Bitter Sweet

Well it was a Bitter Sweet start to a great Labor Day Weekend. After looking at places online it was clear that it was going to be hard enough to find a place big enough for our family in D.C. with a short term lease, yet alone one that would allow dogs. So we tried to place Tarzan with friends and family and it just wasn't working so we had to sell him. When I went to do the ad I was so upset, Boston loves Tarzan their birthdays are a day a apart and I always planned on them being the best of friends. I couldn't post the ad and then Todd came home from school and said there was a girl there that wanted Tarzan. I felt much better knowing that he would be with kids and a yard and that we actually knew who he was going with. So before we headed off to our camping trip we said our last goodbyes to Tarzan and then Todd and the girls dropped him off at his new home.

All though the day started off sucky it was a great rest of the weekend. We went on a camping trip with 5 other 3rd year Law Student families from our ward as a sort of last hurrah before we all start going our separate ways in Dec. We had such a blast! We got there early and set up camp Kya helped put up the tent she did such a great job. The kids loved going into the trees to find wood and pine cones. Boston loved being in the dirt and would not keep his shoes on for anything. We ended up putting his rain boots on because he couldn't get those off. He looked so funny, unfortunately we had such a great time I didn't remember to take pictures. I did get a few but hopefully I can steal some off other people. We left a day earlier than everyone else which was probably for the best since the million trips to the bathroom and my back were starting to kill me. We had planned on packing up and spending Sunday at the Lake at the campground, but once we had everything packed, we realized the Van battery was dead and we were going to have to drive for a while to recharge it after we got jumped so we decided to head towards home and stop somewhere on the way. It was perfect the kids were asleep before we left the campground and we drove to Elm Brook Park which is like 15 min from our house. You can pull right up to the beach area on Everett Lake which was so nice, we didn't have to take the cooler out or unload the Van we could just make trips back and forth when we needed to. We spent about 3 hours on the beach and then changed everybody and headed back to the playground where the kids played soccer, ran around, and ate for another 2 hours. We got home around 6 and started laundry, took our sweet time unpacking and then just vegged out and watched all our Tivoed College Football... the perfect Labor Day Weekend! Thanks again Mike and Melanie for planning the campout!!

Lexi, PJ, & Kya... our Collectors of Wood

Rehydrating after the Soccer Game

Paybacks to the girls for being ball hogs