Happy Birthday to ME!!!

Rachel was so sweet and invited Jord and me over for cake and ice cream for my birthday.  Thank goodness that she didn't put all 26 candles on the cake or we might have had a bonfire!!  I did get lots of help blowing out my candles.  It was nice to spend the evening with friends.  You can't beat cake and 4 kinds of ice cream.

The next day we decided to go on a hike.  This is a picture from the trailhead.  There are so many places to hike so close to town.  This is up by the ski resort Snow Bowl.  The trail we decided to go on is the trail for the highest mountain in AZ, Mt Humphrey's.  With 4 kids and 2 shih tzus we only made it about a mile up the trail so we decided one of these days the adults will hike to the top.



Headed up the trail.  Aubrey and Brigham really like to walk the dogs.



Jord giving me a big smile when we stopped for lunch.  He always gets excited when he gets to eat gushers.

The pups thought it was a really rough hike.  They were troopers though.  I have never seen them so excited to see water and a place to lie down.



This is just looking down the trail.  It was a busy day and we met a lot of people from all over the country that had big plans to hike to the top.  I am not sure how may people really made it all the way up though.




Brigham showing off a big smile for the camera on our lunch break.



Off we go!!

This is one DIRTY pup!

Here are TWO DIRTY pups!  They were very tired too.

We had so much dirt between our toes after we took off our shoes and socks. SUPER GROSS!

I think the dogs had a lot more dirt on them then we had on us though.

SO GROSS!!! This is the first time we filled the tub.

2nd fill

3rd fill.... they HATE getting a bath.  Especially when we have to keep them in there so long.

Finally... two clean little pups.  They are so cute and fluffy!

So this doesn't go with the hike but when I came out of our room after I got ready yesterday this is what I found.  Lily's head was stuck and she was just crying.  I did have to get just one picture before I let her out because it was pretty cute.