The Uinta's

We just got back from a trip to Utah. We always drive through the night, when we drive long distances. This time was no different. We let the kids sleep all night and Travis and I take turns driving. We download a few good books on our iphones and it usually helps us to not get sleepy. This time, Livie ended up crying a lot during the trip and we had to keep pulling over and taking her out of her carseat to calm her down. Then we would put her back in her seat and drive until she started to cry again. It was a hard drive and it took us 15 hours instead of our usual 12. We arrived in Utah on a Friday morning and headed to my little sisters house. We stayed with her for a night and my kids loved playing with their cousins. The next night we headed over to my BIG sisters house and crashed with her and her family. Again, my kids loved it!! We are so blessed to have such WONDERFUL family.

This past week we have been camping in the Uinta's (utah) with my family. All of my siblings and all of their spouses and kids made it on this vacation, which does not happen too often, so of course we documented with pictures! We stayed at Trial Lake, like we do every year, and it was pretty cool, literally. We brought and WORE our coats. On our hike to Wall Lake we got to play with snow.

There were mosquito's EVERYWHERE. They swarmed around us, all the time. We constantly put on sun screen and burned citranella candles, and STILL we got bitten!!

We were lucky enough to borrow a camper-trailer from Travis's parents. They were so generous in letting us use it, and bringing it up for us and also picking it up and taking it home for us. Bob (trav's dad) is so giving of his time and we appreciate him.

My little sister, Ilesha, of course brought hair and nail supplies, so we weren't too uncivilized! There were 3 campers (or 5th wheels, I guess I don't fully understand the difference) between all of the family, so we all crammed in together and stayed warm and bug free (at least while we were sleeping). It was so cold we NEEDED a camp fire all day long. That being said, we could not keep anyone out of the freezing cold water!!! The men loved jumping in and swimming around Trial Lake. At WAll lake, almost everyone jumped the cliffs to the water below, and you would hear everyone scream as they hit the water and when they came up out of the water,the first thing that everyone screamed was "It is so cold. It's freezing!!!" Even though it was no secret that the water felt like ice, everyone continued to jump in!