Sweet Sunday

Today was a great family Sunday!  Erin was a sponsor for Confirmation at our church so we went to church last night, which gave us a chance to just sleep in this morning.  We decided to take Lukas out to see if we could catch some fish.  It was a little windy and tad bit chilly, but he loved throwing the rocks in the water and digging in the sand.  So even though we didn't catch any fish, I would call it a success.

Lukas has become very fascinated with outdoors.  He loves to just play and look around outside.  He notices the smallest bug and will just sit and watch it run away.  Lukas has also become quite obsessed with butterflies right now.  I swear he said the word like 100 times today :)  I, for some unknown reason, still have a butterfly net that I had gotten from my parents when I was little.  (I know I am a very sentimental person and have a hard time throwing things away, but I'm pretty sure this was just some random gift one birthday with no personal meaning.  Who knows how it has made it to still being around.)  It finally came in handy.  Lukas just carried it around the backyard looking for the butterflies.  He actually did get close one time to catching one.  I think the butterflies feel pretty safe with him swinging it around though.  Lukas thought it was great! 

I have been trying to let Lukas help me with cooking and things around the kitchen more.  He loves to help out, so today we attempted to make a cheesecake for Erin's work.  Don't worry we washed up and didn't lick anything :)  He loved pouring things into the mixer, then he would spin around on the chair and scream as it would start mixing again.   We tried to get a picture, but it didn't turn out.

The weather was nice enough though for us to grill out and play some baseball in the yard.  I am looking forward to this warm weather coming in later this week.

I also wanted to give a shout out to Mark, who came to hang out with Erin last week and take him golfing.  Apparently Erin played really well, but the only person that can vouch for that lives in Alaska, so I'm not sure how many people will believe him.  Anyway it was great seeing you and having you stay for dinner.  I hope your trip back went well.  You are great proof to my husband of why it is important that I blog...... some people actually do read it that aren't my family :)