4 Wheeling to Uintah Land

We headed east to drive around and look at the fall colors. We went through Evanston and back into Utah around the area of Bear River Lodge. This is a beautiful area with lots of cabins, miles and miles of 4 wheeling roads and a creeping river.
We are taking our time in looking for some land to build a cabin on and we found some pretty good spots. A realtor let us into one cabin for sale and we just rode around taking it all in.

BSA camp

Aspens were beginning to loose their leaves

We slept in the van... yes all eight of us. It was cozy and ...humid.

Brigham and Jess ended up having accidents during the night and so we had to get their clothes dried out in the morning because we brought no extras!

We listened to general conference on the radio and sat by the campfire.

After conference we rode around some more and this was a cool bridge we went on to cross the east fork of the Bear River. Good times!

This girl steals her Daddy's heart...

when she goes golfing!

Katelyn:Volleyball

Katelyn was super sad when she didn't make the Jr. High volleyball team. With all the practice and training in volleyball this summer that made her a volleyball ROCK STAR when church ball came around! They only lost 3 games and we are waiting to see if they are going on to region. if they go to region I vow to get better pictures ;)!!

 It was fun to play against some of her friends in other wards too!

Briggy loves the ladies...

and sometimes they love him back!

 

 Brigham found this "little" critter crawling around under the big light at one of Amy's softball games. As I am sitting in the stands spectating I look around to see where all the kids are playing. I looked and looked and couldn't find Brigham. Started to get worried and here he was right under my nose, but I couldn't see him because he was surrounded by big girls. the more they said "Ewww" the bigger his smile got!

4 Wheeling to Cascade Springs

Sept 20, 2013
After school and work we headed up to Heber to ride around. It was a beautiful evening!! there were some trees that were turning colors and it was a bit chilly as the sun went down.

The climb up was a bit bumping and rough.

We didn't plan on going to Cascade Springs , but we were glad we did.

 

 "Every second, 1800 average glasses of water come from Cascade Springs"

That's a lot of water!

The Hunt

Mike and his brothers drew out for the hunt in Blanding again. For Labor Day, we were excited to go down and see what the guys could get. We were really excited to ride the four wheelers all over the mountain! Curtis had staked out a nice camp and had the tents set up and everything ready when we arrived.
We pulled the big white van in and unloaded, excited for what lay ahead! In all the hub bub one of Mike's tennis shoes was lost, but he improvised.

A closer look!

We never found the shoe so he was like this all weekend until Curt gave him some shoes.

Brent trying his hand at the bow.

Tyler searching for his arrows.

We had a couple of good games of softball. We drove around on the 4 wheelers and if we saw a good, flat piece of land we would play a game!

This is how Brigham usually ends up when we go riding! He does get a little motion sickness, but mostly just wants to nap.

Jess longing to be up to bat.

Up on Elk Ridge playing ball.

Kristin and kids came up for dinner and Maggie found this little guy.

 

last night on the mountain the guys decided they had some strategery and wanted to get to their hunting spot that night, camp and then be ready to conquer in the wee hours. So they left us at camp and we helped ourselves to some movie time.

Turns out after... that night.. after a few minutes drive they saw this deer. Mike driving, David got ready to shoot and SUCCESS! So they had to carry this deer the whole way up the mountain and hang him in a tree that night to keep the bears away. I was told trying to hang the deer was the best part of the trip! They came back early the next morning with this...

The kids checking it out

Christian asking a lot of questions

Jessie says, "Ewwwww!!!"

 

 

 

 Burnt and Curt

 

By the time we packed up camp and were down to Curt's he had the whole deer skinned and cut up.

Congrats Dave!

 

 

 

After ALL that hunting we have this guy bedded down in the back yard with a hurt back leg and a big " shoot me sign" on his back.

Let a new School Year begin!

 

This year is going to be great!!!

It is an odd year for us so Katelyn is 7th, Amy-5th, Tyler-3rd, Brigham- 1st (all day)

and Christian will be in preschool. New teachers that an older sibling hasn't had before too.

 

How many kids get to see the temple as they walk to school?

 

Katelyn is on a new adventure

 

MILLCREEK JUNIOR HIGH

Go Mustangs or ("horsies")!

She is also too cool to let mom take her picture.

 

Okayyyy- get out of here!

Camera Issues

Did you think I wasn't going to blog anymore? I really want to keep blogging! I am so frustrated with our computer and imaging devices. The computer won't sync pictures with anything with pictures on it- iPods, iPhones or cameras. I thought it would be our Norton, but disabled it and the problem still existed. We have Windows 7 so I guess I will try Microsoft next. I have looked at complaint threads online and others are having this issue, but no one has found a fix... ahhhh

Stay tuned... I guess....