My favorite way to spend my birthday is with my precious friends - especially when it’s at Cheesecake Factory - yum!(Just a couple of days later, Bethanie gave birth to a baby boy - her 3rd baby)! Thanks to all of you who sent “well wishes” my way. Your friendship means so much to me.
My sweet Friend Liz and I (2nd blonde from left, next to the teal “belly”!) share the same birthday, same year! (she was born just a few hours before me! That means she’s older.)
I decided to make my husband VERY happy and go on a family campout for the weekend. Ok. I don’t do “camping”. It was too hot for flannel sheets, and a down comforter, so I had to improvise. After filling up the queen size air mattress, and placing a mattress cover over the top, I smoothed on my 450 thread count Egyptian Cotton Sheets, fluffed up my down-filled pillow, and plugged in the fan to our electrical outlets that were connected to the handicapped site that we picked out to camp on… Ok. Maybe camping isn’t so bad. (Especially if you remember to bring the extra strength fumigator, and set it off all around your campsite!)
However, there was no moving the bath house any closer to our site. Yep. I had to jump on my bike and pedal (fast, because of all the bears and mountain lions, and other critters chasing you in the pitch black darkness…) all the way to the bathroom, with toilet paper in tow.
After Ken and I fell asleep in the tent watching Bourne Identity on his Laptop (hey, we were still sleeping on the ground), we awoke to the sun coming up.
Here is a picture of our campsite, just for proof that yes, in fact Kelly Johnson DID indeed go camping!
We did do quite a bit of Hiking, Biking, and Swimming on our camping weekend
Ken and Alec Swimming to the Falls
Still Swimming….
Ken and Alec found a hidden “swimming” hole! Boys being boys!
“Addie Grace, are you out there?”
The day began with a 5k race at 6:00 a.m. for me. Ken was nice enough to come out and cheer me on, as I finished with a time of 33:00. For those of you who have raced, or interested in running a race ~ especially in warm weather, I have some incredible advice for you: do not, I repeat, do NOT apply self-tanner to any part of your body the same morning. Let’s just say, those places where you sweat the most…yeah, ALL the tanner will congregate to that one area, and leave a wonderful scary brown spot…need I say more??? I will leave that picture out.
As usual, our 4th of July celebration (day-off) ends up at Crockett Park, up on the Ball Field with several of our friends, to enjoy the spectacular fireworks show. It was awesome this year!
Here are Ken and Alec and I posing for an “Independence Day” photo. I LOVE my boys! ( can’t wait to add another brown-eyed cutie to the photo!)
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