We like to try to do something special as a family for everyone's birthday, but of necessity it's usually something simple—a picnic at a park, a playground, maybe swimming. Even packing up dinner to go up the canyon and have a campfire can feel terribly complicated sometimes! But we finally found a free night (relatively free—Abe still had to work), in the vicinity of Sebastian's birthday, so we jumped at the chance! It was the night of the Perseid Meteor Shower, so we wanted to drive up toward the Uintas where it would be darker. I still don't even know where we ended up! Somewhere up past Park City, where there was a reservoir…and it was pretty!
We cooked hot dogs and s'mores and explored the little river nearby (and no one fell in). It was a nice night of calm before the summer came to an end!
Off to explore!
There's something unnerving about this smile. It's very impish.
The kids were playing a game of throwing sticks in the river and then running and trying to beat them downstream. They never succeeded, but they were SO excited about it anyway!
What wonders this world holds!
The light was so pretty coming in and out of the trees. Junie was the closest, so I kept taking pictures of her. :)
Birthday boy. Approximately. Honestly, he's acted fifteen for the last…oh…five years or so, so I'm happy he's actually there by age now. Do I say that every year?
Dappled.
Slightly less dappled.
Luminous!
Investigating a thing, with great interest. (Ziggy just saw this picture and said, "that's where the peas are! I mean that's where the wass-berries are!" He is referring to some multicolored berries Goldie found nearby, which apparently made quite an impression on him!)
When it got dark, we put out our fire and drove even further out into the dark, and then we watched the Meteor Shower. I saw 34 really good meteors in an hour of watching, and there were about 15 more that others saw and I missed, so I'd say it was a highly successful evening!
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