Dad's First Post

It's not that I have resisted being a part of this blog, I just didn't want to butt in on the wonderful life journal Ashley has worked so hard to put together. I check it just as others do, and despite the fact I lived it and none of what gets posted is news to me, I enjoy reading the aspects of our family life that were deemed important enough to share with the world!
What do I deem to be important enough to share with the world? I am pretty active in sharing photos and videos with family and friends, but I rarely get an opportunity to share my feelings when those moments in time are captured. Ashley and I have taken a minimum of 12,000 photos of Paxton in his first year of life, and every one of them has a story. And while I would love to sit down and tell the story of every one of them, it is just not practical.
So, from a practical sense, what do I deem important enough to share with the world? It will always be practical and appropriate to share with the world those moments that make everything worth it and nothing else matter. Moments that reinforce all decisions in life that have led me to where I am today. Moments that make me proud to be a father and a husband. Moments captured in a picture, although left to our own interpretation as to what made it important, will make us smile. Moments like this.......


Ashley and Paxton at "Music in the Park" (Kids Night) in Downtown Lee's Summit on May 25, 2012. A small peek in the window to how much our little man means to Ashley and I and how we will always, as long as he lets us, take advantage of opportunities to expose him to the joys of life.
-Dad
5.28.2012