Tuesday, May 12, 2009

weekend adventures and sam pics

After graduating from college last year, I was amazed at the prospect of doing whatever I wanted on the weekends. No homework. No study sessions. No thesis. No stress.

It's amazing. And I still enjoy the freedom of waking up on Saturday with no obligations or projects.

With the warm weather, we have found several fun things to these past few weekends. Last month we went to a local farm for a sheep shearing festival.
Sheep dogs rounding up the sheep

Sam can't understand why these sheep only have had their heads shorn

Sam's first haircut

The final product and picture with Barber Dad

Sam doesn't like shoes. At all. He'll only wear them for a few minutes. I try to put shoes on him and then distract him so he won't try to kick them off. This time, I tried to distract him with a flower. I think the look on his face is so funny: "Seriously? You're trying to distract me with this flower?!?"

We went to the Seattle Aquarium on another recent weekend. Sam loves to open and close his mouth, gaping like a fish.

I think Sam got tired of making fish faces by the end of our trip.

"Talking" on his toy phone

I see a lot of J in this picture of Sam. It's interesting to see how Sam's facial features change as he gets older.

6 comments:

e said...

That expression he's making with the sheep cracks me up. It's like, "Uh, really? What's she so excited about?"
He really is such a good looking little boy.

Also ... I agree it is so nice to have weekends free after graduation. It's like you actually get to catch your breath. Something funny to me is that the whole time I was in school I was SO sick of all the reading -- seriously, does grad school not require SO much reading? -- that I swore I wasn't going to read a book for at least six months. Now that school is over, I find myself reading ALL THE TIME. I wonder why that is.

Anyway (wow, long comment), those are really cute pictures :)

B.E.A.T.L.E. said...

What adorable pictures. The sheep herding looks like that was interesting. I've always secretly wanted to do that, or at least attend one of those world champion sheep herder things. And I totally agree with the last photo. Sam's got J written all over him. I love it when I capture shots like that of Ben. There's something so ridiculously adorable about boys and their daddies.

Krystal said...

I loved the Sam updates. A sheep shearing festival...what?? That is such a cool Saturday activity!

The picture of Sam talking on the phone is adorable. What a cute boy!

Sarah Jane said...

Awwwww... we miss this little guy (and his parents). Great photos.

Bryson and Tara said...

He is so stinkin' cute!!!

Ashley said...

Those are such adorable pictures! The Seattle Aquarium is really fun. We still need to get together sometime!!! What are your weekdays like?