One Year Older and An Island, Too

I've realized that we aren't really cake people. For years now we've been doing the birthday cake thing because, hey, that's what you do for birthday's, right? I guess either cake or pie. We had birthday pie a lot at our house growing up. Jaxon's last birthday cake (mucho disastero) ended up being tossed in the garbage long before it was close to being gone. Jaxon didn't have any of it...not even a tiny little bit. The rest of the gang ate it out of obligation. I suppose it tasted okay, but seriously, it looked awful! So for Brian's birthday this year I thought I would make something that Brian liked.

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Introducing the rice krispie cake. I realized frosting would completely destroy the cake so I pulled out the curling ribbon and made a little sign on the computer and voila! we had ourselves a very yummy cake! For the record....the cake was eaten in it's entirety within 3 days. I am almost happy to say that the traditional cakes are out at our house.

The following day we took the boys out to Antelope Island. Brian hadn't been there since he was a two year old and (for obvious reasons) couldn't remember anything about it. We figured after 30 years he should see it again!

We took the binoculars to look at the buffalo but as it turned out we really didn't need them. There were plenty sitting close to the road. Jaxon didn't freak out at all. A huge improvement over last summer's trip to Yellowstone.

We made the trek out to Fielding Garr Ranch. This by far was the highlight of the day. I'm so glad we took the drive out there. There were horses, chickens, calf roping (fake calf's at least), and so much history. We toured through all the buildings and learned so much about the islands history. It's amazing (and sad) that we live so close and we don't really know too much about it. Did you know that the oldest house on it's original foundations is located at the ranch? So many cool things to see and a great place to take photos!