Labor Day

Alex is all about dress up these days.  She decided to wear this outfit to the garden last week.

  Heidi has started to get into the spirit as well, especially when friends are over.  Here we have a tap dancing accessorized tinker-bell and a Bride on her wedding day.

For Labor Day we decided that we just HAD to do something fun.  Our summer of camping and hiking had boiled down to one kind-of campout and a couple dutch oven dinners.  So when we drove by Deer Creek Reservoir a few weeks ago and Alex begged to go to the beach, we decided that was the ticket.

 We were able to borrow a canoe from some friends which officially made the day "cross everything off of Alex's summer bucket list day"- since she has been asking to go on a boat all summer.

 We canoed out into the lake a few times, and as much as I wanted a picture of us in the canoe, with all the near tip overs (thanks Heidi), We decided (Tyler) that is wasn't worth risking the expensive camera.

 Alex's absolutely favorite part of the whole thing was playing in the mud.  She made pies and castles with moats.  It was such a treat for her to be able to mix sand and water without Mom yelling out the window at her to "Turn off the hose!"

It was a fun relaxing day on the beach and a great end of summer activity for the whole family.  After the beach we went home and had a family BBQ with Tyler's cousins and then that evening Tyler took Alex and I back to school shopping!  We both got cute dresses and cupcakes and I decided Tyler is actually the best shopping companion ever!