Nolan's Special Day

Nolan's Father Day afternoon started with a gift from Leila - a father/daughter trip to the driving range. (I have to give credit to Joe, Jennifer & Adrienne for this idea. I saw pics of Joe and Adrienne at the driving range together and thought that was just the greatest idea for some quality father/daughter time.) Leila LOVED it, as did Nolan. (She "golfs" in our backyard all the time.) The cutest part was when Mia and I dropped by to say "hello" and Leila gave Mia lessons like she had been doing it for years. So sweet and so patient... just like I'm sure her daddy taught her. (See video below).

Then it was off to dinner - Nolan's pick, of course.

The day ended with smores by the fire. Nolan wanted a fire pit and we purchased one last year with the new deck furniture. I hate to admit it, but we never used it at all last year. So... one of my gifts to him was a smores kit and skewers so that we could hold our first of many "camp fires" of the year. We stripped Messy Mia down for her smore eating, hence the semi-naked Mia. :-)

And thanks to Krista for the idea, I'm going to start a tradition of putting these scrapbook pages in a special Father's Day album just for Nolan. I was just planning on putting them in the family album, but I love the idea of a special one just for him. (See, shouldn't my husband be thankful that I love reading blogs? he he)