One long but fun weekend

Friday morning Heather and I went to Charlotte for the CKC event. We signed up for 4 classes and loved them all. The first was a simple scrapbooks class taught by Marnie Flores and she is hilarious. Made 4 layouts. Then off to the 2008 latest and greatest with basic grey class which rocked. We made 4 layouts whch were awesome and then purchased the second page of the layouts to finish at home for a total of 8 pages! Then a quick lunch and lots of shopping followed by a technique tuesday class which was fun and messy. Gotta love that. Then off to our last class with SEI-an entire album! Talk about one productive day and all without the kids. Much needed break.
Saturday was man day so David took Sam and Jake to make rounds, eat breakfast and go to the gunshow. They had a great time, but Alex was forced to take one for the team with Mommy and was clearly ticked about it. He cried when they left and just wants to be big too. When they got home we packed up to go camping with the Godleys. they have boys the same ages as ours so great fun to hang out with. The campsites were pretty full so it took about an hour to find one. Jake sat in the back yelling "I want to go camping" getting louder each time with increased inflection on camping. It rained on us for most the afternon so we hung out under a tarp until t quick a little before dinner time. We played until dark and then put kids to bed (much harder task for the Godleys than for us) before we hung out around the fire until about 11. Had breakfast and packed up much to the dismay of my children who cried about having to leave saying "we love camping." Everybody seemed to have fun running around playing war with their toy guns the whole time. Headed home and tried to recover.
Today, ran a quick errand and have spent the morning hanging out here. Alex is clearly very smart and it appears will have no problem joining the crowd and holding his own. He took Sam's blanket from him this morning and when Sam said hey quickly took off crawling away giggling. I think he has discovered how to play with his brothers. Can't wait to see how their relationships continue to grow with Alex. So glad they can play together now.
Will add pics later when the boy wake up.