Every things better when the necks are redder!

It's the 3rd weekend of October in Utah, that means only one thing, schools out, (who has ever heard of "fall break"?) , BYU football is re-scheduled for Thursday night, Church attendence is optional, temperatures have dropped, trucks are lifted, facial hair is respected and every lotion hating, non-purse holding, Toby Keith lovin, sunflower seed spittin, flanel shirt wearin, male heads to the hills for opening weekend of the Deer Hunt, and the question of the day is.....

"Did ya get yer deer?"

Of course, we were so there!

We found this cool water fall just below Dutch Flats in American Fork Canyon, it was so cool, the water literally comes out of the rock!

Coley boy still has a sore throat, he is the best big brother and a perfect hunting buddy! The kind who will go with you no matter what, even if he's sick and cant legaly shoot a deer, he is still there helping and making it fun.
Bella by the falls
This was the view on the way up to Silver lake, that is the back side of Mt. Timpanogos in the background, what a great state! Way better than Texas!

Pistol Packin Mama! You have been warned!
The fastest trigger in the family, seriously scary! Throws, bats and kicks left handed, shoots right? Explain this to me please?

He is one heck of a shot, soda cans and milk jugs beware!

Did you really ask me to press 1 for English?

If you ask them they will tell you,

"We are NOT friends!"

The answer is, no, not yet, but....

THERE WILL BE BLOOD!

Thats my boy!

Taggert was sitting at the table tonight, he lifted up his shirt and told me he didn't have any fat, I said your right, you are one of the leanest guys I know, (he loves to show off his 6 pack). THEN..... after he thought about it, he said with a spark in his eye and in his gravely voice... "well, maybe I do have just a little fat, weiner fat, yeah, I have a fat weiner!"

BRILLIANT!

In our world......

What color is the sky in your world? Cause in our world its perfectly normal to ride scooters on a wood deck 10 feet off the gound, in our underwear, at 6:30 on a Tuesday night when its only about 50 degrees outside. By the way, when is dinner?

Weekend pics

Horse Wrangler

If you know Yzzy, you know she LOVES animals, in her 4 year old eyes, Doggies are king, Horses would be #2 and her family would come in a close 3rd! She has adopted a horse by the boys school, she has named it CupCake, it shares the fence with the school playground. When Jami picks up the boys if she has time she lets Yzz take a few carrotts or apples with them and they will go and feed this horse. Sometimes Bella will just get out of the suburban and runs on her own picking grass as she goes to feed to "her horsey, CupCake!" She loves horses but for various reasons she has never gotten to go with the boys when we have gone to see and ride Uncle Todd's horses. Friday Todd needed help moving some of his horses from a pasture in Lehi up to Heber, so Yzzy and I went to help him move 4 of them, Bella was actually very helpfull getting them into his horse trailer, Cole had gotten out of school while we were doing this, so we picked him up and headed up the canyon. Here are some pics of the adventure!

Bella riding Uncle Todd's reigning horse Bill, she was nervous at first but then in heaven!

A real smile starting to show through, she had the time of her life!

After turning Bill out in the pasture, she decided she should be the horse, Uncle Todd put the halter on her and Coley decided he should be the one to lead her around!
As you can tell she is having a blast!


She started off pretty tame but when Uncle Todd took the lead she turned into a BUCKIN' BRONC! At the end I think she was even trying to bite?

Uncle Todd finally got the wild horse settled down and loaded into the trailer, this may look odd but she has not stopped talking about this trip yet!

Coley boy being cool on some sprinklersAt some point I think she turned into a goat?

Thanks again Uncle Todd for the fun afternoon, whenever you need help Yzzy the horse wrangler is only a phone call away!

Canyon bike ride

Monday night was perfect weather, we wanted to do something fun as a family outside so Jami told the kids to grab their helmets we were going for a bike ride! We went up Provo Canyon to ride the Bridal Veil Falls trail. It was awesome, I thought it would be crowded with as perfect as the weather was but there were suprisingly few zoobies up the canyon which made it all the more fun!

Jami and the kids at the base of the falls (just after Yzzy taking a header off the rock, her pink princess helmet is floating just out of the picture)

As close to a full shot of the falls as I could get, with Jami and the kids at the base
Stopping for a drink and to pose for pics
The leaves were starting to change, I thought we had better pics of the colors, we will have to go back again for better fall color pictures
Bella found out why we call this crash corner! This same corner was whereTagg crashed his bike last year, when we came up to it this year, he jumped off of his bike, threw it on the ground and started yelling, "I'm not riding down that hill!!!!" He was right in front of Yzzy and Jami, this caused Bella to skid, slide, wobble, barely miss a pole and then fall off of her bike and onto her hands and side. Luckily for her she has a Mom that has raised boys and never goes anywhere without bandaids and wipes! Jami had her all cleaned up and the tears dried, I had to tell her to make a sad face for this picture.
Amazing how good an $8 bag of grocery store chicken, a piece of string cheese and a can of root beer tastes when your having fun with the ones you love the most!

Great weekend

Another great weekend fishing with Uncle Dale and Aunt Angie, this time Taggert and I went along, we went Saturday morning up on the upper Provo river in the flats between Deer Creek and Jordanell reservoirs. It was great, the leaves are changing, slight breeze, then it rained, there was hard rain, soft rain, rain that fell sideways, stinging rain and then it just stopped and we had sun, it was a great day.

Taggert & Uncle Dale

ROckin on the river
Taggert had one heck of a day, he caught 2 shoes, one size 9 (shown below) and one size 13!

Become the grasshopper, grasshopper!

I'm just happy to be here!

Can you find in this picture, one Dad, a Pancho, one Lefty and one dog?

Nice rug!


The "Afgan man"

I swear, any excuse to go all WT and loose the shirt! To much Kid Rock and Red Bull!

We went through allot of thick, heavy deep brush, did I say thick! We were toole hacking all day long, Dale carrying Super dog, me with Lefty, Coley boy and Aunt Angie carrying the fishing poles, camera, sweatshirts and picking up whatever fell out on the way!

This was an old shot from Nam, yes I did carry grenades in my back pockets... Why do you ask?
Yup, it was that muddy!

End of the day, dirty, worn out and still having fun! Thanks Uncle Dale and Aunt Angie for a very fun day!