30 rocks

 

 

 

our little girl turned 30 this week.

 

 

how does life fly by so quickly?

how do you have a baby and then in a couple blinks

of an eye she is 30?

 

every year (yep all 30 of them) i have stood these

two side by side and taken their picture together on her

birthdays.

 

to see the whole lineup is amazing.

it's a trip down memory lane- a trip that

includes shockingly short shorts (and i'm talking about dale's not adria's),

knee high socks &

fuzzy perms.



what it also documents is their sweet relationship.

they quietly and playfully adore each other

 

 

 

 

the guys spent a rainy day at the lodge finishing

the inside of the shop so we can heat it.

 



i rather like these exposed beams and have to say that i will miss them-



 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

while they were all out in the shop working, i was inside whipping up

the birthday celebration.

 

we celebrated adria & chris's 30th birthdays (2 weeks apart)

and seth turning 14.

 

my brother in law david turned 60 last weekend too and

we wished we could have been two places at one time so

we wouldn't have had to miss his surprise party.

(love you uncle dave)!



 

the birthday girl requested lasagna for dinner and angel food cake.

this was my quick attempt to make them all feel equally celebrated.

(in case you don't speak hunter language- that's a deer silhouette

on the top.)  use your imagination- work with me here! lol

 

 

 

 

 



 things got a little out of hand at the table when seth wouldn't stop pestering his

dad and his dad wouldn't stop snapping him with a balloon to get him back.

adria kept telling them to cut it out and then her big brother turned and

snapped HER with the balloon.  she yelled "that HURT"- and 

then tried to stab him with her butter knife.

i had to holler "stop it---all of you!!! the nearest medical facility

is 40 minutes away"!!!!!!!!!

 

*quick smooch from my big sweetie as he cleared the table- we had
all been laughing hysterically after the afore mentioned commotion.

 

 

 

sunday morning the sky cleared and adria

and seth were practicing shooting their bows.

when i went out to take their picture and hang with them a

bit i got a lesson.

 



 can i just tell you how hard pulling back a bow is?

it took alllllllll the power i had in my arthritic old bod to do it~

and i have a bruise the size of an orange on my arm from the string.

people that don't hunt have no idea how much work and

dedication goes into the sport!

 

 

well that's a wrap of the family birthday weekend up north.

 

 

it got long--- so thanks for sticking with me!

xo, b