Easter Pictures

I had pictures taken of Eli for Easter. He hadn't had professional pictures taken since his newborn shoot and I wanted to capture this growing little boy. 

I had a local photographer take them through an Easter-mini special. This was exactly what I wanted for his portraits.

I loved the scene she put together and Eli was eager to smile for the camera

We had a 15 minute session, but she got his shots in 5 minutes because he did so well.

I was holding him up in the background so she had to edit me out.

This one on the orange blanket is one of my favorites

Love that contagious smile

He's such a big boy!

Easter Sunday 2014

Easter morning came and we all get up super early to sit together at Mass. Church was packed and it was great to see so many people there rejoicing for our Lord's resurrection.

After Mass, we took family pictures.

The Lytles

Marley looked so pretty in her Easter dress

Our little family

My mom and dad

They both look great

When we got home the Easter bunny left Eli a surprise

In his Easter basket he got a book over the Easter Story and a rattle for his first rosary

My goal is for my children to receive at least one religious gift for holidays so they understand what we are really celebrating

For lunch we went to Grandma Mikula's

Eli was ready for the egg hunt

Marley hated the grass. She's not an outdoorsy kind of gal

Chris took Eli on his egg hunt in his new glasses that his Gammy got him for Easter

Shelby and Marley being silly

Eli was King of the Egg Hunt

We had so much fun

Love my little guy

We took a picture of all of the grandchildren who were present. My grandmother looks great. She was so happy to see the babies and have family around.

One last picture of my little guy and I wearing matching sunglasses. This is my new favorite picture

Sylvester Easter 2014

Sylvester Easter was chaos and fun, as usual. We had such a great time talking and eating...and eating and talking. Aunt Tina made spaghetti and meatballs and everyone else brought a dish to coordinate. The food was delicious and we were stuffed by the end of the day.

Sylvester Grandkids and great-grandkids minus a few who are overseas.

Marley and Tinsley wanted no part of taking pictures. But, I kept laughing at what was going through Casen and Eli's minds watching the girls cry.

I tried to get a picture of my brother and nephew. They look so alike and were standing in the same pose with matching sunglasses.

Once the egg hunt began Chris took Eli around to get some loot.

I got to help our little guy out. I bought him the bunny onesie from Zulily and got his name put on it.

Just two cool guys in their sunglasses

The Lytle family. Marley was done with pictures at this point

Brianna and Marley acting like bunnies

Sweet mother and daughter picture

Our sunglassed family picture

We had so much fun at Sylvester Easter and were wiped out for the evening. It's always a blast getting together with our growing family. I love that our babies get to play with each other and grow up together. We are very blessed.

Easter Egg Dyeing 2014

On Good Friday, my sister had the family over to dye eggs for Easter. It was great to see my close family before all of the chaos of the bigger family get togethers over the weekend. The babies had fun playing together.

We were trying to get their attention for a picture and these are the expressions we got. Adorable!

On to the egg dyeing...Eli was not a fan of the process.

He wanted out of that seat. It was also his night-night time, so he really wanted his mom to hold him.

But he did like the texture of the egg in his mouth!

Om nom nom

Poppy fed him his bottle while we cleaned up the kitchen

Egg dyeing was fun, but I think next year will be a bit more interesting with the babies being toddlers!

Eli is Five Months Old

Our little Eli is five months old! 

This month has been such a fun one. Eli is growing and shows his funny and energetic personality every day. He doesn't meet a stranger by smiling at everyone he meets. He's a growing boy and slowly making his way out of 0-3 month clothes as his belly sticking out. He is also in size 2 diapers.

He's too big for the mesh in his bath tub that we put in the sink. He is now in the big bath tub with his smaller tub in it without the mesh. He loves to splash and play with his toys.

I caught him snuggled up to me one evening. He looks so peaceful and I could have stayed in that moment forever.

On one outing we put a hat on him and he looked older than I wanted him to look. Stop growing up so fast!!

My favorite sound in the world: Eli laughing

He's laughing at the dogs running around the house.

We had an ice day during March(?!?). We took him out to enjoy the little bit of ice. He didn't like the doggies licking him.

One morning while he was seriously lounging. I love that double chin.

Eli also had his first passport photo taken for when we go to the UK in the summer.

Eli enjoys his rice cereal. He is a good eater, as we expected he would be.

Chris needed to get some housework done and strapped on Eli to get it done. We didn't keep him in this position long, for anyone worried about Eli's bone development. 

I love this baby butt. It is so cute!

Here is Eli's progression from one month to five months. Our little boy is growing!

And his five month picture

You can see that he is sitting up on his own. He really didn't do this until after the five month mark, but I wanted to capture him showing everyone what a big boy he is.