lake for labor day

We enjoyed a nice long Labor Day weekend at the lake…



The temperatures were perfect! The highs were in the low 80s and the lows were in the low 50s. I even noticed a few of these…



FALL LEAVES! I can’t wait to go back in the next few weeks after the leaves have really started turning.

We didn’t get to the cabin until late Friday night because the kids were dying to attend the 16th Annual Great Raider Tailgate Party and the football game afterwards. We cheered on the Raiders until half time before heading to the lake.

On Saturday Popsy, Banks and Jody headed to Tuscaloosa for the day to cheer on the Tide…



While they were hobnobbing with McElroy & Big Al...



...Owen was napping and Mary Reese and I were catching up on People mag & sun bathing on the boat dock…



Then Mary Reese gave Owen & I a little half time show by dancing to the Cha Cha Slide & Justin Beiber…



For dinner, we enjoyed our version of the stadium dog and nachos…



As you can tell, Pig Pen enjoyed his stadium inspired dinner…



[The child, I swear, requires at least 3 baths a day.]

Sunday morning the kids were dying to fill these up…



A few weeks ago, Mary Reese received water balloons as a birthday party favor. She has been dying to fill them up ever since. I thought the boat dock would make the perfect setting for a good old fashion water balloon fight…







…and boy was I right! Even Owen got into it. I was dying laughing when they got down to the last of the balloons and this was the scene…







I haven’t laughed that hard in a long time!!! It took me about an hour to blow up the 100+ balloons and less than 5 minutes to bust them all. Watching the pure joy on their faces was priceless!

Owen & I did managed to get out for a little boat ride on Sunday…





He loved it. We paddled around the dock a couple of times & to the shore across from the dock. He thought he was big stuff!

We ended our Labor Day weekend last night at the baseball park…



…watching Banks and the other Renegades pull out a victory [even though it is fall ball and they don’t officially keep score]! You can’t get anymore American than that!