Happy Father's Day!

In honor of the father in this household, I've posted some pictures of him "at work" with the kids. These were taken during our Mother's Day photo outing. When I reviewed the pictures, it was clear that he did most of the "work" entertaining the kids and keeping them happy all morning. We are so blessed to have such a great, active Dad.

Since Derrick rarely reads the blog, it is safe to post his present for tomorrow. We decorated and framed the bottom two photos for his classroom.


We had an exciting day yesterday, spending all day running errands around town. Andrew slept through Big Lots and The Home Depot (yes...with two transfers to and from his car seat.) With all of the Father's Day sales throughout town, it seemed the perfect time to spend the money President Bush so generously gave us - buying a new riding lawnmower. Derrick has been researching what to get since April.

Our old mower was purchased from a friend and we affectionately called it our FIAT (Fix it Again Tony.) With its 36 inch blade, a mow job should have taken 1.5 - 2 hours. Typically, Derrick would spend an additional 30 minutes filling the tires, adding gas/oil, and yanking the cord prior to mowing and almost always would have to pull out his toolbox and spend another hour or so fixing some part that was causing it not to work in the middle of the mow job.

With our new mower today it only took a total of one hour, and that included filling the gas tank and giving each boy a ride around the yard (without the blade spinning, of course.) I think it is funny that our mower not only has a cup holder, but also a small compartment that we can only imagine is for an ipod. I guess it could be for a cell phone, but what's the point of having one out there? You could never hear it ring while driving the lawnmower. Too bad we don't even own an ipod.

I think the boys are going to be disappointed that we are no longer shopping for lawnmowers. For the past few months, they have loved climbing all over all of the mowers in the stores as we have shopped around.