Aichele's Out West: He's 2!

Silas is now 2 years old! We had a wonderful but exhausting day on Sunday celebrating. We started off with Silas opening some gifts from Grandma Aichele. Then off to church we went. After church, a much needed nap time so that daddy and mommy could get the house ready for his birthday party. Kurt ran to Safeway for last minute groceries while I got all of the snack foods ready. When Kurt came home, it was cleaning for Sheila and making pizzas for Kurt. We finished about the time Silas woke up from his nap (nathan woke up way too early!) and not too long before guests came. We had a total of 5 adults and 3 kids (not counting our family), so it was a nice crowd with good fellowship and fun and lots of food! Silas had a lot of fun, especially blowing out his birthday candles. He thought that was pretty neat. He liked the cake so much he kept asking for more....... Well, it was tough to get him to bed on Sunday night probably because of the excitement and sugar overload! Kurt and I were so exhausted that at 9:15 when he was still not asleep and crying in his room, we ended up throwing him in our bed so we could go to sleep and it wasn't long before he crashed and we took him to his room.

In addition to his birthday, Kurt took off Monday since he was traveling last week. It was a beautiful 70 degrees here, so off to the zoo we went. This is a favorite of our families, so much that we ended up buying a membership. So we'll probably be posting a lot of zoo pictures again this year. Anyways, it was a nice day to walk around and see the animals and spend time together. Here are some pictures that I have. Kurt will have to post off of his camera of the birthday party.