Happy 62nd Birthday Momma Jackson!

Look at all those candles! hee hee

Trying to blow them out...

Realizing they are trick candles...

The aftermath of 62 trick candles and not realizing it until it's too late...LOL

Today is Momma Jackson's 62nd Birthday! We celebrated yesterday at Mark Twain Lake in all the rain. Dan and I drove into town, got a cake and candles and surprised her, and everyone else with our candles... Yeah, make sure you read all the fine print on candle packaging! We didn't realize they were trick candles. So, we bring in the cake, Mom starts to blow and they keep re-lighting. Let the panicking begin! LOL. Her cake was a chocolate cake with twix pieces all sprinkled on the top with caramel and chocolate drizzled all over. Yeah, not after the candles, we couldn't get them out in time and you can see the aftermath, lotta wax and burnt twix! LOL After further inspecting the candle packaging, it said in SUPER TINY print, real fun candles relight. Thanks guys!! We probably would not have put all 62 candles on there if we would have realized that! Oh, and by the way, we just scraped all the nasties off and ate the cake anyway! Happy Birthday Momma Jackson! We love you! xoxo

Mark Twain Lake Camping Trip 09

A little bit of fishing...

The camping crew

A little bit of bike riding...

A lot of gorgeous scenery...

A little bit of Hillbilly golf...

A lot of relaxing...

Some sling shot fun...

A lot of good eats..

and a lot of RAIN! We just got back from our Mark Twain Lake Camping trip! Unfortunately it wasn't the best weather, too much rain. But still a lot of fun. This year we went with mom and dad Jackson and Marv and Joyce (mom and dad jackson's friends) and George! It was a lot of fun having so many of us. Lots of campers leads to way too much food and way too many drinks! We had to leave a half day early due to the rain. It would just not stop on Thursday and tent camping is just no fun with all of that rain. So, we didn't get to do as much outdoor stuff as we would have liked but I will take sitting in the rain in beautiful scenery over working and school any day! Hopefully when we go next year we will luck out better with the weather. Thanks everyone for such a great trip!

Alldredge Orchard

The Orchard Pickers

The horses were oh so friendly

Today we went to an Orchard in Platte that I just found online not too long ago and it's only 4 miles from our house! We went to Vaughn's last year and I wanted a little something more, and I found this place. And we got more! I LOVE this orchard. So many photo ops it is sooo pretty. Gotta love the tripod. Oh and yeah our imaginations helped too. You can't tell this family has those can you? I hope the owners didn't mind us grabbing our instruments for the jamming session, we just grabbed what was laying around the barn!! Oh and we might have gotten carried away with the weeds hanging out of our mouths! I never thought I would hear my mom say "Kylie, put your weed in your mouth!!" lol It was so much fun taking all the family pics, next year we need Jessica (she had to work :( ) and Momma and Papa Jackson! They also had the tastiest cookies and apple cake...YUM! We will be back soon!

The Berry Patch

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Today we went to the Berry Patch in Cleveland Missouri. This place was so cute and so fun! They grow and sell TONS of types of berries. Unfortunately I didn't stumble upon this place until the other day and we missed every season of berries except black berries! So, today we picked black berries and I am going to make two scrumptious recipes with them! I am sure you will see pics of those later! To find out more about this cute little place go to theberrypatchonline.com You will love it!

Check out Dan's face, he totally didn't know I was snapping a few and was so excited when he found a ripe berry, we were like little kids! It still cracks me up to see pics of me and Dan together, he is not tall to me anymore, I am use to it. When we first started dating he was soooo tall, but since I am use to it I don't notice it until I see pictures of us, this one cracks me up!