Labor Day Weekend

Oops. This post has been sitting in my edit box for a few weeks completely forgotten. Yes, we did have a great Labor Day Weekend. Several weeks back.

Saturday Jake and I took advantage of my parents being the ultimate babysitters, always willing to get suckered in to watching our kids for a few hours (or most of the day), and we headed up to the LDS temple in Mesa. It was a treat, as always, to go to the temple. 

We came home, made some Rice Krispy Treats (out of Rice Chex, since they're gluten free), and headed over to a friend's house for a fun dinner with 4 couples and 7 kids running around. Here are the little girls all having a ball together waiting for dinner:

Rachel, Maryanne, Evelyn, Grace, and Lydia
It was a lot of fun hanging out and playing games together. It makes me wonder why we don't do stuff like that more often.
On Labor Day itself, we went to Reid Park Zoo and had a picnic by the pond. It turned out to be a beautiful day for a picnic, after months of scorching heat, it was only in the 80s at midday. We met up with a friend of mine that I hadn't seen for quite a while, Char. It was good catching up with her, since we hadn't seen her since before I had Annie, and before she got engaged and married. Lots of changes to catch up on.

Rachel and Annie, of course, enjoyed the ducks (feeding them, and chasing them) most of all. They also got real excited about this little chihuahua who was barking at us like he was a big mean guard dog trapped in a little rat's body. The owners were nice enough to let them pet the dog.

Jake was there, too, just as the cameraman, I guess, since we don't have pictures of him. We enjoyed the rest of our day relaxing and decided that 3 day weekends should be the rule, rather than the exception. In a perfect world. :)