Happy Birthday Daddy!!! We celebrated Daddy's birthday on Sunday. The kids and I woke up early and made him breakfast in bed. We had hoped to surprize him, but he walked in on us. So after his shower, we made him go back to bed so that we could serve him breakfast. It was a lot of fun. That afternoon, we met our very dear friends at a state lodge and spent the night hanging out together.


Elizabeth is a great imitator. She saw the girls curling their hair, so she picked up the curling iron and tried to do the same. It was very cute.





Do you have any clue what letter boxing is? Well, our good friends gave Mark a beginning letterbox "kit" for his birthday. It is so much fun. It is kind of like a scavenger hunt. You can choose a city that you want to go letterboxing in and search it on the internet. Then, if there are any letterboxes hidden in that city, you can choose which one you want to go hunting for. There are clues given and directions on how to find the letterbox. Once you find it, you journal it in a log book by taking the stamp that you find in the letterbox and stamping your journal log and then take your family stamp and stamp the log that is in the letterbox. Our friends have been doing this since at least August of 2006. They are having so much fun that they wanted us to experience it. We couldn't on Sunday or Monday because of rain, but the kids and I made it an adventure on Tuesday when they had the day off of school. We had a lot of fun.. though we did freeze ... AND we got to the letterbox and realized that we did not have our stamp with us. So, we "stamped" the journal in the letterbox with our fingerprints. We didn't realize we needed a pen either, so we left no note. Oh well.. we are learning!