Ben Waiting: Summer fun Mini-series! (Post 1 of 5)

I hope everyone enjoyed the last mini-series of post because I'm fixin' to do it again! We've had a fantastic spring/summer so far and have been enjoying the outdoors more than ever. We didn't get out much last summer when Ben was a newborn, but we're making up for it now!

A few weeks ago, we took a family vacation and decided to spend it at home...a "Stay-cation", if you will. I've realized that as a father, I don't really look forward to things as much as I did before. I think that's because I'm living so much more in the moment since Ben came home. So it's not really a bad thing, but events and activities sneak up on me a bit. I didn't really have time before our vacation to really look forward to it. Ironic, because it turned out to be 9 of the best days of my life. Sure, I had paternity leave when Ben was born, but he was just a newborn then who didn't do much. This was the first time since then that I was able to spend more than a few days at a time with Ben. And he's a little dude with a personality now! We had so much fun. And as much as I love my job, I had a really hard time dropping him off at the sitter on my first day back. Anyway, I'll be posting 5 times over the course of the next several days, and 3 of those post will give you all the "Stay-cation" details you need!

For now, enjoy a few of our favorites from between my last posts and our vacation.