I caught me a Deer !!!

Well the hunt is over. After only the first four days the group was done. Tuesday night after being bit by an inmate and having to be treated for that I finally made it up to the mountains. The next morning was the season opening. That morning Doug Attwood (a Deputy that works with me) shot a deer at about 100 yards on the run. The rest of the day we didn't see a lot of movement. Next day in the morning my Sergeant got a 4x5 just down the road from camp. It was a good number of points but a very small deer. Later that night another Deputy got a small two point over by the lower pond. The next morning nothing much was moving, that evening every one else was out hunting and I was left to watch camp and wait for the rest of the group to show up. It was just about sun down and I decided that I would just go up the mountain to see if I could push something down a draw to my Sergeant who was now hunting with his two daughters. My buddy Dean Larsen left the keys to his dirt bike so I could use it if I wanted. I took the bike and headed up the mountain. As I summited the hill to the top of the draw I came around the corner and found a buck staring right at me. I froze to see if he was going to bolt or hang around. After about two minutes of him staring at me he took about three bounds around the corner and stopped and looked back. I cut the engine to the bike and slowly got off, removed my muzzle loader off my shoulder, cocked the hammer and crouched down to see if he was still there. He was still there but all I could see was his neck and head. I finally decided that I had to shoot for his neck or I wouldn't get a better shot. I squoze the trigger and he dropped immediately. He was a good size deer with nice brow tines. He was the biggest deer we got through the entire hunt. It was a blast to be out there and to have the chance to camp with my friends.

Kaylie's favorite things...

Her favorite things (Translation)

1. Old MacDonald's (to get a hamburger and of course we sing the song!)
2. Sprinklers (Pringles potato chips)
3. Baby Enema from Costco (The name is really EMMA, she can say it now)
4. Nummy nums (M & M's)
5. ABCD123TL14, 15 Z... (Duh the alphabet! And no I didn't teach it to her, obviously Jeff did!)
6. Costco (COSTCO, who doesn't like that store?!?)
7. Playing with the Magzits (Refridgerator MAGNETS, Of course!)
8. Shoes (A girl after my own heart! We went to Target to get her some warm clothes today and she was doing a cheer about shoes in front of all the shoes and stripped down to try on every pair she could grab. Who needs clothes when you have shoes! I finally gave in and just bought her a pair so we could get to the WHOLE REASON WE WENT SHOPPING...WARM CLOTHES because it's FREEZING outside!)
9. Scooby Doo (Because Ethan and Adam like it)
10. Mom's bed ("Jules I can sleep in your bed because dad's not coming home tonight so there is plenty of room for me") WHATEVER!!!! BEEN THERE DONE THAT!
11. Hannah Montana's song Everybody makes mistakes, Everybody has some steaks (Everybody makes mistakes, Everybody has those DAYS, I promised her I'd get her a CD, does Hannah Montana really have a CD or is it just a tv show?)

Every day life :)

Kaylie and Ashley are both so much fun these days! Ashley is smiling and giggling more than ever and Kaylie is getting really good at making towers all by herself with the lego blocks and she can finally pedal by herself on her bike! Kaylie made this tower a few days ago and was so excited that she got it this tall without it falling over. She gets really frustrated when it falls over and yells at her blocks! At first I thought she was playing with someone and was being mean to them, I quickly looked in to find her yelling at her blocks. She told me they were frustrating her because they kept falling over. We tried making a base with some of the bigger blocks and she was a lot happier!

Ashley loves her baths! She prefers to sit in the actual bath tub and kick like crazy but she likes the sink baths too.

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Alex in the car getting ready to go home.

One last glimpse of paradise!

Kaylie was having a hard time getting her shirt on correctly! But she did it all by herself!

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Kaylie with her vanilla ice cream!

Sage the next morning after the run over the mountain, poor dog!

Ethan and Kaylie getting ready to go home :(

Leslie packing up the car

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Ashley and Jackson

Adam, Ashley and Kaylie!

Adam was naked naked so Kaylie took off her clothes so she could be naked naked too! They snacked on these carmel popcorn balls the whole time! Life doesn't get much better than this!

Ashley took a nap on the bear rug!

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Hey Kaylie nice face!

Ashley chilling on the couch

Adam had a little accident on the four wheeler, they went over a bump and he hit his chin on his dad's back and bit through his lower lip! He was so tough! He hardly cried.