First Father's Day

The day before Father's Day, an exciting thing happened. Our realtor was on vacation so we were wandering around on our own checking out a couple of the new home builders/neighborhoods that we felt we had narrowed our house search to. We stopped in a brand new neighborhood to get a list of the spec homes and see what the prices were like. We had been looking at both new and existing homes but in the end just weren't finding any existing homes that made us excited and so the search over the last 2 weeks had been more focused on new homes.


While it would be nice to build our own home from scratch, we didn't want to wait that long to get into a house (our lease is up in August). And I don't have issues with spec homes because I'm fine with buying a home where a designer, who designs homes for a living, picked paint, tile, etc. out because we are certainly not the experts! Anyway, we checked out the spec homes in a brand new neighborhood (the models just were finished) and walked through a couple we liked. One of them really interested us because it had 3 bedrooms downstairs (including the master) AND the media room was downstairs. This was the first house we had been in that had the media room downstairs. Typically we had been looking at houses with only the master downstairs and all other bedrooms and media room were upstairs. Since we have Max and someday will have other little children, I just don't like the thought of them being so far away from us when they are little not to mention I'm not interested in trucking it upstairs in the middle of the night if they wake up. :) The house was still in the stud phase so it took some imagination to figure out what went where and what it would look like when it was done. But, we had been in enough homes at this point that I was getting good at seeing the final vision of the house when all that was up was the studs.

It's a bit of a spoiler - but we ended up thinking back about this house quite a bit over the next few days, had our realtor check to see what the builder could do as far as lowering the price, and eventually when the builder came back and said they could lower the price $27,000 from the asking price, we decided this was the house for us! More on that to come but I wanted to remember that the day before Father's Day was the first time we saw the house.

Back to the good stuff - Father's Day! June 17, 2012. Peter's first official Father's Day!

Max was up early so I quickly took him out of the bedroom so Peter could sleep in. We made good use of the time while Peter was sleeping. We made Peter a Father's Day Card.

This was Max's first time using crayons. He only wanted to eat them...

...and wrinkle the card...

...and then throw it on the ground.  :)

We gave Peter a picture frame to put Max's hand and foot print in and take to work. We also gave him work out clothes, headphones, and an armband for his iPhone when he's working out.

To Dada From Max

Best Father's Day Card Yet!

After opening presents we went on a run to test Peter's new clothes. Max was not happy about it (mainly because we made him wear the hat).

Unhappy

REALLY Unhappy

Funny Family Faces

Whew! That was a fun run!

It was great to celebrate Peter. Last year I wrote a short blog about why I was looking forward to Peter being a father. You can read it by clicking here. I went back and read this and Peter is all of that and MORE. He has been a better father than I even imagined. He adores Max. He is so attentive and helpful. He misses Max when he has to go to work and he loves playing with him when he's home. Max LOVES his dad. He's a daddy's boy for sure. Peter can make him smile and laugh like no one else can. I am crazy grateful to have Peter as my partner in parenting.

I love this picture because you can see how much Peter loves Max.

"Daddy's Best Friend"

My two favorite guys - Handsome and Handsome