Father's Day weekend

Father's Day weekend began for us on Thursday when we headed up to Wellston, Michigan area with the camper. It was also the trailers first birthday as this was also the weekend last year that we picked it up and went camping at the same park.

One of the reasons for coming up this way was that Dave and Jesse were going to participate in the Lumberjack 100. So first things first.......bike prep...that went on and on and ....well you get the drift!!

That afternoon the kiddo's drove up to join us. The weather report was calling for rain but it ended up being a great weekend weather wise.

Shhh.....don't tell g-ma but, I decided to sneak in here and take over for awhile!!

Gumpa was outside getting all his gear together for his bike race and I stole (borrowed) these out of his bag!!! HEHE.... I think they fit perfectly don't you!!!!

Here we are at the Lumberjack 100...as you can see there are a lot of participants, all getting set up!!!

Daddy and gumpa getting geared up and ready to go. I was a little surprised because just the day before I gave daddy some germs and he was running a 103.7 degree fever. He also ended up with blisters in his mouth (like 30 of them) and his hands and feet. Unfortunately, because of this he wasn't able to complete the race, but I am sooooo proud of him for trying!!

Someone was just a little too excited if you ask me!!!

Go out there an give it your best...don't let anyone intimidate you and remember I will be here to cheer you on......Now get our there and kick some B#%%, ummmm...don't tell mommy I said that!!

OK, gumpa you are doing great...now this is what you have to do on the next lap!!!!!

After all that I needed a little re-fueling so I grabbed a banana for some energy!!!

BUT!!

All that coaching...(Oh, and being woken up at 6 in the morning) makes for one tired boy....so I crashed on aunt Yaya for a little while!!

As long as I can get my finger in one of the tags on my taggie I am a happy boy!!!


As soon as he was finished I HAD to sit and tell him what a great job he did. He was only able to finish just shy of half the 100 miles, as he was cramping. I didn't even care if he was all sweaty!!!

I made sure that gumpa was re-fueled. I had plans for later in the day!!!

Gma was teaching me how to use her camera and mommy and aunt Yaya along with puppup were willing to act as models!!

I made friends with some of the other spectators.....I was checking out his daddy's bike so he came to chat!! I am not sure what mom was doing here......I was doing a fine job on my own and I was NOT planning on touching his bike!!! No REALLY I wasn't!!!

Even though both Daddy and gumpa had a hard day at the race they took the time to play with me the rest of the afternoon. First they tried to impress me with their kite flying skills!!! This is about as high as it got....but they promised we would try again sometime!!

Mommy Daddy and I posing in Fort Oak on the playground!

As you can see aunt Yaya was showing off her athletic prowess on the tetherball court.....I think daddy won though!!

Aunt YaYa and me poising in the little castle on the playground!!

She set me on a tree stump that had been cut down and tried to have a little photo shoot!!

So I turned the camera on aunt YaYa...and she was surprised!!!!

As you can see between the bike race and playing with me someone was a little tired!!! Wake up gumpa there are pine cones to pick up!!!! For 2 days gumpa played with me almost non-stop. We walked the campground many hours and he showed me so many cool things. He is my BUDDY!! And I sure do love him!!!

My pac n'play in the trailer is really comfy but sometimes ya just want to cuddle so I asked mommy if I could join her for awhile....looks like gma is always around with her camera no matter the time or place!!

And once mommy woke up I decided to snuggle a little with daddy too!! Sorry, I made you sick daddy...and you seem to have gotten it a little worse than me. Your the best daddy for not blaming me at all and still lovin' on me!!!
Happy Fathers Day dad!!!

It is REALLY unusual for the last person to be sleeping would be gumpa.....and so since it was Fathers Day I thought he would like it if I woke him up. He was really happy to see me as you can imagine!! As you can see I was already looking outside to see where I could get gumpa to take me to play!!!


On one of our walks around the campground gumpa found some caution tape and daddy made me this really cool headband...what do you think??

And since I looked like a commando I decided to do some recon work .......and tried to sneak into the back of the trailer un-noticed!

And then some belly crawling across the floor to see what was happening in the front of the trailer!! Actually it was not as interesting as i thought it would be!!

Last year was a first for all of us....1st fathers day for me and daddy........and first gpa day for gumpa and we took a picture almost like this then so we had to re-enact it!!!
G-ma says we are her 3 favorite guys.....can ya blame her!?!?!?!



Ummmmm...gumpa I have to get going, but I had a really great time with all of you this weekend!!


Hey, who finished this thing????? Oh well, guess I don't have anymore work to do here so I will just say.............. We had a great time and look forward to many more camping trips together!!!

Happy Father's Day!!