The BEST birthday EVER

Having Gabe is great for many reasons, one of which is that we get to be kids more often and visit Disneyland with him. And what can be more fun than celebrating a birthday at Disneyland and the beach?? Not to mention enjoying it all with two very cool parents (a.k.a. Mark and Lana).

Gabe with "George" on our drive to California.

Yippee!!! I'm tall enough to ride the Matterhorn!

Hangin' out with the cousins for a day.

Learning how to paddle my own canoe - with help, of course!

Birthday + beach = FUN

We ended Gabe's week-long birthday celebration with a day at the beach. We had a great, relaxing day playing together. I LOVE the beach, so I was happy Gabe enjoyed it too.

Gabe's second 2nd birthday party!

Did I mention we like to spread out birthdays?? So here is Gabe's celebration with Mark's family. We drove straight here to Grandma and Grandpa's house after a long weekend in Disneyland for Gabe's birthday, so he had a great week of fun.

Gabe LOVED playing with his new train set. I think he would have slept with it tonight.

Gabe turns 2!

Gabe celebrated his second birthday in my favorite manner - with all of the family, spread over a couple of days. Happy Birthday, our sweet Gabe! We love you so much!!!

Every day Gabe wants to watch the movie, "Cars" and play with Lightning McQueen and the other race cars from that show. So he really loved this cake.

Getting the scoop on how to ride a horse from Grandpa - the man "in the know".

Games with the family. Check out our fuzzy head below. His hair is so much like Mark's.