Bookcase!!!

Anyone who knows my dad knows that he's a do it all himself kind of guy. He can fix or build anything (or so he thinks. just kidding. He really is amazing at it) So naturally that was a requirement in the man that I was going to marry.

Thus:

Bookcase made by

Curt Coates

I absolutely love it! and this picture does not do it justice. It is so big and beautiful! I have now filled it with books and albums. I am so glad that I married Curt, because being so amazing at everything he does is only ONE of his many many talents!!!!

Yes, another picture of Matthew at Porter Park. He is now getting much better about the heights issue. I had hoped that it wouldn't last long!
My sister, Vicky, and her cute family came up this weekend for Memorial Day. It is a ritual when they come up to go to the elementary school that mom is the secretary at and have lunch. This time we were invited to come too!!! Lunch was a bust (all Matthew would do was pop a grape in his mouth, squish it, and spit it back out), but Matthew LOVED the train ride we got to go on. The school kids earned this treat by reaching their reading goal and we got to enjoy it too! Hey, I read to Matthew!

At first Matthew wasn't sure of the ride.....Ok, so most of the time he was looking at me like "Why did you put me on this deathride?!" But when we got done he hopped down and gave the driver a thumbs up and said "goob bob" anyway.

But he couldn't stop talking about it the rest of the day. And when we got home he had to tell daddy all about it.

Ahh little boy, stop growing.

The other day I had Matthew on my lap while I was putting his shoes on. I stopped to smell his sweet hair. Moments like that just hit me sometimes. I said, "Matthew, are you going to be cute like this forever?"

Matthew: "Yeah"

Me: "really?"

Matthew: "fuhfevvvar"