I left the house fairly early this morning and drove up the Mountain. I traveled via Fayetteville. Mountain tasks included going to the dump, stopping by City Hall, an unsuccessful stop at the storage unit, a successful stop at Piggly Wiggly, a nap at the cottage, then cleaning the cottage. I hooked up another trailer and pulled it home.

At home I played with Luke, then we all walked around the back field for a while. The sky was pretty and it felt great out. Luke was a little late going to bed this evening. He had lots of energy and didn’t want to stop running around. After he went down I was able to spend a bit of time working on some house plans. We also did some cleaning and organizing in preparation for Liz’s family coming into town.

That’s because last year Liz and Luke were in Michigan and I was here. So we had a great day today. Luke slept in a little and this morning we met my parents and Lauren at “our” church for the service. Not many people were there but it was nicely done. Luke had his lunch and then we had ours while he napped. My mother brought down some delicious food. Some presents were exchanged because Lauren had to leave. While my dad napped the rest of us took Luke to the park. There were a lot of bigger kids running wild, but he still had fun. We had dinner then just kind of hung out and talked. Everybody went to bed pretty early.

Luke did not sleep in today. The exact opposite in fact. Uncle Matt did sleep in, but Luke still got to play with him for a couple of hours. Of special note is the way that Uncle Matt rolled all three of Luke’s balls at once. Video below.