Spontaneous+Labor Day=24 hours of fun

We decided sort of last minute to go to Tyler for Labor Day.  We left as soon as church was over Sunday afternoon!

We made it to Tyler just in time to go worship with Paul and Carolyn and their new building.  It had such a wonderful "new" smell and has lots of potential!  Then we headed to Dairy Queen and most of us learned that we can't handle anything more than a mini blizzard after dinner.  :)

Monday morning, Shawn and I headed to The Foundry for a breakfast date.  We were the only ones in there and the staff had on XM radio and it was supposed to be jazz but kept having Christmas songs pop up.  They kept changing the song until I went up to them and asked them why they weren't leaving the Christmas music on.  They said they were turning it off of them, for our sake.  We informed them that Christmas music in September was A Okay with us :)  

  

While we were having coffee, Barbara made muffins for breakfast for the kids and let Ava blow out a candle for her upcoming birthday.

And then it was round two of icecream treats!

Ava opened her cards from Gramme and Grandma.

After breakfast we headed to my parents house.  Then we caravaned to a hidden trail and tromped off into the woods with my parents and sister and her family.  Our goal was to get lost in the woods and have a picnic.

Well we didn't exactly get lost, but we were out in the middle of no where.  Weirdly enough, the trail we took started in a cemetery.  We then were taken to another MUCH older cemetery on the back property of the newer one.  It was such a calm and soothing place to be, that we decided to have our picnic here.  Some of the tombstones were dated in the early 1800's.  It was a great place to relax and eat.

After our hike and picnic we headed back to my parents house for a double celebration.  Haydon's birthday was actually on labor day this year and Ava's is one week later so we had cupcakes and .....round THREE of icecream (and homemade at that!!)

Then it was time to head home....with Papaw on the side of our car.  The kids said they wanted his face on a magnet so he obliged!  It was quite funny to have his face on our car. 

We got a wild hair on the way home and stopped to eat Mexican food in a small town...this is unlike me because Mexican food places can be tricky....but this one was great!  Everyone ate plenty of chips and I'm happy to report, we didn't give them any icecream.