This past weekend was the annual Liggett family golf outing! An excuse for my dad's side of the family to get together, drink, grill, and of course, golf! They do it every year, but I've never golfed in it (I was always the designated babysitter for young cousins) and I haven't attended it in... 7 years? Needless to say, it was about darn time I made an appearance...
We headed up on Friday morning and used up a vacation day so that we could detour through Columbus to see Elliott! The pups did well on the trip, as always, and were SUPER pumped to see their puppy cousins! Lucy was also very intrigued by the new little man... her dilemma started when she wanted to smell him, but didn't want to get any closer to my sister. Tough choices. Eventually, Mike held him out so that she could sniff without getting near to him and she curiously sniffed his head... until Gus bumbled over and started licking his ears. Then Elliott was no longer on display for the furry family members.
We managed to snag one cheesy picture of us with him before he realized that I did NOT smell like his mom and that he would like to be held by her and not some stranger, thank you very much. So I gave him back... maybe he will like me next time?
We headed up to my parents for dinner and some post-dinner birthday celebration for Lucy! She's 2 now! I made her a puppy cookie and peanut butter stack as a special treat. Gus got some as well, but his was smaller. They devoured them... and then didn't eat breakfast the next day. Whoops.
The next morning, we headed to the golf outing! We played with Uncle Mike and Aunt Lisa. Noreen and Kevin drove the carts! Sometimes into benches, trash cans, and trees, but whatever...
It went decently well. Aaron struggled with his drives, but saved our team with his second shots and putting. I contributed with short, straight drives that didn't do a whole lot, but weren't in the trees (which was hard because the WHOLE course was trees!). After the drives, I was essentially worthless since I couldn't keep them straight and hit trees at 7 of the 9 holes. Oh well.
We were first to finish, so we sat around with some drinks while we slowly heard the final score from each of the rest of the foursomes... and we won! We finished +1 and we got some fancy golf towels that say "Champion" on them. They're OSU scarlet, but I suppose that can be overlooked due to the "Champion" written on them. Did I mention that we won? Cause we did...
We took a big group picture (not pictured - the 5 non-golfers and the 14 that didn't attend this year... we are quite the large group)!
And then headed back for some grilling, some football, and some drinks. It was a casual outing and we had a really good time!
The cousins that were there took one last group picture before we headed out...
We got home, ordered some wings (because we clearly didn't eat enough there?), and enjoyed a fire on the back porch. It was a good ending to a nice weekend!
We will definitely be back for this next year... we have to defend our title!
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