Happy Birthday BEN!!

I made my very first cake from scratch! Ben wanted a German Chocolate Cake, so I just whipped it right up. I was pretty proud. It tasted just like Matthew's b-day cake.

Birthday breakfast for a real man, eggs, hashbrowns, and sausage.

Ben turned a big 3-0 this past Friday!! For his birthday he really wanted to go camping and fishing, so we decided to go up to Payson Lakes. It really was a beautiful place. We got up to our camp site late afternoon (after Ben spent a little over an hour trying to find the perfect spot). The night was perfect, except for one little visitor. While we were eating dinner we heard a little russle by our tent. We flashed our light over and saw a friendly little mouse exploring the tent. Our tent was pretty close to some bushes, so we pulled it our into the more open part thinking that they wouldn't come out that far, but we were wrong. From 10:30 to 3:00 in the morning I tried to tough out the sound of mice trying to jump onto the tent, moving underneath my body, and them rustling in the tarp outside. Ben of course was sound asleep beside me! By 3 I called it quits and headed to the car to sleep for an hour. I wouldn't call it a fun camping experience, but a memorable one none the less.

In the morning we headed out to fish, a little before 6:00. We fished till noon, with absolutely no luck. Finally, we realized that everyone that was catching fish was using a different type of bobber that we didn't have. Fishing actually was pretty fun. It really is relaxing.