Not so labor-ey Labor Day

I am not sure how exactly the stars aligned and we lucked out to get the cabin to ourselves over Labor Day weekend (as we did for Memorial Day weekend) but we did and we had some great friends up to enjoy some quiet time at the lake.  Friday night was our first girls slumber party with our dear friends Beth and Charlotte, it was so relaxing and quiet and the perfect start to the weekend...

Charlotte and Nay playing puzzles

 we made homemade pizza and drank wine and giggled and talked and it was fabulous.

Saturday we ventured into town wondering what sort of crazy holiday traffic we would encounter and it wasn't bad at all - we stopped at a cute little store that sells gourmet snack foods and has fresh produce and then hit up the grocery store for some staples (aka more wine) for the weekend.  We had a nice leisurely lunch - which was pretty amazing considering we had an almost 1 year old and a 2 1/2 year old with us - and then went on our merry way...to the end of the drive way of the restaurant and then ran into a wall of traffic for as far as the eye could see...thankfully a nice man in a Honda CRV waved us out.  Bless him :)  The afternoon brought the rest of the group up.

Natty, Charlotte and Naomi

It's not an urban legend...they can share! :)

We had a very low key afternoon and evening of pontooning,

Sweet Baby William had the sun in his eyes and this was my remedy...poor dear will someday be embarrassed to all shades of red but I think it's pretty darn cute!

Rach and her sweet girl Natty P

Charlotte and her mommy Beth

Naomi giving us the guided tour of the lake

 and cooking out, after all of the littles went to bed we sat around the campfire.  Sunday brought fishing for the boys and playing with the kiddos for the girls.

Naomi will one day be a great baby sitter - she was so sweet with William

Feeding the fishes

Snuggled tight with mommy...

A lone duck cutting through the water

I love these chubby fingers and toes and soft little limbs...

Such a happy and easy going little boy

Seriously, I don't know if babies can get much cuter than this!

 It was a great weekend of relaxing and just laying low.

I love watching Naomi play, she has developed quite the imagination and her gestures and motions change dramatically every week.  It is such an amazing journey to see each stage of development happen.

Boat buddies - two of MY favorite girls :)