Labor Day Weekend

There are pictures that go along with some of our activities this weekend, but you'll have to wait for Melissa to post them or go check them out on facebook.

We had originally planned to go camping at least for Friday night and most of Saturday, but found that all of the campgrounds around South Bend require one to make a 3 day reservation for the holiday weekend. Obviously we weren't going to be doing that so we had to make new plans. Having told the kids we were going camping I was in a bind so we decided to have a backyard campout on Friday night.

We figured Melissa could stay inside with Kamryn, while the rest of us spent the night in the tent. I set up the tent in the middle of the lawn and started a fire so we could cook our tinfoil dinners (I believe you are only allowed to have an open fire if it is 40 feet from the nearest structure so we certainly weren't following any laws there). After eating Melissa decided she didn't want to be left alone inside so we put up Kami's pack-n-play inside the tent and altered the sleeping arrangements a little in order to accommodate mom and daughter. Melissa and I sat next to the fire while the kids tried to stop playing in the tent long enough to fall asleep. The bugs are a lot louder here than back home. Waking up with the tent walls all wet with condensation was a little different. Other than those two things the backyard campout was a success. In the morning the kids got up and went inside to watch Saturday morning cartoons, you just can't beat that.

Saturday we went tailgaiting before the Notre Dame game. Always a fun time though the wasps made for some new excitement. We thought we might make it all the way through without anybody getting stung until Melissa put her hand on one as she was attempting to get up from the grass as we were packing up. The games went great all day on Saturday.

Today we went to get some new light fixtures at Lowes and on the way home we decided to brave the movie theater for a family movie. The cheap theater has 50 cent Mondays for families over 3 and we certainly have more than 3 of us. We had never taken Kami to a movie so we weren't sure how this would pan out, but she fell asleep 15 minutes into Ice Age and didn't wake up until we got home. The other three kids thoroughly enjoyed themselves.

I also went running this morning so it's been a great few days for us here.