Balle

Balle

Monday, July 31, 2017

Sad month for our pretty mountains


The unbelievable Panguitch Lake forest fire
(these first 4 pix I pulled from internet)


A  guy over at Brian Head decided to blow torch his weeds, after he had been told not to and wa la 70,000 acres burned right up!! Started at Brian head and then climbed quickly up over the mountain behind Panguitch Lake. The area was evacuated however my dad managed to stay up there. At one point he couldn't even see 10 ft in front of him when he stepped out of the cabin. They set up a post close to us and my dad watched the fire fighters hard at work. They literally saved 100's of cabins, fighting right up to their front doors. The fire came over the mountain by our cabin and right up to my uncle Dan's back door. Helicopters were dumping and fighters fighting it. It was like a war zone in our pretty little section of the wood.  My dad has told us over and over again how amazing those fire fighters are and how he has such a new respect for them.  




  
Next to Uncle Dan's

  
This is looking right out our front window




People put up thank you signs. The general store had a sign up telling the fire fighters they could help themselves to the goods inside. When we were at the cabin after it was pretty much out there were still firemen going around checking things. Emery drew them a picture and wrote a little note and we were able to deliver it to a couple firemen close. They were really cute about it.


wow are we ever lucky and thankful to everyone who worked so hard! There are definitely area's around the lake that are so sad to look at now, but things look great in our little spot.

Monday, July 24, 2017

July 24th

  
We had a real quick trip to the cabin this year for the 24th.  This is a cute picture. Jack felt like Kate needed his stuffed lizard while she napped

The beloved parade



 We got our parade candy and a little water from the fire truck 
and then headed home for Brett's Farewell Sunday morning

Thursday, July 20, 2017

Crush



About 3 yrs ago Jack started playing with Logan Despain and they have been the best little buddies since. They get a long SO GOOD. Logan's oldest sister Chloe is our baby sitter and his middle sister Sadie is or was Ivan's crush. Sadie and Ivan were in the same school class last year. One weekend we were out to dinner with the parents and something came up about crush's. I asked Katie (logan's mom) if Sadie had a crush on anyone. She just kinda smiled funny and said, "yep she does." I asked if I knew the person and she smiled again and said, "yep you do." Turns out it was Ivan. Then she told me that someone at school told Sadie that Ivan also had a crush on her. So the cute little brazen thing just went right up to Ivan and said, "so I heard you have a crush on me?" and my shy son looked right back at her and said, "well yeah, since the beginning of the year."

So that was that. I guess they had a crush on each other. I'm not sure they still do, but that was fun while it lasted. Babysitter Chloe in the back, Sadie in the middle and Logan laying down in front.

and then of course a couple cute pictures of little miss Kate



Friday, July 14, 2017

Stampede




We really look forward to the Ute Stampede every year. We all (mikes family) stay at the KOA just up the canyon and enjoy each other company

Ivan


Jack

Ivan, Brett, Parker, Conner

Mike

Kate

Emery


My cute little buggers


The whole family


McKay, Jude, Kate