Labor Day 2009 Style

Colorado Springs Labor Day Balloons

My Family

Some Favorite girl cousins who met us there!

The Cool cat Balloon
Bright eyed Lincoln who got lots of attention from Strangers (it is a curse I tell)
Big Boy Lincoln in wagon

Up up and away

It takes a real man to wear this baby pack (that and my back was killing me)

Now how cool is this balloon label?!

Well Labor started out GREAT! We work up super early to get ready to go see the Balloons, but only had one kid to get ready! The girls and spent the night at Grandma and Grandpa Mann's and were going to meet us there!
For those of you who have never experience Colorado Springs Labor Day Balloons are truly missing out on a fun experience! We are right up close and personal with these Balloon operators! They go whooshing over our heads. Lots of them we see them set up from layout to lift off. Poor Lincoln's eyes were soo wide (more then normal) with excitement. In our kids younger years they were somewhat afraid (loud noises, big things) but this year everyone was HAPPY!!
From the Balloons we (Cameron and I) head back home to eat breakfast and get cleaned up, while grandparents take the girls out to eat. This is a rare treat for them, because we close to never go out to eat.
Then we met back at my parent's place for some Chicken BBQ and all the sides!
There is this really fun splash park close to my parents house that is for FREE that we took them too, because it was the last day they were open.

Colorado Springs Splash Park

Then we headed over to the Canyon for another BBQ with Cameron's sister's family. But they had no grills there (oddly enough) and we headed for the nearest park, Bear Creek Park! Which was great because they had playgrounds to get the kids busy. We had hamburgers and s'mores!

On our drive home we finished off with FHE singing and a quick lesson (before they could fall asleep from a busy day).