HUNTING

For the past two weekends we been out hunting for deer! No luck though, it was a bad year for hunters... to hot I guess! We saw one two point opening morning but Nate wanted something bigger so he didn't take the shot. Other than that all we saw were doe...

Here is one looking at us now!

The first weekend we went camping and had some friends come along. Micah had a tag and Dan and Stacie brought their horses in case we needed to haul anything out! We had a good time around the fire and camping out even though it was a little cold. The other non-campers meet us early Saturday morning to hunt for the day.

While we were out hiking around we decided to split up into two groups. Me and Nate went higher up while Micah, Dan and Stacie stayed lower... that way we could push the deer to each other. While we were separated they called us on the Rino or "walkie talkie" to tell us they had just seen a young bear. Me and Nate thought they were just trying to scare us so we didn't believe them at first but turns out it was true. We meet back up with them and the those who had a gun had them out and ready to fire. Who knows if there was a "mommy" around so we were being careful! It felt like we suddenly became the hunted rather than the hunters! So needless to say we didn't see any deer on this hike! Here we all are...

The next weekend we decided not to camp and only went out Saturday morning and afternoon. Again all we saw were doe. This time Nate's dad brought the horses. Kent and Danielle (Nate's dad and sister) rode in on the horses then later me and Danielle traded and I rode back out with Kent. It was great, the horses do all the work!

Here is me and Nate in our cool orange!!

















This is random, but can you see whats wrong with this picture?!

FALL IS MY FAVORITE

This fall has been so pretty! But I guess it probably is every year and it must just be that this year I'm actually paying attention! I've had my camera on me so I've snapped a few random pictures of the fall colors... I'm just sad they will be gone so soon!

GIRL FUN... BOY FUN

Last night me, Laura, Jenny, and Heidi had a girls night! Its been awhile sense I had one of those. We went to Gardner Village in SLC to watch A Witch Palooza A Music Dinner Show. Laura had gotten free tickets that Eric had won at work. It was well... ummm... interesting! And the food was... Ok, I guess! We did get to stand up and dance a little, which is never good in my case. I hate looking like an idiot! O well, it was still fun to have a girls night anyways.

So the reason we decided to have a girls night was because the boys were away on their own trip. Nate and his dad along with Eric went down south to do their 120 mile bike ride! Which in my mind is madness... but for some reason they seem to like this stuff! They ride 60 miles a day to make a round trip back to where they started. That means that once they start they have to finish! Last night on the phone Nate said they survived the first day... so we'll have to wait and see how today went.

At least it is a pretty ride through Zions, here is a picture of them on last years ride Last year it was Nate, his dad and brother Adam. This year Adam is gone on the mission and Eric was crazy enough to go with them. If I get any pictures of this year I'll have to post them later.

Guys are crazy, sometimes I just dont understand them! :)

Demolition Derby

We went to the Demolition Derby here in Spanish Fork at the Utah County Fair and I have to say that it was pretty entertaining. I've never seen one before so I didn't know what to expect and I kept calling it the pinewood derby, Nate would just laugh at me. But I loved it. It was a lot of fun, how could watching a bunch of old beater cars bash each other in not be fun! I found this picture on the Internet until I can download the pictures Nate took on his phone... it pretty much looks like what we saw. They had firemen and EMTs all around just in case something went wrong.

Janice and Hans told us about it so we decided we would go and meet up with them. Eric and Laura called us later and told us they were going too. Eric told me that a couple of people that he works with and that I actually use to work with were going to be driving in it. It turned out that one of them won the whole thing... way to go Kurt! Actually knowing who was in the car made it even more fun to watch. Here are the winners:

August 16, 2008-Utah County Fair
1st Kurt Zabriski '76 Impala
2nd Johnny Gullo '74 Oldsmobile
3rd Billy Bowman Shocker
MAD Brad Bowman '78 New Yorker

So if you ever get the chance to go to a Demolition Derby you should defiantly go!

That same weekend we got to have Tammy, Brando and Brando's nephew Marcus come to visit us (to bad they didn't get here early enough for the Derby). Brando had tickets to the Jack Johnson concert so that was fun for him and Marcus and it turned out great for me because I got to hang out with my sister! I love when family comes to visit!!!! :)

ZION NARROWS

The weekend after white water rafting a group of us got together to hike the Narrows. It was me and Nate, Andrea and Eric, Mike, Ash and Dallen, Adam, M.jay and Hans (A little of Nate's family and a little of mine). If you haven't ever hiked the narrows I totally recommend it...but... don't be fooled by the down hill, along a river idea- this was no easy hike. It took us all day to get to the bottom, I didn't think we were going to make it out before dark. That river just kept going and going... and going and going! But... it was beautiful as you can see from the pictures and far worth it!

Here we are crossing the river in the beginning.... easy!

And here we are crossing the river in the end... hard!

Its a good thing we got these walking sticks. At first I felt like a nerd hiking with a stick but I was soon grateful!

This picture of Adam and Andrea (Nate's brother and sister) was actually taken before the hike had even started!

I guess Hans got board with the norm and decided to change a few things up! :)

It was a great hike and one of the best parts about the whole trip is that the boys made breakfast the next morning!

White Water Rafting

So I'm a little behind in my blogging. A few weekends ago M.jay planned a white water rafting trip in Moab. We've never been so we were excited to go! A pretty big group turned out, most of them I didn't even know. We had a blast and would do it again anytime!

Here we are on our way to the river in our "cool" life jackets!

Jayni Dowse and Becky Huff

Me and M.jay ended up on the "flip boats" (in separate boats while Nate road the ducky with Crazy Carl). Both mine and M.jay's boat's goal was to flip, obviously!! The first time my boat attempted it a few of us messed up and high sided to the wrong side (me included) so we only "dumped trucked" as they call it. Those of us still in the boat had to help pull in those who got dumped!

But here is an action shot of the second attempt. We all squished to the back of the boat so the front tip would flip over backwards! The water was freezing but it was worth it! You can check out the fun club blog for more fun action shots!

Camping and more fun!

We camped outside of Moab and the next morning we went for a short hike and did some repelling with M.jay's gear!

Here is M.jay leading me to my death! What a great brother!

Nate and Seth.

You can actually see our camp site in this picture (just to the left of Nate). We camped right on the river. There were no trees though so it was pretty hot but most everyone had fun jumping in the river to cool off.

Nate doing a fancy trick before diving in!

And David catching a Frisbee!

And of course there had to be a seed spitting contest...!

Five years old!

Last weekend we got to go to little Hans's birthday party. He is five years old now and that means he can do everything a five year old can do... you know run faster, jump higher, throw further... the usual stuff! He could even race Eric on his bike down the sidewalk!

Here are all the spectators!

I also wanted to wish Andrea a Happy birthday!

And a late birthday to Alex! Crazy kid.