Tuesday, July 6, Grandma and Grandpa drove us past Park City, up to the
Uinta Mountains. There is a place about thirty miles from
Kamas and forty miles from
Evanston, Wyoming called Mirror Lake. Aunt Judy, Uncle Jeremy and the cousins came with us.
We stopped to enjoy this waterfall.
Grant broke into his happy run as soon as his feet hit the trail. "I love coming this place!" He said.
There's Aunt Judy.
The big kids climbed down the rocks to play in the stream below the waterfall. Sam was the first to get soaked. Here he is after..not looking as wet as I hoped he would for the picture, but still smiling because his
itouch was still working after the impromptu bath.
Utah is so green this year! The younger kids enjoyed watching a very social chipmunk. (Not pictured.)
Then we drove further up the mountains to the lake where we had the picnic lunch that Grandma packed for us.
We ate lunch by a stream.
Grandpa showed the boys how to catch fish with their hands.
Then we all took a walk toward the lake.
Just enough snow left for a snowball fight.
Pioneer Day Olivia asked me, so nicely, if we could go somewhere out of town to celebrate. She agreed to a picnic at Mirror Lake. We took a trip there in the summer of 2010 with Grandma Julia and Grandpa Bob. I still think it is the most beautiful place in Utah.
Something about this picture of Grant reminds me of his Great-grandpa Alden. Maybe it is the Maine-like backdrop of pine trees and big clouds.
Here's a link to our 2010 visit. The kids have grown so much.
I think my polar bears were the only kids swimming. I didn't anticipate how cold it would be there. I forgot that the kids had played in some residual snow in July 2010.
