Verlynn Kings Funeral-Garland

This past week a lot of time has been spent in funeral clothes!

Garland Fire Dept had a long time member Verlynn King pass away. He had been having health problems and was 75. He had 47 years as a volunteer fire fighter and was still an active member. We had the honor of assisting Tremonton with our ladder truck to help hold up the flag. 

We arrived at 1030 Saturday morning. The funeral started at 12.

We got the flag all set up. It takes a while!

 His turnouts

 Seeing the big American flag and all these people in dress uniforms cant help but make your heart swell a little.

 The Willard Fire Group

Rod, Doug, Todd and I

. We stayed and guarded the flag and trucks so Tremonton could go to the funeral. The procession came through about 1:30. It was lead by several fire trucks. We all stood and saluted as they came past. They continued onto the grave site and we took down the flag and ladder trucks.

Grey Thursday and Black Friday

Todd and I did our annual Grey Thursday trip to Walmart that night just for fun. We ended up finding some good deals and made our way through the crowd easily. We didnt even have to wait in line to check out! It was perfect. 

 That next morning we went to Cals, Tractor Supply, breakfast at Larrys Spring Chicken Inn and then headed to Browning. We made out like bandits at Browning! This is Chris and I in the middle row of Janas Denali. It was FULL

 after we got home from shopping we headed to Idaho to get our Christmas tree!

 It didnt take long and we found two great trees!

Randoms

Weve done some duck and goose hunting

 Taylor, Steve, Chris and I

 These planes flew over us while we were laying in the blind

 Sighted in our rifles and had a day date

 Bailey, Bridger and Madison came into town for the weekend. Everyone was over at Aunt Kathys. We went over one night to visit

Parry, Me and Bailey

They are the cutest couple ever! Parry is such a sweetheart and so good for Bailey!

We also got out first snow finally woo woo!!

 and I bought a new Jeep. I needed 4 wheel drive. I took it out playing in the snow and love it!

 Kennedys sisters took her to go the Ogden Christmas Parade and lighting of Christmas Village. She had a blast and got to see Santa!

Antelope Hunt

Dad and I have two doe antelope tags for out west. One Sunday Mom, Kennedy, Chris, Dad and I loaded up the truck and headed out to search for antelope. We saw a bunch when we first started out but we were iffy if they were on private land or not so we passed. We had maps out and everything but couldnt confidently say they were on public land, and we had them at 150 yards standing starring at us!

We saw a bunch of coyotes, several herds of antelope. They were soooooo skitish. We had two herds we were able to sneak up 700 yards on but that was it.  We did see a good buck.

 The views were awesome. We spotted antelope on one spot and hunters sneaking towards them  (after we were already there) so we kept going and went to where if they shot they would push the antelope too. We waited for a while and they never came. So we went back out the road we came on and around the other side

 and of course once we got to the top of a miserable trail there were the antelop where we had just left an hour and a half ago. We have no idea how they snuck around.

We didnt bring home any antelope but we had fun!

Forcible Entry Class

Chris, Taylor, Todd and I took a Forcible Entry class put on by UFRA. It was a super cool class! We learned so much. I loved it! But I know you all dont care about that so heres some pictures of us breaking into things

Chris is in the red helmet

Todd is in the white

and Im in the black

Ducks Unlimited

And of course the night of the Be a Girl Shoot was the Ducks Unlimited Banquet.

The dinner was amazing

 Kennedy won a GreenWing backpack with a travel bag. She was so excited.

 Todd won a shot gun

and so did Tammy but we didnt get a picture of her with her gun. It was a good night. There were twice as many people as normal!