It is a tradition that every year for my birthday, we girls spend it in the mountains. It is usually my only chance to be surrounded by colorful fall leaves. I love this time of year! It is always so beautiful. This year Kelsey and Audrey took me up the canyon, to Doc's Flat, above Mantua. We went on a mile hike to our picnic site. Alia led the way for grandma! I spotted the first signs of Fall... two colorful leaves on the path.
Kelsey made harvest soup and homemade rolls. Audrey made a pumpkin sheet cake (another tradition). All went well, accept... the frosting spilled all over in the bag, so the girls had to squeeze it out of the bag onto the cake. And then the bees came, and lots of them. We were swatting, running, screaming! We had had it with them. They were getting into our food, into our drinks, swarming us. Ben had some frosting on his chin, and a bee landed on it, thinking he was going to eat a feast. I screamed "Ben!" and swung at the bee sitting on his chin. That bee wasn't going to sting my Ben! Ben started crying as soon as I swatted at him, and he didn't stop. I think he thought grandma was mad at him! It was so sad. We ate what we could, packed up from our suppose-to-be serene picnic in the mountains, and scrambled for the car. We couldn't get out of there fast enough!
Another year down!
2 comments:
It was till fun though. Even that mile hike! Ben stayed mad at you for a week after that.
I'm glad you had a nice birthday.
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