What We've Been Up To & Labor Day Weekend

Life has been a little crazy lately.  All good things but busy, busy, busy!!

 He finally got sick of me sleep stalking him and put the cover over his face ;)

 Enjoying the days Nolan has off from school.

 My mermaids (or 1 mermaid, 1 merman)

 Since school started, the zoo has been EMPTY during the week.  We take full advantage of that and love having the place to ourselves.

 Nolan was bummed he wasn't on the pirate ride.

Labor Day Weekend at Lake Norris...

   Can you tell my kids don't eat fast food?!  Who eats nuggets with a fork?  Haha.  

We drove down to Lake Norris for Labor Day.  It's supposed to be a 5 1/2 hour drive and it turned into almost 8 due to construction traffic, accidents, and stops for the bathroom and food.  The kids said, "mommy" no less than 200 times and I'm pretty sure I spent the majority of the trip twisted around towards the back helping them with something, passing out food, or breaking up fights.  We were all more than excited to finally arrive!!

 Eric bought this water trampoline from someone he works with.  The kids had fun floating around on it and did a little bit of jumping.

 Breakfast of champs:  Doritos and juice boxes.  

This is the most tubing they did.  They preferred to just float around in it.

We stayed Friday and Saturday nights and then headed back home late Sunday afternoon after a long day of boating and pool.  Eric and I both said that it was one of the first relaxing weekends we had had for awhile.  The kids were content, we took our time getting out on the lake each day and didn't rush to put Quinn down for a nap in the afternoon.  It was a nice family weekend!