Happy Birthday to Me!

Today is my 35th birthday! Hard to believe! Anyway, to celebrate I am blowing off doing all the things that I'm so far behind on right now (sweeping up the mud in the mud room, laundry and dishes) and I getting my blog up to date. I was hoping to have time this past week but it obviously didn't happen. We have run out of wood for sugaring so we have been buying it from a customer who has some all cut and split. So we have to go to Brandon, load it onto Doug's dump trailer a cord at a time, come back to the sugarhouse and unload it on pallets. And gather and boil on top all that! But it's been a good year so far, we've made about 340 gallons which is more than we've made in a long time. So that's good. Anyway, lots of pictures to share with you.

This is just a super cute one of Ben playing in one of his bins after he took all the balls out.



Last Friday was my Dad's birthday and we celebrated it on Sunday at our house. Dad came over early and spent some time with Ben and I while we were eating lunch. Afterward, Ben went and got a book and brought it to Granddaddy and climbed right up in his lap. This is the first time he's done that and of course my dad was thrilled! And of course, I had to take some pictures. This once came out the best and is my favorite!


After that, we went over to the sugar house and did some walking in the woods checking the tubing and such. Ben loves to walk in the woods. And of course I had to take some more pictures.


Walking in the sugar woods with Granddaddy




And Ben's second favorite love is water so to find a puddle in the woods is great excitement!


These next pictures are for my sister Holly who is in the Navy and on a ship at sea right now. Here is Dad opening up his presents!









After a great dinner of steak, potato salad (made by Krysta) and asparagus. We had birthday apple pie that I made for my Dad at his request.

Auntie Krysta and Ben holding Granddaddy's birthday pie

Granddaddy and Ben blowing out the birthday pie candles


Here is Gramme and Ben playing and providing some entertainment after dinner.


It was so much fun having everybody here for dinner. I love having the space to have everybody over to our house.