Elliott and Gideon

Special memories of my husband and son.

Newborn Gideon

Gideon's first time out to dinner

"No, Stella, don't lick the baby!"

Gardening with Father

Cookin' something

Reading stories together

First plane trip

Music lesson

The last 2 are from our trip back to NY this spring. Eating breakfast at a Denny's in Missoula, and then in the South Dakota Badlands while Elliott took his time lapse of the sun coming up over the landscape.

Some more Favorites

Here are a few more favorites from my collection...

Our escapee cow. Here he is trying to lure him in with rolled oats from the cupboard.
When he finally got a rope around its neck, and the cow realized he'd lost his freedom, he went crazy and stomped around for a minute. Elliott tied the other end to the tractor, and after the cow figured out it was useless to fight, drove the tractor back out to the pasture, and made sure the fence was secure before untying him from the tractor.

Diesel the cat

Showing Gideon the animals at the county fair

Taking care of his brother's calves while he was out of town. You're probably starting to see a pattern...he loved animals.

Of course many of my favorites are of him with Gideon. He was such a good father...

From only a couple months ago. On one of the two job sites where Elliott was working in North-Central Washington.

Father and son at the breakfast bar

Photographing the Badlands at sunrise, during our drive from Washington back to NY. Something he said he'd always wanted to do.

Not the greatest picture, but I love the father and son matching camo.
Elliott and I got similar camouflage t-shirts a few months ago, and then we found this one for Gideon at a thrift store. Elliott had said we should get a family photo of us all in our camo. We never did, but I'm glad I got this one of them.

One of the last pictures I got of Elliott. He took Gideon for a little ride around the yard.

A Few Pictures of Elliott

Here are a few of my favorite photos of Elliott over the last couple years. (All from my phone camera, so not super high quality).

He didn't really like to pose for pictures, so I have a lot more with him not looking than when he was, but they all have memories behind them, and a lot of them represent things Elliott enjoyed doing or was good at.

 

Instead of buying the latest model, he always bought older (and obviously less expensive) cars, but always knew (or figured out) how to fix them, saving himself the money of having to take them to a mechanic, and learning more skills he could use in his own business, fixing vehicles for others.

I've always liked this one. I love the western look.

The first picture I took of father and son after Gideon was born.

Almost exactly a year ago, a little canoe trip we took down Oak Orchard River, right near our house.

At the county fair. I love this picture. I think this is one of the first times I saw Gideon hold onto Elliott's shirt like that.

New tractor

Elliott was a good cook. He liked to grill, but he also had a couple specialty meals he made for me, and he helped me with canning several times.

I may add a couple more sets of some of my next-favorites, or some based around more specific subject or occasion. 

Elliott had suggested a couple times while we were married that I could post on his blog. I kind of wanted to, but didn't really know what to write about. I may start posting some other things on here in the future.