Weekend Fun!!!

We had a very busy but fun weekend. It started as soon as school was out on Friday. We hurried home to get things ready to head to the lake. Paul's parents have a lake house and they always cook hash or chicken stew on Memorial Day, the Fourth of July and Labor Day. There were conflicts this past Labor Day so they decided to have a fall hash cooking. All of Paul's family gathers at the lake for this. We have hotdogs, hamburgers, a huge pot of boiled peanuts and delicious desserts. Papa Ty cooks the hash in a huge black pot on the screened porch and he stirs it with a big wooden paddle. He's been cooking hash and chicken stew like this for almost 30 years!! I always try to take something to have at our cook-out. My pasta salad is a must and I usually bring a dessert. This time I made something new. It turned out so yummy. It was a Chocolate Fudge Sheet Cake. The icing was homemade gooey goodness. Chocolate fudge and pecans what could be better. We got everything packed up and hopped in the car. When we got there Paul and the little ones headed down to the pier to take a look.
They had to get on their tummies to get as close to the water as possible under the watchful eye of daddy.
Then they trampled up and down the hill in the leaves.
We tried to get a few good shots.
Land even came down for a picture. It was a fun, family filled fall evening. We stayed until the hash was done and the little ones were yawning(way past their bedtimes). Then we said our good-byes and headed home with several quarts of hash to freeze away for a cold winter day. It was great fun, we did miss having Anna Kayla and Greg there though. They were away for the weekend. We had to hurry to bed to get up early Saturday to head to the zoo!!!

We met several CWA families there. Here's our group picture, kind of hard to get so many little ones to cooperate but we managed.
Daddy and the kiddos waiting to ride the carousel. They don't look too happy about having to wait do they???
A highlight was feeding the giraffes little pieces of lettuce. It was so funny watching their faces when the giraffe stuck his big tongue out.
Another mouthful.
All in all it was a fabulous weekend but it put me so far behind on laundry and everything else I spent most of my Sunday catching up(I usually rest on this day) so after church today it was lunch at our favorite Mexican restaurant and then home to get busy and ready for a new week.

As we begin a new week my prayer is that we turn each day over to God and let Him guide and direct our paths.

In your unfailing love you will lead the people you have redeemed.

In your strength you will guide them.

Exodus 15:13

Until next time.........................

Robin