12 Years

This Sunday, Vince and I will have been married for 12 years. Last night,we enjoyed our annual night away from the kids. Thank you Toni for watching the whole gang. Hopefully one of these days, we will get away for many days and go somewhere over seas. But for now, I am just grateful for a fun night. By this point in our summer vacation, we have usually driven so many thousands of miles, that we don't want to travel very far. So we seem to find some local treasures every year. This year, after dinner and a movie, we stayed at the Silver Fork Lodge up Big Cottonwood Canyon. It was scenic and cozy and included an amazing breakfast. We were the only guests last night, since Winter is their big season. Then this morning we hiked to Blanche Lake (second picture), Florence Lake, and Lillian Lake (top picture). It was gorgeous. I can't believe that I hadn't done this hike before. But it was 3 miles up and pretty darn steep and now my legs hurt and that is why I am sitting here blogging for a bit, because it hurts to do much else. LOL