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Happy Birthday to Eli!

Our Eli guy is 9! What a cutie! He was all about a BMX bike this year. He requested a friend party at Nickle City. When I compare that with the labor intense archery party from last year, I was on board!.


The Bike!

He had a spectacular LEGO cake!

At the end of the night Adren said, "OH, I get it, it's a NINE". So I'm putting that out there in case you didn't catch that...
And more fun and friends and love than he knew what to do with.







A guy in our ward is a manager at Nickel City and was so nice and generous and really made Eli's party great. Granny and Grandpa Taylor were even able to come over and give Eli a Birthday hug.
We sure love this guy in our family. When you catch Eli in a chatty mood, it's the best. He'll tell you all sorts of neat things going on in his life. Eli is doing great in 3rd grade. Learning has come easy peasy to him so far. He gets his homework done so quick because he never wants anything to cut into his precious play time. This boy can play. He'll be gone for hours and run in the house to gulp a drink of water, covered head to toe in dirt and is off again! He has oodles of friends, his bestie is Enoch across the street . Eli can build and build with Lego's or any other little set he gets his hands on. He's patient and good at figuring things like that out. Eli is so great to have in our family. I can hear him cracking up about whatever somewhere in the house, his laugh is the best. He's also crazy about his big brother Adren, and I know Adren feels the same. Those two....
Sweet shot of the Birthday Boy waiting to see his presents in the morning.




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