Another Labor Day weekend...the end of another summer...

So the unofficial end of summer is here. We've had unseasonably cool temperatures for the last couple of weeks so in a way summer has already started to come to a close.

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This weekend we had our final lake trip of the year. Normally we would continue to go to the lake until the end of September, but we have something going on every weekend this month, so it's not going to happen this year. As I told Nic Sunday morning, the next time we go to the lake we'll have our baby boy with us.

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Melissa and Kell came up Friday night. We went to one of the local Mexican restuarants for dinner and on the way he started calling me "Aunt". It was so cute!

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After a yummy dinner, we returned to camp and roasted marshmallows with intentions of making smores. Only a couple of smores were made, but a lot marshmallows were roasted. Kell didn't realize the purpose of roasting the marshmallows was to eat them. He just liked the roasting part...we think we might have a little pyro on our hands.

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Here we are helping each other hold the roasting rod. He really wanted to do it all by himself.

Melissa and Kell

Handing me another marshmallow.



Being camera shy...how unusual.



Kell taking a hold of the camera...

One little monkey jumping on the bed...needless to say, one fell of and bumped his head!

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It rained early Saturday morning, and at times it sounded like it was raining buckets. Nic got up early to go visit his Grandma Frisbie at the Tahlequah hospital and found that our awning, which was tilted for runoff, was still holding water. He went to lower one side so it would all run off. Instead the awning collapsed and knocked him down in the process. Surprisingly he stayed very calm, so I stayed very calm. With the help of our friend Charlie, Nic was able to remove the awning without causing further damage and hopefully reducing our repair expenses. Best case scenario it will cost us $250 to repair, worst case scenario $1100+ to replace. Thankfully it is the end of the season so we're not going to worry about it until the spring.

So despite the damaged awning, we continued our weekend in good spirits. After Nic returned from visiting his Grandma, we decided we were going to go fishing a little so Kell could use his new fishing pole.

Helping me drive to the boat dock.

Kell trying out his new fishing pole, unfortunately even the perch weren't biting!

After trying our 'luck' at fishing we returned to camp, where Melissa caught the funniest sequence of pictures.

Here he is hamming it up for the camera.

He kept wanting to roast marshmallows, so I told hm that we couldn't because we didn't have a fire. So he grabs the lighter and took it to the fire pit. I told him there's nothing to light, so he proceeded to throw wood in the fire pit. In the end, Nic did start the fire for him.

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Later that afternoon my friend Amanda and her friend John came up for the evening. We had a mellow evening just sitting around visiting. We were all exhausted, so we turned in pretty early for the night. Unfortunately Nic had to work on Labor Day, so we came back home around noon on Sunday.