After taking nearly a 9 month sabbatical from writing in my
blog…I’m back! I decided that a blog is
no fun unless you keep it updated...and I know my daughter in law Brittney
would agree with me there because she’s told me several times that I needed
to!
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| Rod and I on top of Mt. Evans while on our Denver trip - 14,260 ft. |
Today officially marked the first day of summer for me and
the boys! They actually got out of
school on June 1st, but life just got crazy after that. I went to Denver with Rod for 5 days for a
safety conference that he had to go to and then less than a week later I went
to YW Girls camp for 4 days. And all of
that time the boys were hanging out with Grandma and Grandpa Carling...or
driving back and forth so they could go to Scout Day Camp! Then once we finally all got back home, it
took me nearly a whole week to catch up on laundry and cleaning. So today the boys and I finally got go to do
something “summerlike” together...and we had a blast!
I had originally made plans with our friends to go hiking to
Mt. Timpanogas but we were unable to get tickets for today so we’ll have to just
do that another day. In the meantime,
because we had planned to go hiking today, the boys and I did all of our Friday
cleaning yesterday and there was no way that we were going to sit around and
waste a perfectly good day! I suggested that we go swimming because it was
going to be so hot today, but when I suggested that we go hiking up Snow Basin….that’s
what they wanted to do!
It took us most of the morning to get ready to go, so we
didn’t even leave home until noon, but we still packed our lunch and had plans
to eat it at the top of the mountain.
That meant that we didn’t get to eat until after 2:00 because we had to
hike 2 ½ miles to get to the top...and that was only after we drove 30 minutes
to get to the trailhead! It was well worth it though!
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| At the start of our hike |
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| We saw lots of flowers on our hike (this is Scarlet Gilia, my favorite) |
I knew Hayden would love the hike because he’s gone with me
before when I’ve taken Young Women hiking...but I wasn’t so sure about
Connor! In the past, he actually did
more complaining than anything else when we hiked and I definitely didn’t want
to deal with that! I was pleasantly
surprised though! Not only did he not
complain, he had a lot of fun and he only asked if we were close to the top...because
he was hungry, not because he was tired!
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| One of the views near the top |
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| Our "lunch spot"! |
When we finally got almost to the top, we found a bench
alongside the trail and since it was in the shade, we decided that that was
going to be our lunch spot. I decided it’s
not such a bad thing to prolong eating like that because when you do, everything
tastes better than it ever would have if we had eaten it at the bottom of the
trail!
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| We made it to the top of the mountain! |
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| One of the views from the top! |
The views from the top of the mountain were amazing! We were overlooking Ogden and we could see
for miles! It was well worth the
hike! And we had a great time
together! I told the boys that I was sad
that they’re not my babies anymore, but I sure do love that I have some cute
little boys to take hiking with me...and they definitely are good hiking
buddies!
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| We're almost back to the bottom! |
It took us most of the morning to get ready to go, so we
didn’t even leave home until noon, but we still packed our lunch and had plans
to eat it at the top of the mountain.
That meant that we didn’t get to eat until after 2:00 because we had to
hike 2 ½ miles to get to the top...and that was only after we drove 30 minutes
to get to the trailhead! It was well worth it though!
