My Birthday!

My birthday started with being sung to at midnight on the 31st but a room of semi-drunk people.  I think there may have been a few sober people.  I still enjoyed it quite a bit.  Plus, Sundi told me repeatedly that it was my birthday, just in case I forgot.   The next morning after some tasty corn fritters for breakfast, we headed out to cut down a tree for the Idaho Tiki Torch.



After taking a little snowy detour we went back to the smaller pond for a tree there.  A nice dead tree was found and Ben cut it down with Luke, um, nearby.  We decided to stand further back to watch the action.



That's the tree coming down on the pond and us watching from the other side.  After the tree was done the boys worked at cutting it into smaller pieces to take back to the house.

Look, we all have Sorels!


Aren't we cute?  Actually I'm not so cute in this photo but it was cold, yeah, that's my excuse.


And then we drug them back to the house.  Our chain only broke once on the way.

Before we headed over to the party at the Madsen's Josh and I had the opportunity to be a part of an old family tradition at the Stansell household.  We lit the candles on the Christmas Tree.  Don't worry, it wasn't for too long but it was very peaceful and beautiful.

And THEN we headed over to the party.




And played some more Wii

And wore silly wigs

And just had a good time

Some a little more than others....

I missed out on the hot tub fun and came back to the house with Betsy but we had a nice chat or I think we did.  I did have a few drinks and was very talkative that night.  Happy Birthday to ME!