It was a tough hunt for my brother in-law and I but we hung in there till the last minute and we both tagged our deer. The interesting thing about this story is we hunted all kinds of different spots and we killed our deer in the same area two days apart and I killed my buck from last year on this same hill this guy was on.

Early in the season we were seeing some does here and there and then on Monday my bro inlaw spotted a forkie at about 4:30pm and took him.

So Thursday comes around and I can only hunt until 12 cause i got to get back to camp and load stuff up to go home. We went back to the spot Ron (bro in-law) killed his buck and decided to glass for an hour and move on to another spot. Luckily I spot two doe booking it up the far side of the hill i was looking at. I called Ron over and we are both watching the does and Ron says I got a buck! We see two bucks running together at the top of the hill. They started sparring a little and then started making their way over toward us. We get a good look at the bucks at this point and one was really nice, but still too far away. We move closer around the face of the hill we were on and unfortunately the big buck beds down. His little buddy is still hanging out so I decided it was now or next year. I ranged him and he was standing broad side at 380 yards. I squeezed one off and Ron says he is down! I was pumped that I hit him good and then I remembered the how much work it was going to be to get him out of there.

Here he is. It was a lot of work but I had a great time.

This is how we hauled him out of the bottom of the canyon behind us.

Kamden turned 4 on the 14th of Sept. All he really wanted for his birthday was a new car seat and candy. We opted not to get a new car seat since we have 3 but, we did get him some new whiffle balls to play baseball with. They don't go nearly as far and we all are tired of jumping into the neighbors yards to retrieve balls. He also got lots of candy. We did a little party for him at Peter Piper but I have lots of pictures with foster babies that I can't post. Not that we really need a visual for that anyways right?!

I have all my kids in school this year. CRAZY. Riley started 4th grade, Carson 2nd, Kai Kindergarten, and Kamden Pre-School. The 3 olders are at Franklin South and LOVING it. Kamden is going to Pre-School with Mrs. Rachel who Kai went to last year. He thinks he's big time now and I'm certainly loving having a few hours of freedom!

I'm trying to catch up so here are Carson's Baptism pictures from July. He is such a sweet boy and we are so proud of him for his decision. He is such a great big brother and is so helpful.

As usual we did lots of this during the summer. We love to camp and be outside in the fresh mountain air! We added quite a few new camping items to our collection. The kids favorite was real marshmallow roasting sticks. How have we been camping soooo long and not had these? Also I had a great idea to shave all the boys heads before we headed out one weekend. Well I didn't think ahead. Carson's baptism was two weeks away. Opps! Oh well.

Carson really was having a hard time deciding between a new bike and a DS for his birthday. He said I could decide so of course I opted for a bike. He was so excited and loves riding it everywhere even though it's hotter than heck outside. It was also his last day of summer school. After school was over we picked him up and headed out camping for the weekend with lots of Friends. We dropped Justin off at Scout Camp and head down the road where all our friends were camping. That night we surprised him with a Pinata and our friends brought two birthday cakes up. He thought it was pretty cool.

I went on a quick weekend trip the begining of June to Utah with my friend Alena. While I was gone Justin took the kiddos camping up where Grandma and Grandpa were. He made the kids a rope swing and they had lots of fun on it.




What a good Daddy my kiddos have. He loves spending time with them and taking them on fun adventures.

Kai had a GrEat time in pre-school this last year. He learned so much and love, love, loved Mrs. Rachel! He was a little shy during the graduation ceremony but, he really came out of his shell during this last year. I'm feeling so much better about him going to Kindergarten this coming year.


Kai asks everyday how much longer till Kindergarten starts and Kamden asks how much longer till he get to go to pre-school with Mrs. Rachel!

We took the kids to Disneyland this year for Spring Break. My sister from Ut and my brother for Az ditched their families and flew over to hang with us for the week. We are so glad they came. We had lots of fun!! Here we are on the first day. I think I'm more excited than my kids.