1st Birthday

Abagail had her first birthday one the 1st of August. We did a really small gathering of family that was in the area. Hopefully these will kind of give everyone an idea of what it was like. Caleb decorated Abagail's birthday cake, he's the artistic one. It was a German Chocolate Cake, and soo delicous.
This is Abagail having some of her birthday cake and was too busy watching everyone watch her that she had this very intense look on her face. It was pretty funny it took a while to get used to everyone stand around her with camera's.
Abagail had a great time opening her presents, I think she enjoyed the wrapping paper and bags rather than the actual presents but it was fun to watch her tear them all apart.
This was a little book that Lana gave her. It's a cow puppet in the center of the board book; right after this part Caleb scared her to death with it. Abagail was just about to go and pet the cow and he made it jump at her, she backed up real fast and almost started to cry. She still doesn't really like the book as much as she might have.
This is one of her presents from Great Grandma Padilla, it had a really cute collar that you can't see under the bib. We're on the back portch, it's nearly impossible to keep that girl in the house!!

Okay that was pretty much all that went on with her birthday, like I said it was really a small thing and kid of set up at the last minute. i must be a bad mom to not spend so much time on her first birthday. oh well. We wish everyone could have been there it would have a lot more fun! We all need to get together, Abagail has cousin's she's never met and we haven't seen everyone in forever.

Humbolt State Park

Okay it has been a while since we have updated, so it will take me a bit to catch up so I figured I would start with the oldest thing first. This was our first vacation of the summer, we came camping here as a substitute for not being able to camping in Oregon (due to it still snowing there) like my side of the family ususally does. Uncle Mark being used as a brace for Abagail's wandering around, she has to walk down hill a little bit right there.
Aunt Melanie and Abagail enjoying a break in the ride. She liked Melanies saddle better than anyone else who was riding a horse she could be on. We had a lot of young horses on the camping trip with us.
All of our little family eating lunch on one of the fallen redwoods. We went on a ride for the afternoon that lasted about 4 or 5 hours. I was impressed with Abagail she enjoyed every minute of being on the horses. She snacked and napped on the horses.
After our ride we went and did the tourist stuff so here we are at the Founder's Tree. This guy is 346.1 ft. tall the diameter is 12.7 ft, the circum. is 40 ft, and the hight to the lowest limb is 190.4 ft. !!!
This is another redwood that was huge, this is Caleb and my brother Mark hagging out in the roots of this tree, the people on top are my brother and sister, Ryan and Melanie and my Dad.