Birthday!

My little Abel!!

One year old!

2 years old!

3 years old!

4 years old!!

 Abel is quite the little man now. He is very inquisitive, can be very thoughtful, and loves to do things like Dad. He is a great big brother and I can't believe how blessed we are to have him as our son! What a precious treasure he is to us!

 This is the first of 3 (!!!!) birthday cakes this year. I made this one for our celebration at church.

 Abel got a Thomas the Train track (electric) from his friend Rayne (who is the daughter of one of the members at church) He was pretty excited!

 Elisha was put in the box so that Abel could set it up and play right away...he didn't mind at all!

 There's Thomas! Dad built a tunnel (among other things) for Thomas and Abel.

 Cake number 2! Happy Birthday Abel!

 For his birthday we went bowling. It was something he has been asking to do for quite a while. However, when we got there some people were playing the video games and all he wanted to do was play those. We coaxed him through one game and then played video games...

 Dad didn't mind too much either. He loves a good game of Big Buck Hunter!

 Abel also requested to go to Schatt's bakery for a cookie. We got him a cookie and then hit the day old bread rack and got a loaf of bread, 2 packages of rolls, and Abel's cookie for under $3.00!

 This is cake #3! We were going to have a birthday party the weekend of his actual birthday, but both boys had been sick previously, so we moved it to the following week (which meant I made the 3rd cake). We put 4 candles on one side and reused the 3 and 2 from previous birthdays for Samuel's side. So, after we sang to Abel we turned the cake around and sang to Samuel too!

Enjoying cake and hot chocolate (and then we sent them home!!:)