My Birthday!

Yesterday was an absolutely AMAZING day!!!
I was a bit depressed to start out. The last think I wanted was another birthday! I have so many things I have yet to accomplish... and obviously, time isnt standing still.

Anyway...
Thanks to my awesome kids and hubby... it turned out to be one of my best birthdays yet!!

We packed up the truck and headed up to Sullivan County!! GPS in hand!
It is still a sad sight up that way... since all of the flooding. Some people have made their way back and are rebuilding... some are not, as you can see by all of the torn apart homes and buildings... wrapped with yellow caution tape. So unbelievable how hard they were hit.
We started off with a cemetary cache... our favorite!! Beautiful views from that one. Then we headed UP the mountain... OFF ROAD!! Yes, I LOVE my truck!!!! We ended up on the top of a mountain for cache #2... and finding away around a fence to get to it. LOL!! While we were up there, we decided to pull out our kites!!!! OMG... My kite is sooooo awesome!!!! I had so much fun!!!! My grandfather use to take me kite flying when I was a little girl... he would have been proud had he seen me yesterday...lol!
Once we had enough of that... we headed to cache #3 which was by a lake! There we had our first injurty of the day... that award goes to Nathaniel! He took a nice little slide down a big kill... just ended up with skinned up hands, he was lucky. We did find the cache... which was no where close to being where the clue stated... but it was soooo much fun finding it!!!
Then we decided to take a lunch/dinner break, since it was close to 2. FORKSVILLE GENERAL STORE!!!! I LOVE IT THERE!!! We totally recommend the 'Dirty Jersey Fries'! And shame on us for taking my truck through the covered bridge... we were cutting the weight limit kinda close. Oh, while we were there... I got new stickers for the truck and the car!! :-)
We went after a few other caches after eating... 2 we didnt find, and one we did. And we managed to set up the camera for a nice family shot.
I think we WILL be making another trip to find the Ogres and Trolls cache... but I am thinking that one got washed away in the flooding.
Our trip home landed us at a DQ... and looking at a HUGE full moon!!!

I am sore as hell today... LOL!!! I cant believe how sore my arms are from flying the kite!!!! WOW!!! I knew we were flying in some strong, gusty winds... but holy moly!!!

So, here I am today... reflecting on how much I LOVE my kids and hubby... and truck. How lucky I am to have what I have in my life... And it would appear that I have accomplished a whole hell of alot in my 36 yrs of life!!!

Stacy and I are strongly thinking about our next steps... where the next chapter will take us...
And we are all pretty excited about it!!! :-D