New Video: Brothers at Play

On Father's Day we went for a walk around town, and ended up at the park. We had the playground pretty much to ourselves, so I decided just to turn the camera on and observe my kids playing together.

They get along SO well. My prayer is, that as they get older, this continues. No sibling rivalries - PLEASE.

(On a technical note, if you'd like to watch this in HD, just double click it to watch it in YouTube.)

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