Tory takes a ride in the Firetruck. And yeah, there's more ↑

I’ve had to start titling these posts with a year extension as we come around to doing the same events year after year, but what the hey… I could do some kind of clever title, but that’s not what this site is all about so again – what the hey.

That aside, the Kids Fair went off again this year and thankfully the weather has finally turned here as it was a beautiful day. I wasn’t actually there this year, but luckily the camera was and I can live it as everyone else who wasn’t there does. I heard Tory took a tumble head over teakettle style on the big slide and decided he’d had enough… I don’t see any pics of Tegan here, but I know for a fact she was there… Sorry Tegie, this isn’t second child syndrome, I don’t think.

The ice cream man commeth. Click for a few more.

The ice cream man drove by the other night, and it being such a rare event, Sam decided to partake.

And no, I don’t normally let my kid go shopping in his birthday suit. It was a swimming pool/potty training thing.

Tory takes it off trail. Click the pic for more of this schtick.

We always go to the Uintas to camp, because it’s relatively close, and so very woodsy-mountainsy. But we like to explore new places too, so we treked on up near Powder Mountain to a place that looked pretty good on the map. The bummer part is that lots of other people had that same crazy idea, and there was no room at the inn. So we drove around for a while, detouring at a road that read “National Forrest access.” To me, that means there’s probably lots of little roads here and there that one could pull off on and find a little spot to camp. Neeuuop.

Long boring story short we ended up back in the Uintas 4 hours later, and vowed never to try a new place again. At least not until next time.

We camped and hiked for the weekend with Michelle, Sam, and Soph, and had quite a nice time chllin’ in the woods. We even had to swat at some mosquitos, which I thought were extinct here in Utah. What? What’s that I don’t hear from my Minnesota friends?

Tory and Soph are starting to become real troopers in the field, both hiking most of the way there and back. I think we made it all of 3 miles in! Actually, I carried Tory most of the way back on my shoulders after he fell into the drink and soaked himself from the belly down.

Sophia, Tory, and Monty on a trek (click above for more images)

We’d planned on heading down to Fruita for the weekend, but the forecast was dire. The prospect of spending the weekend ducking the rain with the kids was enough to keep us in closer range to home, so we headed up to the Mirror Lake area of the Uinta’s with Michelle, Sam and Sophia for an evening around a campfire.

The food, the fire, and the company was good – and the rain held off for the evening. The next morning it still hadn’t started raining, so we went out for a little hike, and then it started raining. It was a nice weekend in the woods.