Labor Day weekend

Colt's first time to the Ranch!!
Our normal Labor Day weekend consists of everybody's first time out to the ranch complete with dove hunting, eating and boutique shopping in town. Blake had to be in a wedding Saturday so we drove straight to the ranch afterwards arriving a little after midnight Sunday morning. My dad reserves my mom and I the cutest little guest house in town that seriously looks like a themed room from the Zaza hotel. This is the only weekend my mom comes out so I love staying with her and getting to shop in town while the others hunt. On a normal hunting weekend, I will be staying at the ranch in mine and Blake's travel trailer about 15 minutes outside of town.

Sunday, the boys along with Tammy and Lanna dove hunted while Colt and I slept and mom went shopping. Colt debuted his "almost crawling" techniques for mom and I as I just snapped probably 100 pictures!

We all met later that night for our annual Labor Day cookout. This was probably the smallest cookout we've ever had. Who knows where everybody else was, but more food for us! Dove, steak, chicken, salad, potatos, jalapeno poppers, grilled onion, garlic bread and THREE yummy pies all for us!

Colt was introduced to Doodad's home away from home for the first time. Doodad took him around and showed him the lay of the land.

Showing Colt the bow blinds

Doodad's ranch truck

Colt enjoyed running around the house in his walker and around the garage

There is a lot of improvising done when you have a baby.

Exhibit A: His makeshift high chair...it worked!

The next morning, mom and I slept in and headed to Abilene to see a friend and then we headed home. We got super hungry as we were 45 miles away from her house and we had a super huge craving for the On the Border Khalua ice cream pie!! Thanks to the iPhone app "around me" we found the closest one to us to satisfy our craving!!

I hope everybody had a great Labor Day weekend!

xoxo