Anniversary Weekend

8 years ago I married the love of my life! Luckily, Ben was able to get a long weekend over our anniversary so our family had a little staycation to celebrate.

Saturday we went spent the day in Peoria. We went to the Riverfront Museum, a science museum in Peoria. The kids had a blast playing...

 ...especially this kid :) Ben loves science museums!

After a fun day of playing and learning, we went to the Riverplex park to play:

 Dax was pretty worn out :)

Sunday, we went to church :) Ben had meetings all afternoon so the kids and I made a rock band while we waited for  him to get home.

Monday we hung out at home playing. For FHE we went to Red Robin and then on a hike in Peoria. It was almost sunset, and we are in the midwest so the trees were lush and full and provided lots of shade, so it was pretty dark :)

It was so fun to finally get some time with Ben! We have all really missed him these last few months as he has been working 85 hour weeks. It was  nice of his residency to give him our anniversary off so we could be together :) I'm so glad that our family is forever!!

My Cub Scout!

My little man is officially a cub scout! 

We had a meeting tonight where we learned about being a scout and the oath. The face paint makes it official...and my face paint makes me the official scout parent :) Way to go buddy!

Princess Elise is 4!!

My sweet baby girl is all grown up and 4 yrs old today!

 My little ballerina wanted a dance party for her birthday. Luckily Grandma provided plenty of dancing attire for the day so Ellie could dance and twirl all day long in multiple outfits

We invited all of her little girlfriends over for a hoppin' dance party!

There was Aislyn, Hailey, Ellie, Chloe, Princess Elise, and Alyssa:

 It was a super fun and girly party...and Ellie was ecstatic to get a ballerina Belle!

Later, after Daddy and Cole were home we let El open the rest of her presents and we sang again and had cupcakes again :)

We all had a super fun day celebrating this spunky, sweet, funny, smart, kind, adorable, snuggly, saggy, clever precious little princess's life!! I love you my sweet Elise and I'm so very glad that you are mine!!