Birthday Bliss

On July Fourth 1989, during the fireworks I was born to two wonderful parents. I guess you could say I came out with a bang! (I was tempted to put a baby picture up, but I was not a cute newborn...)

The last few years I have hid in the serenity of my grandparents house in Eagle Lake California. This year, we discovered we have a water dog!

She didn't know it, and neither did we, but now she can't get enough of the water!

Nothing can beat the calm lake, and of course the private beach is a plus. Last year the lake was too low to go boating but it was up a little this year so after several hours of restoring the boat back to normal after taking a couple years off, we made our way down to the dock and spent some quality time enjoying water sports.

I stuck to the boat and manned the flag (and the camera) but after many hours under the hot sun I could no longer resist the temptation and jumped in the clear blue water.

That night we ventured into the tiny town for dinner. Little did we know, there was only one very unqualified chef.. We waited two hours for our food. It was pretty ridiculous but once our food finally came (thanks to the help of some concerned patrons) it was delicious.
We ate at record speed and went home to cake and ice cream in celebration of my birthday.

We left early on the fourth and had a very relaxing afternoon lounging around. It seems like Jared and I never get time to just lay around anymore so it was so nice to have no worries.

We ended the weekend by enjoying a spectacular fireworks show from the park next to our place with my sister and step-dad and look forward to making next year just as awesome!