It was such a nice Father’s Day weekend for Michael that I commented I should get a do-over of Mother’s Day! Nah, just kidding. He deserved it.

That Saturday Michael and Joel took Joel’s son, Kyle, and our dear friend Ryan fishing in a father-son fishing tournament. Ryan’s Dad, Chris, was Michael’s best friend and prime fishing buddy. He passed in a car accident in September and Ryan (8), his brother, Nathaniel (nearly 3), and their mother, Elizabeth, have really become part of our family. It has been healing for Michael, and for us, to have them around and Ryan is turning out to be a pretty good fishing buddy. 🙂

We continued our fellowship with the Toporek and Elsey families that night over a delicious dinner of slow cooked ribs (3 kinds! wet, dry and some with Elizabeth’s yummy tomatillo sauce), green beans, onion rice and salad and pies for desert! It put the Daddies to sleep on the porch and in the end put my kids out with their Daddy! We had a great day!

We finished up the weekend going on our boat with our friends, the Lentsch family. The kids had a great time running around on the beach at Caper’s Island and learning about little crabs from Daddy.