A couple days before my birthday we headed up to Mom and Ford's house in Idaho. The kids love to fish on their pond. My kids had to camp out while Mac and I got to stay in the house. Tee hee hee. Thank goodness the sprinklers were turned off this year.
Matt pre-norovirus
We then headed to Yellowstone, one of the McFarland family's favorite places. Here we are at Mammoth hot springs
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Mac and I got to sleep in our truck tent. This makes our truck useless to drive while we camp and all of our belongings and food are squished into the front seats. Hmmm...
Winston was such a trooper!
We walked to a hot spring that runs into a river to take a dip. This was our only chance for a bath so we had to take it.
That's me sitting down in the water. Nelson and Evy are heading in. It was a fast current going in, then marvelous when you got to the pool below.
Mac was wonderful at giving child-rearing advice to the kids.
Matt's norovirus was in full swing here. He spent the day throwing up.
This was my actual birthday.
Finally we got back to camp and the kids started cooking my birthday dinner. I snuck into Holly's trailer to lick to cake bowl.
Dutch oven dinner. Mmm mmm good. Casey was our camp chef.
Sami and me.
I did a fish pond for the kids. It was a hit. Mac hid Jack's whoopie cusion in the trees after Jack fake farted fifty times.
Sexy at sixty
Me blowing out my candles.
Raspberry cobbler and chocolate cake.
We took another hike to a waterfall the next day. We all made it across a log successfully!
We all brought sunscreen but didn't think to bring the bug spray. Ouch!
The waterfall was great on a hot day.
Winston and me.
What a rush! Nelson, Casey and Matt.
Ice cream in Yellowstone is a must!
We did the long walk behing Old Faithful. There were many things to see we never realized before.
Good Morning Glory.
