When your kids have fall break and you sneak away for family time in beautiful Utah…

When you pull off a family photo with no tripod in the middle of a stream mid-hike, it deserves a full page spread…

When you are full of gratitude for jumping kids and a husband who remembers to get mom in the photo…

When you hand your phone to a kind stranger and are delighted they know how to properly expose for a silhouette…

When the light is too beautiful to not capture a few of the kids just being themselves…

When you have an entire lodge to yourself because it is the last day of the tourist season and you play Clue by a fire with hot cocoa and the house cat snuggled up next to you…

When a photo pretty much sums up how you feel about your family vacation…

For more photos and itinerary details about this trip check out this post!  Where else do I recommend for fall travels…how about Yosemite or Patagonia?