The good thing about being 6 months behind in blogging photos of our boy…his April clothes look a lot like his October clothes.  The bad thing…he barely looks like this anymore.  Here he is a few weeks after we set up his new playset in the backyard.

Last weekend we had fun exploring the fall colors at Riveredge Nature Center in SE Wisconsin.  R was a trooper for braving the early morning and the chilly temperatures.  Fall was definitely in the air, even though you wouldn’t know it with temperatures in the upper 70s scheduled for this weekend.  Thanks P family for a fun time and G says thanks again for sharing your Snickerdoodles!

After chasing around a toddler most of the time and hearing on more than one occasion “daddy, put the camera away,” it was a welcome break to photograph someone who can actually sit still!

I had a hard time deciding what pictures to post.  You’re a beautiful girl, M, and I think it shows in just about every photo we took.  It was certainly worth missing the second half of a Packer win to get images like these.  And a special thanks to her mom for selecting a great location for our shoot…and for lugging all our stuff around the park.  She absolutely deserves to be invited along on her future grand-kids senior photo sessions.

In Internet age, this video may be a little old by now at 26 days but it still makes me laugh. It’s probably because on some level, fathers everywhere can so easily relate.

The summer has left me with less and less time to even get photos off my camera, let alone blog about them.  But I was getting ready for our upcoming camping trip by cleaning the photos off momma’s camera, and found this one of the crew in front of the world’s largest penny in Woodruff, WI.  It seemed too silly not to post.

While it’s officially the first day of summer, it feels like it’s been summer for months already.  The calendar is nearly full-up through about August, and many projects are already in various stages of completeness.  Sadly, as expected, blogging photos of G-Man has again fallen to the bottom of the todo list.  It’s unfortunate, really, since we’ve taken a lot of cute photos over the last couple of months.  But I look back on them now and can already see how much he’s changed and think it would be silly to post them.  Maybe they’ll be resurrected in roughly 2040 for the slide show at G’s wedding.

In any case, we did have a fun time last weekend at the lake for neighbor-reunion weekend.  Here’s one of G we snapped on the way to the Three Lakes Winery.

Slowly but surely, we’ve actually been having a fairly nice spring here in Wisconsin.  We even found a few days to sit out and have dinner on the back patio…G-Money in his short-sleeves, swimming trunks, and Sponge Bob camp chair seemed to provide a nice slice of life I’m glad we got captured.  Momma had him laughing hysterically at her antics.

I may have mentioned that things have been very busy in the ShutterFamily household these past few months…is it almost May already?  One of the projects daddy was involved with was helping Great Uncle Dean get his web-presence established for his business:  JD Premier Construction.  We traveled to a few different sites to take some photographs of the projects his company has done, and put a website together to showcase their work.  Below are a few of the photographs we took, but they really don’t do justice to the level of craftsmanship and quality apparent in the work they do.  If you’re in the need for some general contracting work, make sure to visit jdpremier.com.

Here’s a garage JD converted into one of the coolest living spaces in all of Grafton.  Yes, you read that right, this used to be a garage.

A custom staircase built for a home on Lake Drive in Milwaukee.  Visit JD Premier to see photos of more of the work they did to completely remodel this home.

And finally, some photos of a custom kitchen JD renovated in Menomonee Falls.  They also did a complete bathroom remodel as well.

It has been a very busy few couple of months for G-Unit and his parents…and we have a lot of updates to share in the coming weeks.  But for now, we’re excited that spring is here and we have a summer-ful of nice weather to look forward to (which in Wisconsin, translates into about 4 months).

For now, we’ll leave you with a supersized, contemplative G for your enjoyment.

This past week, we continued our tradition of freaking out the G man by taking him to visit the odd-ball costumed character representative of the impending holiday.  In this case, of course, it was the Easter Bunny.  These photos were taken of G getting as close as he was going to get to the admittedly weird-looking looking bunny.  It didn’t help that he was also freaked out by the clown outside who was handing out balloons, requiring him to keep one eye on the bunny and one eye on the clown at all times.

He did have a bit more fun at the Menomonee Falls Easter Egg Hunt, scoring some good treats, and mini container of bubbles.