Those Utah Mountains

Ah! There's nothing like a day in the Utah mountains.

This weekend the family gathered at the family cabin. It was officially "cabin workday" where everyone comes together on the same day and gets all those projects done that are

hard work,
really no fun at all,
but when everyone pitches in as my Grandma used to say,

"many hands make light work"

And so it was. The day was beautiful, the sun shone brightly in the morning, and the summer foliage was absolutely green and stunning.

I couldn't resist photos of the wild WILD birds, who emptied the bird feeders as fast as we could fill them up. Hummingbirds who buzzed around our heads, the orange grosbeaks were everywhere and so beautiful.

We unanimously decided that we have got to sloooowwww dowwwwnnn just a bit and make time for a return visit soon.

Ahhhh! There's nothing like a day in the Utah mountains.

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Last Days of Winter

We had a long weekend coming up and decided to spend the last days of winter at the family cabin in the Uintah Mountains of Utah. It's certainly a small real cabiny sort of cabin, but it does sleep a tremendous amount of people if you are organized about it. We decided to open it up pretty much as a free for all and let the kids invite their friends to come whenever they could arrange their schedules to be there.



It turned out to be such an adventurous weekend. All our children came, and they all brought at least someone to spend the weekend with us. Cory wins the grand prize, I think that over the whole weekend about 15 of his friends came and went during the time we were up there.



We had snowmobiles and sleds, snowshoes and snowboards, lots of food, games and movies to watch. We made treats and stayed up late, got up early and visited with each other. Best of all - none of the activities were interupted even once by someone's cell phone or a text message. I think everyone truly didn't believe they could exist for that period of time without contact from the "outer" world. We are kind of on our own up there with no regular or cell phone service. But we all survived and thrived on good food and good company.

So, what do you get when you put 16 people and 2 dogs into a cabin for a long weekend . . . .


EXHAUSTED!



(But we had a great time!)

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