#36!

My 36th birthday celebratory dinner with some of the most amazing girls ever!

Nessa - my baby Sister, 

Melinda - best friends since 16, 

Anne - friends since 14, 

and Brendian - friends since our Singles Ward days!

Summer Morning Laziness

How wonderful to have a lazy morning.  I'm still in my pajamas as I write this!  This morning Danny woke up bright and early as usual, but I am trying to fight off a head cold so I told Danny to go and play quietly in his room, so I could sleep a bit longer.  I woke up an hour later to this . . .

He had colored his entire hand with a blue marker!  Luckily it is washable.  I think the extra hour of sleep was still worth it!

We got him all cleaned up, and then made some french toast and have just been bumming around the house.  Danny got real quiet again so I realized I had better go and see what he was up to and this is what I found . . .

Awwww, he was reading the scriptures!  Then I realized he was on the map pages.  That's still ok, I thought to myself, at least he is opening and looking at the scriptures.  And then I realized he was using them to plan a backpacking trip and I just had to laugh!

Austin was thoroughly enjoy getting to be lazy this morning too.  He came and told me several times how nice it was to just relax and not have to go to school.  That lasted til about 11:30, then he was ready to start inviting friends over and go outside and play!

And I am thinking it is now time for me to get dressed and get the laundry done!

Trinity Lake - Memorial Day Weekend Camping Trip

The boys and I got to go to Trinity Lake this last weekend with my cousins Andera and Miriam, her hubby Gatlin and Gatlin's family.  It was a corner of the world I had never been to before and it was so beautiful!  The little town of Weaverville I can't wait to go back and explore.  We had fun hanging around the camp playing (or napping) in the hammock, playing badminton, a lot of time around the campfire due to the chilly weather and good food, and if there was water and rocks near by the boys were in heaven!  I especially loved getting to explore waterfalls, playing in the hail storm, target practice and all the dogwood trees and wildflowers in bloom.

Just Because

 Some pictures - just because I hadn't picked up my camera for a couple of days and was feeling the need to shoot something!

just some pictures/thoughts that struck a cord with me . . . snagged form the Le Love blog

Itty Bitty Bouquet

Danny picked this itty, bitty, teeny, tiny, bouquet for me yesterday morning.  Isn't it so sweet!

Watch Out World!

Austin is now a Decided Low Green Belt in Taekwondo.  And that means he gets sparring gear.  He is beyond excited about this.  I had to talk him out of sleeping in his gear last night!