Chris's 27th and Caden's 3rd Joint Birthday Party Super Picture Post!

Chris putting on his new "kicks" I got him

Birthday Party for the 2 boys at North Canyon Park

Caden got some spongy letters

Showing us how cool his tattoo is with a tough face

Caden got a paper cake this year

Blowing out his 3 candles

Chris got a turn with blowing out the paper cake candles too

We all got a piece of cake

Inside the cake were party poppers. Caden needed help with them

Mom got most of the party poppers popped on her

Chris was so excited for me to gather all of the confetti and make him a hat!

Playtime at the park

He was teasing me about how much taller he was then me.

Caden squealed like a little girl down every slide

Pretty fall-time house

Waiting for mom and dad at the house

Grandma and Caden posing on the tractor

The tractor needed to be fixed before they could have fun on it

3 Polka dots courtesy of Caden sitting on mom's lap

The never-ending rock pile the boys put into Chris's hands. He would dump it and they would fill it again

Grandpa and Caden having fun on the tractor for his birthday

Digging the mountain


Since Caden and Chris's birthdays are only one day apart, we had a joint party. More for Caden than anything. We started at the park, and had a little picnic dinner. The presents were brought out, and the cutest little paper cake that Tiffany bought off Etsy from a lady that has kids with allergies. It was super cute. The cake opened a flap on the top to reveal a party popper in each slice. We all got a slice and popped our poppers. There were extra, and Caden had so much fun popping them all. Chris got a turn blowing out the candles. Caden wanted to go play in the park, so I went over there and took a lot of pictures. He showed me how high he could jump, squealed down every slide, had me carry him over the rope area, and I chased him around. We then went to the house so Caden could ride the tractor. It had to be fixed, so the boys helped fix it quickly for it's fun run. We got to see the progress on the house. It was a really great day!

Celebrating Chris's Birthday At Timpanogas Cave

Chris and I waiting to hike

Waiting by the river

Chris's idea to gather sunflowers to put on his Dad's car

Sunflowers!

A tunnel on our way up

Cave

The spiny helictites are the small things on the side of what they call "The heart of Timpanogas Cave. Only 3 caves in the world have the right conditions for them

Putting the light on one of the small ponds in the cave

The room with all of the different forms of mineral deposits

Beautiful view from the trail of Utah County

Bryan and Dano accompanied us on our hike

The grate that the 12 yr.old peed in

Beautiful hike this time of year

Today is Chris's actual Birthday, but I thought it would be fun to do something different. We celebrated it yesterday. We were deciding between Park City and Timpanogas Cave, but looked online and saw that the cave was free yesterday because of National Parks Day. First come first serve. We were nervous that we would not get in, but were able to easily. We went with Chris's brother, Bryan, and his girlfriend, Dano. The wait to be able to even start the hike up to the cave was 2 hours. We got something to eat, and just walked around, up and down the river. On the way up, Bryan looked over and saw his Dad with the scout troop up there. Small world. Chris decided to pull up a ton of sunflowers and put them on his car. We got up in 20 minutes, and they let us go in the early tour instead of having to wait for our tour which would not start for another hour or so. This was my second time, and everyone else's first time. It was really neat. Very educational. The caverns are so small, and there are so many places that you could not be overweight to squeeze through. The history of the caves and all of the stories are so fascinating and fun to hear. Timp Cave is famous for their helictites. One of only 3 caves in the world to have them. The conditions have to be perfect for them to form. Since Timp Cave is still living, they are still being formed. The cave is 45° all year round. Very chilly inside.
A funny story about our way up..... A kid about 12 yrs. old was running down the trail. He looked as though he saw a dead body or something. He was asking very fervently if there was a bathroom near. There are only bathrooms at the top and very bottom. Chris and Bryan jokingly said that that was the purpose of the grates on the sides of the trail. He threw down his gear quickly and proceeded to just zip open his pants and pee in the grate right then and there, not caring who was seeing. I couldn't believe how desperate he was. We had a good laugh over it.
We ended up going to Ruby River Steakhouse for dinner, and going out for ice cream at our favorite place. We watched a movie and went to bed. All-in-all a great day

Picnic In Logan Canyon

Pretty Leaves!

Chris on the bridge

Pretty river

Us!

My cute husband!

On Sunday, Chris's extended family got together for a Picnic in Logan Canyon. It was so pretty with all of the leaves changing. We had a delicious potluck feast, played with all the kids, and had a fire with oversized marshmallows and smo'res. It was delicious.