Dean's Bow Hunt

Dean waited until almost the last day to finally shoot a deer with his bow. He does this on purpose I'm sure. He loves to hunt. He's like a little kid when he hunts. He gets so excited. It must be a guy thing. This was the day before the last day so he was pretty happy. It was actually a really nice buck and it only took one shot. Too bad he lost that arrow.

Good Job!!!

Thanksgiving Road Trip

This was our 2nd Annual Book Cliffs Thanksgiving Road Trip. Cheap thrills at our house. We started out at about 10 am. I did have to sleep in and all. We packed our cooler with Spam and chips. The lunch of champions. It takes forever to get there but it is just fun being together and listening to the kids' stories. We found out last time that there was this look out spot that you could roll tires down. So the whole way there we watched for tires on the road to pick up. We gathered up parts of tires to roll when we got there. Believe it or not they worked great This is my buck. So if any one else draws out next year. Don't shoot this one, it is mine.
Dylan was sure that he could catch a turkey. He probably would have if they wouldn't have flown away.

It was great weather for a ride and we seen a ton of bucks. I picked out the one that I am going to shoot next year. (If I draw out). I couldn't put all of the pictures of the bucks on here because I took about 100 pictures but I chose a few. They all looked alike except for

Ryan's Big Buck

My brother Ryan went hunting down in New Mexico. This is the deer that he shot. I don't think the picture of the face does it justice, because its head was huge!!! I was really proud of him. Especially after he told the story of having to ride a pedal bike to hunt it. No motor vehicles and there were so many wild horses they couldn't take horses. I can just picture him on a bike. No not really, I can't. Dylan never passes up a chance to have his picture taken with a big buck. It may come in handy for next year's big buck story.

Christmas Elves

So I won't tell you this was a week BEFORE Thanksgiving. I ran to the store to grab a few things and when I got home Dylan had drug the tree downstairs. He did this last year too. This tree is very heavy. I'm not sure how he does it. Maybe it is just wanting Christmas to come so badly that he thinks the tree will speed things up. I'm not sure. And I'm not going to fight it because I LOVE my tree. I love the fact that the boys can put it up and decorate it. I love the fact that the lights are already on it. I really love the fact that there is no mess left from the tree. Since the boys were putting up the tree I begged Dean to help with the outside lights. He has seen me with tools (he's the one that takes me to the ER when I use them) so he agreed he should put the lights up. I love them. We put them down lower this year so they wouldn't flip up on the roof every time the wind blew. That was a pain last year. Now we're ready for Christmas. Oh wait. Presents.

Science Fair Winner - Woohoo

Bragging time!!!! Okay, so I thought he had a brilliant thing going here but I was thinking that it might just be a mother thing. BUT NO. The judges agreed. I also asked the teacher if there was anything that he should change or do differently for the district fair, but she said "No, he did a marvelous job." When I came back from work they were putting the ribbons out. I thought it was cool that he was getting a blue ribbon. And then I start hearing that the blue ribbons made it to district. I was so proud of him. And then when they announced the winners they had the really good winners and I was shocked it wasn't his. And then they announced the tremendous, super-dooper good winners and that was him. He was in the top 5 over all. Some of these kid's projects were so incredibly unique. I thought it was wonderful. I'm not big into science, but it was fun to see their originality. And I did feel very sorry for some of the kids that you could tell had no help. The sheet they sent home said to help your child make a presentation they are proud of. Great Job Devin

Good Luck at District

Getting Ready for the Science Fair

Devin had to do a science project this year. He looked around on the Internet and decided what he wanted to do. I thought he did a SMASHING good job with it. He would sit in the recliner with the laptop and type away. He actually did the typing. When I asked him how he knew how to spell Fahrenheit, he said he looked on the thesaurus. Pretty cool that he even knew how to do that. I got to buy the magnets for him and I asked my friend with a Cricut to cut out the lettering. (I think I need a cricut)! But other than that he worked his little tail feathers off. I think he did a great job getting it ready.

