First Father's Day!

I'm procrastinating packing for our trip to Trevor's parents for the weekend (WHY do I hate packing so much?!?).  So I thought I would do a quick post about Father's Day instead. 

This first picture just makes me smile.  These are by far the two most important people in my life and I have to say it's surprised me just how much my heart swells when I see them together.  They pretty much seem to adore each other.  I've loved seeing Trevor be such a great Daddy and seeing how Luke is so enamored with him.  Daddy can always get Luke to smile so much better than me!

This next picture is typical of these two.  Daddy is always throwing him around and hanging him upside down.

Luke and I made Trevor a Father's Day card that he loved...

...and we got him a book about the Civil War he's been wanting to read to Luke.  

We also got him a "voucher" for tickets to see one of his favorite artists Mat Kearney, but now it's looking like we're not going to be able to make it to the concert.  Don't worry though, Trevor is already spinning his wheels for what he can buy instead. ;)

Trevor's parents came on Father's Day while Trevor was working at his summer job as a historical interpreter at Mahaffie Stagecoach Stop & Farm.  So we went out to see him.  He was working that day as a blacksmith.  Grandpa Fred had to get in there and work with him.

Grandma Dee & Luke.  Luke is obsessed with chewing on jewelry and Grandma was nice and let him chew on her necklace the whole time.

Getting ready to ride the stagecoach.

While I'm showing pictures of Trevor working at Mahaffie, I'll include these next few pictures that are actually from the Thursday before Father's Day.  Mom came down on Thursday and stayed until Saturday.  Trevor worked that Thursday night so Mom and I took Luke out to see Daddy work.

The theme of the night was "19th Century Technology" and Trevor was working the steamboat station.  Here he is showing Luke the little paddle boats.

Luke got to meet the goats...

...and he let them lick his feet!

Mom, Luke & I rode the stagecoach...

Father's Day evening, Trevor and I were just sitting on the floor playing with Luke and he was being so cute, so I whipped out our camera.  Here he is hanging out on his side.  I keep trying to catch his little "model pose" he does on his side, but I can never get it.  He's not doing it here, but it's cute nonetheless.

This boy is ALL over the place lately.  He still can't really crawl well, but he kind of does an army crawl and scoots himself across the floor to get whatever he wants.   He does a lot of rocking on his knees.  This next picture is of his stages of rocking.

Luke has quite the repertoire of faces.  Since I took a million pictures that night, I made a little collage of "The Faces of Luke". 

All in all, it was a wonderful Father's Day and I'm glad we got to celebrate and honor Trevor for being such a hardworking wonderful Daddy.

I should have known...

...that if I put my blog address on Luke's birth announcements that I would jinx myself and then never update my blog.  Sorry!  I hope some of you are still out there checking occasionally and will actually see this.

I had told myself that after having Luke I was not going to put pressure on myself to blog because I wanted to spend my time enjoying my son and not all my time documenting him.  The blog had become another thing that I was always trying to cross off of my "to-do" list and I didn't want it to become just another chore...I want to enjoy blogging if I'm going to do it!  But I do know that it's a fun way to share with friends and family what we've been up to and also a wonderful thing to look back on to relive the details of the memories that I otherwise might have forgotten.  So I would really like to keep this blog alive.

Anyway, my new goal is to just blog when I feel like it and to not feel pressure to keep up with the blog if I don't have the time or the energy.  You may have noticed that my 101 in 1001 deadline was in April...let's just say I didn't finish!  I'm going to keep my list though and still knock them off when I get around to it.  We'll call it the "101 in Whenever I Feel Like It" list from now on!! :)  I've actually completed quite a few of the goals that I haven't blogged about and I'll try to catch you all up on them when I get a chance.

My neurotic self feels the need to go back to February 2010 (when all the sickness began and I pretty much stopped blogging regularly) and update you all on what's been happening month by month so that I don't miss documenting anything.  That's part of the reason I haven't blogged even though we've settled into a routine and I have more time now...I just didn't know where to start.  But tonight I decided there's no better time than right now and what happened today! 

So here are some pictures of Luke's first swim lesson tonight!  It was the first time he's ever been in a pool too. He's now 7 1/2 months old and he's in the 6 month to 3 year old swim class.  Trevor got in with him tonight and I looked like the paparazzi snapping pictures the whole time.  It was too TOO cute. 

I think Luke won the "Whitest Baby" award and Trevor won the "Worst Redneck Sunburn" award! Ha!  Trevor went to his parents' place to fish today and apparently wore a wife-beater tank top and got fried. 

Here's a video of them doing "The Hokey Pokey".  I'm not sure why it uploaded with such poor quality.  Hopefully you can still see what they're doing.

 

Until next time...hopefully it won't be another 4 months!   Comment and let me know that you are still here - maybe it will keep me motivated to keep updating.