Happy Birthday..Happy Birthday!!

Happy Birthday to 2 little munchkins.

Sunday we celebrated Campbell [3] and Farrah's [4] special day!

2 Cakes, 2 Birthday Girls...

One who likes clothes....

One who doesn't.....

Farrah and Campbell blow out their candles after

a rendition of "Christmas Time, Easter Rhyme".

It's all about the cake, ice cream, and

Pooh Bear....

Presents? Who needs presents?

It's just clothes anyway........

HAPPY DAY.

I LOVE YOU BOTH !

Annual Salmon Hike 2010........

Every year I try and hike up so see the

Cocaney Salmon run at Causey reservoir.

This year on this beautiful Saturday morning

I went with Mason and Nik.

This is the canyon the trail is on.

You hike or canoe to the end.

The leaves are starting to turn and

the closer we got there were patches of this.....

....signs that Fall is just around the corner.

This is a view from up on the trail looking down.

If you look close you can see little red spots which are the salmon.

This is what the Salmom eggs look like.

The Salmon swim upstream to the place they were born

and deposit their eggs in the water.

Then they die.

The process starts all over again and every year

you can hike and see them as they finish their life cycle.

We saw some in every stage of spawning.

Some were bright orange/red.

Some were almost gray.

Some were dead.

If you look close here you can see one that is turning gray.

They have no respect for each other

as they poke and run into the weaker ones.

This is an amazing process to see.

Beautiful Cocaney Salmon.

Thanks Nik and Mason for a wonderful Hike.

Interested in seeing the Salmon?

The Hike is an hour in and an hour out.

It starts at the parking lot just outside Causey Estates.

If you don't go this week or this next weekend you will be too late to see them.

Gone Ranchin....In Wyomin

Doug and I just got back from a "Labor Day" vacation to Big Piney Wyoming.

Doug's cousin Brent and wife Jaimie were our Host and Hostess at their cattle ranch.

We went up there with Brenda and Scott.

We all went to school together at Weber High.

We had a great time.

Here are some of the pics from the trip.

[Thanks to Meagan, Jamie's soon to be daughter in law for the Pics]

Brent took us on a tour of his ranch, which is spectacular!

Brent raises grass hay and beef cattle.

I lucked out and got to ride in the "Ranger" which was a little less dusty.

Doug and the rest rode 4 wheelers.

You just can't get the feel for how vast and how beautiful the ranch is.

Every morning we could see Coyote's, Elk, Deer, Fox just looking out

the large windows in Brent and Jaimie's home.

Beaver Ponds

Jaimie and me enjoying the view.

Thru the trees and up the hills.

More views of the ranch....

Looking down on the Pines...

Brent explains the outer borders of the Ranch.

Brent and Jaimie are such wonderful people...

We had a great time and the company was so fun....

Hey, and they let me watch my BYU game on Saturday Night....

what more could you ask for.

Really I was overwhelmed with the views from their home

and also from all over the ranch.

Scott kept us entertained with his "quick whit".....

never a dull moment.

Can not wait to go back....