Nine Mile Field Trip

This was my little group of boys. They were so much fun. That bus ride was a little long and dusty but other than that it was a lot of fun to spend the day with Devin.

Devin was a little sick of getting his picture taken but oh well he will survive.

Me and my sweet Devin.

Part of the group The bus ride. Kids love them.I'm putting the rest of the pictures in a slide show because there are so many of them. If you have time, take a rest and watch them. It is a very interesting place to visit. The graineries are always my favorite. Those poor people had it pretty rough. I have to walk a few steps to get to my pantry and they had to climp a cliff or repel (not sure which) to get to their food. Such hard workers.

Devin's Singing Program

Devin's class marched in and did a march routine around the gym...And on the stage....Our fifth grade is rather large and fills up most of the stage. And seriously, I can't think of one knuckle head in that class. They are really good kids. Shayla's aged girls (sixth grade) did a bell ringing song. The boys that age did a dance with 5 gallon buckets. Look out Vegas for this act. My camera went dead about that time but it was so creative. Like the "STOMP"!!

Altamont Elementary has one of the best music programs I have ever seen in a school -- No not one of the best, THE BEST. First of all I can't imagine teaching one class one song, let alone each class sang their own songs (more than one... notice that) plus they did little dance routines or marching or something. I was really amazed at what they had learned in such a short time. This program was a performance worth seeing. Of course Devin did a smashing job. The little stinker wouldn't smile though. Why is it that when boys get that age they don't like to perform any more but the girls eat it up????

Be sure to pause the blog music, so that you can hear their cute little voices.

They really are too cute. I just can't believe my baby is in fifth grade. boo hoo. Not many more elementary programs. :(

Music Video of their last dance. (I'm thinking more like a rythym dance sort of thing)

Scary Halloween

My front door on Halloween. I don't usually get too many trick or treaters because we kind of live in the middle of nowhere. But I did have a few fun treaters this year. There is a video on the end of this post of the funnest time we had. Devin was a little scary this year. Dakoda was in Milford at football playoffs and Dylan wouldn't dress up this year so Devin was a good sport for me.Church Trunk or Treat - There were so many cute costumes.After the party Devin was trying on some of the assortment of costume things we have. I love this look the best. Not sure what the heck he is, but I love it.

Our neighbor, who is a year older than Dylan (a Freshmen), came to visit with a few of her friends. Who knew that girls would be so scared of a coyote call put out in the bushes on our driveway. They had walked down from their house in the dark, about 1/4 of a mile. First of all that is scary to me. But we had a heads up on their coming, so Dakoda went out and snuck around the house and scared the bajeebers out of them when they came. After they decorated Dylan's room with toilet paper they decided to leave, but not before Dean and I had our brilliant idea of scaring them. I snuck around the house so that I could video it. I had to leave the lights off the camera so they wouldn't be suspicious so you can't actually see them but you can definately hear them. They were actually heard clear up to their house. After our little prank they ran back to our house and ran straight in. No knocking or slowing down. They just tore right into our house. They were so freakin scared. Dean and I couldn't catch our breaths either. We were laughing so hard. They just couldn't breath because they were so scared. Their older sister ended up coming to get them because they wouldn't go outside again. (Pause the sound before watching to get the full affect of the screams.)

Dakoda's Massive Buck

Dakoda has shot huge bucks for the last two years. He gets to hunt about 1/2 hour each night and a little while on Saturdays. That's what you get when you play high school sports I guess, so he is proud just to find a little buck to shoot at. I'm not sure what Dean will do here in a few years when he has all three boys hunting plus himself. By then it should be fine I guess. Dakoda had to gut and skin his own deer this year. I chose to go in the house and not hang out during the coldness but Dean said he did a great job. He has always helped gut them but this is the first time he had to do it by himself.

Dakoda and his cheeser grin. He loves his mommy and her camera.

The big buck.