Deer Season 2010

What an eventful Deer Season it was....

Opening day brought some very high wind and some very cold temps.

Braxton and I headed to our stand and waited.. and waited... and waited..... nothing came out in that nasty cold wind!

Jared and Bronson headed to their stand and waited... and waited... and waited... nothing came out in that nasty cold wind!

We all decided to go home, rest and get some lunch

Then we all went back out. Jared and Bronson went to the farm, Braxton went to his stand and Braylon and I went to our stand. Braylon got tired and took a nap and I waited.. and waited.. and waited.

Finally a doe and a buck came out. I decided to shoot the buck. One shot and bam! i thought I hit him, but a buck jumped across the ditch and as I was trying to hurry up and get another shell in the chamber I felt something WARM and WET running down my face....

I couldn't for the life of me think why I was bleeding. Then I got scared... put the gun back on safety, put it up and looked in the mirror of the truck and I was bleeding. Not just a simple small cut that bleeds, but a gaping cut! The scope had kicked me right in the face and I didn't even know it. Call it adreniline or whatever, but it seriously did not hurt until later.

Braxton calls me to see if that was me that shot and I told him yes, but wasn't sure if I got it b/c I couldn't see for all the blood running down my face. After much discussion with him and Jared on the phone, I went looking for my deer. It was laying right where I shot it and I decided it must have been another buck that jumped across the ditch.

SO needless to say, I got myself a big bodied, little 9 pointer and a gash in my head to go along with it.

I had to have the gash glued later on that night, after much laughing and re-telling of my hunt!


The next morning I got a phone call from Braxton telling me he got himself a "nice buck". Once he got home he told me it wasn't as nice as what he thought. But it was... a nice 8 pointer.

For some reason those deer have ground shrinkage once they hit the ground. They always look like monsters until you get up to them, then they look small.


Braxton and I are pretty proud of our bucks. Jared and Bronson have yet to kill one. They are still out looking and hunting every evening. I just hope that Bronson does get one before the season is over.

The Whole World in His Hands

A few years ago I heard about this really neat corn maze down by Columbia. I wanted to go then, but never got the chance. So this year after driving by it on my way home from meetings, I decided that we were going no matter what. So the next day we all loaded up and headed out.

This is what the maze looked like this year. Every year they do something different. I really like this one.



It was an absolute beautiful day for it. It wasn't rainy, it wasn't cold and it wasn't too hot. It was PERFECT!

They had 8 different checkpoints that you had to find and answer the question that they had on your little paper. We looked for checkpoint 7 for 45 minutes! We found checkpoint 4....
4 times!!!!

At the very end after you have answered every single question you check to see how many of your answers were correct and then you drop it in a trashcan to try and win a big grand prize at the end of the year. I got all but one right! Jared thought he would be cool and answer differently than me b/c he thought he was right on a few of them and he wasn't:)

All in all it was fantastic and we can not wait to do it again next year!

Enjoy all the pics!

Imagine that! This boy finding the mud!

Our first checkpoint we found!

This was overlooking the field from on top of a bridge in the middle of the maze.

After 2 hours and 4 minutes, we were finally done!!!

1st day of school for 2010

I can not believe that I have a 6th grader and a 1st grader already. This time next year I will be sending my youngest off to Kindergarten. My, my, where does the time go???

Here are some pictures from our morning as we were getting ready to head down to the end of the road to get them on the bus. They were really not wanting to take pictures, but I reminded them that we do it EVERY.YEAR and that they might as well get used to it b/c they will be getting them EVERY.YEAR until they leave for college:) That made them super happy.

Braxton has Mrs. Kaden this year in 6th grade. He will be changing classes 3 times throughout the day and will hopefully be learning a lot. He is a great kid and does a good job in school.




Mr. Cool here.... Bronson, is in 1st grade. His teacher is one of my greatest friends, Mrs. Frederick. He will be changing classes one time throughout the day. This is a little bit different than what they generally do, but I think it will be great for the kids and the teachers. Bronson is a very sociable kid (not sure where he gets that) and tends to struggle just a little bit. He has had some tutoring from some great teachers and is doing so much better. I know that he will have a great teacher this year that will be on top of him and make sure he is doing good and will make sure he gets what he needs.



I am super excited to see the kids through this year. I can't wait to see how much they mature, learn and branch out a little bit more on their own.

Here is to a great year for my kids and their teachers.

Tidbit

Just wanted to post this so I wouldn't forget about it someday.

As I was dropping the boys off at Dad's on Monday morning I told them to have a rotten day. I love saying this to them. They know I am totally kidding. Then this is how the rest of the conversation went.....

Me: No, seriously boys have a great day.

Bronson: K

Braxton: Any day with Da (my dad) is a great day!!!

Me: silence

Me: Love ya

Boys: Love ya too

This made my heart just swell!!! Braxton is so close with my dad. I know when I told my dad this he was so proud and his heart just swelled too.

So just a little morning tidbit that I didn't want to ever forget about.

Have a great day!

Slippin' and a Slidin'

We were going to have Braylon's best friend, Logan for a weekend so we decided to get us a slip and slide so they could play outside all weekend. They loved this thing!!! They played, played and played some more.

Pitchin a tent

We have been trying for the last several years to do a little Shaw/Frederick vacation for a weekend. I think last year was our first year in several years that we didn't do the whole family outing, but we did manage to get a couple's only weekend in instead that year.

This year we went camping in Macon. It was a beautiful campground, fantastic weather and a super fun and relaxing time with great friends! We swam, fished, hung out, took walks and smelled like..... dirty skanky sweat bombs!

I love having these memories!

Riding their bikes

We left on Bronson's Birthday so we put a candle in a cookie to celebrate for him.

Roasting weinies!

Fishing!

Such a cutie pie!

Our home for the weekend

The men making our supper

MMMMM, smores!

I love this picture of Jared and Braxton

Best Buds!!!