Birthday Fun!

Wow, my family spoiled me this week! We have been able to play a lot and it has been wonderful to spend so much time together! Mark wasn't able to be with us though, and I sure missed him! On Thursday we all headed up to West Yellowstone to watch the play "Guys and Dolls." I hadn't ever seen that show and it was pretty cute! On the way up Dad insisted that we stop and take a drink from the natural spring fountain on the side of the road:




On Friday, I was woken up early in the morning for a birthday breakfast! It is a fun tradition that our parents started when we were small children. Mom decorates the dining room with streamers, balloons, and fun birthday plates. When she started the tradition I bet she never dreamed that she would still be carrying it out over 20 years later! haha. She is the best! She always makes us feel like we're worth a million bucks on our birthdays.


I was lucky enough to spend the afternoon with my sisters and Mother. It's always precious to spend time with my girls. We went to the Museum of Idaho to visit the Titanic exhibit. I admit that I am kind of a history nerd and I have been wanting to go to this exhibit since it first came in March, but being full-time in school this summer I was never able to go. It closes tomorrow, so we had to go before then! Mom, Jamie and I had never even seen the Titanic movie, so we made sure to watch it before we went. I'll tell you what, that movie is made very accurately in regards to the facts of the actual sinking! When you first enter the museum you are given a card with a name and information about a person who was really on the Titanic ship and you get to find out at the end if you survived. Mom, Mel and I survived, but Jamie's person didn't make it, which was sad. It was incredible though! I loved every minute of the tour.


After the museum we were quite hungry, so we went out to lunch at Red Robin. I have only been there once several years ago, but I was pleased! The food was very good. Jamie of course had to tell our waiter that it was my birthday, so he rallied up the group and they sang me a birthday song. It was pretty embarrassing :) But they did give me a free ice cream sundae and that helped ease the embarrassment! Oh the things we do for dessert! haha.

(I promise I don't always eat like a pig! haha)

Oh man, lunch was a good time! We get a little bit silly when we're all together and the girls had me laughing so hard I could barely breathe. There is never a dull moment when the 4 Walker women are together!

I am so grateful that I was able to celebrate the weekend with my family! The activities are fun, the gifts are appreciated, but the time spent with my family is precious above all to me! I am one lucky woman.