Gabriel's Birthday Party

Gabriel's birthday party was awesome! Gabriel loved every single minute of it. He seriously has been talking about this day for what seems like forever!

Mostly, for the past 2-3 months he has talked about birthdays and cakes. So, pictured in my last post, I made him a dinosaur cake!

After everyone visited for a bit we ate supper!

Then it was time for gifts. Gabriel was so excited he just rolled on the blanket while he was waiting for everyone. He simply could not hold still!

The hat fits him well :)

Then it was time for cake! Gabriel grabbed a chair and went straight to the cake table to eat cake. LOL! He must have thought he got to eat the whole thing :) I honestly think his all time favorite part of the whole party was when everyone sang 'Happy Birthday' to him. He likes to sing the song all the time on a regular basis to Eli or me but whenever I try to sing it to him he always refuses because it wasn't his birthday yet. Sooooo it was finally time to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Gabriel and he LOVED it and he sang the entire song to himself while everyone else sang and he sang louder then anyone else did too!

Then my mom brought out her traditional snowman that she makes every year and sticks in the freezer. The kids all thought it was awesome. 

Gabriel thought it needed some hair after all the kids were done playing with it...

The adults watching the kids

And from the snowman the children quickly saw the dirt pile with all the toys and attacked it

Cute little Eli!!!

And we finished the night off with a campfire and s'mores! 

a boy and his cake...

Gabriel LOVES cake. It's all he talks about when he talks about birthdays. For the past two and a half months since Eli's birthday, he asked me close to every day when his birthday was and if he was going to get cake! Haha! When Friday came along and I started making the cake for his birthday he was one happy boy!

More info about the cake and pictures are here! More pictures to come soon of Gabriel's birthday party!!!

Ways to Melt a Heart

Gabriel can be the sweetest child sometimes! I absolutely adore that boy of mine to bits.

Gabriel has been really into bear hugs lately. Now, he has always loved big bear hugs but now he asks for them all the time and he squeezes and squeezes you as hard as he can to make sure you get the 'bear' end of the deal :) A lot of times I'll go give him a hug and in the middle of the hug he'll say 'no Mama, a bear hug!!!' because I wasn't squeezing hard enough. It's so precious!

He lately also says 'I love you' all the time. Oh my word, my heart just melts every single time he says those three little words. I'll be sitting on the floor and he'll crawl into my lap and say 'I love you!!!' And then a lot of times when I tell him that I love him he will say 'I love you most!' Oh gosh. So. Sweet!!!

Today we were sitting on the floor together filling party bags for his birthday party this weekend (which he is SOOO excited about!) and since his party theme is dinosaurs we got these little dinosaurs to put two of them in each party bag. After the first three bags he would pull out two dinosaurs to put in the bag and play with them for a few seconds before putting them in the bag. He would say that there was a baby dinosaur and a mommy dinosaur and then the baby dinosaur would go up the the mommy and give her a kiss and say 'I love you Mommy' and then they would 'go on an adventure' and walk into the party bags. He would do this repeatedly for all of the following bags.

He is such a cutie pie! I love that boy! Or as Gabriel would say, I love him most!!!

bugs...

Realization: Bugs, mainly mosquitos and horse flies, are attracted to black. They seem to love that color. They seem to love it if you wear that color. And they seem to love to eat you alive if you happen to be wearing the color black. They even seem to eat you alive through the thousands of layers of bug spray you put on yourself. They just really love that particular color!

Note to self: Get an entirely new wardrobe!!!!

Second note to self: Anti-itch bug cream... and A LOT of it!!!!

mud, tractors, and frogs

I love having boys! They are the greatest thing! They are always full of energy and are getting into anything dirty that they can. That is why, almost every time after it rains I let my boys go play in the mud. They absolutely love it! They love getting dirty, they love dirt, and they love mud. True boys all the way. So yesterday I let them outside in the mud...

And they found a small frog... poor thing...

And they played with the poor frog for ages! 

I love a good brother picture!

*Sigh* They are just perfect!