Labor day @ Aunt Carol's

I think this is becoming a tradition to get together at Carol's for Labor Day Lunch, and judging from the enormous amounts of Delicious food that was available, I hope it continues for a long long time.  This was a good chance to visit with family, and rest outside for awhile.  Carol and Troy have really fixed up their back yard, and it is like walking through one of the design show backyards...the ones AFTER they fix it up.  

And nothing says Labor Day like shooting off a rocket.  We have not shot any rockets off since last year, and I had recently purchased some new engines, so I brought it along for all the cousins to watch.  Now rocket launches are fun to watch, and even more fun to try and catch the rocket as it falls back to Earth with its parachute.  BUT, when a rocket is traveling about 800 feet in the air, and the wind is blowing, the rocket catching sometimes does not go as planned.  We shot the rocket, then ran to catch the rocket, then saw it drift over the neighbors yard, over the neighbors house, into the large soybean field, then really far into the large soybean field....Well, the pictures show that I got it, but I can't say I felt real good jumping through that many beans to find the rocket.  Luckily the parachute is black and white and easy to see when in the midst of  green.

First Day of School

Wow, they day finally came.  First Day of School, and now two big boys hopping on that bus.  Sam has a new teach at Chelsea Park, Mrs. Vaughn; and Davis has Sam's kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Garrett.  They both love their new teachers.  Sam is reading like crazy.  Magan says Davis is pretty tough to wake up on the mornings.  And Mom now gets to listen to princesses sing all day from little Belle.

Silly Sartins at our House

Ahhhhh....Another set of cousins at the house.  And this time we had to add a seat back to the Odyssey to hold them all.  They came down to stay for a couple of nights, I don't see Stella, and can't remember if we had her with us or not, too many kids around.  :)  

Magan had all of these young'ins with her taking Davis to meet his new Kindergarten teacher...Mrs Garrett!! Same teacher that Sam had.  And she is just as bubbly as ever, or at least that's what Magan told me, I was stuck at work.  

I did get a chance that evening to share with the Sartin's the Junkin classic "Cindersmelly" for a bedtime story.  It is a wonderful story of a young girl overcoming her troubles with flatulence to find a prince that falls in love with her beauty...and smell.  I guess one day I will need to write it down, as it seems to have worked itself into a rather funny fractured fairy tale over the years.  The next night I read them the story of the Nimby Nimby Gna...but alas "Cindersmelly" seems to always get more smiles.

Magan then took the kids to the Leeds park, where they had a blast of course.  She said that Davis and Addy were taking the baby carraiges down the slides.  Then I got to meet them at Chick-Fil-A for lunch, but I think they were more excited about the Cow being there.  And closed out the day with some slip and slide time.  So I guess I should have come home complaining that the house was a mess...just kidding, I'm not crazy...but Magan was so tired, I don't think she would have hit me...hard.