A PICNIC IN LITTLE COTTONWOOD.

Saturday, my Mama made a lot of yummy food, and my family went up to Little Cottonwood Canyon for a picnic! We had good picnic food too! She made pesto, chicken salad sandwiches, and a couple of different kinds of a salad.

It was the nicest temperature up there and so nice to escape the heat for a bit! We went up to the top of Little Cottonwood to Albion Basin and found some logs to bring together to sit on and eat. We had our dinner and Jeremy gave pieces of bread to a little critter who kept coming by. I think he called it a potgut? He was cute whatever he was!

After we ate, we walked along the path up towards Cecret Lake. Jeremy and Forrest climbed rocks along the way, I took lots of photos, and picked too many wildflowers. It was just a really nice evening.

Sometimes I forget just how nice it is to go up the canyons. I always love it when I do, but sometimes I let too much time pass in between my trips up there. I'm going to make it a point to explore the canyons more and just escape the city a little more. I mean, this absolutely beautiful place is only 30 minutes from my house. I don't really have any excuses not to spend more time up there! 

I also really want to start utilizing the canyons more with my photoshoots. The wildflowers and pine trees are just so lovely and I want to do more shoots up there.

Forrest performing an Indian Paintbrush healing blessing.

Until next time, Little Cottonwood Canyon. :)

A TRIP TO THE MOUNTAINS

I meant to post this a while ago but I always seem to step away from blog posts thinking I'll come back and perfect them later but that rarely happens. I seemed to just forget about this one so it sat in my draft posts for a while.

 This little trip was from August 8th when my brother David and his family, and my mom were in town. They were all here together for about 2 weeks and it was such a fun time! I don't really realize just how much I miss my family, and miss living near my family until we're back together again.

We went on hikes, went to the waterpark a few times, and all played black jack together just about every night. (Black jack is way more addicting than I remembered it being!) 

On this day, it was my mom's last day in Utah before she had to head back to start her school year so we wanted to do something fun as a last little hoorah. We packed a picnic and headed up Little Cottonwood Canyon to Albion Basin where we rented a day campsite for the evening. My poor family though, none of them had been there before so I really led them astray when I said it would be just a little cooler than it was in the city. Oh how wrong I was! I had just been up there a couple days before and it was still warm and pleasant, but for some reason, this evening got super chilly as soon as the sun started setting! Luckily I had some extra sweaters in the trunk of my car for whoever needed one. We also built a fire so that was the true lifesaver!

Jacob is the silliest boy but I made him hold still for a few seconds so I could take some more serious portraits of him.