Birthday party and drive home.....

We had a BBQ at the lake to celebrate Ainsley’s birthday and it was so much fun.  We had a good turnout of friends and family and it was the perfect way to end our trip!!!

 Our usual cake decorator, Aunt Sue was gone this year, so mom and I had to put something together.  I won't be going into the cake decorating business anytime soon!!!

 Being entertained by cousin Charlie:

A big thank you to mom and dad for letting us stay with them and share our chaos and noise for 5 weeks!!!
 I packed up most of our stuff that morning and then we loaded the car that night and woke up at 5:15 and were on the road at 5:50.  K threw up shortly after we left the lake…there must be something about waking up early and windy roads :o(.  We didn’t really hit any traffic and the only thing that slowed us down was the timing on gas, food and potty….they didn’t really sync.  There were 5 forest fires in Southern Oregon and it was crazy smokey.  We didn’t see any flames, but I looked up the fires on my phone and they were not contained.  Kinda scary.  

I was resting over the pass near Shasta and Ryan let the kids watch a show.  Ainsley threw up and Reggie was so close, but held it down.  This was right before dinner :o(.  Of course, they managed to eat at McDonald’s anyway. 
We made great time and pulled into our house at 8:20!  Nothing like home :o).  We quickly got the kids to bed, unpacked the car and packed Reggie for camp.  He and Ryan left the next morning at 6 a.m. and we are hoping he is enjoying camp.  It has been very strange not having him around and hard not being able to talk to him.  I miss him lots :o(.