So last night, Steve did a guest post about his Labor Day Weekend adventures. He took Zac and his friend Emerson and Emily on an awesome ATV trip. Aubrey and Addy and I made our own kind of fun that weekend at home. We were invited to go on two different trips, but we turned them down for a low key weekend with just the three of us. Steve invited us to go along on their excursion. And my BFFs invited us to go with them and their families camping at Bear Lake. I've always wanted to go on an ATV trip of the likes that they took. But at that moment in time I just could not bring myself to want to go on another trip that would take so much effort to plan ahead of time (Steve decided they were going less than a week before they left). We had just been on two back to back trips- Camping and Education Week, and in between those trips Emily had girls camp, and if you read Steve's post you will know I was in charge of packing for that as well. Life had been crazy fun all summer long and we had just gone back to school the week before and I was so excited for life to calm down and get back to normal. I really could not bring myself to want to go on that trip. Or camping at Bear Lake. I know if we would have gone we would have had a blast. I would have been on the beach all weekend with my BFFs and the girls would have been on the beach all weekend with theirs. But again, I just could not get excited about preparing for and packing for and going on another trip at that particular point in my life (this means I am getting old). So these cute girls and I decided that we were going to have the most relaxing fun girl weekend possible. We were not for one second going to do anything we didn't want to do. All weekend long. And by the end of the weekend, the house was living proof that the weekend did not disappoint (I didn't want to clean).
Aubrey took care of my friend Allison's chickens and dog Mingus while they were away living it up at Bear Lake. Aubrey was in heaven! She is our animal lover. All of our chickens have been eaten by animals other than ourselves and she has been missing them. She loved taking care of the chickens and especially Mingus since her mother is so mean and won't let her have a dog. Although I must say, spending the weekend with Mingus almost made me want to have a dog. But only if we can have Mingus. And I don't think that's going to happen, so I guess we are safe. Anyway, here are some highlights from our weekend.
First, as soon as everyone left, we hopped in the van and hit up the Redbox. The girls chose a couple movies and video games each. Then we went shopping for food for the weekend. We bought pretty much everything that looked good to us at the moment. I don't have any pictures from that night but we just basically put ourselves into a movie/food coma. The next day we slept in and then went to see Monsters University with my sister Lauren. I'm super cheap so I never buy popcorn or drinks or anything at the movies. But since this weekend we were not doing anything we didn't want to do, well, we didn't want to watch the movie without popcorn and drinks so we splurged. After the movie we went to my moms house where she had her homemade chicken soup waiting for us. They girls played on her electronics.
Then we went for frozen yogurt.
Sunday we went to church and came home and slept. And since I was in such a giving mood that weekend, I let Aubrey bring Mingus home with us for a few hours. This made both girls and Mingus very happy.
The next day, Aubrey's friend Grace came over and we all went out to lunch.
And that evening our adventurers came home. It was Zac's Birthday. He had requested fajitas and guacamole for dinner so we had fajitas and guacamole (that was the most food prep I had done all weekend so I hope he appreciated it!). My mom and Lauren had dinner with us and my mom made Zac his favorite Pina Colada Cake.
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