My big BIRTHDAY!!

For my birthday this year I had only 1 thing I really wanted to do which was go camping. So all day saturday I spent getting food ready, getting all of our camping stuff up to the car and getting the kids ready to go. It was beautiful all day and i was so excited to go build a fire, and camp out with my family. I haven't taken Ali camping since she was 2 so I told her all about it and between the two of us there was so much anticipation and excitment. Fro had to work until 6 and we were counting down the hours. As soon as 6:00 came about so did the thunder, lightning and RAIN, LOTS OF RAIN! Our excitment was quickly replaced with complete depression. I was so bummed and so was Ali. Fro said we could still go, but what fun is mud camping- it just ends up a huge mess. The whole night I was just bummed and super sad about the whole thing. Luckily my sister Britto came and played the marble game with us and we beat the boys, so that made me a little happpier!!

So the next day being my big birthday I wanted to be in the mountains. I had a sub for my class at church and knew I couldn't just show up after working so hard to get a sub, so I decided we were going on a family hike to the PG waterfall.

for some reason Cam wanted to wear his beanie so bad! So in 95 degree weather he wore it almost the entire time up the hike!

It was fun with the kids, but quickly got a little to hot!! The waterfall and the hike were beautiful and the kids loved being in nature!

I am so lucky to have kids that Love each other so much!! they are the best buddies!!

After our hike we had planned to have my whole family head up A.F canyon for dessert and hanging out. We planned to meet at the canyon at 6:30. Well what do you know but a ton of RAIN hits our house at 6:15- I text the whole family that we are still a go up the canyon. My sister was a little concerned about the rain and I told her "I am very optimistic, we are still going!!" Fro just started laughing at this point, and I was hoping with all my might that it would stop raining, just for a little bit!!

It not only stopped raining, the canyon was beautiful. I forgot the candles for our angel food cake and we made a imaginary light with our lantern. the kids loved it!!


some of My neices and nephews. They are the greatest!! I love all of them!!


My sisters Brittany, and Brooke


All the "sisters" in our family! Gabby, Me, heather, Brittany, Brooke and Camille

Hanging out by the campfire. I was so happy that we found a spot in the canyon and were able to have a fire. There is nothing like the canyon with a camp fire.

My neice and i took the little boys on a little walk through the canyon and they loved exploring all the trails and finding all kinds of fun stuff!

One of the most amazing parts of my whole birthday was the cloud formations that appeared out of no where. They formed the most amazing "balloons" as we started calling them. They were my birthday balloons since I didn't have any. They were awesome. I have never seen anything like them before. It was so GREAT!!

There is nothing better than celebrating with family and I am so lucky these two people brought me into the world. They are inspiration to me, and I have been so blessed to have them as my parents!! I love you both and thanks for being the best!!