Father's Day 2024!

Happy Father's Day to all the Dads out there. Per usual, we spent the entire weekend celebrating in Michigan (How come there are never any games on Father's Day?). We left Friday afternoon, and had a leisurely evening of getting up there, grocery shopping and a quiet dinner at home before retiring fairly early to bed. 

Dinner Out!

On Saturday, we slept in and had a big breakfast before Tom, my Dad and Austen headed out for a 2pm tee time. The course they played is the same one they played last year and is about 30 minutes from our house. Apparently it is beautiful but very, very hard. (Definitely doesn't sound like something I'd want to do/try.) So while the guys struggled for almost five hours playing this rigorous course and losing about 22 golf balls (they said last year it was about 30 so a definite improvement), the girls and I took the time to go through their Michigan closets and clean them out/reorganize. 

Hailey gets Peyton's hand me downs from Michigan so she also has an abundance of clothes up there but Peyton had just about nothing left so we decided to go shopping for a few things! Hailey was less than thrilled we had to go to the store (not a shopper and a kid who'd rather stay home) but we convinced her it would be fairly quick so she begrudgingly agreed. Then it was home to meet Tom, my Dad and Austen for dinner. 

We met at a place we've all been to before called Plank's in St. Joe. It's right on a marina and has decent food for that area (which is hard to come by). It was a beautiful night and we caught up on the day's events  before closing out our dinner with ice cream and a walk in downtown South Haven. 

Sunday, the guys woke up to another big breakfast (Tom decided to cut the grass early that morning) and then spent some time on the beach before we had to head home. 

Weekends always go fast in Michigan. Tom was counting down the days to go and I could tell did not want to leave so early (even though we didn't get home til almost 7pm). But it was a beautiful weekend spending time with the Dads until we got home and I realized that Tom had given one of the (garbage) bags of clothes I was bringing home to donate to Austen who thought it was trash and threw it in our big black garbage can with a bunch of smelly old things! Yuck! Always something! Happy Father's Day 2024!

The St. Joe Marina

Top Dad with his crown (made by the girls)

Top Papa with his crown (made by the girls)