caught up on a yearly tradition...

...for the past few years on Father's Day, we've had a picnic at Duke Gardens, one of my favorite places in this area. we were gone on Father's Day this year, and the summer seemed to slip away from us, but we finally had a chance have our belated Father's Day picnic there over the Labor Day weekend...










2008... 28 months old, trying to master rolling down a hill

i also had a walk down memory lane looking at photos from our past few visits...









2006... 2 months old










2007... 14 months old, reading with Harry

i love having these small, almost ordinary traditions scattered throughout the year to look forward to. i'm starting to think of them as the thread of our family's quilt of memories.