A birthday and a birthday and a birthday.

Sunday evening we had a birthday dinner for:

James

Alex

and Cody.

Poor little Logie has a black eye.

Caution:  Beware of grandchildren when lying on the grass.

It was fun to be able to visit with Steph and Jared before they headed back to Michigan.

Mirror Lake 2011

We had been a little bit sad because our first two camping trips to the Uintas had been canceled due to the amount of snow still in the mountains there.  So we were thrilled when Scott told us he was going up to the Uintas (No, I am not spelling it wrong.  There isn't an "h" at the end of this mountain range) and that he would find us a spot to camp by him.  We all ended up at Mirror Lake, one of our favorites.

 These two pictures show why it is called Mirror Lake.  Breathtaking!  I could have spent the entire day just in our canoe on the lake. 

 This little stream was right by our camp site.  We ended up catching more fish here than in the lake.

We are generally the "catch and release" kind of fishermen.  Rather than the "hook 'em and cook 'em" type.

 Carter enjoyed the paddleboat that they borrowed from Ash and Jud.

 Dave and I went on a 7 mile hike.  There were still patches of snow along the trail.

 The first stop along the hike was Bonny Lake.

 Finally, our destination - Scudder Lake.

 Nature collage.

 We decided to find our perfect Christmas tree, even though we couldn't really cut one down.  (I think I liked Dave's choice better than my own)  The entire hike had that "Christmasy" pine smell.  Ahhhh.  I wish I could attach the heavenly fragrance to my post.  (A scratch and sniff for the monitor, haha)

After our hike, our feet were killing us.  So we drove 10 minutes over to Provo Falls. 

  We all ate at Dick's cafe in Kamas before heading the rest of the way home.  Yay for camping!

New Pictures from Elder Grose

Andrew just sent us the card from his camera.  I wanted to put a few of my faves on my blog.  He also sent a description of each of them.  So in his own words:

"This is Elder Kim Shiyon and I at the subway staion by our church."

"We went to a musuem.  I am wearing tradional clothes.  Totally didn't fit"

"The subway station.  No one was around so we took a few sweet pics.  It was raining."

"We ate at this resaurant after a big zone meeting"

"We went to a Giants Baseball game with an investigator.  And don't worry, we got permission."

"This bridge was sweet.  There was a really cool path that went along the lake."

"At Hyundai Beach for a zone p-day.  We played soccer, football and frisbee.  This is me with Elder Nielsen from Kentucky."

"Me and Elder Jong Yun Jay playing in the water. (We didn't swim)

"Sweet jumping pics, right?  It took a few tries."

"Me and Brother Huang.  He is awesome.  I met him in ____ when I went on exchanges.  I loved him."

"Me and my man, Bek Yu Tak, our convert.  he is the best!

"Me, my comp, the bishop's wife and the lady in black by me is from North Korea.  She's a member and her husband we only met once but he has potential to be baptized!  She is SO awesome!

'One of the palm tree lined streets in Je Ju.  Ahh, so pretty."

"Last day with President and Sister Jennings"