Father's Day Weekend

Sweetest Papa!  Quentin & Ruby sure love their daddy!  This photo was taken after church on Sunday. Cliff is proudly wearing his first Tacky Father's Day Tie! He made it look good!! I picked it up at one of our local thrift stores - The White Elephant.

On Saturday morning we ran the Medvejie 5k as a family! Cliff pushed the stroller and kept the kids & I going with constant encouragement and more than one stop to check on binkies and bottles.  The babies did great in the stroller, Q even fell asleep and the extra 50+ pounds that Cliff was pushing up those hills helped me from feeling so guilty that he agreed to run my pace.

The race was run on a quiet, rural road leading to the Medvejie Hatchery.  It is a gravel road with hills that were pretty do-able for the 5k and pretty hardcore for the half marathon that Jack ran in!  The race started and ended at the Herring Cove Trailhead.

I asked what Cliff would like to do for Father's Day and he responded that he'd like to have a cookout.  It was a gorgeous, sunny, warm Saturday and the cookout was easy-going and lovely.  The babies played sweetly on the beach, in the woods and on the rocks.  I made crunchy pea salad & deviled eggs to go with the stadium bratwurst cliff cooked over the campfire.  Carrie made a rustic lemon polenta cake and Jim roasted marshmallows. I am thankful for the evening and that God has given me Cliff! This south shelter at the Rec just might be my favorite place on earth.   

A weekend for honoring Cliff would not be complete without some baseball factored into the equation!  He got a two-for-one deal by getting updates on his phone from Cardinals Nation while in the dugout with Jack during their adult baseball league game!  Three cheers for Dad!