Busy weekend

TJ's birthday, Family Reunion, and 4th of July all in one weekend!

We left for TJ's cabin for the Knight family reunion late Wednesday night, We got there a little after midnight. Parked the trailer as level as we could, crawled into out sleeping bags and crashed! The following morning, Thursday was his birthday. We ate yummy cinnamon rolls for breakfast and moved the trailer down to our spot. I tried to make it feel like his birthday, that's a little tricky up in the mountains, although he is such a mountain man and prefers to be up here than anywhere else. Still he got to open his presents, eat some delicious food, and even get a visit from the birthday fairy (the birthday fairy has been around for every birthday I can remember... Lucky boy, she found him way up in the mountains!)

TJ is the master dutch oven peach cobbler maker. Yes, he did in fact make his own birthday cake.... and it was delicious!

Happy Birthday sweetheart, Thanks for making me the happiest girl!

We thought it would be fun to take the girls on a little 4-wheeler ride to a stream and fish with them. It was pretty swampy and muddy in some areas. TJ hoisted Toby up and trudged to the edge. Sheesh, it is a good thing she is so strong!
Brad let Toby reel in her very own fish! She was SO excited.

Here she is holding onto her catch which she even put back in the water by herself. My little girl is growing up to fast!

TJ was across the stream standing on top of the dam fishing. Toby kept yelling to him "You catchin' any fish Dada?" He was trying, on the wheeler ride over he somehow lost a bolt to his reel so it kept coming apart in his hands as he was trying to reel his line back in. Still, he was determined and caught some!

At one point TJ's line got stuck on something. So he did what any real fisherman would do that only had one spinner... He got in the water and went in after it! He was getting pulled down by some mud and almost ended up in the water! Haha that would have made for one chilly ride back to the cabin!
We had fun fishing with the girls! I'm glad that Tahsha remembered to grab the mosquito spray. We would have been eaten alive! Somehow one still was able to bite me through my shirt and get to my stomach! I was itching like crazy on my nice round tummy!

On our way home from the cabin Sunday. One of our trailer tires blew... It took off a Nice chunk out of the fender and put a small hole up in the inside of the trailer. We already had a leak in our roof that made the floor soggy in some areas, what is one more thing added to the list of things needing to be fixed?? I'm so glad i married such a handy man. We got home and TJ tore apart the whole trailer floor, replaced the wood, sealed all the seams on the roof so hopefully no more leaks and now we just need to purchase some new linoleum for the floor.... Fun stuff!

Monday we had a family BBQ at my parent's house with my family, grandparent's, Aunt Susan, Uncle Pat, Ben, Kate, and Archie. Later that evening we headed to our friend's BBQ and had fun with some fireworks. What a busy, yet still relaxing, fun weekend!