Father's Day

One, yes, I know I missed last Thursday's "Thankful Thursday." Sorry. I just completely forgot. Will resume later this week. :)

Two, hope you all had a fabulous Father's Day yesterday! We had a terrific day here. Noah took over cooking duties for Nathan...grilled brats for lunch and hand-formed burgers for dinner. And, given the pandemic and all, we opted not to go out to play mini golf as per tradition. Instead, we got Nathan a croquet set. :) I have fond memories of playing backyard croquet growing up but haven't played in decades. Nathan had played a few times. The boys had no clue, lol. So, we found a quick video on how to play, walked over to our neighborhood park and gave it a go...

It was awesome...even with the unexpected rain that sent us home again only to have the rain stop...so we set up another game in the front yard, lol. Micah had some initial finesse issues (muscle over technique/aim) but made a roaring comeback to win the second game...Noah and Asher took turns playing spoiler and later became a team against the rest of us...and Nathan, as was fitting on Father's Day, won two of the three games we played. 

Amid all that, we also took some Father's Day pictures. Course, getting a serious/nice photo wasn't the easiest thing with these goofballs...

This was after a strange conga line style leaning sequence.

Micah and Noah were pretending to be coal workers or something?

Not once did everyone agree on what pose they were doing.

But they're still a fairly handsome bunch, right?

After the outside fun (and we were grateful for the overcast day!), we headed back inside for snacking and some poker (where Noah came out victorious after finally getting the last of my chips)...and it was a good day celebrating Nathan. :) So very thankful for the wonderful dad that he is and for all the things he does around here to make our lives better!