Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Pineview, Our pet hawks & Hiking

Part of our family went to Pineview Reservoir last week. The kids all loved playing in the water, the babies seemed to prefer the sand though. We had a fun BBQ and enjoyed spending time together.



Every year a pair of Red-tailed hawks nest in the trees next door to us. We love watching them each spring and summer as they have a new little one who leaves the nest. This year they had twins! It has been so much fun to come outside and see them flying around our house. One day one of the hawks actually landed on the bird bath that I have outside of my window...what an amazing site that was. You don't realize how big they really are until you are eye level with one.


Nic and I went hiking last weekend. One of my favorite things about living where we do is that you can be in the mountains hiking within 10 minutes of our house. It was so beautiful up there and I can't wait to go back. We had a deer walk right in front of us on the trail, it was so neat. I hope you can see it in the 3rd picture.




2 comments:

Aubrey said...

Cool! That hawk is amazing! What a cool thing to look forward to year after year!

Jen said...

Love the pics. What a cool hike! Was it hard? Maybe we should try it.