Labor Day Weekend, A Memorable One!

The Kogan's invited us over for a S'mores night. We had such a nice time visiting, playing badminton, digging in the dirt, visiting the chickens and eating Reese Peanut butter cup smores. I'm sure everyone else has tried these, but this was our first time. Thanks so much for having us and our little crazies over!

Mike's office had him have a 1 day weekend the week before labor day so he could have the Friday off as well and so Mike decided to be his very sweet, charming, romantic, thoughtful, devoted husband he is and on Thursday morning, I woke up to this...

We had a very nice long weekend, even though we're not jet setters or anything, hanging around locally has it benefits as well.

Then in the bathroom was this clue...

We ended up taking Blue Thunder (Our Big blue truck) and driving up to a mountain with a path and took a late night stroll that over looked the city, then we got comfy in the back of the truck, looked at constellations and played a "how well do you know your spouse game" He even brought bubbly and chocolate!"

I woke up to this clue for Friday.

At 3:40 I took Vienna to her first ballet class (pics below) which she loved and made a new friend Lyla, quite quickly. We ran a quick errand afterward and when we returned, Mike had parked Blue Thunder in the back, with the tailgate down and There was an amazing smell. H had planned a tailgating date! This was a family date, he even invited our friend over too.

He made ALL the food...even a watermelon football helmit, football deviled eggs and these yummy oven meat and cheese melted sliders, we had a great play list and just tailgated. It was amazing.

My boys loving the party!

For the game that night, he had made a very simplified version of fantasy football for him and I and we got to watch it and keep track of our points. I was so into at the beginning, but I cuddled up to my man and drifted into sweet dreams. He kept track and kicked my trash, something like 17-6. It was a blast and now I understand a bit more about fantasy football. 

I woke up to this clue Saturday...

I came downstairs after tucking the kids in bed to see Apron's laid out and our own "Davis Chopped Kitchen" We both love to watch chopped and cut throat kitchen when/if we get a chance.

Appetizer: Mystery Ingredients...Fruit juice, spam, arugula and MRE cheese

The results, mine on L: A spam-cheese sandwich with an arugula salad and fruit juice vinaigrette

 Mike's on the R: A spam-cheese soup with an arugula salad and fruit juice vinaigrette

Dessert (the pics got swtiched)

Mystery Ingredients: lucky charms, rice pudding, Nori (seaweed) and white peach

The results

mine on L: dessert sushi with a caramel drizzle and a chocolate dipping sauce

Mike's on R: lucky charm sugar cookie with a white peace shaved ice and a seaweed chocolate dip.

Entree:

Mystery Ingredients: canned potatoes, candy pumpkins, mushrooms & steaks

The Results:

Mike on the R: BBQ steak with sauteed onions & mushrooms with "candied potatoes" (like yams??)

Mine on L: foreman grilled candied steak, a potato/mushroom hash with salad.

Here we are!

It was SO much fun and SO much work to clean up after each round and we got 30mins/round. It was so fun to work and cook and get our creativity flowing. Mike totally won on dessert, he says my appy won and we were tied on our entree. 

I woke up to this Sunday...

We played a few of Mike's favorite games as a kid, which included marshmallow shooters that took us outside for a full on battle in the yard and marshmallows everywhere, then cowboys and indians, but the real way. It took a really long time to knock down all the guys. Then we played some hilarious old school games on the Wii (like pool, darts, curling, basketball shoot)

I woke up to this...

Our day drastically changed because we welcomed a new member of the Davis clan, totally spur of the moment and not planned...

 WELCOME.....

Gelapi (pronounced Jalopi)

She is our 1979 Dodge Fireball Class C motorhome and we LOVE her!

We got a call about 10am saying that he was interested in trading blue thunder for her, which is what had been holding us back from getting one, we needed to sell him. Luckily we had used Blue Thunder all weekend and got to feel the love. We left him in a great home, on an acreage to a teenage boy and a mechanic for a Grandpa, so he was happy and we couldn't be more excited about Gelapi. the memories will be many and the kids just love her! The rest of the entire day was spent getting her, cleaning her out etc. Here are some pics of the inside...

Bathroom door

King Bed above cab

cab

Dinette (dont worry, Im changing the curtains for sure and might recover the benches too)

Fridge and closet

Jack knife couch bed

kitchen

stove

Vienna wanted to eat lunch in there as soon as they got back. 

Because Monday took a flip and we were working on Gelapi all day, which has tons of DIY stuff, we passed on our Monday night date and spent more time working on her. We have lots of great plans for her, but she has seen the RV doctor and he says she is in great condition. YAY!!!

It was a successful Labor Day Weekend for sure! We are incredibly blessed!