Matthias' 1st Birthday!

 Matthias celebrated his 1st Birthday on the 26th. We had a cake a church the Sunday before. Here he is with his cake at church.

 I took another picture of him at home with his cake because I wanted a closer one of him. Love that Smile!

 Birthday balloons were waiting for him when he woke up!

 And this would be the happy birthday boy....I think I must have told him not to touch the candle and he was a little upset.

 Over it now and ready to eat!

 His first present! I made him a fleece tie blanket just like his big brothers have.

 This is the best 1 year old picture I could get, in the others he was either crying or ripping the paper...but it was his birthday so he could cry if he wanted, right?

 We ate lunch outside on the swings. The boys love to eat outside!

 Birthday cake again! He was pretty excited about all the candles and singing!

 We let him have his own plate of cake, boy was he happy about that!

 Abel helping him open presents. When he was all done the big boys kept wrapping them up again and handing them to him, felt like he had twice as many that way!

 Everyone was excited about the bear that Grandma Beda got him. Multiple times we had to tell the other two that it was Matthias' toy and not to take it from him!

 Dad and Matthias. Matthias loves it when Dad comes home from work, he crawls as fast as he can to get to him to be picked up.

Mom and Matthias. I just love this (mostly) happy guy! What a blessing he is to our family! Can't wait to celebrate many more birthday's with him!

Random pics from the last month

Matthias likes to climb under the end table and read books:)

 Some random pictures from the last month or so....

Elisha got to ride a horse! Samuel usually takes Abel to his riding lesson alone, but we all went on Oct. 31. The teacher was so nice to let Elisha take a turn....

Abel got to practice leading the horse.

Matthias hung out with me:)

And he played in the leaves.

Abel riding. He is getting quite good and he enjoys it.

Matthias 11 months!

The boys eating lunch in their
"tree house". It isn't really in a tree, but Samuel built it up higher for them.

Playing in the leaves!

Abel found a tomato horn worm in the garden...unfortunatly I didn't figure out what it was until after it became Abel's "favorite pet" therefore we couldn't let the chickens eat it...

We have quite a busy time coming up. We will have 3 birthdays this month and one next month. Abel is very excited for his birthday! We have been counting the days on the calendar each day at school.