ELI AND THE NFL EXPERIENCE!

Eli was lucky to get invited by his friend Brody to skip out of school a little early and go downtown to the NFL Experience! I didn't take him so I don't have a lot of details about it, but after I told him he was going in the morning as he was getting ready for school, we quickly changed his clothes into some Cardinals gear and then as I was doing his hair he told me, "mom, I can't stop smiling thinking about it!"

Then when I went to go pick him up early from school they were having a lock down drill and he was very worried about missing this and not being able to go and his teacher had to reassure him it would be ok and he would still be going!

Eli and Brody were there from 3-9pm. He came home on cloud 9. He would have told us storied all night long if we had let him, but finally we made him quit talking and get ready for bed. He was so excited to show us his bag of loot. His autographed football, the first girl ref in the NFL signed a flag for him, he got himself a couple of bags of skittles and then one for Emma, Tyler and Tyson, a Cardinals face tatoo and a tatoo of the Seahawks and Patriots - I was a very nice mom and let him keep them on for the next day of school, but the day after they had to get washed off!

He has continued to talk about this for the next couple of days and telling his brothers all about it and how they will get to go the next time! Sweet boy!