Labor Day Weekend

This past weekend was our first trip with all 4 kids. I usually am very excited about packing when we are going out of town somewhere and we all get our bags ready 1 or 2 days before we leave. But for some reason, I was not all that excited about packing this time. (And it wasn't until the day we were leaving) Not that one little baby needs alot of clothes and stuff for one weekend, I guess just having one more person to pack for...I don't know. Although Teagan actually packed his bag all by himself.

Anyways, we headed up to Williams to the cabin on Friday afternoon. We hit some pretty bad traffic so it took us a little longer than we had planned to get up there. We had an unexpected visitor come too...Papa! We were so excited to see him and have some one on one time with him.

Oh Papa, you little stud muffin, you

Saturday morning the boys went fishing, and the girls even had a chance to go on the boat too.

I was a little nervous when they headed out to the middle of the lake, but they all came back safe.

Those life jackets look real safe, don't you think?

Dad hooked a big one :) Luckily it just went through his shorts and not his skin.

Staten's first fishing trip...kinda :)

Right after the boys were done fishing, they went golfing. It was kinda rainy all day on and off, but they had a good time. And when I say 'the boys' that includes Teagan. He has been golfing that coarse since he was 2. He loves golfing and is pretty good at it. But he doesn't get as many chances to go as he used to.

We took the kids on 2 'nature hikes.' They love to explore the woods. We found alot of cool stuff. We found a bone, a huge mushroom, a baby lizard, R3-D4 (it was actually an old dishwasher that was just sitting in the middle of the forest...when we first saw it Teagan said he thought it looked like R2-D2 from Star Wars, so I said maybe it was his brother, R3-D4), we also saw a deer and a log bench.

Teagan looking for bugs. (Don't you love his backpack?)

I didn't put dresses on the girls to go on our hike. We were at church earlier that day and we just hadn't changed our clothes yet.


The kids checking out R3-D4.

We went spotlighting one night and looked for deer. The kids always love that. We saw quite a few deer, a few bucks and 3 skunks. Kevin is so funny with the spotlight. He hops out of the truck and chases the deer with the light so the kids can see.

The weather was SO nice there! It was hard to come back to the 110 degree valley. But it was Labor Day, which means swimming at mom and dad's. But I forgot our swimsuits...since we went straight to their house from the cabin. So we got a little creative with the kids swimming attire. But darn I didn't get any pictures of it. :)

It was a pretty fun-filled weekend...but it's always nice to come back home again.