The Bunch Celebrate my Birthday

Now that I am a couple of decades into celebrating my 24th birthday I think we have really been able to get it right. I must say I was a little heartbroken this year when for the first time in about 8 years my youngest daughter didn't surprise me with her homemade decorations. The past several years she has awakened before me and hung her homemade signs all over the house. I realize how hard she worked on crafting each one and how she worked so hard just to make me happy. I knew one day she would outgrow that stage and I am a little sad that this was that year. My youngest daughter is becoming a young woman and will no longer hand color my birthday signs. She did make me a beautiful card though and I will treasure it.

Birthday Day started early 🎈🎉

No big deal for my youngest. He is always up early.

My eldest daughter is ......less of a morning person.

Isn't he cute? He totally gets his Mama.

Her card almost matches my tattoo.

This year D was able to take off all of birthday week. That is because of Covid. No, we don't have it, but it is causing our normally wandering family to stay put for months on end, at least for big trips, so he has a ton of vacation time we can use to just relax. We are pretty much caught up on all our house projects so we have a lot of down time to play games and watch movies. My birthday started early thanks to a horrible warm streak we are having. With a forecast of 106 and a heat index of 112, the birthday hike at the lake I wanted started at 7am. We hiked for about an hour which was about 3.15 miles. It was already becoming miserably hot by the time we finished. Afterwards we came back to the house and my wonderful cute husband made us egg and potato burritos. We also bought the When Calls the Heart season that I have wanted to see. Later we went back to the lake to swim and play for a couple of hours and picked up yummy Mexican food for dinner. It was a perfect day, except for L no longer making her beautiful signs. She did make me a gluten free lemon cake though and it was fantastic. I love lemon flavors. This was definitely in the top 5 of my best 24th birthdays!

Our early hike begins.

It was pretty and secluded.

Not really sure what the guys were fighting about, but obviously didn't include L.

They just realized I was taking pictures.

The girls got me an apron. I love it.

Believe it or not the cylinder held my new Casper pillow D got me. I really love it!

His burritos turned out so good even on my gluten free tortillas.

We had fun at the lake. A didn't join us because she hates swimming.

We had fun for a couple of hours though.

It was literally us and one other family. I love this beach.

We picked up Mexican food on the way home 🏡. Yummy!

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