Emily turns 30!!!!

While we have been absent from our blog-making duties, someone had a milestone birthday. And no, it wasn't Abe. Emily turned 30 on May 20th! We celebrated by going camping with the whole family (all 4 of us) at Deception Pass on Whidbey Island. It was a beautiful day, and we hung out on the beach for a while before going back to our campsite to make dinner. We made an Emily-and-Neil car-camping classic: campfire pizza pockets. We actually made them the first time we ever camped together 8 years ago, also at Deception Pass. For Emily's birthday dessert she borrowed a recipe from our good friend Kari in Alaska. She made a cobbler in a dutch oven. It had pineapple and cherry pie filling. It was super tasty.

All was well until we went to bed. Or I should say tried to go to bed. Because someone (his name rhyme's with Wabram) didn't want to sleep in the tent. He climbed over Emily for over an hour, and when she got fed up with that, I walked around with him at our campsite. I actually got Abe to fall asleep, but in the process of getting him back into the tent and in his sleepingbag he woke up. Then after more crawling around, I finally took him for a car ride at midnight. We drove for about 30 minutes, came back, and then slept in the car for a few hours. When he finally woke up again he wanted to see Emily, so we went back into the tent, and finally he slept in the tent.

Here is Abe enjoying his camping pizza pocket. He ate almost the whole thing.
Emily tending to the fire, her dinner, and the dessert.
Ooohhhh......birthday cobbler!!!
I took this in the morning. It was a long journey, but Lil' Buddy finally got some sleep in the tent.
We were going to make breakfast at the campsite, but of course it rained during the night and continued into the morning. So we broke camp early and ate breakfast at a restaurant instead. Abe enjoyed his hot chocolate that came with a mountain of whip cream.