Birthday Weekend

Sorry it's taken so long to do another post. Hard to get in the mood sometimes.

My favoritist bro' and I celebrated our birthday last Saturday. And no, I wasn't in Alabama to take this picture (unfortunately), so thank you to Erika for taking pics and sending them!! Hope it was a great one, Donald! Oh, and happy birthday to our little cousin Janina over in PA! She was born on our 6th birthday. Oh yes, can't forget niece Molly Jo in AZ who also shares our birthday! Happy, happy one to her, too!! Wow - May 17th is a very special day, isn't it?

We had a great time camping at Millersylvania State Park. Wow was it HOT here last weekend! It has since cooled off. We don't make a habit of cooking our children on campfires - ha - couldn't resist taking this picture. (No children were harmed in the making of this photo, I promise.) Jaeden and Brooklyn as well as neighboring children had fun using this stump as part of their playground. King of the stump!
Jordan and Jenny - waiting for s'mores???
Saturday morning hike - had to work off those breakfast burritos.

Can you see the beaver dam?

Nothing like a hike in the beautiful woods. So much to see...
Wow, I thought trees like this were only in the Redwood Forest.


My in-laws, Fern and David, surprised us. They showed up at dinnertime bearing birthday cake. Or rather, birthday torte! It was absolutely deelish! Graham cracker crust, rhubarb, whipped cream and marshmallows, and vanilla pudding. It was the perfect combination of sweet and tart. What a great birthday surprise! Especially since we neglected to bring a birthday cake. Thank you.
Jordan spent a good amount of time driving his newly acquired remote control rock crawler. Lots of tree stumps and whatnot to drive over.
Team effort by Jordan and Jenny to disassemble the little tent.

Happy campers

The lake. We rented a couple of paddle boats. Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures of that little adventure.

We're already looking forward to our next camping trip!