Its been a while since i've added anything so its time to catch up on a few things. We spent Thanksgiving this year in Panguitch and had a very good time with no fights, but I did miss being able to spend it with my sister who was down from Pennsylvania for over a week. Once We got home we decided that it was time enough to decorate for christmas so we got the tree out and let the kids decorate it (most anyways). Even though they got slightly distracted by the stockings that weren't hung.

After Thanksgiving we decided to make a trip to Orderville and visit Rory and Kristys new place "Cooters Cafe:". It was alot of fun and I wish they we had more time to spend down there with them.

Also David Stokes recently offered us A filly. She was 2 years old and had never been touched in her life. I was excited to get her considering I had just recently sold mine. After two crazy days trying to catch her, we finally managed to get her in the horse trailer and haul her home. Now we have a new project on our hands that i'm very excited about. Her name is Gypsy.

Ok so its been over a month since i've posted anything. I'll try to remember what i've missed. These are the yummy caramel apples and pretzels my mom and I made (even tho she did most of the work).

We didn't do a real big Halloween this year although i think within the 5 houses we went to, we got a higher load of candy than we ever have. Wyatt wouldn't decide what he wanted to be until the hour before we left. they were going to be dorothy and the cowardy lion, but once kaylee decided she would rather be a purple care bear, wyatt gave up on the idea also

Recently I started work at the Vet clinic In Castle Dale, and of coarse I cant work in a place of animals without bringing some home. Aside from a few cats, I adopted two hounds. Adult ones that can defend themselves. We've named them Hannah and Mollie and so far they have been awsome dogs that keep us entertained every weekend.

First Elk Hunt

Well, I wish I had a whole bunch of pictures to post on here, to show off my new experience.
unfortunately, the camera never left the truck and i didn't get any :(. On the bright side I had an unbelievably awsome weekend. I got my first spike tag this year, and Josh and I went to Beaver with my brother in law Wade. The three of us were joined by my nephew Cooter, Wade's father Russel and brother Jeremy. We drove up to Big Johns Flat in Beaver Canyon where we loaded up 5 horses and 6 mules, and headed to camp which was 7 miles away. The camp was already set up with an enormous canvas tent (complete with wood stove). We woke up at 6:30 the next morning and readied the horses. after about 2 hours riding, we came upon a small herd of elk. Russel pursuid them for a minute, hoping to push them over another hill towards us, giving us a good shot at any spikes that were there. He planned wrong, killed one spike, and the rest ran down into the bottom of the canyon. Wade rode his mule around one side, while josh and i hiked to the bottom on the other side, hoping that they would be pushed to one of us, giving us a chance at the second spike. it didn't work. we decided it would be better to start a fire and cook some burritos before heading out the find the second herd that we had spotted the night before. (by the way, if you remember a few weeks ago there was a fire in Beaver that was blowing smoke through emery county for over a week. we where the fire had burned).    An hour or two later we found the second herd, and rode around the mountain across from them, giving us a straight across shot. There were three of us with tags left to fill and four spikes in the herd that we could see. about 600 yards or more away. So we eached picked the ones we wanted and they waited for me to shoot first. I hit him in the leg lol. honestly i'm amazed i hit him at all at that far away. In the end we got all three spikes. we loaded them on the mules and headed back to camp, where we decided we might as well head home since we had all filled our tags. 4 spikes in 6 hours. By the time we got back to camp and loaded it was starting to get dark and we had barely made it halfway back to the trucks before it got dark on us. we ended up riding at least 3-4 miles in the dark. We had made a total of at least 30 miles on horseback that day.
   I'm sad i didn't get any pictures of my first elk hunt/camp trip. but i wouldn't ever take it back. i'm crossing my fingers that i'll have the chance to do it many more times over and next time i will get pictures to show it.

Last mountain weekend

We decided that this last weekend would be a fun time to go camping

it would be our last chance for the year before the snowfall and the hunts

so we loaded up the trailer and away we went. Eddie and Karidon joined

us and the weekend turned out awsome. we had elk bugling on all sides

of us all night and morning. it gave me the fever for hunting like no other

Fall Getaway

Yesterday my friend Ashton and I decided to go for a ride up huntington canyon. It was beautiful to see the fall leaves on the trees changing colors. We had an interesting time when i decided to lose my shirt and vest on the top of the trail and decided to walk most of the way back up it instead of riding and still didn't manage to find them... guess thats a new project in the next day or two.

Halloween beggining

I was checking out a magazine and seen a cute idea on how to decorate my house without spending alot of money or taking up alot of room but it still looks like i did alot. needless to say it turned out to be way more of a project than i thought it would be, but i like the results. i'm still not finished but this is what me and the kids have accomplished so far.

weekends works

Friday after doing some grocery shopping, the kids and I went to my moms to help her bottle some soup. The kids spent more time eating popsicles than helping much, but i think thats better.

Then saturday we decided that i would be fun to go on the desert and do some skeet shooting with Eddie and Karidon. we spent almost the whole afternoon shooting.

Now we're just counting down the days until the hunts start!

The other thing we did was try out the kids halloween costumes- I think KAylee will be dorothy and Wyatt will be the cowardly lion