Tom's Birthday

Tom's 31st birthday has come and gone. This year Tom rally want to go camping but we didn't really have the money for the gas and stuff to really do it, so we camped in the backyard. Tom took Thursday and Friday off, so we camped out Thursday-Saturday night. We busted out the fire pit every night and made s'mores and the like.


We also set-up the tent so we could have the "real" experience. Since we had one of the nieces over we got out the big tent, kind of glad we hadn't gotten rid of it yet after buying the smaller tent a few years back.


We always let the pups camp with us too, we tried the first night without any puppy beds and it was a total failure. Buddy wouldn't stop moving and tried to kick each of us out of our sleeping bags and Izzie couldn't keep her cool with the fireworks going off.


The niece was all settled in and had her flashlight and was ready to read all night, but she fell asleep as soon as we caved and brought out the dog beds and Buddy settled down.


She was out cold and seemed to sleep pretty well through the night. She was still out cold after I woke up Friday morning and had to go get ready for work, because I didn't have Friday off like Tom.


Tom wanted a "sleeping" picture of him too...but he was already awake that goober.


Tom's one other birthday request was homemade root beer. We had never done this before but we managed alright. We all had a great time playing around with the dry ice during the "brewing" process.





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