August in Review

 

August always has that “Sunday Night Feeling” for me.  Mostly it’s busy with the garden and trying to preserve all it’s bounty (which is also why the pictures are few and random…), but it’s also the time when school starts again, playing has to be reigned in and real work and schedules need to set back in.  I always feel a little melancholy at the end of August.  Also, it’s the beginning of fall.  And fall means it’s almost winter, sigh. 

Visiting the farmer’s market.  For the kids it’s all about the lemon aid, the pastry and…

the music.

One more trip to the splash pad.

We had our cousins for the weekend.  They were very fun!

First popsicle

Eating and driving.

More farmer’s market.

Yummy, sugar stick!

In August, we took our last summer family trip.  We went to the Tetons and stayed at the Signal Mountain Campground.  It was amazing!  We have had several failed trips to this area before, so we were a little nervous that our bad luck would hold, but we finally broke the streak!  We literally had the best campsite in the place (notice the view above and below.  This was literally 20 feet from our trailer spot.

 

We did lots of fishing.  Hadden caught a 15 inch rainbow (cuthroat, maybe?) trout.  We are convinced it was an act of God.  This lake he’s fishing in was super shallow.  It was sunny and mid-day.  Not the greatest combo for catching fish.  We’d been there awhile and Hadden insisted on reeling in his line at top speed.  We kept telling him he wouldn’t catch anything that way, but…

there it is!  He caught it 10 feet from shore and it was big!  It got off the line right at the shore and swam off, so that’s the best picture we got.

We lost a few floats and Chris went in after one.

He got it!

Great hikers!

This is String Lake.  Super shallow, warmer and perfect for sitting and soaking your feet in after a hike!

Hadden, going as deep as possible, of course.

Some nice lady passing by took this for us.  Too bad there aren’t any mountains in the background…

Calla enjoyed “making soup.”

If you look close you can see Chris and the kids’ heads.  Our kids were amazing hikers on this trip.  It was so fun to hike and hike and hike with them!

Going home.