Labor Day Weekend 2011...

Wow!  It's already been two weeks since Labor Day and I'm finally getting around to writing about it... Needless to say, we've been keeping ourselves quite busy around here!  :)  We've managed to finish the bathroom project, I started my Master's class, we took a quick trip to Chicago, we brought Riley back home, and we've just been trying to get back into some sort of routine around here...  There definitely hasn't been too much down time as of late. :)

We had such a fun time up north for Labor Day weekend!  It was so great to spend time with family while we were there. :)  Our weekend consisted of spending a lovely evening with everyone at our family reunion, helping my dad cut down trees in the front yard, shopping in Traverse City, volunteering at a concession stand at the Labor Day Softball Tournament, and simply hanging out with the fam.  It was a great way to spend our first Labor Day weekend back in the U.S.! :)

Getting ready to cut down some trees... Yikes! :)

Isn't he such a little cutie?! :)

This is where things got rather interesting...  See that tree that is being cut in the right corner?  Well, the intent was to have the tree fall between the small maple tree and the tree that is already laying on the ground...  My dad's only request was that it not harm the maple tree.  Can you guess what happened after that? :)  The tree ended up having a mind of it's own, and it somehow fell in the exact direction we had hoped it wouldn't... Directly on top of my dad's maple tree!  Oops! :) 

Kaden is such a good little helper!! :)

That was a whole lot of brush to haul! 

Jason and Kaden giving the thumbs up after a long day of stacking their "winter wood"! :)

Working the concession stand at the all night softball tournament...   :)

Brian and Grandma hanging out... :)

Spending time with the family at the reunion...

The kids were having lots of fun! :)

Jason was clearly mesmerized by the windchimes! :)

Aunt Karen and Brian making some authentic German gluhwein... Yum! :)

Holy Batman! :)

The whole fam! :)

Mom and Dad... :)