Dear Wormwood,

While I'm posting on here can I just shout out to this song, Dear Wormwood by The Oh Hellos.

The Oh Hellos are currently my favorite band, and they just released a new album where the main song is nod to C.S. Lewis!? What!?!?! My two favorite things coming together.
I love this song so much and no one gets its and I can't discuss it because no one else has read the Screwtape Letters!!
Please, just listen to the lyrics and fall in love. If you don't fall in love go read The Screwtape Letters, then listen to the song, and then fall in love!

The Screwtape letters are about a demon, Screwtape, writing letters to his nephew, Wormwood, who is a junior demon, instruscting him on how to corrupt the soul of this man. This song is from the perspective of the man he is influencing and this song is the man realizing the influence of evil in his life. I LOVE songs with Christian undertones.
This is about realizing your divine nature and rejecting the influences of evil within you.

" And in my hour of weakness, you were there to see my courage fail...Planning without acting, steadily becoming what I hate"

I don't want to spoil the whole thing,
just
Listen. 

Many of my favorite quotes are from The Screwtape Letters, like the one above by my pictures. This is one of my other favorites:

“When He [God] talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives them back all their personality, and boasts (I am afraid, sincerely) that when they are wholly His they will be more themselves than ever.”  

I know it's a harder book for some people to get through because you are seeing the world through the eyes of demons but I feel like it is mocking the devil and his punitive ways to manipulate men. 
Just go read it. It is enlightening. 
I think I'm going to go look for my copy right now.

Nevermind our cruise, we went to the mountains!

I just realized I didn't write anything about the trips we took this summer! We went on a cruise! I can't remember where I saved our pictures from it though so I will write about that later!

We went to Washington Lake in the Uinta's and it was the most amazing place ever. I plan on going back there this summer and possibly for every year for the rest of my life. I haven't spent a lot of time in the Uinta's but I see why people love them now.

We went with my cousin, Addison, and his wife, Kylee, we are really good friends with them. We also went on our cruise with them. We left Salt Lake so early that when we reached the camp site people hadn't left yet so it was pretty slim picking. We tried to get a spot by the water but eventually got too impatient and picked one in the middle of the campground.  It worked out really well though and ended up being a good camping spot.

 We rented a canoe from the U to use on the lake. The guys were able to get some really good fishing in while out in the canoe. It was so fun! I think the it was the best part. It rained a lot for one of the days we were there so we didn't get to spend a whole lot of time on the lake plus with the wind. However, in the evenings it was amazing!

 

A lot of time was spent sitting on the shore fishing too. I don't have a fishing license but I like just sitting outside :) 

Fishing on the dam

yay, fish!

 

ew, maybe not.

When we weren't fishing we were hiking to a different fishing spot! There were so many lakes and easy beautiful hikes all around. 

I took a lot of pictures of flowers but this is my favorite! It's one of my backgrounds at work!

 Cooking while camping is always... interesting.
Addison cooked up some of the trout he caught and it was actually really good eating it so fresh!

 
 I wish I would have written about it closer to when we actually went so I could have remembered more details. Oh well. It was still a wonderful trip to a beautiful place and I fully plan on going again next year!