HOKE: Labor Day Weekend

We had a very nice but not so much relaxing weekend. We were able to get some things done around the house, played a little sand volleyball and saw a few balloons.

Heath is working in the back most part of the yard--which is probably the worst area. This is a before picture of the corner.

As you can see in this photo, he has gotten all the rocks out and now we have roots. The neighbors tree has these amazing roots that seem to want to come to the surface. Maybe it is because the tree is higher than our yard? We still aren't quite sure how to handle this. Heath is intending to put up two levels of retaining walls to fix the slope in the yard.

The weekend was not great for the balloon classic. They had to cancel the launch on Saturday morning :(. Sunday morning I thought it had been cancelled also, but when we were driving to our sand volleyball tournament, we got to see a few. You can see that it was very cloudy, but still fun to see them.

It was a wonderful day to play sand vb!! It wasn't too hot and it even sprinkled on us. This was our first tournament together--Layne and I. It was a Queen of the Beach format, meaning that we each played one game with each person. So, the person with the most individual wins on the day is the "Queen". I believe I finished last!! Layne did so much better than I did and it was fun to watch her.

Roxy would prefer to lay on something versus the dirty ground!!

Monday morning was the last day of the balloons and this was all we were able to see from our house. They took a different route this year--we were so sad!!

Also on Monday we made some shelves and bench for our little shed. It has been up for two years but we hadn't done much to it. So, we all worked in the tiny little thing and got everything in a good spot!!