Labor-Free weekend

We spent Labor Day weekend a little differently this year.  I think ever since we've been married we have gone somewhere over Labor Day weekend, the past three years being Omaha.  It ended up being Darren's Saturday to work, so instead of hurrying and going on a mini-vacation when he got off work on Saturday afternoon we decided to stay close (really close) to home. 

Baby Kai being cute.  Slobbering on Ava's blankie.  

Ava asked to hold Ella so we also put Kai next to her.  She always freaks out when he's too close.  

 We spent Friday evening over at the Burton's house eating pizza and just hanging out.  Baby Kai was showing off his new sitting up skills.  Ava always loves going over there and dragging all the toys out of Kai's room.


We also decided to spend some time at Darren's parents so we headed there after Darren got off work on Saturday.  Darren had been wanting to have a campout with Ava (in a tent) on his parent's farm all summer.

I wasn't sure how Ava would do sleeping in a tent, but she was so excited!  Once Darren got the tent all set up, we could barely get her out of there!  She kept saying, "This is gonna be so much fun!"  She was wound up and I don't think he said she fell asleep until after 10:30, which made for a very tired little girl the next day!

Grammy and Ava

Setting up the tent.  

Babywearing!  Ella loves being outside.

Ava wanted to have a tea party in the tent.

Picnic outside.  She had 1 1/2 hot dogs!  With the bun!

Chilling in her car seat while we ate.

Darren gave her her own flashlight to use.  She was so excited!

Love!

Such hard work being so cute!

Grammy and the girls!

We spent the rest of the weekend hanging out at home and playing at the park!  We also made a trip to Lowe's on Monday.  I'm dreaming of new shelving in my closet!  Hopefully, we'll get working on that soon!