Labor Day Weekend

Here's a post to commemorate the day. It is 9-9-09. Pretty cool. So our post today is about our "very boring" Labor Day weekend, as Lexie and Gavin put it. Well, we had such an adventurous summer and so many activities and outings that I figured it wouldn't hurt to just stay home and get some things done. We still enjoyed ourselves, I think my kids are just not used to the usual system after being spoiled all summer. To kick off the weekend, I got my hair chopped shorter on Friday. You like?

As one of our summer projects, we made these little characters out of Play-Doh to be parachuters. They took several days to dry all the way, and then adorned the shelf for a while. So in my massive de-junking weekend, I decided that we had better either use them or chuck them, so I strapped the plastic grocery sack parachutes on and we took them to the playground for some base jumping stunts.

It was a fun Sunday afternoon activity. The kids had a lot of fun watching each parachuter float to the ground. I must admit I enjoyed tossing my guy up in the air and watching how high it would go before landing.Labor Day monday we spent...laboring. We worked all day. I know, we're tons of fun. But to finish our night we cooked s'mores over the BBQ grill. I put the graham crackers with the chocolate right on the grill to get it all melty...Maybe a little too melty?! Nicholas surely enjoyed his, as you can tell by the messy mouth and the stickiness Danny is trying to get off! It was a nice way to end the last holiday of summer, even if we were "boring."