D-Day ’09…

…a.k.a. Daddy, Papa, Abuelo, Father, or whatever you call your dear old Dad.

For the Contreras family today is Raymond's day. Being that it falls on Sunday and this is his normal day of rest, our day was uneventful; we did all the things he likes to do, which again on Sunday's isn't much, but relax and enjoy each other's company.

We started the day with our usual plans, breakfast, church and then nothing! However in addition to the usual breakfast we prepare for any typical teen guest we tend to have over, we also had a more traditional meal to serve big Raymond's palette. He had "huevos rancheros" (over-medium eggs with salsa), scrambled eggs for the kiddos, instead of our typical Jimmy Dean sausage we had "barbacoa", it's been a while since we had some of this, it was not San Antonio style but it did the trick! For a breakfast like this or any week for that matter we had our ranch style pinto beans, and even though I made biscuits for the kids (okay not all of them just Brandon, maybe Robert ate one or two), everyone else enjoyed the change up and ate up the "tortillas" (even Emma)…it was all yummmooo!

Saturday and Sunday morning breakfasts/brunches are one of our favorite times with our little family and their friends. I love it the most because Raymond is usually in the kitchen helping me cook up all this good food. Once it is done we usually will either wake up the clan or have then slowly come down as they smell the food and gather around our table for 8 and sit and enjoy each other's company. This is the time we get to catch up with everyone and see what the week has been like, what is coming up and what everyone is going through. Usually the only time we are all together, which as you know is not often enough!

So after a late start today, and our wonderful brunch, we headed to 12Stone for the 1:00 pm service, as usual Pastor Myers, did his thing and even though the message was aimed at the men, I still left inspired and grateful that I was able to sit in service with my husband on one side and my boys on the other, all 4 of them needed to hear these words today (Raymond, Lil Raymond, Robert & Brandon), we don't do this often enough as a family, so even though it was Father's day, it was a great gift for me!

After service we headed home and did what we love to do best on Sunday afternoons, read the AJC, watch movies, relax and reflect on the many blessing we have. A very uneventful, yet impactful, meaning full day!

This was from last night...just a typical Saturday night, grilling burgers and dogs for all the kids that we seem to have over during the summer...just one of the many reasons we all love him!