Labor Day Weekend

We started off our Labor Day weekend with a big sleepover! Both Sarah & Bethany had a friend overnight. There was lots of giggling. We roasted hot dogs and made s’mores over our portable fire pit and the girls watched Ella Enchanted and they haven’t stopped talking about it since! After waffles for breakfast, there was lots of Wii, running around, and more giggling.

 

Ed left all us girls very early on that Saturday morning for a hike up to the Nooksack Cirque with a couple guys from work, as well as a few others he met that day. Ed didn’t take a camera, but Todd has lots of great pictures on Melissa’s blog, which I’m sure they’re happy for you to enjoy!

On Labor Day we had intended to go up to Artist’s Point, but alas, Labor Day felt more like Reformation Day, weather-wise. Dark, gray, rainy, and cold. After a fun breakfast with my girlfriends from church, Ed & I debated our afternoon options. We could go to the zoo in the rain, which wouldn’t be much fun, plus we’d have to deal with all that border traffic. We could go swimming, but that also involved border traffic. We could go to a matinee, but there weren’t any movies showing we thought were appropriate for all our girls. We could go bowling, but we didn’t really want to.

We ended up deciding to have a movie marathon afternoon at home. The girls & I baked cookies while Ed went to borrow some movies we didn’t own from our friends. It was quite a process deciding which two movies we were going to watch. Ed actually printed up little pictures of each movie cover and the girls voted by handing Ed whichever movie they wanted to see. The movie Ed received the most of won. So, we first watched Ice Age, followed by a little break for some fresh air, since it quit raining for a while, followed by Aladdin, followed by a dinner of baked potato chowder with yummy rolls. And I took no pictures. We were seriously lazy. We wore sweats all day and It. Was. Great.