an un-laborus weekend

Oh man, I have been neglecting the blog for quite some time. I'm so glad Joel keeps it up for me when I slack. I haven't been in the mood to blog lately and haven't really had the time, but tonight I have the blogging bug so I thought I'd better hurry up and post something!
Last weekend was A-mazing. It was so relaxing, so fun, and so nice to be able to spend so much time with our families. It was exactly what we needed!
Saturday we went boating with Lindsay and Brian in the morning, Joel did awesome wakeboarding and is really picking it up quickly. The weather was perfect (except for some choppy water). After boating we went to the Heaps house and had a little bar-b-q/water fun.

Josie and Camryn had fun playing in the buckets of water.

and Hayden and Brayden liked playing with the hoses and kicking the squirting beach ball thing, and i was having so much fun snapping all these water shots. i've been wanting to take pictures in this exact same setting for quite some time (awesome back lit lighting, cute kids, water spraying, dark trees in the back) ...it was all just workin out so nicely

i love these two pics, can't figure out why its HUGE, i'll have to work on it tomorrow.
my dad and mark shot off the water rocket
my mom filled up water balloons and we all had fun playing with them, and...
launching them with the sling shot thing until Joel and Brian found out that we almost hit someones car that lived up the street....hehe.... whoops? (they were trying to launch them into the park across the walking path.)
we went in side after that haha.


On Sunday, Joel and I had a great day at church and then decided to just chill at home. i made lasagna and then we just hung out and watched a movie, it was great!


Monday we woke up and went to breakfast at McDonalds with the Heaps and Hansens then drove over to the Smiths to get ready for the annual Labor Day Hike. It's a Smith tradition that I've been able to participate in for a few years now, we love it!
we went to Mary's lake this year. There was only about half of the lake left, but it was still pretty and we enjoyed our lunch at the top.

{mad props to Joel for taking these next few pics. i like it when my man uses the camera :) }
look at Drew's juice box face :)
the kids had fun feeding their chips to grateful little animals
and the rest of us soaked in some rays. it was pretty "brisk" but the sun warmed us up.
the classic mary's lake pic. we missed Jon and Melissa and their two cute kids this year....hopefully they will be here next year (? :)

the rest of the day we hung out at the Smith's house. we napped and watched some football, then had a dinner out in the middle of the lawn. it totally reminded me of this picture from one of my favorite books growing up ("oh what a busy day"), all the food and people spread out along a big long table. It was awesome! but of course I didn't take any pictures......baahhh!
last weekend was so fun, but this weekend has been much different; work, editing, photoshoot, preparing a lesson, costco run....definitely not as fun as barbecues and hikes, but it's okay too.

PS!!! Joel had his first observation last week during student teaching and he totally rocked it! I'm so proud :) he is going to be an awesome teacher!
I totally wish I could be in one of his classes and watch him teach, I think it would be fun haha.
PPS bigger pics on our family page! about time!