Memorial Weekend

Friday morning I had a hair appointment in Tremonton. Actually I was crashing Janas hair appointment. We go to the same girl and the only time she could get me in for a cut in the next few weeks was in the middle of Janas coloring while it was setting. I dropped K off at school and headed out to Tremonton to see Liz and her new house. They've lived there for a few months but our schedules just hadn't worked out that we could visit. While I was there I got this text...

Her house is adorable and so is their baby horse. 

Klinton is so cute. He had to show me his weed whacker, his motor, his gun

 and of course his fire helmet and chainsaw!

From there it was to the best hair girl ever. I took off about an inch and added a ton of layers. I waited for Jana to finish and we went to Golden Spike Burger for lunch.

Todd was hired as a Fire Warden for Box Elder County. He got the job Thursday afternoon and a brush truck to stay at his house. Him and Chris spent the weekend cleaning and organizing it and making it how he wanted. I sat in the shop and supervised.

 Saturday morning Todd Jana Chris and I went to Larrys Spring Chicken Inn for breakfast in Morgan and then to Browning for their Memorial Day sale. Mom and Dad met us at Browning. We found some good deals! Todd and Jana got me a new pair of hunting boots for my birthday. I love them! Theyre so light weight and comfortable. Ive worn them twice already and they definitely are waterproof!

 Saturday night we did 'Sunday dinner.' My dad smoked ribs, chicken wings and bacon wrapped pineapple stuffed with ribs. We had baked beans, pasta salad and dutch oven strawberry short cake and dutch oven chocolate cherry cobbler. 

Macee knew good food was coming and she was ready to eat!

Mom and Dad gave me this awesome painting on tin they found. I love it! We hung it in the living room already.

Sunday morning Todd and I went turkey hunting. We had some far across a lake from us and no way to get to them. We tried another spot and didnt find anything. We had a good morning hike though to work off some of those ribs!

 Kennedy spent Friday and Saturday night with her dad.. her first overnight with him in over a year. It was so weird not having her there! I bought her a new shirt at Browning and a new coloring book and crayons and had them waiting on the stairs for her when she got home Sunday morning.

When we got back from hunting Chris had put my 4th of July chair out on the porch. He said since it was Memorial Weekend we needed some patriotic decorations. I love him!

 Since Kennedy got back Sunday morning she hasnt left my side. She has been soooo mom clingy. I cant take two steps with out her under my feet. We cuddled on Grandma Janas couch while Chris and Todd worked on the fire truck some more. One point I woke up and she and Radar were laying on top of me. She kept pulling the covers back to kiss my cheeks. It was so sweet. I think she missed her momma.

 She baked a cake for dinner that night.

  It was just for dinner but then they decided they needed to fill it full of candles...

 and yes Kennedy counted out 30 stinking candles and put it on the cake. The next best thing about putting on 30 candles is getting to lick the frosting off all 30 as you take them off! 

 Monday was my actual birthday. It was fabulous we slept in til 8. Kennedy made me breakfast and hid two cards/presents in the living room for me to find.  

Chris was so proud of himself for picking me out this card. He knew how bad I didnt want to turn 30. It didnt help that my hair girl had to inform me she found a few 'grey sparkles' as she called them. I knew I had one or two poking through!

 They got me this sweet range finder. It has an archery option where it will adjust to angles for you. So if its 30 yards but on a steep incline it will adjust the yardage for what you need to shoot it at. I cant wait to try it out!

 Kennedy begged Chris to take off her training wheels... that was an adventure in its own. She was really struggling with the keep peddling and balance part lol. She insisted it was easier to learn to ride in the grass so finally we said fine go ride in the backyard ha!

Kennedys Final Dance Recital

Miss K had her final recital Thursday night at Box Elder Middle school. She had so much support there! Me, Chris, Jana, Roy, Kathy, Taylor, Tammy, Steve, Caitlyn. Her sister Karli and her dad were even there. We got to watch all the dance groups and there were some cute dances. The Groovy Girls (her group) danced their competition song "Dear Future Husband" I cant believe how much bigger Kennedy is than most girls her age!

 They were so cute and danced so good.

