Happy Father's Day!

Father's Day.   A day to celebrate the special Dads in our life.  Cheers Dad, Grandpas, and Bumpa!  We love you and we are so thankful for you!

The weather couldn't have been nicer for the Father's Day weekend; sunny, warm, and not very breezy.  Too bad Mother's Day couldn't have been that nice!  It was windy, rainy, and we got SNOW the very next day - not fair! :-) 

We started the day by giving Daddy his special presents.  (We gave him other gifts earlier in the week.)  Here are the boys posing with the homemade presents; a framed piece of Daddy Art (made with Photoshop) and a tall mug with Ramsey's hand prints.   His little mitts are getting big!

The rest of the day was filled with lots of fishing, grilling out, playing with Riggs, and playing with Ramsey during his first experience in a swimming (wading) pool.   Good times!

Now the EVENING.... that was another story!  The boys came in late from fishing, had some grub, then hung out for a bit, waiting for the big storm to hit.  We brought the plants and bird feeders in and picked up toys and such from outside.  

The storm hit at about midnight with lots of lightning and thunder (I love a summer storm).  Then we started hearing big whacks, thunks, and thuds (still love? not so much)!  I turned Ramsey's white noise machine up, hoping he'd stay asleep (which, miraculously, he did).  With all of the noise, I figured that maybe branches were falling on the house.  When we looked outside, it was hailing quite substantially.   Here are some of the nasty buggers that were causing all of the ruckus:

At least it wasn't snow.