Over the hill or on top of the mountain?

 “The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.” ~ Madeleine L'Engle

This was a big birthday for me, I have not really thought much about other milestone birthdays . . . they came and went and I still felt ~ young!  But for some reason 60 has seemed a huge thing because it seems, well, old!

 Tiffany flew in from Phoenix to surprise me a few days before my birthday ~ what a wonderful surprise it was!

 Charlie and I almost share a birthday ~ if he would have waited a few more minutes, we would have!  He so wanted to go camping last year, but the weather was cold and wet and we didn't have a vehicle to pull the trailer . . .  so we got the Toyota Tundra, the weather was great and we were set to go this year!

 Ashton, Hunter, Charlie and James kept exploring the paths around camp and kept our wood pile filled up with their treasures.

 This just makes me smile ~ Joshua ~ too cute!

 Ethan and Joshua

 At the beach at Payson Lakes ~ Hunter, Charlie, Conner, Cory, Hunter, Ray, Joshua and Sandy

 Now, this is the life !~ Ethan

 Ashton goes wading while Nathanial and Arianne cheer him on

 Joshua and Megan basking? in the sun

 Arianne and Nathanial

 James and Ethan ~ canoeing.  James wasn't too sure he liked that boat ride

 Ray and Cory out fishing with Ashton and Hunter

 Nathanial and the squirrel ~ it was the cutest stare down.

 Fisherman returning

 Ray, Ashton and Hunter showing their catch.  I so wish we would have had a camera in the boat.  Those little boys were pulling in fish as fast as Papa Ray could get them off the hook and baited.  Delightful!

 Hiking around the lake

 Mama and her ducklings

Ashton, Joshua, Megan, Ethan, McCaleb, Cory, Hunter, Brittany and Sandy ~ Payson Lakes.

Abraham Lincoln: “And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”