West family circus!: White Family Reunion

Kyle's mom's side of the family has a little get together every year. There are so many of them it really is like a family reunion. This is the second year we have gone up to the Spruces campground in Big Cottonwood Canyon. It's always such a fun relaxing day. We hike, we play, and of course we eat. I have never met two people more special than Jane's parents. They were both widowed and merged two semi large families into one giant one. To this day I have no idea whose kids belong to who, as they never raised them as his kids and hers. Sometimes I don't think they even realize. It's just so amazing to see a family merged so seamlessly. It's refreshing in today's world of crazy bitterness.

After the playing, socializing, and eating, Jane and Scott took the kids with them for an overnight trip to Park City. They left fairly early since Scott was supposed to be at work. Me and Kyle decided to go for a little hike to burn off some of those tasty calories. The trail we wanted to take was flooded and muddy, so we took a trail straight up out of camp. It had a pretty long steep section that I was not a fan of, but hey I had to get rid of those calories somehow, right? Anyway it mellowed out and we were chit chatting taking a stroll, and having a good time in the quietness of the kidlessness! Yeah I made that word up! Kyle spots a deer running up the side a couple feet in front of us. It was pretty cool. Then we round a corner into a meadow and all I see are moose antlers. I am thinking.. moose, moose, moose, Kyle, there's a moose, stop idiot! Then I think, maybe it's dead! Of course I had to think that because at that second he flicks a bug with his ears! Well Kyle finally notices the moose and stops. He probably took a half a step more then me! I'm a little dramatic. We only have our phones, so we take a couple pictures. Kyle wonders out into the grass to get a better angle. I follow, after he invites me. My dumb ass steps on a stick, of course. Well I walk calmly out, but now he is listening, so the grass brushing makes him stand up and stair at us. I high tail it out of there. Stop after I am around the corner and then brave women I am, send my husband back to take a picture! Apparently raising all three kids by myself never crossed my mind! Let's just say that our 30 minute hike in, took me all of 12 minutes to hike out of! Kyle pointed out later that if we had woken up early, planning on doing that whole trail that day, I probably would of been more mad then scared but as it is, I was pretty scared. I woke up twice that night, in a panic, just remembering how freaking close that giant animal was. He really wasn't even that big for a moose, probably only a couple years old, I'm just a wimp!

Here are some random pics from the day!