Summer

I haven't blogged much at all this summer, but here are the some random pictures of things we did... I'm pretty sad that summer is over, but fall should be pretty nice.

Found me a bike and rode the trail by our house a few times...

Floated down the Provo River with some friends and their kids

This is at Jelissa and Kevin's wedding reception... the weekend of our 1 year wedding anniversary

That is Chris fishing out there... we did that quite a bit this summer.  I mostly just watched :)

Finally visited Hogle Zoo

And we got the biggest funnel cake we could find at the county fair...

Payson Salmon Fry

Chris heard from a co-worker about the annual Salmon Fry in Payson.  The firefighters fly in thousands of pound of fresh salmon from Alaska and have a huge salmon fry with live music for anyone who wants to join.  We decided to try it out, so we drove south and when we got there the line wrapped around the ENTIRE park...  I was sure that they were going to run out of Salmon by the time we got to the front of the line.  We waited TWO and a HALF HOURS for that salmon... and if you were to ask Chris, he'd tell you it was totally worth it.  I'm not a huge salmon fan but it was quite the experience and pretty darn good.

Family

Chris' parents and Amanda spent their vacation in Park City this summer and it was so fun to hang out with them while they were here.  We did the coaster at Park City Resort, played miniature golf, disk golf at Solitude, visited upper Provo falls and mirror lake, ate lots of good food, and had a real good time. 

Coaster at Park City

Olympic Park...  This jump seems SO much bigger when you are looking at it from the top. 

I was up for disk golf for about 3 holes... but the grass was super long and I decided I didn't want to spend the whole afternoon looking for my disk.  Chris and Richard had a good time though and Amanda, Jane and I were their lookouts for most of the time.  It is a super pretty course though and it was nice to be outside walking around.

Mirror Lake

Upper Provo River Falls

Camping

One reason I love Utah:  You can go camping in beautiful mountains next to amazing rivers and lakes... and only be an hour and a half from home.  I'm not sure how I have lived in Utah for so long and never known about the upper Provo river falls.  They are awesome.  We went camping and fishing in the Uintas and stopped by the falls on the way home.  I decided I wasn't much of a fisher on this trip... I have yet to catch a single fish.  But I'm glad Chris loves it.

Chris thought it was funny to take awful pictures of me that morning.  This was the only one where I don't look like a total monster.  But he has the worst one on his lock screen on his phone... He thinks he's real funny.

Fourth of July

My mom is probably the coolest grandma ever.  She does grandma's camp every summer for all the kids who are old enough to spend a few days away from mom and dad.  This year she decided to do it in Utah over the 4th of July holiday.  Which meant, I got to see my cute nieces and nephews and spend some time with my siblings and parents.  My parents camped up AF canyon at Granite Flats... they took the kids to Timp Cave (Chris went too) and did lots of fun things up the canyon.  They came down for the 4th of July and we lit fireworks in Chris' back yard... and then went swimming in Lindon the next day.  I didn't take too many pictures, but it was so nice to have family around.

Fiiishing

Chris also worked on his own project this summer.  He had started building his own fly rods a while ago, and finally finished them this summer.  He did a great job and was able to go fishing quite a bit.  When they were finished we decided to hike up to Silver Lake in AF canyon and test them out.  The hike was beautiful and so was the lake.  We hiked later in the evening so we only stayed for about 45 minutes, but the fish were biting like crazy and Chris caught about 5 or 6 while we were there.

  

Project

Chris and I started a project early this summer (I haven't posted in a while, but I'm trying to catch up).  We wanted to try to make a pallet couch and coffee table that have been popping up on pinterest lately.  I think ours turned out pretty nicely.  It was a good excuse to visit grandma and grandpa hair as well... they were nice enough to let us occupy grandpa's work shop.