Camping at Mirror Lake

In July, we went camping for a couple nights with some of my family and we had a great time.  We went up to Mirror Lake, which is in the high Uinta Mountains.  We went with my brother Thomas and his family, my sister Holly and her family, and Laurie and her son, Kent.  Thomas is a mega mega camper and outsdoorsman and the rest of us are all pretty novice.  Thomas planned all the meals and the rest of us "assisted".  The food was phenomenal and we learned a lot of camping skills from him and his wife, Aleyce.

We had a great time fishing, hiking, sitting around the campfire, spending time together, and enjoying the beautiful outdoors.  The only thing we didn't love was the lack of flushing toilets...blah.

Oh, one other thing I did not enjoy happened while we were all sitting by the lake fishing.  Actually, I was corralling children while Kev was teaching the kids to fish.  Anyway, Benjamin came up to me and was so proud to show me his fish....his DEAD fish.  Yes, he found a dead fish on the shore and brought it to me.  I was very very extremely freaked out, needless to say.  I was also very very grateful for Germ-X.  Ewww.

Here are a BUNCH of pictures...

HIKING

Kev, the trooper, with both babies...Jacob and Benjamin

 

The gang, hiking

 

 Another hiking pic

 

Kev and Ben, hiking

 

 Kev with sweet, sleeping Jacob

 

Ben loved picking wild flowers along the hike...

 

Jacob and Benjamin, sacked out...

 

Brooklyn (she may not appreciate this picture) ;-)

Ben and his cousin, Will

 

Brooklyn and her cousin, Erika

 

Kev and Jacob

 

Me and Jacob

 

PLAYING GAMES...

Brooklyn, Erika, Preston, Doug

 

Grant and Mike

Tyler is in the background in the brown

(proof he was actually there!)

This is the one and only picture I have of him from the trip.  He spent most of his time exploring and fishing with his cousin, Preston.

 

MIRROR LAKE

Derek

 

Sweet Jacob

 

 Kev and Brooklyn, fishing

 

Derek and Kev, fishing

 

 Brooklyn, fishing

 

Kent and Ben

(this is about the time when Ben found his "fish")