excited. Pictures soon.

Baby Shower!

by Holly

My wonderful friends from Sunday School and Eli's AWANA Puggles teacher hosted a beautiful baby shower for me at Olive Garden on Saturday. Delicious food was a given, but we also enjoyed this lovely cake made by Misty, great company and an overall good time. Thank you so much to all of you lovely ladies for celebrating with me, both you hostesses and other friends and family that attended. I felt loved and am excited about sharing our new bundle with you all in just a few days!

Holly and the beautiful cake- triple chocolate, strawberry and white cake layers with a fondant baby on top!

Me with the hostesses: Renae, Lee, Katie, myself, Sarah, Misty, Kelley

Teresa, Holly, Mom Kirby, Moma (Nana)

Nana and Holly with the beautiful basket of goodies from the hostesses

Isn't this gorgeous???

Summer Fun- Part 2

by Holly

We took Eli to Mr. Gatti's to have pizza and play games the evening before he went camping with my family for 8 days. One last evening of fun with Mom and Dad. He loved it, but his favorite thing was to ride the motorcycle, which we do not put money in and he doesn't know the difference. So we left with nearly a full token card to use next time.

Picking peaches! We went to a peach orchard in July to pick peaches and we all had a good time. It was very hot, but it was an adventure and one of the rules was you could have for free as many peaches as you could eat while you were picking. We took full advantage! So good!

Eli inherited this car from cousins Jared and Tyler, and my brother loaded it in the back of our car with Eli still in it. He thought it was hilarious! I think its hilarious that he doesn't keep it in the backyard with his other riding toys, but insists it stay in the garage with Mom and Dad's cars. So cute.

Enjoying Bahama Bucks! Mama tries to order Eli light colors that will be less likely to stain his clothes but so far he hasn't been impressed. His favorite find has been Daddy's strawberry, so I guess I'll give in next time and let him order what he wants. Notice he has helped himself to all of our umbrellas!

Justin and I traveled to Palo Duro Canyon a couple of weeks ago to watch the musical drama TEXAS. It had been at least 10 years since either of us had seen it and it has changed so much. The things that matter though are still the same. We had a good time, but would have enjoyed a little breeze in the canyon that evening!

Summer Fun- Part 1

by Holly

Eli and I spent the weekend at my parents' house a few weeks ago, while Justin was camping with a friend. It was very hot and we were glad to have the pool up even with a slow leak! This is Tyler (our nephew), me and Eli. E is still afraid of the water by himself, so I held him most of the time and pretended he was a motorboat.

At Friona's Cheeseburger Festival. Again, so hot, and very long lines but we are glad that its a big hit and has so much participation. The admission price gets you a bracelet good for 4 quarters of a cheeseburger and a bag of chips. Then you vote for your favorite cheeseburger. And your plate is a frisbee! I love stuff like this and had fun despite the heat. This is Eli letting you know how he felt about the experience. :) Actually he was very good, better than Tyler did with the heat and the lines.

Eli helping Daddy open his birthday presents. This was a gift card to Best Buy which Eli thought was a total waste b/c you couldn't do anything with it. Justin felt differently. Ha!

Eli's daycare had VBS a couple of weeks ago and each class did a program on the last day. Eli's class did Noah's Ark and Eli was the bunny rabbit. The parents were responsible for the costumes, which is why they are so different. Eli did great and he loved his costume! He insisted on wearing it the rest of the day, even for naptime.

Daddy, Eli and Mama after Eli's program.