Heather's Birthday

After Tom's birthday in June and ALL my July kid's birthdays....then it's mine:)

We were still camping on my birthday...Tom and the kids cooked me breakfast and let me have the first pancake :)

They gave me cards and kept telling me happy birthday all day.  They even gave me a present at camp...a much needed curling iron!!! (the one I really liked died on me last fall while on our trip to Belize)  Anyway...I had to laugh...cause here we were camping and I got a curling iron ;)  I've been using it ever since we got back home!!!

We packed up and headed home...after looking at a map, we decided to go home through the mountains a different way...well we only got kinda lost on some high mountain roads...but it just allowed the kids to nap a bit longer ;) It was HOT like 92 up high!! and VERY DUSTY!!! We stoped by a creek near the Emerald Creek Garnet area for a lunch break and to cool off in the creek.



Look at that dust!!

Tom continued my no cooking day by BBQing hot dogs while we played in the creek ;)

Kids looking for garnets

If I remember right garnets are only found around here in Idaho and in like Africa!

Pretty neat to see all the purple garnet "sand"  Tom said wouldn't that be cool in a sandbox!!

My Big Garnet Find ;)

Tom's Big Gold Find...it sure looks like a flake of Gold!! Maybe ;)

Here's our loot we found

These rocks were cool- the garnets are imbedded in them

We got home, and being my birthday Tom was so nice to let me to take the first shower while the kids and him unloaded all the camping stuff!! Then they all showered and took baths and we headed to town for dinner at Shari's.

And of course--Dessert!!  A turtle sundae is what I picked....YUM...I should of just had that for dinner...It was huge ;) 

Kolby's picture of Shari's to end the night.

Thanks to my family for the wonderful day!!