Water trip/Birthday party!

The other day was our dear neighbor/friend's birthday! For this special day Mr. Bryson wanted to go on a water outing. Around noon we headed out with a passenger car, old truck with a row boat and canoe in back and a 12 passenger van with canoe inside. Of our family only Dad, Faith, Joshua and I (Grace) went along with Timothy, Daniel and of course their father.




Two canoes and a row boat.

Oxymoron?!?


Dad playing around with the sign. =)

The weather was just perfect and being overcast for most of the time was nice.

Some nature photos while waiting to launch.

I did not take my digital camera with us on the water so no pictures of the enjoyable and hilariously amusing time we had! Mr. Bryson, Faith and I started out in the row boat and us girls got to learn how to row while the birthday 'boy' relaxed in the front of the craft and received the ride of his life! The story's to long to tell right now but lets just say that I think we might have finally gotten the hang of it when we took a break and stopped and explored a little island (we even named it!) and then when the other guys met up with us we then headed back to the dock and not one of us got back totally dry! (Notice my skirt is rather wet in the above picture). It was fun anyways and we all cannot wait 'til another trip is scheduled!

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Happy Birthday Mr. Bryson!

Our gift of "Chubby Hubby" ice cream! (that's one of dad's favorites too!)

A forest fire cake!! Actually its was a beautifully created covered bridge over a river!

Can he do it!?

One candle still burning!

With the shirt we gave him. Classic tractors!

God has truly blessed us with these dear friends and it was a pleasure to be able to help celebrate Mr. Bryson's special day!

"Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, And whose hope is the LORD." Jeremiah 17:7