Is it too late to post about Memorial Day??

I mean I know it was back at the end of May and stuff....but I kept putting off this Memorial Day post because I hadn't had a chance to look at the pictures and now it seems like if I don't do it now it isn't going to happen so.....

Memorial Day weekend was a 4 day weekend for us because Jeremiah had off the Friday before. He gets every other Friday off with his job and we've been lucky enough to have them fall on almost every 3 day weekend so far! Anyway, we had no plans for Memorial Day and then decided last minute not to be lame and to actually get out and do something. So on Thursday Night we started brainstorming and decided to go down to Table Rock Lake just outside Branson, MO, do some tent camping and rent a boat. Big plans with only a few hours notice. It was so late at night that we had to wait until Friday to actually call around and see if anything was even available. By noon Friday we lucked out and found a Campground with one tent site available and they also had a pool and hot tub...perfect. Then we found an evening-ish boat rental (4-7pm) available for Saturday...again perfect. So by 3pm we had packed up the van, gotten a cooler filled up with all our food, and headed out to Branson which was about a 5 hour drive since everyone else was headed out at the same time too.

Tent camping at 29 weeks pregnant was fun-ish. Uncomfortable at times but I made it through. Jeremiah and the kids had no problem sleeping...well except for Aidan. Aidan is one of those kids that has to have his own bed to sleep so he spent all night crawling all over Jeremiah and I the first night. The next couple nights we took long drives until he fell asleep in his car seat and then brought that into the tent and he stayed asleep in the car seat all night. Thank goodness for that! Also our camp area was a favorite spot for the millions of billions of daddy long legs that inhabited the area. The first morning Ashlynne, Brinton and Elise woke up in their tent and couldn't even get out because their were so many covering the front entry. We had to go out there and slap them all off just to get the kids out. It was actually so funny we were laughing so hard. What's nature without a bit of nature?!

We spent most of the day Saturday swimming in the pool at the campground. On Saturday evening we went Boating out on Table Rock Lake. Boating was a BLAST! Although trying to keep Aidan from jumping out of my arms and into the water was an awesomely fun 3 hour wrestling match. We rented a tube along with the boat and let all the kids take turns being dragged behind the boat (well everyone except crazy Aidan). We brought food and ate on the boat. it was really just a fun fun time.

So I'll quit boring you with all my blah, blah, blah-ing... I'll just leave this by saying that it was one of the most fun, last second weekend trips I have ever been on in my life. Even with all the Aidan drama.

So now for pics...pics...and more pics...