 We also got her dance pictures for the year

Mouse Snipping, re-caulking and new bow

After all that rain last Saturday for the Primary Childrens shoot I had to go to work on Sunday. I was so bummed about not getting to shoot and then the weather had to be like this while I was at work! We ended up getting 50 shooters on Sunday to equal just over 70 shooters for the weekend. Thats less than HALF the normal but we still manged to raise $3000 to donate!

We've had a bad mouse problem in our chicken coop. They are everywhere. We've taken up mouse snipping at night. I came home from a call and found Chris in the backyard snipping by flashlight with Kennedys pink bb gun. I figured our chickens would attack the mice but they could care less. They sit on the roost and snore while we pick off mice.

We ripped out all the caulk in our bathroom. All around the toilet, around the tub and sink and in the shower. It was nasty and wouldnt clean anymore

Kennedy painted this awesome lily picture at school. 

 We.. I say that loosely.. re-caulked the whole bathroom also

 I also joined the big kids club and bought an indoor/target bow. Its a PSE Supra. Target bows are so different than outdoor bows that Im used to shooting. You shoot less weight, this has a scope instead of pins, a front stabilizer and a shorter one for back weight, the axle to axle is a LOT more than my outdoor one. I cant wait to see how it all works out indoors!

50 fatty patties and 1 less turken

Yesterday I was fixing dinner when I glanced out back and saw Rue running around in the backyard. I hadn't let her out and was trying to figure what she was doing out when I saw her playing with something in the grass. Then I saw it had feathers. It was the turken.

Not long ago my mom bought a turken, a turkey chicken cross. It was picking on the baby turkeys so she brought it to our house and put it in with the fatty patties. She named the turken Tarzan. They dont get feathers on their necks, backs or armpits.

Heres an example from Google

I went to see what had happened. Rue had OPENED her kennel and forced her way through the bottom layer of the chicken coop. Every where else has double wire but the bottom. You can see the two huge holes from her going into the pens. 

Not a single Cornish x had a scratch on it. Neither did the turken. I think she just carried it around in her mouth til it had a heart attack or she played with it too much. Normally dogs will tear birds apart. She just wanted to play and carried him.

We were really lucky to only lose the turken out of 51 birds in that pen!

The fatty patties as I call them are getting huge. They just eat and eat and eat. They have little cankles. Half the time they are too lazy to even stand and eat and lay right at the feeders. We have 25 in one side and 25 in the other.

We animal proofed the back side of the coop. I will have to paint it to match but now nothing should be able to get in!

Date night with Miss K

Last night Chris was supposed to hurry and mow lawns and then we were going to tear apart our bathtub pipes. He tore apart the bathroom sink the day before because it was having problems draining. We didnt make it that far. We had dinner and he wasnt home for a few hours. He had 3 lawns to get done and they took longer than he planned. Miss K and I had a date night at home instead. We cooked smores in the microwave and ate them on the back porch.

She played with the chickens

and we played on the trampoline.. Dead man.. bounce contests, jump over mom, flip contests. I lost count of how many times she told me this was the best day of her life.

First real turkey hunt of the season

Tuesday after work I gave myself two options

#1 go to the gym

#2 go hiking/turkey hunting

I think we know which option won!

From all the crazy rain we had my feet and legs were soaked with in seconds of walking. I hiked to the top of a pretty steep inclined hill. I saw some turkey poop. With all the rain though it makes it really hard to find scratch piles and feathers

I sat and called for a little bit and wasnt getting any answer. I didnt think I would. I figured my best chance of finding a bird was to be out walking around and catching them drying off in the open. It was still pretty over cast and threatening to rain again

I took the new girl out. I was debating between my bow or new shotgun and decided with where I was going shotgun was going to be the winner.

About 10 minutes after I left one spot I hiked down to another little clearing and hid in the trees to see if anything came out in the open. Above me where I had just walked from out walks a hen across the hillside. I watched her walk down to the trees that I had just left. Nothing followed her. I did get a pict of her through my binos though

 Deer were out everywhere!

There are two in the bottom left of this pict

 and 3 in the bottom center of this one

 I had sore legs, soaking feet and pants, no dead birds and I cant wait to go out again!