Our First Holidays Together as a Family

   I have to say that I absolutely love that our first Holidays as a family were Mother's and Father's Day. I LOVE Holidays so much that the word is always capitalized for emphasis of importance even though I know it is not grammatically correct :) I'm also happy to say that our firsts were a huge success! From the pictures you can see what a HUGE difference 5 weeks can make for a baby. The first was taken on the night of Thomas' baptism the Saturday before Mother's Day. Since we were on the road home on Mother's Day there wasn't a picture taken of him then so this picture was the best. It is also candid which are both Marco and my favorite kind of pictures, where moments are caught you didn't expect. The second was taken today as Marco and Thomas were relaxing on the couch.

   For Mother's Day Marco got me something unexpected, a Charmed Memories bracelet from Kay's. I had never looked at these bracelets before but I now am so excited to add charms over the holidays to represent our growing family. I was so happy that he started simple with a charm representing our baby boy and one representing his baptism and beginning in the church; that way every charm we add can have its own special meaning. We were also able to make flower pots for Thomas' Grandma, Ouma, and Nana with his footprints. We haven't been able to deliver them all but I am so excited to give them presents they will be able to see again and again to remind them of how much they mean to us and Thomas.

 


 

 For Father's Day I tried to give Marco his perfect day. For his gifts I went unique :) My parents had my aunt who made Thomas a hooded towel with a longhorn make Marco his own adult sized hooded towel with a longhorn and dad embroidered on it. Then I framed the picture our photographer took of Thomas on Marco's hat with a cop kid quote and got him a special book called Daddy Kisses. To top off the day I let him sleep in and then made the best chicken sopa I'd ever made with roasted corn and ice cream cake from baskin robbins for dinner. He's had a wonderful first Father's Day and we can't wait to get Thomas' Grandpa, Oumpa, and Papo the pictures we had framed for them. So grateful for our first Holidays and for all the wonderful mothers and fathers in our lives.