The End of Another Season

Sad to report, we took our last camping trip over Labor Day weekend. I am sure we would go again if we could, but there is no more time off, and it is getting a little too cold now.

We had a lovely Sat-Tues retreat in the Boulder Mountain Range. (Sunday we went down to Loa for Church in the coolest church building ever! It was an old building where you walk up the stairs right into the chapel - which had a balcony just like the original tabernacle. We went upstairs for Sacrament to enjoy things from up there. It was really cool because the Decons came upstairs and after they had finished passing the bread/water they stood at the top of balcony where the Priests could see them, stand, and signal for them to come back down. Anyway, it was really really cool!)

So here are some pictures from the trip. It was very beautiful and relaxing. The fish were huge and beautiful too!


My first Cutthroat Trout. Pretty awesome, right?!

A freaky bug Ryan encountered. Cool coloring... but still freaky.


Look at these beautiful pictures Ryan took! There is nothing like being up in the mountains away from the city lights to appreciate the magnificence of the stars.


Our faithful little pooch. He loves fishing/camping almost more than life itself. Although sadly on the way up he found probably the only cactus out there and had mini cacti stuck to his arms and legs which were quite painful to remove. Thankfully they didn't do any permanent damage. Poor guy.

I did a lot of reading. A lot. About a book and a half.


Dodger begging Ryan to let him help with the fish from his beaver home point of view.


Ryan with a couple gorgeous fish. The coloring really is amazing! And Ryan is an amazing fisherman. I don't know how he does it. Maybe it's that whole "be one with the fish" mentality.

Our brother-in-law Cameron came up for a couple days. Dodger took advantage of his left over can of ravioli. He got his head stuck in there once or twice.

Gorgeous sunset.




25 weeks pregnant and backpacking. I was pretty proud of myself, even if it was done at a turtle pace.

Amazing Mr. Ryan. I love this guy so much. We had an incredible trip and it was great to get away. It's too bad we have to wait for summer of next year to go again! It's going to be a long winter.