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A great event for us stay at home dads. My fellow compodrays are busy up in Chicago land having a great get together at a fellow dads home. The day includes eating, beer drinking and good conversation and above all a time to meet others that share our profession. To bad it was out of my means to attend but next year it maybe doable. Some of us on the east coast are still hoping for a group meet-up this summer. Cheers to you guys and be safe!

Our newest neice

This is little Sara our new addition to my extended family. She is a couple weeks older then Josh but a smaller little fragile beauty. They will be in from the west coast until late July. Its really fun to see the differences in size between the two kiddos. We hope to see her lots untill they have to go home.

Cool wify!

My birthday was a week ago and I thought it was over until next year. I mean I received my presents and had a fun weekend with a trip to the river ect. So this weekend I went biking with a few family friends yesterday and got thoroughly punished by them. I came home to an empty house and enjoyed the quietness. I took a shower and layed down with my oldest for a nice afternoon nap. And when I awoke an hour later and rambled downstairs I was greeted by my extended family and friends as my cool little wify organized a little belated Birthday party for me. What a great surprise and a fun time indeed.

Birthday Trip

It has become a tradition for our family to do a day trip on my birthday. This year we went to Harpers Ferry West Virginia. It is a 65 mile trip from our house so an easy distance to manage with two little boys. We site seed the the small historic town which is a National Park now. Also waded in the river as this pic shows. Had a great time as being with family is important to me od days like these.

New Friends

The past couple of weeks Alex has made some new friends through a dad forum that I frequent quite often. Check out his site over in my links section on the side. The owner of site has two fun boys and they took too Alex well and played well with him even though they were a little older. This is the two of them screaming and have a great time. We hope to hook the kids up again in the future but they live a good distance from us so it unfortunately won't be an every weekend deal. Yesterday we went to the zoo and meet another stay at home dad there and they too took to Alex well. One of the best things about having kids is watching them play and interact with other children. A really fun time for both me and him.

Summer is here!

Spring and summer are the best time of the year to be a stay at home parent for me. The weather is good most of the time so one can take the kids to a number of places to blow off some steam. We went to Gettysburg and Hershey PA. on memorial day weekend and had a great time. The zoo is another great spot to go in the summer as lots of stay at home parents their to mingle with. This summer I hope to make the best of it for going outside and getting Alex his exercise as well as mine. Later this month is Fathers day and my Birthday and Joshua's baptism on the 16th. Good times to come and enjoy.