A Super Fun Labor Day Weekend

Sarah, Chance and McKai came up to stay with us late Friday night so Brett and Chance could go hunting the next day. While the boys were out we decided to hit up the local garage sales Saturday morning and scored some awesome roller blades and a bookshelf that I have re-painted and put in the kid's room. When Brett and Chance got home from hunting we got a babysitter and the four of us went out to dinner and to the movie "Buck"...so many great life lessons to be learned from that one (especially on parenting, which I loved).

After church on Sunday we headed out to Strawberry to say hello to our friends, The Goulds, who just happen to be camping out there for the weekend. Their family owns 35 acres of fun, forest and the kids had a blast on the zipline, trampoline and quad. It was kind of a bummer of a day when the Gould's little puppy got ran over by a car and died a couple minutes later. He was sleeping under the tire of the car, so no one knew he was under there when the car backed up. I have never witnessed anything die before and it was kind of a traumatizing experience. The kids were super sad for their friend, Ellah, who was really upset about her puppy dying. The kids really watch for cars now because they don't want to end up like Murray...sad way to learn a hard lesson. We sure hope the Gould's know how much we love them and are so thankful for their good examples and friendship.

Monday morning we met up with the Flaherty crew at Saguaro Lake for a fun day in the sun. We had a blast swimming, tubing, cliff jumping, wakeboarding and just hanging out with the fam. It was a perfect ending to our Labor Day holiday.