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.

Let a new School Year begin!

 

This year is going to be great!!!

It is an odd year for us so Katelyn is 7th, Amy-5th, Tyler-3rd, Brigham- 1st (all day)

and Christian will be in preschool. New teachers that an older sibling hasn't had before too.

 

How many kids get to see the temple as they walk to school?

 

Katelyn is on a new adventure

 

MILLCREEK JUNIOR HIGH

Go Mustangs or ("horsies")!

She is also too cool to let mom take her picture.

 

Okayyyy- get out of here!

Camera Issues

Did you think I wasn't going to blog anymore? I really want to keep blogging! I am so frustrated with our computer and imaging devices. The computer won't sync pictures with anything with pictures on it- iPods, iPhones or cameras. I thought it would be our Norton, but disabled it and the problem still existed. We have Windows 7 so I guess I will try Microsoft next. I have looked at complaint threads online and others are having this issue, but no one has found a fix... ahhhh

Stay tuned... I guess....

Preschool Beware!

Christian is coming.....


He doesn't look too excited in these pictures and it was because he was mad at me for delaying him going into the school. He has been so excited to get started! I am excited to see how much he will grow and learn this year!

Come on mom... let me go!

Everyday he goes in and "writes" his name and answers a question

"Finally you are leaving!"

Sunnie and friends

Our neighbors at the other end of our street had a stray ferret come into their yard. They tried hard to find the owners, but never had any luck.
She asked us if we would be interested in taking the ferret...
KATELYN DREAMS COME TRUE!!!!

Katelyn just loves these animals and takes such good care of each and every one of them


This August we have had two batches of ducklings hatch. Lots of excitement and they are just so darn cute!!!

This little guy here is Nemo, he has a gimpy left side, and the other duck we kept so they could be friends.

Passes of All Passes

This summer we all go Season passes to Seven Peaks! we have been a handful of times. enough to go on every ride we dare to and bring friends and cousins with us. between the neighbors pool, Amanda's pool and Seven peaks these kids are turning into fish!

Smoky Skies

This was our sun set for a couple of days while the air was filled with smoke from all the forest fires. Yucky and sad!

Golf...golf...golf

For Mother's day Mike gave Tyler and I golf lessons with the Golf pro here in Bountiful. We had a great time and learned a lot. Not sure if we got much better than from when we started, but we felt a little improvement. Of course, we had to do our homework so we golfed a lot!
Practice, practice, practice!

Mike even set up a driving range in our back yard to work with and we hit all the local courses and ranges a lot.

 

I like golf. The environment is beautiful and relaxing ( no kids...quiet). You get a work out hauling that bag all over and up and down and I get to spend a lot of time with Mike.

We have enjoyed our golfing summer!

I think Valley View has been the prettiest golf course we have been to this summer.

Bountiful Ridge

 Check out that rainbow!

More 4 Wheeling

This time we went from Hobble Creek Canyon to Squaw Peak. About 40 miles round trip. Absolutely beautiful views and tons of wild flowers

Looking down on Spanish Fork. You can barely see the windmills at the mouth of the canyon.

We can around a tight bend in the road and it was blocked by some hunter and their jeep and 4 wheelers. We apologized for the noise and squeezed through the vehicles. He takes one look at us and says, "This is the helmet check station. you guys are good!" And gives us a thumbs up!
that had us laughing up the mountain!

With 8 people on two 4 wheelers... that's a lot of helmets in a small amount of space. We are constantly bobbing into each others helmets. See pic below for proof.  ha ha!

Stopped to look through Rock Canyon down at Provo. Back in the BYU days had many of activities at Rock Canyon Park

Made it to Squaw Peak and had a little lunch. Utah Lake is there behind the boys.

 

Just a magnificent drive.

After our long ride we headed to BYU for a 2nd lunch. They now have Chick Fil A!! And of course shopping for some BYU apparel.

This is where they took down the bridge that went from the WILK to the law school. Shut down that road that went in front of the WILK.

Now it is just a big concrete area with a place for buses to pull thru and drop off.

At the creamery Amy had M&Ms in her ice cream

"Y"