CARIBOU!!!

Lyle and his friends Rob and BJ just barely got back from Quebec after a week of hunting caribou. Successfully they all came home in one piece and with 2 caribou each. They all had alot of fun and had a great experience with most of it. Supposedly it wasn't that great of a year to go caribou hunting because their is always 2 migrating herds that come together every year but for some reason this year one of the herds never crossed the river and met up with the other herd which left 200,000 less caribou this year then in years before. Luckily for them they were all able to tag out unlike alot of the other hunters that went up there. One of the groups had 20 tags and were only able to get 5 bulls and 1 cow.

They hiked 4 miles from camp and saw this herd migrating, 3 guys 6 bulls down within 2-3 hours.

Because they were so far away from camp it took them 3 days to pack all of the meat back. It's a good thing that they got them within the first few days they were there.

YEA!!! Here we are riding at Mater at the fair. I am a big fan of the fair and Lyle doesn't like it so much but he puts up with it once every year for me.
One morning I got left elk hunting so when I finally decided to get my lazy butt up out of bed Hunter took me up the mountain and called for me. I was a little hesitant about him calling but when he did, he did an excellent job better then I could have done. Unfortunately we didn't see anything that half and hour we sat but he had fun and that was all that counted.


I think she did actually get to taste a little bit of that ice cream!

Rylee is such a little cheeseball. Whenever she sees a camera she is smiling and posing like crazy.
Here is Hunter and his cast again, he was finally able to get it off and oh my gosh that was disgusting, dead skin everywhere and Hunter would not leave it alone. He would sit there and pick at it whenever he had to sit down for two seconds, in the car, at the dinner table, everywhere! He had to wear a wrap for a week after he got the cast off and then after the wrap he couldn't play rough or anything for 10 more days. I don't think the orthopedic surgeon has kids cause if he did he would realize how ridiculous of a statement that was. Has he ever tried to get a 3 yr old boy to not play rough for a day let alone 10 days!!! ha ha!!!

Here it is, hunters fabulous cast.

So how it happened nobody really knows if you ask hunter he will tell you that he was trying to do some jumps on his bike but who knows. Lyle and I were right there and trying to get him to come home, we turn around to head home and all of sudden we hear this horrible screaming (a scream that has never come out of hunters mouth before) we turn around and hunter and his bike had fallen over onto the GRASS, so we comfort him thinking no big deal he just hit it funny. We take him inside and try to get him to relax, wondering if he'd relax then he would stop crying and realize that it was no big deal. Well that screaming went on for 20 min. finally we realize that he didn't just hit it funny and something was really wrong. Then we saw it starting to swell up. Hunter went into community care and that's when they tell us it was broken and he had to go see a orthopedic surgeon. When the Ortho was finally able to squeeze us in we find out that he has to have it pinned and he has to have the cast on for 4-6 weeks. Well it is finally the 6th week and hunter will go in on thur. to get the pins out but he'll still have to wear a soft cast for another week. He has really been a trooper and the cast has not slowed him down one bit. I think he actually likes it because i swear he is trying to break his other arm. Next week he will finally be able to go swimming, ride his bike, TAKE A BATH and do all of the other stuff he has been wanting to do for summer.

Archery season started on Aug. 15th for antelope!

Here is my antelope that I got on Aug. 16th with my bow.



Here is Lyle's antelope that he got on Aug 23rd with his bow.

Camping

This right here is a miracle. This is Rylee and our friend Rob and if you know Rylee she is very shy and isn't real sure about men she usually never lets any man hold her. I was sure she was sick and wasn't feeling well but when I checked to see if she had a fever or anything she felt fine.
Rylee and Brin at Stanley lake.
Hunter and his "girlfriend" Aspen. If you were wondering whats wrong with his eye, he got bit my a misquito and his eye was pretty much swollen shut.
Hunter loves shooting his bow, he will go outside sometimes by himself and shoot for hours and hours. There was one day he shot by himself for 4 hrs. we finally had to go somewhere and had to tell him it was time to put is up, we had to take it from him kicking and screaming. Last year (when he was 2) at this state archery competition, he competed in the kids division from 0-6 yr olds and tied for 3rd. This year in the same division he got 4th. He doesn't care what place he gets though I don't even think that he really understands whats going on I know it what he loves though.

Oh my gosh, I can't believe that summer is almost over. Sorry I haven't been keeping up on our blog but our July has been so crazy. If were not gone camping or having family reunions we're in the hospital having surgeries on broken arms (hunters). Anyway here are a few pictures of our July and I'll post more here in a little bit.

Best buddies Brinlee and Rylee

Hope everyones summers are going great!

I've been tagged

Thanks to Mindy I know have to tell you 10 things you probably don't know about me.

1. I will do anything for my family.

2. My nickname was SPLAT for a while because I ran over my own kitten and no it was not on purpose. RIP Kitty

3. My husband tries not to talk to me much after 9 pm because he says I turn into a total beeotch. But if he had to get up at 315 in the morning to get ready for work he would too.

4. I want to have more kids and if I could I would have twins. But Lyle says NO. I'm still working on him though.

5. I have been female bow hunter of the year twice.

6. I have harvested 3 antelope, 2 bears, 1 mt. lion, 1 mule deer and an elk.

7. I have a beautiful niece (Brinlee) that's from the Marshall Islands.

8. I am allergic to all grass, weeds, trees, wildflowers and some fruit. So around hunting season I walk around with toilet paper stuck up my nose so it doesn't run and so I don't sneeze every two minutes. gross I know.

9. I sometimes go a little overboard when I shop especially when I'm shopping for purses so instead of it looking like I just bought the whole store. I run in my room hide my buys in the closet and slowly bring them out one by one. When Lyle questions me when and where I got something I don't lie but tell him I've had it for a while.

10. My little Hunter was a honeymoon baby.

Well that's it. I now tag Kristal and Bridget. :)

Team Edward or Team Jacob?

Okay so I don't know if any of you are as obsessed as I am with the Twilight Series. I love them i couldn't put them down. I felt so bad for my kids I think they thought that they were motherless for a month. If you haven't read them I highly suggest you get on it they are amazing. If you have read them I put a survey on the bottom of my blog that's either team edward or team jacob. Let me know what you think whose team are you on?

Just a few pics

Here are just a few pictures of the last little bit. Here is Hunter with Bella. She is a Valley Bulldog which is a registered breed that half English Bulldog and half Boxer. She is a sweetheart and a freak. Karli and Rylee on one of our hunting trips this year.
Morgan riding the four wheeler all over grandpas back yard and loving it.
Because of the outrageous amount of snow we got this year. Mike and Trisha created a huge snow cave. We were able to fit 2 adult and the 3 kids inside. They all had alot of fun including the biggest kid of all...Michael.

Hunter and Brinlee Rolling down the hill at blacktail
Hunter and Robert just being plain silly
Hunter cruising in grandpas back yard with a pair of sheds he found

Here is Lyle and I when we went to Redding, Ca for an archery shoot.

Here is my crazy little (to him Big) boy

Here is Karli and Morgan, Lyles two wonderful girls.

This is my Rylee my baby girl she is almost 20 mths old (she was born on Oct. 25, 2006) and is a complete handful. I didn't really believe people when they would say that girls are so much harder then boys and I still wouldn't believe people when Rylee was born until she reached a year old. From then on she went from perfect little angel to a complete diva. Thats what I say anyway if you ask her father he would completely disagree with me but she has him wrapped around his finger, she couldn't ever do any wrong. But we love her no matter what. She is one of the funniest little girls Ive ever known and what a personallity she has.