Labor Day Weekend is always a weekend we look forward too! Years back we would travel to Ohio and watch Mike play baseball all weekend long. The kids and I enjoyed this SO MUCH!!!! The motels were fun for the kids and they got extremely dirty by the ball field dirts all around us but it always gave us great memories! Then the team stopped going to this tournament and we had a "staycation" at home for a few years. Matt and Lena and their boys pitched a tent in our back yard one time and we had numerous campfires and just stayed local for the long weekend! That was fun too!!!! Then the cabin burned down last Spring and by Labor Day Weekend, we were ready to help my parents move back in the brand new cabin! We packed up a bunch of pillows and sheets and bedding and decor and anything that we wanted to keep at the cabin! It was a busy weekend of tons of work and the guys put beds together late into the night while us ladies cleaned the floors and filled the new kitchen cabinets! This year we went to the cabin again and had such a lovely time relaxing and being with family!!!!
The new cabin hosted a few crowds this summer and we couldn't wait to be the ones to finally get there again! We love the new cabin that dad built and the kids played nonstop with cousins! We ate such good foods! We saw wildlife and wild bears and wild bucks! We watched tree stands get set up for the upcoming archery season! We took golf cart rides in and out of dads long cabin driveway! So many games of Panic were played and books were read and the boys played hunting in the woods for hours! Austin came home with his first dose of poison ivy but he don't mind a bit because he loved the woods so much! The girls played around the teepee and walked in the woods and took turns on the swings. Campfires were started and the cabin life is just simply the best kind of life!!!!!
Friday - Monday never seemed long enough but we sure enjoyed the days spent at the cabin!
Mike loves the porch furniture! The cabin is always a place he relaxes and enjoys! This year him and Matthew made a tee time and went golfing Saturday. This was fun for the two of them and I'm sure they will do it again! He does such a great job spending time with the children!
We have really poor phone service at the cabin but I never mind this! I actually look forward to unplugging and being gadget free for the weekend. Well, it looks like someone must have been having some fun on phone besides me.
Another highlight for Matthew was that on Sunday he went kayaking and fishing with my brother John Micheal. He loves to fish and taking the kayaks was just a cherry on top for him! They only caught a few but Warren couldn't wait to go show my mom what his daddy caught! Then later that night, they roasted the fish on the campfire and ate them.
Mom and I traveled together to the cabin with my little ones and as we pulled into the driveway, we saw these deer! Dad, Tyler, Mike and Matthew joined us later that night!
Warren showing mom the "fish"!!!
These boys played in the woods for hours ... not lying! They both wore their camouflage clothes each day and Austin had his plastic bow and no point arrow along and they pretended to shoot animals. Once he said they made a squirrel trap with some sticks, poison ivy and rocks. I told him not to touch the poison ivy but he said that's what kills the squirrels. 🤨. I wasn't worried about him getting poison because it's something I never had to deal with with any of our children but he did come home with some on different areas of his body. He thinks they are mosquito bites but I know they are poison.
One thing we love about dad's cabin is that we almost always see bear! This bear found some peanuts on the top board and smelled the remaining fish bones on the ground. Watching these animals is amazing!
This was the crew! Austin and Colson and Kaden with Warren tagging behind! These boys have no idea how lucky they are to have a cabin like my dad's to make the best kind of memories in!!!!
Baby Weston is the most darling little boy! Never makes much noise and is just so sweet!
The outdoors is the best at the cabin!
Crazy and dramatic Olivia here!!!!
They are ready to make a kill!!!! I can't wait to actually see the day when they do kill a squirrel or a rabbit or a bird! It will be epic!!!!
Hadassah and Jeremiah joined us for a day at the cabin too! Everyone but Jason's and Ryan were able to join the fun and we love when it suites this many of us to spend a long weekend together!
Happy Labor Day everyone! We are now back home and back to work and school. Life goes on and fall is in the air!
