Labor Day Weekend: Love, Marta

You'd think that since our family has such a great work ethic (ahem... cough, cough...) we would spend LABOR day working in the yard or something right?  Nope.  For the first time in their lives, Mom and Dad spent Saturday of labor day weekend sitting on the couch and watching the tennis and the world track competition on T.V.  Needless to say, all of us kids were shocked, and so we  took advantage of the once-in-a-life-time-opportunity to sleep (for hours), read, play on the computer, and do regular teenager/tween stuff.  It was great fun, I assure you, although Mom and Dad are still horrified every time they remember that they had a whole entire day and all they did was fix the leaky sink and clean the church!  It's a shame we didn't get some photographic evidence.

On Sunday, church was attended, and our numbers were more than doubled by the number of guests we had.  The primary was huge for a day!  After church everyone took naps (again), and later we had a lovely dinner of steak, pealoffe, veggies, etc with our Auntie Julie and her good friend Loyd.  It was fun, and Mom and Dad enjoyed the adult company.  There followed many stirring rounds of "Pajamas", a card game Dad had allegedly played many times as a boy.  There was much cheating involved, and let it be said that easy cheese and card games should not mix, as Dad reminded us repeatedly.  When midnight began to loom, Mom and Dad finally began to stop partying and there ensued a battle over Tess's comforter which did NOT end in tears.

Monday morning came, bright and early, and we enjoyed Labor Day pancakes, and Mom, Dad, Levi, and Tess headed up to the Eagle Meadows area to hike and enjoy the day.  Luke went to work, and Marta stayed home to do homework and post on this blog (shh).  It is important to note that today is Luke's last day of work for the season, because the Twain Harte lake will be closing.

 The conquering life savers shall retire for the season

Luke will be free to return to his school endeavors.

Meanwhile, Eliza has (FINALLY) announced her new public health: epic-demiology major  (epidemiology for those of you who didn't get that)  Luke is happy that he will soon have a fellow germ-a-phobe in the house.

I would now like to add a few pictures to elaborate on former blog posts that I believe were inadequate.  You know what they say, a picture can say a thousand words:

 This is a picture of our HP 7.2 costumes.  the two extra non-Houghtons are Camilla and Logan Richardson, dressed as the Gray Lady and Gelert Grindelwald.

 Here we see Luke, Dad, Bishop Dearden, Eric, Brother Evans, Ian, and Brother ...Evans' son-in-law on top of Mount. Whitney

I wanted to say hello to anyone reading this who doesn't know me.  My good friend Willard is eating me in this picture (Willard is our guard-crocodile)

Sorry for any bad grammar, punctuation, etc.