My Brother, My Sister-in-Law and Their Beautiful Boys

We wanted to get family pictures for Jade and Brittiney up in the canyon and the 1 and 2 year pictures of the boys in the leaves.  So we went up Cub River looking for pretty places.  We ended up at a spring by Willow Flat.  The leaves were so pretty but really dry.  It was so dusty up there, everything looked like it needed to be sprayed down with the hose!

When we got to the spring, the boys had just fallen asleep.  Branson hadn't had a nap yet so we let them sleep for a bit while we got Jade and Brit's pictures taken.

Then the boys woke up.  Branson needed a little bit more time I think!  He was so crabby!  He kept wanting to find the cows, that's all he cared about and wasn't very cooperative with pictures!

We got some cute pictures of Gavin in the leaves.

It was a crazy, hectic day trying to get decent pictures of these two crazy boys, but it worked out well.  The colors of the leaves and the sunlight was beautiful.

I saw this field on the way up that I wanted to try some pictures in.  The sun wasn't in the best spot but I wanted to try anyway.  Branson wasn't too happy about it but then found some clay pigeons and started playing with them.  Luckily they kept his attention just long enough to get some pictures.

It was fun taking the boys up there and letting them explore.  And thanks to Josh for helping me get Branson to smile when he really didn't want to, you're a life saver!

My Cute Nephews

Josh and I went up to Jade and Brit's house last night.  When we got there I had walked down to my mom's house first and when I went into their house Brit told me Josh was in reading to Branson.  So what did I do?  Grabbed the camera!  Josh is so cute with those 2 boys.  He was sitting on Branson's bed with him reading Branson's favorite book.  Branson was so into listening to Josh tell the story about jungle animals and listening and repeating the sounds of the animals that Josh would make.  He loves he hear Josh growl like a lion!

When Josh was done reading Gavin came up to Josh with a ball.  They played with that ball for so long and Gavin was just giggling.  He would shove his face against the ball then run away and come back again for more.  Then Josh started throwing him up in the air and that was just the funnest!

I love spending time with those boys.  They make me laugh.  And Josh is so cute with them.  It makes my heart break wondering why we haven't been able to have babies yet.  I know Josh is going to be a great daddy.  Hopefully someday...and hopefully that someday will be soon.

A Beautiful Day At Bloomington

We have been planning this trip for most of the summer.  My Dad has been going up there for most of his life and it's his idea of heaven so he was so excited to take his kids and grandson's up there.  Chelsie and Brian came home for the weekend to go with us!  We had to get an early start this morning because the LOTOJA bike race was starting at the crack of dawn.  We got up to Franklin a little after 7 in the morning to get everyone.  We had Brittiney and the boys in our car and everyone else rode in Chelsie's.  We were hoping to get to the canyon before they closed the road off for the bikers but we didn't make it.  We got all the way to Riverdale to see that we were too late to make it.  So we had to turn around and go up Logan canyon, we were NOT happy!  As we were going through Preston, we got stopped for about 10 minutes to let bikers turn a corner.  Again, we were not happy!  We finally got over to Bear Lake and stopped at a rest stop since we'd been in the car for a while and let the boys run around for a minute.

It was so cold!  We were getting kind of worried about how cold it was and if it was going to be warm enough up Bloomington.
The drive up there was beautiful.  I was really excited to get up there.  Branson was on the look out for cows and elephants everywhere!  Those are some of his favorite animals along with tigers and loves to look for them and tell us the sounds they make.  He kept us entertained!
We finally got up to the camp/bathroom area and got the kids and everyone ready for the hike into the lake.  I brought extra blankets that came in handy when we put the boys in their stroller because it was so dang cold!  We had to bundle them up!  We got warmed up as we started hiking because the first little bit is straight up hill!  Jade and Brit's poor Winnie The Pooh stroller had to do some off roadin'!

We passed a little lake and a frog swamp.

Then we finally got to the beautiful, breath-taking lake!

It is gorgeous up there!  My Dad wanted to get married up there but they didn't really want to tell their guests they had to hike about 2 miles to get to the lake!  We got some pictures of Chelsie and Brian.

Branson was so happy to be up there.  He ran around everywhere and loved playing with his "Papa".

The rocks were slides.

The beautiful fall colors were starting to come out.  So pretty!

I loved the wild flowers up there!  We need to go up earlier next year to get more of them, my Dad says they are everywhere in July.

My dad, Brian and Josh and I ventured across the log to go hike up the other side of the lake.  It was gorgeous!  We found an awesome campsite.

The view from the other side was so pretty.

It was fun hiking the rocks and listening to my Dad get so excited and wanting to show us everything.
We hiked back to everyone else and hiked back to the camp sites to have some lunch.

We found a place to have our picnic and Branson ran EVERYWHERE!  That boy loved being out in the woods!  Camping is going to be so much fun with those 2 boys next year!  We found a cool tree that made an arch and he went around that tree over and over again saying "house, house", he was so cute!  The boy was in his element!

The boys had some dirt with their licorice...

And they loved every minute of it!
It was so much fun being up there, even though we were freezing for most of the day (it shouldn't be this cold in September)!  Thank you Dad for taking us up there and showing us your favorite spot on Earth!