Abigail's Birthday Party

A castle cake for the princess.
As you can see she loves the ladybugs.
Hey! What's up dawg?
Oh its time for cake you say!! I can do that, yeah!
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY ABIGAIL!

Thursday of this week marked the completion of Abigail's first trip around the sun. She celebrated the day in much the same way she celebrates most Thursdays. We will be partying in a week. Stay tuned for pictures.

A visit with BOB.

Last Saturday we went to check out the Bob the Builder exhibit at The Grand Rapids Children's Museum.

Towards the end of the day Abigail was searching for someplace to get some eats.

And Samuel was looking for somewhere to hit the rack.

Umm..

...Yeah.(sheepishly) Hi there blog. How has everything been going? Umm... I.. uh..I've been swamped, and uh..so.. OK look -I'm sorry for not writing to you. I don't have all the time in the world to sit around and talk to you all day long, I do have other responsibilities you know. Well of course I enjoyed seeing you last month. No no it has nothing to do with you, it's me. Aggh! fine.. Readers: I would like to take this time to publicly apologize for neglecting blog. There are you happy now. For Pete's sake.
See you soon, Andy.

Christmas around our world

After Abigail saw that the tree was decorated and lit she decided we were ready to start with the festivities.

Samuel sat at the table thumping his fork and knife on the plate, thereby notifying us of his readiness to eat.

Abigail enjoyed the presents and wrappings alike.

Some present wrappers get a little too tape-happy so Abigail nominated her Papa to assist on more than a few occasions.

Samuel postulates as to what the big box contains.

Good guess. Samuel bussied himself for the rest of the day by plowing the driveway.

These winter months...

are hard for out of work garden gnomes of all ages.

Rewind

Rewind to a mid October.

Cottage.

Samuel pictured here sporting a ten-gallon stocking cap.

Abigail kicks back with Papa.

Bike ride

We stopped for a snack on the bike trail. Abigail gave one-thumb-up to the pretzels.

Abigail advances

Abigail quickly mastered 2-D navigation, and now feels ready to add a third dimension.

Log Blog

Samuel and Sarah built this log cabin using logs harvested from a stand of pine behind our neighbors house.