Camping in the Uinta National Forest

Over the 4th of July we took an extended camping trip to the Uinta's.  It was so great to get out of the heat!  Plus it is so beautiful.

I don't know what they are playing, it doesn't matter, because whatever it was they were not fighting!

Paul took the kids on a snipe hunt. 

Ellie and her rendition of "Kevin" from the movie up.  I can see it, can you.  She did this all with no help.  What a girl!  I'll help you out if your not seeing it.  Toward the top left the wood piece there is Kevin's head then follow that down to the back and body.  The bottom is his feet and the tail is cut off a bit in the picture. 

Trey chilling out on his new camping cot.  He can now lay down outside without being on the ground.

 

Fishing at Whitney Lake

Tinfoil dinner 

 

The night of the 5th of July, we had just gotten the kids down to bed and it was probably about 9:30pm.  Paul and I decide to head back outside to enjoy the night sky and cool air for a bit.  We come out the door and I turn to the left a bit and look out past the trailer and see Moose here.  I let out a little gasp and Paul is like "What" then he sees what I see.  Moose is stopped about 50 yards from the trailer in an opening chewing on some grass.  He see us and doesn't do anything, but keeps his eye on us.  We didn't move for a little bit and were prepared to run back into the trailer if necessary. 

Since Moose seemed just fine with what was going on I decided to slowing go back into the trailer for my camera.  I grabbed my Nikon D80 which was handy and it had one of my zoom lens on it.  I knew this would be a difficult lighting situation because, really there was hardly any light left.  I didn't have a tripod with me either.  I couldn't use a flash because at 50 yds it wouldn't help and only serve to scare Moose, which I didn't want.  So I bumped up my ISO really high and dropped my shutter down and opened up my aperture as much as I could.  So the pictures aren't the best but just being there was so cool.

Moose made his way across the clearing, he ended up coming about 30 yds from us.  Then made his was across and up the mountain behind the trailer.

Paul and I couldn't believe it, wow, what an experience.

 

 

My handsome man

 

Another day of fishing. 

 

Saturday night we had a huge rain storm mixed with chunks of hail.  We had fun keeping the fire going so we could have banana boats later.

 

Bald Mountain Pass Overlook 

 

Provo River Falls





Tennis Lessons

A neighbor of ours does tennis lessons and since Paul never can get out on a court with the kids I thought it was a good idea to do lessons and introduce them to tennis.  Plus it gave Brett and Ellie something to do for an hour a few times a week for a couple of weeks.

Trey VIP TBall

Trey had a wonderful time with Tball this year.  Again he had two awesome buddies to help him, Easton and Brett.

Baseball for Brett

The baseball season came and went so fast.  Which is really ok because June heated up so fast!  Brett loved baseball this year, he had many friends on his team with him.

Happy Birthday Trey!

Yep, another year has flown by and Big Shot is now 11 yrs old.

This year for gifts he received some garden art for his garden and we took the family to the zoo. 

Happy Birthday Trey!  We love you.

Grandpa Meanea refinished his sign, Daddy hung it back up for the summer.

 



Trey - You are my Sunshine 

Trey's hoping the elephant sprays his brother and sister :) 

The polar bear behind the kids is made of Legos

This polar bear is not made of Legos.

 Yummy, these little kids sure do look tasty!

 

So this gorilla was totally fixated on Trey.  Checked Trey out for a good 4 minutes.  It was really interesting how he just wanted to look at Trey when all these other kids where around.  The gorilla kind of ignored people then stood and looked at Trey for a while.