Father's Day Weekend

I am going to attempt to blog via my cell phone and see if I can manage to write more often during my commute, although I usually reserve this time for reading to make me smarter or sleeping to make me less cranky. So you may get more posts from a sleep deprived dummy, but hey, at least you get your Harrison fix.

Father's Day 2009 found us starting a new tradition - the NW Brewers Festival. Basically a park is used to host 50 local breweries and you can go around and taste different beers and they make it family friendly with music and a kids area with activities, games and root beer.  Michael was looking forward to his 2010 date with Brew Fest for weeks but when the big day arrived it was raining. Pouring in fact.

To stall for time, we took Harrison to an indoor facility with bouncy houses, thinking he could all have some good ole family fun. Michael carried him to the toddler area where they were greeted by a giant, inflatable lock ness monster at which point Harrison begins to whine and a pretty dramatic look of panic enveloped his face. Once inside he clung to dad for dear life. Unable to wrench him free or calm him down, we leave after 10 minutes.

Once lined up, our shoes seemed to represent the three bears

The weather let up just enough that we decided to go to the festival for an hour or so. The rain stayed away for about 90 minutes, just long enough for Michael to have a good time and rub elbows with his buddies while the wives corralled the kids under a small party tent to stay dry from the light sprinkles.

 The Saturday before Father's Day, we invited Grandpapa Hugh, Zaidy Steve and the rest of Michael's immediate family for breakfast at Casa de Fein. Although we often get together for holidays, birthdays, etc. we rarely take any photos so I turned into my mother (take this as a compliment mom!) and insisted everyone pose for family photos. I got some great shots in just a couple minutes; we only wish Aunt Rae Ann could have joined the festivities.

Harrison's "dads"

 The family

The Ladies (and his highness)

 

Harrison in all his cute glory! 

He recently took a shine to crayons; found some orange crayon residue in his teeth a few minutes later

To our dear old dad: dada, we love you so very much. You are the best dad in the world and we are so lucky you are ours! Happy Second Father's Day - and many more!

PS I managed to type half of this on my cell phone and then uploaded photos and finished the end off at home. Not too shabby!