Gabe's birthday, Halloween, and more...

Well I will just say right now there will be quite a few pictures on this post due to it being Gabe's first birthday and Halloween. They are out of order... Sorry! Gabe's birthday went well. We had a lot of family come to support his big day. He had a great birthday. We had spaghetti for dinner and then cake and ice cream. I think the cake turned out great!! Unfortunately I can't say that I did it by myself. Brad and Laura convinced me to do this cake. ( I really wanted to do but thought it would be too hard) They assured me that with their help it wouldn't take too long. So thanks to Brad and Laura for all your help with the cake. It looked so pretty and tasted sooooo YUMMY. Gabe loved all his presents. So thank you to every one!! I can't believe my little guy is already one. He is getting so big and definitely developing a personality. He brings so many smiles and a lot of laughter. We sure do love him and look forward to many more years with this cute boy.

Halloween was interesting. I don't know if Gabe really like it. It partially could be because we kept him up past his bed time to go trick or treating. We dressed him up as a pumpkin. I wanted to do a cowboy but we found this cheap costume for 5 bucks. Gabe loved the candy but didn't like going up to the houses to get it. I think he was scared of the people so we had to hold him then he would put out his bucket. He ended up having a fun night and was excited to get to bed!

The rest of these pictures are random taken over the past couple of days... enjoy!

Laughing at everyone else around him.


This picture is hilarious to me. It happened yesterday.. I will start by saying that Gabe loves to play in the cabinets. So this bowl was out already. Well yesterday morning when I was trying to eat breakfast this little guy started reaching for it and fell backwards in to the bowl. This is how he ended up. I laughed so hard.

End of Halloween night.

After eating cake. He had it everywhere.

Joe making Gabe sad. Pitiful sad face huh??

Likes to play with pots and a wooden spoon.

We got the table for him and his PJ's he got from Gram and Papa Stan.

We had cake batter left over so we decided to make Gabe his own cake.

Love this face!

Birthday Balloons. He loved them!!

Happy Birthday Gabe!!

I can't believe this cute boy is one year old today!! He has grown so big over the past year and brought so much joy to our lives. We love you Gabe!

Labor Day and Septemeber

I put these next two posts out of order. The one after this has all the updates. Here are some photos over Labor Day weekend and the rest of the month of September. We had some family come into town during Labory Day and enjoyed spending time with them. Gabe got to see his cousin that is his age that he hadn't seen since January. I don't know if he wasn't so sure about her at first. It was fun to watch them play together. Gabe also got to spend time with his other cousin Carter. I got to babysit them a few times during the month and we also celebrated my brother's birthday. Gabe and Carter

One happy babe!

Future Volunteers!! Carter loves the camera!

What a good looking family. Brad's birthday cake! Looks good huh?? Laura made it.

Cheese

Gabe walking.

Gabe's new tool bench. Our neighbors gave it to us. He loves it!

Like father like son!

HUGS!

playing

Gabe and Bailey with the grandparents.

First Tennessee game of the year.

Their favorite place in the house... top of the stairs.

The babes with Grandpa.

What's new??

I know it has been forever since I have given an update. Not to much new has happened around here. Joe stays very busy with school. When he is not at school he is building his sister’s house. Gabe and I enjoy spending time with him when we get the chance. Gabe is getting so big. He now has 8 teeth. He is walking everywhere and is can say a few words such as uh-oh. He loves to say that when he or anyone else drops something. He also says “thank-you” He likes to put stuff in out hand and says “thank-you.” It is not as clear as when he says uh-oh but it sounds so cute. He also can say “mama” and “da da” but he doesn’t say those too often.

Gabe loves to give kisses and also vacuum. Every time the laundry room door is open he runs in to go get or play with the vacuum. He is such a good baby and is very happy. I love his little laugh. It is fun being home with him. I cannot believe my little guy will be a year old in 2 weeks. This past week Gabe’s cousin, Bailey, came into town for a whole week. She is 11 days younger than Gabe. They got to see each other over Labor Day weekend. I don’t think Gabe was so sure about her. But this time he really enjoyed playing with her. Bailey loves Gabe; she follows him wherever he goes. They are so cute together. Here are some photos of them playing together. We really enjoyed getting to spend time with the family.

Gabe saying bye to Bailey

Cousin Carter, Bailey, and Gabe (They were looking at a cat)

Gabe loves to carry this ball in his mouth and walk around.

Our naked cowboy

Gabe and Daddy

Gabe

Gabe and his pumpkin

Gabe after his cookie

Bailey, Grandma Dean, Gabe

Playing... trying to take the necklace from each other

Riding the vacuum cleaner.

Gabe trying to give Bailey kisses

Trying to get a picture of them both looking.

Bailey following Gabe up the stairs. They love the stairs.

Happy Babe

My little helper:)