Labor Day

Labor Day was a milestone holiday for many reasons this year. Not only was it Ethan's first official family vacation, but it was the first real vacation Lauren and I had taken all year. The trip began very smoothly (which is very unlike us) and we made it to New Braunfels in relatively good time. Ethan slept a majority of the trip with a few hunger meltdowns here and there. Ferris was a perfect dog during the entire car ride and was a awarded with a handful of french fries from Dairy Queen. The weekend was wonderful, we were able to visit with some old friends the first night and pretty much relaxed the rest of the weekend. My parents came up on Saturday and we spent that night eating bbq at the "Conway Compound". We came to realize that Ethan will be an outdoors man and I definitely see Cub Scout camping retreats in my near future. Also, as horrible as this may sound, we came to realize how lax we now are with Ferris after I let him out to do his business at around 3:30 am and forgot to let him back in. 5 hours later, we did not have happy dog in our midst. The binky death count should see a dramatic rise.