He Loves to Shoot

a few (lots) of random pictures

Tyson recently found his old "trail cam" from a few years ago. It was fun going through it finding pictures we forgot about.

Like this chubby little fella. Look how he's grown!

 And these pictures from a time Tyson and Chad went Jeepin.

Remember, Chad, when you lived close enough that you could go do these fun things with us?

Remember how you were going to move here?

Remember how you didn't, and we never forgave you?

There is still time to redeem yourself...

 Who are these random boys in this one?

There were quite a few pictures of bears...

(well, this ones not a bear. this is the Mountain Man himself)

 This is a bear looking IN the bait barrel.

 This is a bear ON the barrel.

This is a bear CLIMBING the tree.

 This is a bear SPOTTING the camera.

 This is a bear EATING the camera.

THE END

"sightin in" with dad

he loves to shoot

CALLING ALL ARCHERS!!!!

And non archers. We need you facebookers too! (is facebookers a word? we are new the world of facebooking, so I dont know the real facebookaholics lingo) Attention Hunger Games lovers (wink wink at sheena)

As some of you may know, Tyson has opened an archery shop. We received our first order of bows last night! YAY!

SO-we need help getting his name out there! Thats where you, my millions of trusty, loyal, faithful, archery loving readers come in. OK, even if your not all that into archery. Or even if your not trusty, loyal or faithful.

So if you fellow facebookies could simply "like" Pure Archery it would be awesome. Even if you don't really like archery. I promise you will like Pure Archery. But first you have to "like" Pure Archery.

Also-check out Tysons fancy new website he's been working on (there is a Pure Archery link to your left for future reference (smile-wink)). He loves feedback so please comment on anything you think he might want to change/add.

And if you ask him nice, he could get you everything you need to make you as awesome like Katniss.

Countdown to Christmas

Our Christmas countdown started out a little differently than the average countdown.

We headed to "the big city" for an archery tournament.

We started our big journey with this beautiful view:

 We then continued on our journey and made it to our destination.

Unfortunatly all of the pictures here were of the back of the husbands head. 

We did manage to squeeze in a little Christmas though- we hopped on the train and headed to Temple Square to see all of the Christmas lights.

Where, as usual, all of my pictures were a blur.

So sister kindly took a family photo for us-the first since....well, probably since the boy was born.

We came home and decorated (and ate) sugar cookies

And of course-we cant forget poor Darth at Christmas time, so this afternoon the boy and I threw together a quick treat for Darth's stocking

If you feel like baking one day but want need to give your own waste-line a break from the cookie madness this time of year, here is the recipe:

Homemade Dog Treats

2 1/2 c whole wheat flour (I used regular all purpose flour)

1/2 c milk

1 tsp garlic powder

1 large egg

2 Tbsp flavoring (bacon grease, chicken/beef stock, tuna juice....whatever. we used chicken)

Mix together dry ingredients, then add the rest. mix well. Will be thick. If its too thick for your liking, add more chicken stock (if thats what you used)

Roll dough on floured surface to about 1/4" thickness and cut into shapes of your liking. We did snowflakes and triangles (I got tired of cutting "cute"cookies for the dog, so finished up with a pizza cutter)

Bake for 30 min. at 350*. Let them sit in the oven while it cools off to make them extra crisp.

Darth taste tested (even though they are for Christmas. We'll assume he'll forget about them by Christmas) and loved them.

more mountain fun (?)

We (he) spread some top soil.

Planted some trees.

Played in the dirt.

Took down yet another trophy.

Packed it out. 

In the rain and mud.

Still hurting.
But let me tell you about this hike.
We got tired. Very tired.
Then on one of the last steep, tiring hills, my husband started quoting Homer Simpson.
"No I can't. Yes you can. No I can't. Yes you can. Oh shut up. No you shut up."

He's funny.
I'm not sure I would have made it out without him.
(I know I wouldn't have. I would have gotten lost.)

More meat to freeze.

Trying to keep our newly planted trees alive.

Laughed at sisters blog about summer meeting fall. Snow in the mountains.

We are the mountains. 

Summer meets winter in the mountains.

Snowed all day yesterday.

And all night.

Rogan loves the snow.

 
Woke up this morning to about 6 inches.
Time to dig out winter clothes.

we've been....

(warning: blog overload. its been too long and I have sooo much to tell you)

First of all, congrats to my manly mountain man husband on his recent kill!

We've spent most of this month in hunting mode. While the man was away a few night camping in the back county, all by himself, with no cell service, and only the bears to hear his cries for help, he also let us tag along quite a few night to "spot" for deer. While it makes things a little less practical for him, we are so glad he happily lets us join in the fun of the season.   This mule deer happens to be one of those deer we spotted with him. And the second time he showed his face around my manly man was his last. Fun for us (and I think a little sad-but that's why I don't hunt...) we were with him for the kill. Very pleasing to the mom (that would be me) the boy was asleep before we butchered him. For those of you who have never taken part in this (I'm assuming that's most) I don't recommend it. its not pretty. Especially if you are the one who is expected to eat it.

Up to this point, Tyson had been practicing (and ruining many a good arrow) to prepare for such a shot that would allow the poor innocent woodland creature to die a quick, humane death. Let me just brag on my husband a minute more....he really and truly is an amazingly talented archer....I just though you should know that.

We've also been:

playing some Jenga

Kind of.

Enjoying the last bit of summer as much as we can

Inspecting Grandpa's company tractors

And last, but not least (okay-least. obviously its a rare occasion we do this)

mowing our pasture lawn

Oh yeah-and throw in hours of cutting and canning deer meat (hey, cheap, organic, free range deer meat...)

and some jerky making.

Now its time to go find some elk....

Celebration

We started off our July 4th celebrations with a big bang. You may remember when my talented mountain man pulled this shot off.  Well, I'm proud to say, he's done it again....

After all the excitement, we got in some food, a lot of sun, some yard work, more food and sun, and then the big town firework show. The boy loved the "so amazing" fireworks and thought they were "pwitty".