Travis & Dean's HARD work!

Travis and Dean (my step-dad) finished the pergola last weekend. It's great! It cuts down on the sun big time. We also tied a swing to it for Douglas. He's not a fan of that yet. We got a steal of a deal on the wisteria vines that are growing up the pergola though. They were originally $40 each but the nursery had them on clearance for $10!! My parents have that on their pergola and say that our vines will reach the top in the next 4 months and by next year will nearly cover the pergola. It's beautiful when it blooms in the spring! All we have left is to extend our patio to the pillars but that's just a matter of pouring the concrete, etc. Anyways here it is.

BEFORE

AFTER

Here is our watermelon taking over our garden.

Happy Fathers Day!

Happy belated Fathers Day!! I hope everyone had a good one. I didn't get to do a whole lot for Travis this weekend b/c he was busy all day Saturday building our pergola w/ Dean. (Thanks Howard!!!) So in a couple weeks we'll go bowling and to dinner or something to to celebrate. Most of our blog readers don't know Travis real well. Travis is the most patient (he has to be to have married me) man I know. He also is the most selfLESS man I know. He's an excellent father and terrific husband. He does everything without a complaint. (I'm still learning.) Thanks honey for being wonderful.

Yesterday we went to my uncles to celebrate Fathers day. Here is Douglas hanging out with the big kids. Peyton is my cousins daughter and Brien is my cousin.

Bad Bunny

So, Travis is mister kind, sweet, loves everybody. Everybody except rabbits that is. I hate them too. They're everywhere here and they eat my flowers. GRRRRRR! It was actually for his birthday (sad I know) that he asked for a slingshot so he could shoot those bunnies. I got it for him. Well, today Dean brought over a nice bucket of rocks (for their pergola project this Saturday). When Travis got home he was watering our tree, garden etc and came rushing inside grabbing the slingshot. He made good use of those rocks to try to get this stupid rabbit. As you might gather, we are NOT animal people, especially little pests that eat my beautiful flowers. Here is a glimpse. (My camera only records 60 seconds, that's why theres 2 videos.)

Nothing much

This last Tuesday was Travis' birthday. Unfortunately, he's had to work late every night this week so it wasn't celebrated too much. I feel really bad for that but he had to work. He did get a lot of what he asked for though so hopefully that made up for the little celebration. Sorry hun!

This week has been a slump one for me. I have scrapbooked a lot though b/c of a printing sale that I want to take advantage of. Here's some of what I've done. Also, the pages that are going in Douglas' actual baby's book are 8.5x11. The pages going in the general family album are 8x8. Once Douglas' baby book is filled his will become 8x8 too.

I'm not going to list credits. Just know that they are NOT my templates nor did I create any of the paper or embellishments. I just put them together. If you really want to know who did something, let me know.

What a good daddy!

Travis is such a great dad! He basically does all the diaper changes for me and loves doing tummy time with Douglas. He takes the MAJOR task of waking Douglas up between breasts! He is a stubborn little guy and once asleep, it's hard to wake him up to feed on the other breast.

Douglas is a strong little baby. He is beginning to roll to his side. He gets a swingin one leg until he swings it over and he's on his side. He hasn't made it to his tummy and I hope he doesn't for a little bit. He also has strong neck/head muscles. I guess that's what happens when they come big.