Good-Bye Weekend

Hello All!

I hope you had an enjoyable weekend. We sure did. The weather was perfect! It was right at 80 degrees with hardly any wind. We kept pretty busy both inside and out.

Saturday morning we took Dallas to Sears for his first "professional" photos! He did a lot better than we expected. We were both afraid that he would be tired and cranky. We were half right. He was pretty sleepy, but he didn't cry. Because he was so sleepy, we were only able to get a half smile out of him once! Oh well, he's still a cute kid. Here's the results:

Our Half of a Smile & My Favorite

This is my other favorite (above)

After the photo shoot, we messed around in Iowa City - mainly driving around car lots just to look. We then took the long, country route home. Once we got home, Doug mowed the yard and I weeded my flower beds so I could plant some seeds. Of course, throw in the mix of entertaining Dallas and hanging out laundry...we kept busy.

After we finished our yard work, we headed out for a walk. As we passed our neighbor's house, they came out to see Dallas and chat. We ended up staying for over an hour...and brought home lots of rhubarb and asparagas! We then brought the dogs home and went back to their house for a bonfire. We sat around the fire until 1 am!!!

Sunday, we went to Tama for church because it was Confirmation! The big event my religious ed students have been preparing for all year. The archbishop lead the mass and it was wonderful. Unfortunately, Dallas got cranky and Doug missed about half the service because he was taking care of the little guy. After church, we came home and napped (we're not used to this staying out all night)! Doug went to work to prepare a few things for this week. He leaves tomorrow (Monday evening) for Davenport and will be gone until Thursday night.

Well, that wraps up our weekend.

A few other pictures from the weekend...

Dallas was in his chair on the porch on Saturday. He was able to move his legs enough to get the chair to rock. This then caused the toys to swing, and he just thought it was the greatest thing!