Let's Get Ready for some Football

You can smell it in the air, you can sense it in our daily schedules, and it's evidenced in the hype around the beginning of football season. Fall is officially here!

In the Eilmes household there aren't too many teams that matter - UW Huskies, The NE Huskers (thanks to Wes), and of course, "The Hawks!"

Chick Fil-A hosted a FREE Chicken Sandwich day on Monday for all those "sporting" their favorite team's attire. Well, we had no problem finding enough Seahawks gear to go around, and we're not a family that passes up free food, especially if it is tasty and means I don't have to cook!



(Elyse received the cheer leader outfit the Christmas before she was born!)

The Best Cheer Leaders

Last Monday I completed my first 1/2 Marathon. I think I might be slightly "hooked" or "addicted" to running now. That's so funny for me to write, since I've never been a runner, let alone a long distance runner.

The run was on a beautiful trail, just below Pikes Peak, but the best view I saw was running past these three kiddos and their daddy, just meters from the finish!

Meg and John ran it too, as a fundraiser for Big Brothers Little Sisters




Buffye, Jessica, Shelly and I have all trained together! Great girls!

Family Fun in the Sun

Hand-me-down swim suits: FREE, old-fashioned slip n slide: $10, camera to capture it all: $200, The resulting family fun: PRICELESS!








(This one may win us big bucks on America's Funniest Home Videos someday...)

It's been 2 1/2 months since my last post. In that time, Elyse turned one, Isaac and Austin had preschool end-of-year programs, we've had several trips to the zoo, a Father's Day trip to the Royal Gorge, lots of fun playdates, we made our annual trek to Creede (unfortunately without Kurt, due to busy times), Elyse started walking and fully "asserting" herself with the words, "no,no!" we hosted our annual Fourth of July Party, and today we had Elyse Tilney Eilmes baptised! Fourteen of Elyse's family members, including her Great Maternal Grandparents, Unkie Bunkie and Auntie Megs, her Great Aunt Joey, and cousins Hayley and Mary Hannah, and MiMi and PopPop, were here to support us as we committed our lives, as parents, to showing her Christ's love. It was really pretty neat! Both Kurt and I were pleasantly surprised that Elyse didn't make a big fuss when we handed her off to Pastor Joe. THEN, Joe even handed her to someone in the congregation for several minutes just to point out that it is US, as a church, that has made a committment to help raise this child in Christ's love, she was totally fine! What a beautiful day! We feel very blessed to be a part of First Pres and are thankful for the love and support our family has there. We missed Ryan and Sherry Sanner (2 of Elyse's Godparents), but were happy to have Hayley Ann Huber (my Goddaughter), Elyse's other Godmother there. After church, Pops took all of us for a FABULOUS brunch at the Cheyenne Mountain Conference Center! What a treat! Below are several photos from today.

 

 

 

 

He Is Risen

 

In what seems to be less of a phenomenon each year, Colorado Springs was blessed with a beautiful white blanket of snow this morning. I know most people picture Easter with tulips, green grass, and 70 degree weather - that's not the case here. But, we're getting used to white Easters. (I can remember more white Easters than Christmases, actually.) Isaac made the best argument ever for why Easter shouldn't be any other way!

In his infinite 4-year-old wisdom, Isaac said to me this morning, "Why do we have snow on Easter, Mommy?" I said, "Honey, I don't know, I think God knew we needed the moisture." He then said, "It's because that's what God did when Jesus died on the cross. He made us clean - as white as snow, right?!"

That's RIGHT!

In that case, I think we should ALWAYS have White Easters!

Happy Easter from the Eilmi!

Unbelievable!

 

The Role of a Parent

This morning Isaac and Austin came down to our office as Kurt and I were working. The babes had awakened and were ready to eat. Austin said, "Daddy, we're hungry, we want breakfast." (Okay, so it wasn't the politeness we generally go for, but we'll give him a break, since it was only 7 a.m....) Anway, Kurt said, "Okay then, go get breakfast," somewhat jokingly, but trying to squeeze in a little more work before one of us went up to do breakfast.
Austin replied, quite seriously and disdainfully, "NO! Us not pawents!"

Sometimes we have to remember our roles, I guess...:-)