Backpacking in the Uinta Mountains

Beautiful cutthroat trout caught on Burnt Fork creek. I also caught Brook trout and Grayling in this creek.

Austin caught a large 16 inch Brook trout in Round Lake.

Island Lake - about 10,700 feet.

Joel fly casting on Burnt Fork Lake.

Marc, Jed, and Austin on the trail in.

On August 19th I went on a backpacking trip with my brother Marc, nephew Jed, and Jed's friend Austin. We drove to the Burnt Fork drainage on the north slope of the Uintas and hiked in about 5 miles and established a base camp. From there we did day hikes; day 1 to Island and Round lakes and day 2 to Burnt Fork lake.

Happy Birthday Ellary

Happy Birthday to a sweet 7 year old.

Who knew Barbie even had a cruise ship???

Jamie set up a kick ball game with little swimming pools for bases and a slip-n-slide for home. The kids played kick ball for ever.

Gabraylie made a beautiful cake for Ellary. The three candle is kind of a family tradition. Since we always forget to buy candles we always just use that old worn out 3 that we have had in the drawer for years. Its getting to be a standard tradition.

We love you Ellary

Elsa's First Birtday

Happy Birthday little sister. We love you!



Ellary, Elsie, Ivy, Lily and Zoey enjoying the new swing

Weekend work trip to the cabin

For 32 years, everytime it rains at the cabin we have so much mud to deal with. A couple of years ago we had to leave 2 trucks in the driveway that we couldn't get out because of the mud. We finally got smart and put down a gravel road base on the driveway. It doesn't sound that exciting but I am so thrilled about it. It looks like a work of art to me. Mom and Daddy would have loved it so much! What took us so long?

Fun in a drawer

Oh you just can't imagine how much fun can be found in one kitchen drawer. It has been a fun week of grandkids. Elsie came with Brandi for a few days while Tim was out of town. I had Anders and Bella for a couple of days while Angelee is at girls camp. On Wednesday all of the grandkids were at my house plus Paul and Sam came with Amanda (my niece visiting from Texas) and Jocelyn came with Shayla (another niece). Jamie made us lunch and we made sandwiches for all of the kids. I ment to take some pictures but this is the only one I took of Elsie. What a wild and crazy day. At the end all of the mom's helped clean up the disaster before they all went home. Fun summer days.