Matthew wants to be just like his Daddy. The other day he sat on a stool next to the stove and watched Jamie cook dinner. I know he will be just as good as his Daddy is at cooking one day.
Yum Daddy, that's good!
Jamie got a call on a Monday saying that his new custom made catering trailer was completed. On Wednesday we left spontaneously to pick it up in Indiana. We drove through 7 states and back in 7 days going about 55mph. It was exhausting, especially with a toddler. The good part about it was that we took a 3 hr detour and stayed at Jamie's mom's house a couple days and got to go to his step brother Chris' wedding to YoungChi. Sadly I don't have any pictures of the wedding because my battery was dead. Matthew had a great time at Grandma and Grandpa Gums house. Their house is a wonderland for little boys.
4 wheelers and waterworks
More 4 wheeler tricks
Sand boxes and tractors
Ducks and ducklings
Ponds with ducks, turtles, and jumping frogs
Big trucks to climb on
The pond has so many frogs and they blend in so well. This picture alone has at least 6 frogs in it.
We took a trip to a rumage sale and fair in a nearby town with Jamie's sister Jessica, Dan, and her 3 girls. It was a lot of fun. I am so glad Matthew has been able to hang out with every one of his cousins in the last month. That is not something that happens very often. I hope we can do it again soon.
Payton is so funny. She was trying to put on a face for the cameras here.
Jamie said that when he was a little boy his parents had a cub cadet tractor just like this one he would ride around on as a kid. Jamie wanted to buy it and throw it on the trailer but he had self control. Who knows, this may be the actual trailer.
This is Jamie's new custom built catering trailer. It has a porch on the front for his cooker/smoker. It is 26 feet long and brand new. Jamie plans on putting stainless steel on the walls and finishing it himself with the electric and plumbing. I will be excited to get all the cooking items out of my garage and into the trailer. Finally we are getting going on this catering business. Hopefully soon we will have it up and running and be catering events every week.
Some day Matthew will be selling items from this window.
Order up!
Meagan invited us to the Alpine rodeo but it turned out different than we thought so we took off. We decided last minute to follow them up to their campsite and spend the evening with them. We went way out in the boonies. The kids had a lot of fun roasting hotdogs and hiking.
Matthew was getting into everything. He loves the outdoors.
Superman Seth took the time to roll some big logs up a big hill so we all had a place to sit around the fire. He is such a sweetheart.
Wold family around the fire.
Like I said before, Jamie loves fire and he is really good at making them.
This was Matthew's first attempt at baseball. He had a lot of fun playing with Jake.
My sister in law Jackie puts me to shame. She puts on the most amazing partys at her house with party favors, themes and awesome decorations. It makes me not want to even try. The party was great. It was nice to have Matthew meet his cousin Dominic and to mingle with Joanne and her family.
Matthew found the kid's picnic table and enjoyed just taking his own time out there and watching all that was going on around him. I thought it was really cute.
He and Dominic had fun together.
All the Lucchesi family cousins. Left to right top to bottom are Ben, Sam, Cassie, Matthew, Jacob, Dominic, Jacob, Eden, Abigail.
Jasper and Joanne, Dad and Denise, Me and Jamie, Jackie and Dave.
Jackie made this amazing watermelon basket. I thought it was a beautiful centerpiece.
Jamie set up his buffet like he will for his catering so we could get some pictures. He cooked beef and pork.
Jamie's set up.
We had a BBQ in our backyard for Grandma and Grandpa Lucchesi, Jackie and Dave Davenport and their kids and Joanne and Jasper Vaccaro and their family. Joanne's family couldn't make it because they were sick but we make the best of it. We decided to roast marshmallows in the back yard and let Matthew spend more time with his cousins. It was nice to have everyone over for the evening.
Jake really liked roasting the marshmallows.
We found Jake and Matthew sharing a chair and watching his movie. They were really cute together even with the difference in age.
