Father's Day, 2013 style

On Sunday we were back in Erieau - not for beach time, but for lunch at Bayside Brewery. The food was excellent, every bit as good as we'd heard it would be. I had the perch sandwich because naturally, when you're sitting beside Lake Erie, you eat perch.

Afterwards we went out to the trailer, where the kids had spent the night. We had to drop something off and it turned out for the best because Liam was really sad to leave the trailer on Sunday. I think he has a ball out there, running around and looking for frogs and snakes and building campfires and otherwise doing good old fashioned outdoorsy boy stuff. I would rather have him do that than play video games so it makes me happy to see how happy it makes him.

As it turns out, it was a great time to go out to the trailer. The next door neighbours discovered a baby turtle and they weren't kidding when they said it was a baby - that's it in the palm of Liam's hand. It was a hit with the kids.

Here they are letting it go back into the wild... with the whole family in on it. Maybe this just means we are easily amused?! 

Back at home, it's time to give Chad some Father's Day love. He gets lots of crafty items from the kids. (Mostly framed photos of themselves - that is always a popular gift!)

We also give him a bouquet, but we figure flowers aren't really his thing, so we give him a candy bar bouquet instead. The kids loved this idea - you should have seen Liam with the shopping basket trolling the candy aisle for the chocolate bars. Like a kid in a candy store, I tell ya! And the fact that it's something Chad can share with them is just the icing on the cake.