Labor Day At The Ranch

Our family spent the day out at Robert & Stephanie's:

We each made 2 things and had a super delish meal. I made a Zucchini casserole with a potato chip topping and a Cherry Mountain Pie. Steph did her famous Mac & Cheese and brownies; and Mom made her infamous baked beans and potato salad. Robert smoked some pig. The girls had such fun eating at their little table. No high chairs or booster seats today!

After lunch it was time for the girls nap and the grown ups to play Wii. Here's Dad & Martin boxing.
Mom & Dad tried it out, as well. Mom got in a good punch or two but ended up getting knocked out. She's acting like she's gonna knock Dad out for real. :)

I had tried out other games on the Wii on another visit, but had never tried the boxing. Think Steph is reall into this???

Naptime is over and we headed out to see the animals. Nana had such a great time with both her lil' girly o's.

Here are the pigs. Eating their dinner. Aunt Steph is trying to show them to her but she doens't seem too impressed.

This one is too cute! The two cousins playing together. You can also see just how close in size they are. The horses had been let into the barn and had been fed. Emma was loving the horses! Halie looks like a country girl with her boots, while Emma looks like a cheerleader in her lil' skort.
Martin & I both got to ride Robert's horse Sandy. We neither one had been on a horse in more than 20-25 years. Imagine what THAT felt like the next day...

Halie and her Daddy having a ride before putting Sandy up.

We were all so hot and sweaty after riding horses and seeing the animals, so we got the girls changed and headed for the pool. Nana & Papaw checked out the swing.

The water was kinda cold, but they had a blast! Gretchen was wanting in, as well.

We changed Emma into a swin diaper, so I just left her suit off. The girls played and splashed for a long time until Emma was shivering and her lips were a little blue. Even then, I had to make her get out and come inside. We ate leftovers for dinner, packed up and headed home. What a great day we had together!

Labor Day Fun

We spent this Sat. morning at a local Mercantile store(Sept. 5th I believe). White City Mercantile is housed in an old, old wooden house and is filled with antiques, collectibles, crafts and junk. Emma found a medium sized wooden rocker on the porch and was having a ball while we waited for the shop to open.

She did so very well while we wandered! I only had to carry her in one room, which was filled with shelves and shelves of old glass dishes and tchotchkes that Mommy didn't want to have to worry about paying for.

Upstairs we found this lovely metal framed bouncing, rocking horse. I had one like it, only with different colors, when I was small. I wanted it for her SO BAD!! They wanted too much for it and I had to walk away. Sadly walk away.

But, we had to try it out twice before walking away from it. :) Then we spent awhile at a local park. She had a blast swinging and sliding down the many slides. We finally left because Mommy was dripping with sweat and getting cranky. We had a fun first day of the Labor Day weekend.