Roman's First Birthday!

December 19, 2011- little Roman Emmanuel joined us.  His middle name is a reminder that God is with us!   

He has been a very sweet addition to our family and we are so thankful for our happy little guy.

Since his birthday is so close to Christmas, I slacked on a party for him.  We just did cake and ice cream for him that night.  Someday when he's old enough to care we'll do something really fun:)

  

He was very tired and hungry, but I wanted to take a picture with this bib on since Gideon had worn it on his first birthday the year before:)

He was very serious about his cake.

It took him a little bit to get started...

but then he started to realized it was pretty good...

Then there was no stopping him:)

He was pretty irritated that we took the cake away to make him open presents.

Raquel and Gideon were happy to help

Ah yes, an extremely loud and obnoxious phone that will wake me up in the middle of the night if I so much as touch it with my little toe.  Good choice mom!

He's starting to walk but it's not his preferred mode of transportation yet

Saying goodnight to his big brother... so sweet

 Happy Birthday to our big little boy Roman!  We love you!