Caitlin and I went home to celebrate Obon with my family. “Obon is a Japanese Buddhist holiday to honor the departed (deceased) spirits of one’s ancestors. This Buddhist festival has evolved into a family reunion holiday during which people from the big cities return to their home towns and visit and clean their ancestors’ graves. Traditionally including a dance festival, it has existed in Japan for more than 500 years.” -Wikipedia

Here are some pictures!

Megan and Peter Begley are great friends, and are the wonderful photogs that shot our wedding.  They have an adorable son, Caleb that we are so happy to have met before their lives took them to Boston.  Peter has began a wonderful blog called Caleb and Me.  Here’s a quick little excerpt from the site.

Cutting to the chase, Caleb and I are in the search of the best of fatherhood, at home, abroad, under rocks, and wherever life takes us. As we have adventures each day, we will seek out fathers and see what we can learn about how they relate to their kids, and their kids to them. The questions that follow are just the tip of the iceberg.

› What makes their relationships unique and special?
› What is different about how they raise their children from how I raise Caleb?
› What about fathers that have very little interaction with their kids?
› And what about the fathers that spend far more time than I do with Caleb?
› What about fathers with children that they have adopted?
› Or children that find a father figure among the staff of an orphanage?

…The list of possible questions to seek answers to regarding fatherhood is never ending.To make our purpose manageable, we’ve distilled it down to “in search of the best of fatherhood” and will post experiences, words of wisdom from the people we meet, photographs from our adventures, and any pertinent resources that may prove useful to others hoping to accomplish the same goal.

Come take the journey with us.

~ Peter and Caleb