The Hunt

Mike and his brothers drew out for the hunt in Blanding again. For Labor Day, we were excited to go down and see what the guys could get. We were really excited to ride the four wheelers all over the mountain! Curtis had staked out a nice camp and had the tents set up and everything ready when we arrived.
We pulled the big white van in and unloaded, excited for what lay ahead! In all the hub bub one of Mike's tennis shoes was lost, but he improvised.

A closer look!

We never found the shoe so he was like this all weekend until Curt gave him some shoes.

Brent trying his hand at the bow.

Tyler searching for his arrows.

We had a couple of good games of softball. We drove around on the 4 wheelers and if we saw a good, flat piece of land we would play a game!

This is how Brigham usually ends up when we go riding! He does get a little motion sickness, but mostly just wants to nap.

Jess longing to be up to bat.

Up on Elk Ridge playing ball.

Kristin and kids came up for dinner and Maggie found this little guy.

 

last night on the mountain the guys decided they had some strategery and wanted to get to their hunting spot that night, camp and then be ready to conquer in the wee hours. So they left us at camp and we helped ourselves to some movie time.

Turns out after... that night.. after a few minutes drive they saw this deer. Mike driving, David got ready to shoot and SUCCESS! So they had to carry this deer the whole way up the mountain and hang him in a tree that night to keep the bears away. I was told trying to hang the deer was the best part of the trip! They came back early the next morning with this...

The kids checking it out

Christian asking a lot of questions

Jessie says, "Ewwwww!!!"

 

 

 

 Burnt and Curt

 

By the time we packed up camp and were down to Curt's he had the whole deer skinned and cut up.

Congrats Dave!

 

 

 

After ALL that hunting we have this guy bedded down in the back yard with a hurt back leg and a big " shoot me sign" on his back.