Birthdays Weekend

This year we lucked out and Travis had a 4 day weekend during our birthdays. So we decided to head up north to spend time together and do some Christmas shopping. We stayed with Jay and Tamara Starley, which we love because it’s so comfortable having their basement to ourselves. They have become good friends and another set of grandparents for Dallen. J We drove up on my birthday and that night they offered to babysit Dallen so we could go out for sushi with our friends. It was one of the best birthday presents ever! Just to have a peaceful dinner out, it was awesome. We went out with Ben and Elisha, Travis’ friend from PA school and had some yummy yummy rolls. I can’t remember the last time we had sushi! It was well over due. That day we spent a lot of time at Cabelas and ran a few other errands as well. Dallen loves Cabelas- looking at all the mounts and fish and running around the store; so it’s always fun to take him there. We went to Sarah’s as well and Travis removed a few skin tags for her while I let the boys run around outside. It’s always good to see her and her boys.

The next day was Travis’ birthday and we spent a lot of time at the new sports store, Scheels. It has mounts and fish as well and just lots of stuff to look at it, so we had a good time there as well. That night we went to Tucanos for dinner with Jay and Tamara while their neighbor, Lilly, tended Dallen for us. It was sooo nice of her to offer! So again we had a wonderful birthday dinner.

On Saturday the Young Women from Beaver had come up to go to Festival of Trees and see Savior of the World and since I’m the Laurel Advisor, I decided to meet up with them in the morning at Festival of Trees. I’d never been before so it was neat to see all the trees and items under the tree that people had bid for. All the money goes to Primary Children’s Hospital. It was a great charity fundraiser and fun to hang out with the Young Women for awhile. Afterwards I met back up with Travis and Dallen and we went to the Apple store to check out the iPad minis. We decided it was time to get an iPad and wanted to figure out which one we wanted. We will primarily use it for video and picture viewing (meaning road trip movies and trail camera picture scanning out in the field). They’re way nice. It was a long day of shopping and ended with us driving home that night to meet up with Travis’ parents back at home.

Linda and David came up for our birthday weekend for Saturday night and Sunday. We met at our house at 9:30pm and visited with Dallen and then opened presents. They are always so generous! They gave me a couple massage gift certificates, a couple Christmas movies, a griddle/grill machine, a BYU T-shirt, and an outhouse Christmas decoration. On my actual birthday, Travis gave me the new bed spread/quilt I’ve been wanting and LOVE it! My mom got me a nice lightweight robe and Dallen gave me a new Patagonia shirt. It was a wonderful birthday. On Sunday we just spent the day doing things around Beaver; ATV ride, shopping, and shooting. We sold our Ranger so the boys took the Grizzly out while Linda and I shopped. I definitely miss our Ranger and am looking forward to getting a new one next year. (Travis wants a bigger and better model). So it was a great birthday spent together the 3 of us, and with friends and family. Yeah for 31 and 34 years!