Father's Day

On Father's day this little cutie turned 9 months old...I can't believe that he's almost 1!  You can see he got a little sunburned at the airshow the day before...I was a bad mom and didn't use sunscreen.

 Carter is laughing or smiling most of the time these days (far different from his infancy).

• It is rare for him to be fussy or clingy for no reason.  He is starting to have some separation anxiety, but overall he does great.  
• He stands for several seconds on his own and has one tooth that finally broke through.  
• He is loving finger foods and will try anything that we put in front of him.  Thankfully, he doesn't have the same sensitive gag reflex Ethan did.  
• He LOVES Ethan and wants to be in the middle of everything Ethan is doing.  
• He also loves baths.  He will come crawling as fast as he can the minute the bath water is turned on. 
•  His sleeping is still hit and miss, but we are definitely on the good side of things.  He's ready for bed by 7 most nights and usually sleeps until 7 in the morning.  He might wake up once or twice but rarely needs more than a pacifier to go back to sleep.  He still takes 2 naps a day--usually one around 9 and then another around 1 for about and hour or an hour and a half.  Ethan always complains that he wants to play with Carter when I go to put him down.  I'm glad they are good buddies!

 We celebrated our "Super Dads" on Sunday morning before church since we don't meet until 1.  Since things didn't work out to celebrate with my dad on Saturday we had my parents over for brunch on Sunday morning.

 My mom and dad brought some super yummy pastries for us...maple bars are Tristan's favorite so I asked for some as a surprise for him.

 I made a new recipe--this egg ring from Pinterest.  It was actually really good and kept well for leftovers.  I will definitely be keeping this in my recipe box!

 Ethan and Carter before church (sorry about the lighting).  Ethan refused to cooperate and get in the picture so Tristan is pretending to just have one son here.  The boys got the tie he is wearing for him for Father's Day.

 After dinner--beef stroganoff (another of Tristan's favorites)--we went over to the cemetary to visit Tristan's dad's grave with the boys.  I finally snagged a pic of the 3 of them before we left.

 Then we came home and had Key Lime Poke Cake for dessert and an early birthday celebration for Tristan.

It was a full weekend, but it was fun to spend so much time celebrating what a wonderful person and father Tristan is.  I am so grateful for him and all he does to support our family!

Olympic Airshow

For obvious reasons, our family loves to go watch the airshow every summer.  It always falls on Father's Day weekend, so it's a great way to spend time celebrating with family and friends.  We made plans to meet Tristan's family to picnic and watch, but actually ended up meeting up with a group of our friends on accident so we had a rather large group!  The kids played, adults napped and visited and we had a great time...even when it poured at the end of the show!  Tristan got some great shots of the airplanes as they flew overhead.  Some of them get so close to the ground you think you could reach up and touch it!

 There is a bark distributor across the street from the airport so Ethan always likes to go see the diggers when we go to the airshow.

 Hangin' out it the back of the car

 This was a BIG plane!

 Ethan plugging his ears

 Daredevil stunts are always fun to watch.

 How many kids can fit into one wagon?  Poor Caitlyn...a wagon full of boys and they are making her do all the work.  Look how Ethan is trying to squeeze on by sitting on the handle.  It was pretty funny to watch!

 The airshow includes helicopters as well, which is always a highlight for our family.

 We had originally invited my dad to come down and watch with us as well to celebrate Father's Day with him but he had some other things he had to take care of.  But he did stop by to say hi and Ethan, of course, wanted to take him to see the diggers.  Funny story:  So my dad took Ethan and Caitlyn for a little walk and right about that time the Hornet, which is SUPER loud flew over.  The next thing we know my dad is walking back with a screaming Caitlyn and a rather confused-looking Ethan.  He said that when the plane flew over, they both started crying and ran in opposite directions.  My poor dad didn't know what to do.  I don't blame the poor kids, my ears hurt when it flew over.  After that we put earplugs in Ethan's ears and they stayed in the rest of the day.  Ethan didn't want to take them out!

 Tristan's brother and his wife, Nicole, came down to visit as well!  That's his sister Desiree in the background.

 Tristan's mom and sister, Tennille.

 More helicopters!

 I think this might have been the one that was really loud, but I can't remember.

 Channeling Top Gun...

 Carter did great.  He even napped in the Ergo for about an hour.  This is the end of his battle with Hand, Food and Mouth disease so he's got some blisters around his mouth still.  Poor guy!

 Laughing with his Uncle Kelsey.

 We had a great time with our family and friends and I know that this is one family tradition that our little family will always enjoy!