First Father's Day

I do have to pat myself on the back for getting Jason's Father's day present days before instead of the day before. Of course, I always have to rack my brain for a good gift. I think I did pretty good for the first time. It wasn't the typical cologne and tie gift. Although, I guess I wouldn't have had to buy him anything since I did just give him a child to make him a father. Oh well.
"Is this from my girl?" Notice the books in the box. Since the hat was so light, I thought I would add some weight to throw him off. Well, he had found the box under my side of the bed and had already felt that it was pretty light. So my idea didn't really work.
I also got him a new western shirt. It has been ages since I've bought him a really nice shirt. It took me a while to look at everything the store had and I took a risk with a bright green and blue check, which he actually liked. Thank goodness!

Jason was too anxious for his gifts so he opened them Saturday night, hence the pajamas. Sunday also turned out to be a treat. We went to lunch with our friends John and Theresa. We were also pleasantly surprised to get a phone call from our long lost friends, Ron and Faith. Ron was trying to get us to come to lunch in Meeteetse, but we had already ordered our meals. So they drove up to join us. After lunch, we of course needed some Dairy Queen. It was such a beautiful day, we went to park.

The dad's displaying their babysitting skills. Noah and Katelyn enjoying a nap in the shade. Noah is 5 months old and a big boy.
Faith plays with her 2 yr old, Caleb. He is so much fun. It was a special day and a great way to celebrate dads.

Auntie Malissa

Jason's sister Malissa is home for a couple of weeks from Oregon, where she works on the YWAM base in Salem. She just got home from leading a school on their outreach to Columbia. She was very excited about the birth of Katelyn and couldn't wait for us to email and tell her when it happened. This was her first chance to meet her niece. She is also obsessed with taking pictures and took quite a few in the 3 days she was here. She wanted to take some family shots of us, which was nice since we don't have many since she was born even though we've been to many photo opportunity occasions in the last couple of weeks. And yes, I cut my hair short. Not for the new mom reason but because I was sick of long hair and went in and let the hair dresser do something different. Time for a change.


A blast from the recent past. This is my friend Sheila Henson. This was both of us 6 1/2 weeks ago. This last Sunday, June 7th, she had her little bundle of joy after 19 hours of labor. Some of us have it rougher than others. She had to be induced early and had a bouncing 5lb 14oz baby boy. Micah Jon Henson. (He looks much bigger in the picture. Katelyn is almost double his size) His daddy is pleased as punch that he finally has a baby. Jon would have had one on their honeymoon if he could. The new families. It was also announced to us that Sunday, by our pastor, that our future son-in-law had been born. HA HA They may be neighbors and future playmates, but we'll hold off on any marriages yet. We've got a lot of future son-in-law prospects in our circle of friends.
Both dads enjoying their kids. AAAAHHHHH!!!!!

Homemade Photoshoot

My close friends from Meeteetse held a baby shower in Katelyn's honor 2 weeks ago. My friend from Manitoba, Erin Kreider, is big into making jewelry. As part of her gift, she made Katelyn a very simple pearl and crystal bracelet. It is too cute. I just had to get some pictures of her modeling it. I've always loved the naked, sleeping pictures of babies and attempted the same with my own little model. Surprisingly, it worked. Oh what a bath and some milk will do!