Gabriel is one year old today! Here are birthday party pictures followed by some from the last few days.


Grandma and Grandpa got here first


Nice picture with Grandma


Grandpa and Grandma brought the balloons


Hope and Dindy got here next


Playing with Dindy


Dindy, Gabriel, Corbin, Owen and Becky


Gabriel was interested in looking at the cake...


but he didn't like the sticky stuff on his hands! He only ate a tiny bit.


Opening presents


Linda, Owen, Becky, Corbin, Adam, Lexi and Greg


Gabriel got lots of great gifts


Becky, Adam, Lexi, Courtney and Greg


Aidan (on the left) and Hermes arrived toward the end, and we're glad they made it


Owen got surrounded by Hermes, Aidan and Gabriel, and he didn't like it


Courtney is really pretty; 5 months old


We had veggies, chips and punch in the dining room


The birthday decorations


The cake prior to consumption


Earlier this week Adam, Becky and Owen came over for dinner


Afterward Owen and Gabriel played in the yellow bulldozer


They both liked it a lot


Cousins hard at work


Gabriel is getting quite animated at dinner lately


Here he has been eating some peas


Peeking up at the fondue pot


Here is a sequence of events which occurs several times daily


step 2


step 3


step 4


and back down again


for a parting chew.