my birthday weekend

For my birthday this year I took an extra two days off and went down home to Bicknell. I had a sleepover with Tal, Laine, and Sawyer Wednesday night and it was a lot of fun. We all went to dinner at the Sunglow.

Laine did her own hair-so cute! Sawyer giving high-5's, pounds, & thumb's up.

Tal & Marie laughing and having fun.

On Thursday I was supposed to go with Dad and Grandma Jensen to Richfield but Grandma came down with the flu. So when I got home on Thursday morning Dad said that I was going to spend the day with him instead and go get firewood and maybe build some fence. We went out on the North Slope to get the firewood and boy was it a ride! We crossed Carcass Creek and when I saw the condition of the road I looked at Dad to see if he was serious about driving down it. As far as I was concerned there was no longer a road just a wash with billions of boulders, the smallest being about the size of a basketball. I was a little afraid that Old Green wasn't going to make it and fall apart as we bounced across. I should have taken a picture of it but was too busy holding on and trying not to hit my head on the roof of the truck. When we finally finished that section and got to an open meadow, Dad casually stops the truck and says he better put it into 4-wheel drive. I looked at him in disbelief and said "It's going to get worse than what we just did?!" "Yep." he said with a little smirk on his face.... So below are some picture of what we then crossed in trying to get to Dewey's Upper Road where there was a log that dad wanted to get to.

Here's the part of the road that Dad put Old Green in 4-wheel drive for.

Good Ol' Green was a trooper and held together well. You can see from the sides of the tires that it was quite a little jaunt! We got the truck loaded with firewood and I was even lucky enough to see some fall colors still - not a lot but some.

On my birthday, Friday, I went to Richfield with Mom for a day of shopping. It was a lot of fun. That night Brandon, Marie, & the kids came over for homemade pizza and games. The kids liked blowing out the candles on my birthday pumpkin roll. Brandon finally had to take matters into his own hands!

Saturday we went to the holiday craft fair and that afternoon we had Tal's b-day party. It was a Knight and Princess party so we all dressed up and a make sheilds and had sword fights. It was fun and Tal loved it. He even fought and conquered the Dark Knight!

It was a good weekend and we had lots of fun! Happy b-day to me & Tal!