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So I'm not doing a very good job with this blog. The longer I go without posting, the more intimidating it seems to get. But here goes. We just had a visit from my family - Ben, Leslie, Ryan and Mom and Dad. And I got to throw Ryan a birthday party AND bake him a cake! His fourth birthday was the 30th and we celebrated in Ryan style: hot dogs, watermelon, broccoli, and one very big cake. The cake is my invention and a replica of a cake I made in high school during Homecoming. I don't know why I made a cake for Homecoming, but I did. And I've never had cause to make it again until now! I figured Ryan would appreciate it more than most: he is a cake aficionado. He prefers it over any other dessert... I asked him once what his favorite kind of cake is, and without pause he said, "I like lemon cake and carrot cake and white cake and chocolate cake and angel cake and GRASSHOPPER cake!" (he and I had just made a grasshopper cake to add to his repertoire). Anyway, I think he enjoyed eating it almost as much as I did making it (and I'm sure he enjoyed it more than Mom did frosting it).

This is the "calculator" that we gave Ryan. We had these as kids... Ryan thought it was pretty cool. He had LOTS of birthday presents to open.

Ben wanted to go 4-wheeling this year so they did an all-day adventure in the backcountry near the old ghost town of St. Elmo. Ben, Leslie, Ryan and Michael went and Colt and I hung out in the cabin at Mt. Princeton, which was just fine with me - I did enough 4WDing the last two summers to last a lifetime. They apparently had lots of fun because Ben decided to drive all the way back to St Elmo (2 hours or so) to go a second time. The second time Dad got to go - and they did a 65 mile loop, and it rained all afternoon and was about 50 degrees. And so......

....when they got back they spent quite a long time in the hot tub. Ben, Ryan, Dad and Michael. Don't know what it is about men and hot tubs. Michael keeps ours so hot I can hardly get in it, yet all the guys rave about it.

Mt. Princeton Hot Springs, where we stayed overnight, had a very cool waterslide that reminded me of the waterslides in all those northern Minnesota resort towns that we went to as kids. But they didn't have as good a view! Ryan ended up backwards every time. Ben asked him why he always dumped in backwards, and Ryan said "because I'm not very good at it yet and I need more practice." He's so cute.

And of course we took Ryan to the North Pole. That was a blast. It's such a cute amusement park for little kids. Despite the serious look on his face, he did have fun. This was right before we left and he was thoroughly worn out. It's fun having them visit! The house always seems so quiet after Ryan leaves! :) I guess I didn't get many pictures of Grandma and Grandpa - or of anyone but the boys for that matter.

September 12, 2008 by Lynn in colorado | | permalink