Sunday in the mountains

After church on Sunday, we went up to Big Cottonwood Canyon to take some pictures and to see the colors changing. Here are some of these photos. I believe the area is called Brighton. It's right below the ski lifts.


I guess we arrived just after it stopped raining, so Elizabeth loved playing with the drops of water on the leaves. She ended up flinging it, getting water on both of us.


Check out the colors and the reflection on the still pond.


Here's Kristen with her parents Leanne and Todd.


Elizabeth spotted a crazy duck on the shore of the pond, so as we got a closer look, she got really excited watching him/her doing wacky duck stuff.




Just as we scrambled up to this spot (that kind of stuff is hard to do when you're handling a toddler), some young Nazi kid came jamming up the rocks, sliding recklessly all over the place. As we waited for him to get out of the frame, his lame dad came right up them with him. We had to wait for them to move their Eurotrash butts up the face of the rock so we could snap this shot.




She's hot!


Oh, so hot!




Father and daughter.


Elizabeth with her grandma.


This classy Hickman family photo is taken on a stump where Kristen's family (the Douglas') traditionally takes photos. This is a Hickman first.


On the bottom, you've got Leanne and Kristen's great aunt Rita. Above them is Todd. To the right of him are the Hickmans, and to the right of us is Todd's mom, June.


Then this moose came down the mountain, crossed the trail, and got a drink out of the pond. It didn't seem to mind people around it at all. Todd and I went back to see it and got these shots.




Here's Kayla, Kristen's sister, and her boyfriend John. They would've been in the other collective photos, but they ran off to make out in the forest.






Utah is a pretty beautiful place, especially when the colors change and especially when you grew up in a very brown desert.