Christmas ornament...Hawaiian style. 

Bah Humbug indeed. 

Toes are tasty! 

Parties, Plans, and Preparations…

Katie and I have spent quite a lot of time recently planning for many upcoming events. Thanksgiving, Liam’s first birthday, and Christmas. Most of the planning and preps for the birthday party are done. We have the location booked, the decorations bought and the bakery for the cake is picked. We are going to have the party at our favorite beach. You are all invited of course. We plan to have Thanksgiving with our good friends the Cortez’s. They have a 3 month old baby girl and we are really looking forward to spending the holiday with them. Katie’s folks and brother are coming back for Christmas which should be a lot of fun. When they visited last year everything was obviously centered around the newly arrived baby, but this year we intend to spend much more time out and about having fun on the island. We love that Katie’s family is able to visit so often. Our offer for free housing still stands. If any of you want to come for a visit, we will provide a place to sleep and food to eat, all you have to pay for is the airfare…which tends to be a lot. All we really need is a little advanced notice. So let the spare bedroom and couch sleeping begin! See you all soon.

Teeth! 

Sort of a "Cute Baby" meets "James Bond" kind of photo. 

Surprise!!

Liam sporting his Texas Tech cammo overalls. 

Liam and his friend Logan share some toy box fun time. 

Liam had to take a very important call. 

Nothing like a padded head rest for a quick bit of television watching. 

Yeah, he is totally naked behind there. 

Another fun way to play with the toy box. 

An Evening at the Park...

Katie and I took Liam to a little park not far from our house. For his first time on a slide, he did not do too badly. He did not think much of the slides, but there were lots of things to climb. He had a blast climbing on everything we would let him on. Even though he did not really think the slides were much fun, it gave me an excuse to go down them…which I have not done in years. A bonus to having Liam is that I can get away with acting more like a kid now. If there is something that I want to do that would seem a little odd for a “grown” man to do, I just grab Liam and suddenly I am being a great dad. Membership does have its privileges.

Wheeeee! 

Quite a climb. 

What a big step! 

My two favorite people. 

Up, up and away.

Almost to the top!