My birthday

Bradley's favorite part of camping...although he is embarassed that I put this pic on here and wants me to take it off.


For my birthday we went camping. My Friend Mark, Bradley and I went to Knob Noster so we would be close to the state fair. It was so weird. The weather was PERFECT. I mean it almost felt like God wanted me to have an amazing birthday so he made the weather JUST for me!!! We got there kind of late on Friday night so we set up the tent and put Bradley to bed and then Mark and I stayed up and talked and drank a few beers. It is August and we were cold! We didn't bring sweatshirts or anything so we covered up with towels. It was kind of funny. The next day, my actual birthday, Mark had to help his dad so Bradley and I went to the state fair. It was again perfect weather. We did have a few raindrops but nothing to even make us flinch. We watched some shows, learned some fire safety, fed the animals and bought a few things. Then we headed back to the campsite. Bradley fell asleep on the way home which was kind of a bummer because he didn't get to enjoy the fire or smores or anything that goes along with camping. He must have been tired because he slept the whole night! Mark and I made smores but were really tired from being up most the night before (there was a racoon that had NO fear in our stuff all night). So we called it a night early and good thing we did because Bradley woke up at the crack of dawn ready for the day. I got up with him and tried to get the fire going again but being a girl wasn't too successful...so we had to wait for Mark to get up. He was able to get it going....thanks to Bradley and him finding some small sticks...which made Bradley say...and I am quoting here "boys have to do everything while girls just get to sit and relax" yep that is how it goes. I mean who went and got all the food, all the camping stuff together, made sure we had clothes and pillows and blankets and bug spray. It is funny that at such a young age boys already feel this way. And Mark did not say anything to make him say something like this. Oh well, I guess some things never change! We had a really good time but we had to hurry up and pack up because our tickets Dad won for being Father of the Year were Sunday so we had to get home for that. But I think we will start camping more often. I loved it and love that you can just hang out and not feel bad doing nothing!