Labor Day Weekend Done Right

I don't know if we could have packed anything else in to our wonderful, fun, relaxing Labor Day Weekend.  From THS football to college football to a cookout/mini-concert extravaganza to a relaxing afternoon on the river, we did just about everything we could think of during the past 3 days. Long story short....it was awesome.

We started our weekend with an away game Friday night.  And it was waaaaaay far away....2.5 hours away.  Since I did not want to have to drive home from the game by myself I had decided not to go, but some of the other coaches wives offered to let me ride with them so we headed down south, like 20 mins from the Florida state line south for the ball game.  Unfortunately the game did not turn out the way we would have liked it to, but they were a good team and the boys played well.  A win surely would have made the 2.5 hour drive home a little better.  Neither one of us got to the house before midnight.

It was rainy during the game so my phone was tucked away for most of it.  This was the only picture I have from Friday night.  This is the line of traffic to get into town at midnight Saturday morning.  There was a super slow train that decided to block the ONLY way into town from the interstate. 

We took it easy Saturday morning.  Since it was kickoff weekend for college football we did not have anything planned for the day that did not involve being in front of a television set. A couple of neighbors came over and we threw some deer meat, hot dogs, and chicken wings on the grill. Most of the games we were interested in watching were decent games to watch, although having Alabama and Auburn kick off 30 minutes apart made for some tricky tv watching.  The good news is both teams won and that's all that matters.

Sunday we were ready to get our Labor Day celebrating on.  Since Eric had football practice early Monday morning we opted to celebrate on Sunday.  We had a several friends over and Eric smoked some Boston Butts on the grill.  I have decided this year I do not want to spend my weekends in the kitchen, so I will not be making tons of dips and appetizers and desserts this year each weekend.... I'm keeping it simple.  Saturday I made a dip, Sunday I made cookies.  That's it.  We still had tons of food and I was able to enjoy myself. We had our friend Kevin Adair come play some music Sunday night and one of the guys Eric coaches with brought his drum set.  They played for nearly 4 hours and it was awesome!  Kevin is a really talented musician; if you're ever in the Auburn area you should check to see if he's playing somewhere.  It's totally worth it.   His song I Can't Make You Love Me, is currently my absolute favorite!

Of course we had the UT game on in the background. =)

The party wrapped up around 11:30pm and we headed to bed.  I guess it wore me out more than I thought because it was 8:30am before I started stirring.  Usually when Eric gets up earlier than I do (he had practice at 8am Monday) the dogs wake me up shortly after he leaves.  Not yesterday.  They were still sound asleep when I got up.  I guess we weren't the only ones who enjoyed the weekend.  When he got home we vegged for a few hours... I even got him to watch Legally Blonde!  By the afternoon we were both ready to get out of the house so we packed up the boys and headed to the river for a couple of hours of riding, fishing, and swimming. At the river I made up for the lack of pictures from Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Captain Hawk

This one prefers to hide behind blankets on the ride. 

Me and my boys at the cat fishin' hole.

Hawk: Throw the stick, Dad!  Throw the stick!

Playing on the sandbar. 

Have I mentioned how beautiful this place is?!

Labor Day fun with my love!

That's our weekend in a nutshell. I hate to admit, but sleeping in really threw off my sleep schedule.  I was up until almost midnight last night like I have been the past few nights and 5:30am came waaaaay to early this morning.  But for a weekend like that is was totally worth it.  Plus we only have a 4 day week which is like an extra bonus after a 3 day weekend!