Happenngs in July and August

The summer has come and gone very quickly but not with out a few adventures under our belt. We spent the last few weeks hiking, fishing, camping and hunting. The following are only a few of the pictures from this summer adventures....as soon as a get some more time to edit some photos will get them up......

This is a dragonfly that comes into our pond every morning....he is so beautiful.....I am waiting for Drake to snap at him one of these mornings....

Robert and I finally completed the 6 mile round trip hike to Dog Lake in Millcreek Canyon with the boys last week. The wild flowers are absolutely stunning right now......what a gorgeous summer hike. the boys spent a few hours swimming and romping around....

Wild flowers up Millcreek Canyon

They boys enjoying the sunshine and lake...

Drake and me hiking back down....

We went camping this last weekend with the Hamm's up to Strawberry. Once again the flowers did not disappoint and we had a great time fishing.....it was too cold to go wakeboarding, but regardless we had a wonderful evening camping and great day at camp and enjoying the boat..

This pink thistle was so amazing in color...

I had a need to get my creativeness on....I made a crown of wild flowers.....very awesome pictures....wish Mr. Widgeon would have held as still as Drake did for a picture....

Drake enjoying the boat ride...

After returning home form camping bow hunting season opened this weekend for deer. Robert and I spent Saturday morning trying to hike into Dog Lake/Desolation lake area from the Big Cottonwood Canyon side and instead encountered 35 degree weather and a major thunderstorm.....we hiked back out, came home, dried out and took a nap then went back out that evening and the next day......you would have never known it was the same day let alone the same season.....

We hiked up to the top of the ridge overlooking Big Cottonwood to the south and Millcreek to the north and came across a beautiful scene. Unfortunately, it did not include the monster buck that rumored to be hanging out around this area.... but we got amazing pictures just the same.....