Labor Day Weekend

We were beach bound for Labor Day weekend! While we normally scoot out of town early for weekends, now that Cal is in school, I had to wait until he was out to head east.  Eddie left Friday morning with Andy.  I worked at school Friday and then went home to pack and clean house and load the pups in the car. 

Hank was so excited at Cal's school pickup... he was watching out the window trying to find his boy...

He was super excited to have a seat to himself.

Cal and I left and FIVE HOURS LATER, we arrived at the beach.  I hit crazy traffic and a massive storm. I thought we got hit by lightning.  It was a looong ride.  The dogs and Cal did amazing in the car.

Saturday morning, the boys were up and at 'em early and, shockingly, they wanted to ride bikes! The ground was super wet from the storm the night before so they were in heaven riding through puddles and soaking the backs of their shirts.  

 His face cracks me up...

We hung out on the porch for a while and then decided to head out in the boat for a little cruise.  

Andy was SO happy all day Saturday-- he was a smiling, happy kid all day!

These two are twins.  I mean, it's like Eddie and mini-Eddie.  

He took a seat up on the bow of the boat and was smiling as we motored along. 

Cal was on the hunt for some fish. #onetrackmind

 I asked Andy to hold my beer whie I took above picture of Cal... classy momma!

Tricia and Tommy came down Saturday morning and we are SO glad they did! 

Dance party!!!

We found a little spot to try to catch some fish. 

Love this picture of the boys standing up there fishing.  

I am lucky I have a SIL who I love-- and who is so much fun!

Andy got tired from all that smiling and wanted to rest on momma... he won't fit here for much longer...!

Sunday morning, the boys hopped up and got on their bikes.  The weather was a little iffy so we were getting outside time as much as we could.  

Eddie and my dad and Tommy took the boys tubing (by boys, I mean Cal).  They didn't last long, so they came back to the dock and played on the tube.  

Then we did some fishing on the dock.  Eddie got a new cast net to catch bait fish.  Cal was in heaven playing with it.  

Andy was excited to hold one of the bait fish.  He looks like he is going to squish the thing...

And Cal wanted a picture with one too-- hahaha

Throw that net, buddy!

It looked fun to me so I grabbed the net and wanted to catch some bait fish too!

Next thing I knew, I caught a mullet fish...! I was fully expecting a bait fish, much like the one the boys were holding above.  I screamed like a crazy person when I caught this one.  Eddie must have said 80 times, "you have got to be kidding me...." hahahhaha

The boys were in shock-- and maybe a little nervous that they swim in that water where we just caught that....!

We threw back the big guy and I caught some more little bait-- and we needed to document that one too.

It rained off and on for most of Sunday, but we did not care in the least bit. We had a blast sitting on the porch drinking and hanging out.  So much fun!

Monday morning, we were cleaning everything up. Dad dumped the ice out of the cooler and Bruce went to it and plopped himself right on top and laid down.  

 He stayed in this spot until the ice fully melted.  That's a happy pup!

We drove home and started the prep for the week.  I was switching laundry and turned around to see Bruce helping Andy go to sleep.... now that makes a momma happy!

It was a fun weekend and we are all worn out from it!

Andy starts school this week-- FINALLY-- which means I go back to teaching too.  I am about to be REAL tired!!!

AND, THE WINNER OF THE NECKLACE IS..... REBEKAH FARRIS!!!!! Holla!!!!!!!!!