Utah site: Alta to Brighton Hike

My family has an annual tradition that the family has done for over 30 years now...every July, we have the Alta to Brighton hike. We all get dropped off and we have 2-3 adults who then drive to the other side to leave the cars. We then do the hike.

Brodi was not able to come, but I took Carter and Beckham. About 10 minutes into the hike, Beckham decided he didn't want to walk, so I plopped him in the backpack and continued on with the hike. I have been getting in better shape, but I was not ready for a moving 35 pound lump of human boy on my back. But it went well as I lugged him up the hill for about 30 minutes and then all of a sudden, he decided he would hike. He ended up hiking for the next 90 minutes. Thank goodness for that little boy...my back was not going to last. He was a little trooper. Carter basically ran the entire way. That kid has too much energy.

After over 3 hours of hiking, we came home and headed out the door again to my sister's house for another 3 hours of swimming. Carter has been taking swimming classes this summer so he was having a great time showing me how he can swim by himself. Bekcham likes it, but he has yet to decide how much he likes it.

Great weekend, now I need a holiday to get a break from the holidays.

Pictures of the Past

I just received these pictures from my cousin Marc. These were pictures from up in Bear Lake and I am assuming that they were taken around 1980 or so.

As you can see, I am wearing a very stylish tank top in the picture. Don't get me wrong, I am very comfortable in my metrosexiness but tanktops are rarely a good idea even on a shockingly adorable 5-year old boy. As you can see as well, my cousins had the nerdiness vibe going on, but they all turned out to be very un-nerdy. I am on the bottom left next to my brother Josh. My brother Christian is in the yellow next to my grandpa. All of the other boys are the Pinnocks (Larry, Marc, Nate, Jon and Roger).



This is a picture of all of my brothers/sisters and our Pinnock cousins. I am on the front row, 2nd from the left. My sister Martha is the middle of the front row, my brother Josh is next to her. My mom is ont he top row on the left, right behind my grandma. My sister Emily is the brunette on the back row and my sister is partially hidden standing next to my grandpa. I was the youngest by a couple of years but it was nice because I had all of my cousins looking out for me. We usually spent a few weekends a year up at Bear Lake...though my uncle Hugh always seemed to find time for us all to spend a few hours working on the cabins.