Uintah's Camping Trip

So it is towards the end of the summer and I am sad to say this was my first real camping trip for the year. I just spent the last weekend in one of my most favorite places ever; the Uintah Mountains. I was up on the North Slope and we stayed at Bridger Lake Guard Station in the Division of Wildlife Resources cabin. This is a nice little place to stay, it is very quiet and you don't have to share the area with a bunch of other campers like you would in a campground. We had the whole area to ourselves as we were up there on the weekend so all of the workers had gone home for the weekend (they work and stay on the mountain during the week) I enjoyed many outdoor activities ranging from Fishing, riding ATV's, fishing, sitting by the campfire, and some more fishing. It was so nice to get away and be in the fresh air in the outdoors nothing beats it!!

This trip was just a guys trip here is some of the crew


Left to Right- Jared, my dad (Brad), Cortney, Me Missing is Mike and his son Dan they went fly fishing rather then coming to the lake to fish with us.

This picture was taken after a day of fishing at Marsh Lake. It took us forever to figure out how to catch these fish.. they were picky on the color of power bait we used but they were sure delicious eating!! Also the scenery was just lovely!

On this same trip Jared and myself rode about 60 miles (30 each direction) to do a little fly fishing on the Henry's Fork. This was a fun trip because neither one of us had rode this trail before and we had no idea how far it was. We had a blast and saw some great scenery and views on this trail. We found the overlook of the Henry's Fork there is a picnic table out in the middle of no where but you sure have an awesome view.. here are a few pictures to show you how great it really is.

This is a look to the north/east over the Henry's Fork


This is is a look to the south back up towards the mountainous area of the Uintah's way off in the distance you can still see some snow on the mountains.. I thought that was pretty cool to see having it be August and all!

Me on the ATV climbing a hill


Jared on the ATV.. we stopped for a break


Cortney appears to be doing some type of dance.. while cooking a delicious dinner.


My dad trying to figure out why the water pump on the trailer wasn't working..


And me... going through the Henry's Fork River.. or Creek what ever you want to call it.

This was a very fun trip.. and I can't wait to get back up there to do some camping/fishing!

Where has the time gone!?

So.. where do I start?

It has been a long time since I have blogged anything. Life has been super crazy this last month and finding time to just sit down, relax and do some blogging just hasn't happened!!

So.. The month of June and July flew by soooooo FAST! In the month of June I started doing a few upgrades to my house to eventually put it up for sale. I started a little painting project because fresh paint helps catch the eye of potential buyers. So I began to paint one night, let me tell ya.. painting is so much fun! However moving and taping everything off was a major pain in the butt! So I began painting and didn't think it would take me very long, however with my work schedule it took me nearly 2 weeks to get everything painted and do all the touch up painting!!!! The place really looked fantastic with this color I had chosen. The color I chose was a Brown/Tanish color, it accented very well with everything in the house.

Shortly after I had everything painted I decided I would put my house on the market expecting it to take several months with the economy the way it is. So I had a friend list it for me, I took all the pictures for her to list it for me. She put it on the market at about 1 p.m. by 4:30 that same afternoon she told me I had people coming to look at the house at 7:30 that night so make sure I was home because she hadn't got a chance to put a lock box on the house.

So I was pretty excited I had my first person coming to look at the house and I was pretty nervous I didn't really know what to expect or what I should do. So I made sure everything was in showing order and waited for them to arrive. They showed up at 7:30 p.m. and were there maybe 20 minutes looking everything over, they had a few questions for me and the realtor said I will be in touch with you, my clients really like this place!! Well I just figured they all said that to make them sound as if they were interested. So they left and I went about my business and about an hour later got a call from my friend saying this couple had submitted an offer!! I was pretty excited to have an offer on my place, and also a little nervous. There offer wasn't exactly what I wanted and since it was the first offer I counter offered them and they accepted it! I was so shocked that I had just entered a contract to sell my house! The shock of getting the sell price and all that was very exciting however I didn't realize I wouldn't have a place to live now!!

So thats when I began looking for another place to live, my friend had bought a place in Harrisville and I thought that would be a perfect place to look. It was another town home but its so nice not to have to mow lawn and do all the outside maintenance. So I looked into the place and grew to love it, it has a some nicer things that my old place didn't have, and it also doesn't have some things my old place did. I love the area over here, its so much quieter and peaceful and no traffic!! The neighbors are really nice and just an over all great place!

As you can some what tell from above I haven't had much time to do any fun things this summer which really kind of sucks! But we still have a month left to get some cool things in. This week is the fair and I will be occupied with that, but the next weekend I will be going to the uintah's to do a little camping with my Dad and some friends I can't wait for that to happen! Also I have a 4 wheeling trip that I am looking forward to getting scheduled (if Brooke has found a weekend we can all get together!)

Anyways I can't think of anything else to blog at this point but life has started to slow down quite a bit and hopefully I will be able to blog more!!

Talk to you soon