Uintas - Washington Lake

We had an awesome time on our 4 day Uinta camping trip. We left on the morning of the 9th and were able to pick out a really nice camp spot. We camped at Washington Lake near the Crystal Lake trailhead. Brevin did a lot of riding his bike while Spencer followed close behind pushing his lawnmower.

That first evening, we tried our luck fishing Crystal Lake and low and behold, Brevin caught the first fish of the night on his new pole. Spencer thought it was pretty cool to touch its eyeball, but wasn't too thrilled when it started flipping around (see the photo album).

The next day (10th) I took off on an early morning hike up the Cliff Lake trail to Cliff Lake, Watson Lake, Petite Lake, Clyde Lake and Booker Lake. I caught a couple of nice ones at Watson, and had some luck at Cliff as well. Later that day we took the boys on the 1 mile trek to Wall Lake and they had a blast wading in the lake and throwing rocks. On the way back to camp, Brevin got to ride some dudes' horse named Cotton for a brief minute. More fishing at Crystal Lake that evening and I banged 'em like crazy.

I fished Crystal again the next morning (11th) and caught about a dozen in 45 minutes. Had the whole lake to myself on a beautiful morning. That day we had a picnic at Bald Mountain, and then just hung out at camp and colored, played with play-dough, and Brev and Spenc played with some kids who were camped in the spot next to us. More fishing at Crystal that evening.

Saturday morning (12th) we did more hanging out and slowly started to pack up. We didn't want to leave after having a ton of fun. We pulled out after lunch and stopped off at the Upper Provo River Falls for a couple of pics.

We'll do it again next year, this time for the whole week.

Photo Album

Art City Days

Art City Days in Springville has come and gone, and we enjoyed a lot of the things that were going on around the city.

Spencer won 2nd place in the Baby contest for the 21-24 month boys and got to have his picture and blurb in the newspaper (Brevin won 3rd place in the same age category 2 years ago).

We also went to the carnival and rode a few of the kiddie rides, and went to the parade on the last day. That night we watched the fireworks from on top of the foot hills above our house.

First Campout of 2006

We finally dusted off the tent trailer and pulled it up Hobble Creek canyon for an overnight campout at Jolley's ranch on May 26, 27. Both Brevin and Spencer were excited to finally get a chance to camp in the trailer after a long sit through the winter.

Brev took his bike and rode it up and down the dirt road while Spence followed behind pushing his lawn mower. We also threw rocks in Hobble Creek and hiked around a bit. We plan to go to the Uintas for a couple nights around the first week of Aug. I'm aching to fish the lakes up there now that they have opened the Mirror Lake highway.

Just a quick update on the basement since I haven't posted in ages. Basically it's all wired, sheet rocked, taped/textured and painted. Doors are on, and we now need to put tile in the bathroom and laundry room, finish the shower, get a toilet and sink/vanity. Then carpet the rest of the basement. Not a whole lot left to do, but not a whole lot of money left either. Bits and pieces at a time I guess.

Christmas/New Year's

A lot has happened since I last posted. December was a busy month for us. It started off with moving everything out of our basement into the garage so that we could start framing. It's now all framed and we are ready to install the heat ducts and then run all the wiring for lights and power. Tax return money will hopefully pay for most of the cost to finish it. It sure will be nice to double the amount of space we are currently living in upstairs.

Christmas this year found us in Cedar City and St. George with Amber's family. We couldn't brag to people that we were going down to enjoy the nice short sleeve weather that St. George had to offer because it was just about as nice here in Springville. We had a good visit with family and ate lots of good food. Santa Claus brought Brevin and Spencer each a lightsaber, some books, new clothes and a few other things. The snow didn't come until after we had returned home so we had to have a snowball fight in the back yard.

New Year's Eve was just another night with getting kids in the bath and to bed. Brevin and Spencer did get new pajamas and of course had to model them.

Thanksgiving weekend 2005

This year during Thanksgiving we were very busy with various activities.

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11/23 - We headed up north to Brigham City to visit with Clark and Lisa and to see their new baby and house. Michael Robert Funk was born Wed. 11/16 at 2:29 pm. Brevin and Spencer wanted to hold and kiss him the whole time (when they weren't fighting over toys) and Brevin even asked if he could "borrow" Michael and take him home. Clark and Lisa had just moved into their new house the weekend before (nice timing). It reminded us of how we were lucky to get moved into our new house a month before Spencer was born.

11/24 - Thanksgiving this year was at the Grandma and Grandpa Park's house. The day was filled with the usual eating, playing games, eating, football, eating, Karaoke, and a bit more eating. Grandpa Park had his annual ceremony of turning on the Christmas lights that night.

11/25 - Friday started early for me (5:00 am) to do a little after Thanksgiving day shopping. Wal-Mart was not the funnest place to be, but I was home by 5:45 to go back to bed. We all got up and headed to the University Mall to see Santa fly in on Chopper 5. Later that night we had a movie night in Greg's classroom on the big screen projector where we watched "The Polar Express". Brevin has now seen it at least 40 times.

11/26 - We put up our tree in the morning and then froze as we put up the lights on the house that afternoon. Our usual white icicles with our green trees on the lawn. Next year we are thinking of switching to blue icicles.

11/27-28 - Sunday was nice and relaxing and then we decorated our tree on Monday night for FHE. It was fun to be with family and realize all the blessings we enjoy.

Halloween 2005

October was filled with all sorts of Halloween activities. Brevin got to go to a pumpkin patch with his preschool class and pick out his own pumpkin (he had to be able to lift it, couldn't just choose the enormous ones).

For the family party, we thought we'd all dress up as Napoleon Dynamite characters. Brevin was Napoleon and used Amber's "Annie" wig for his fro. Spencer made a cute Pedro, Amber was Deb, and I was the one and only "we all know I'm training to be a cage fighter" Kip.

I carved Brevin a Napoleon pumpkin (which won 2nd place in the contest at work) and the face of Joseph, and Amber carved the "Joseph 200" in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of his birth this year.

I brought the fam to work with me so they could see the costume parade and contest. Brevin went up on stage as Napoleon to collect my cash prize for winning 2nd place in the pumpkin carving contest. The executive management thought he was cute enough to slip him a $50 bill and also give him the big blow up pumpkin that was on stage.

Brevin and Spencer went trick-or-treating that night and both had had enough after about an hour. It was a fun and eventful Halloween. Click here to see all the photos.

Hello

Just a quick Hello from the Park Family until we get more information up. Check back on occasion to see what we've been up to.