The Season is Over

(PICTURES OF GAVIN....BEFORE THE GAME...AND ON THE LINE)

Will Post Kodi pics when I have some)

Well... the end of the football season is Here. Kodi's team didn't make it to the play offs....but they sure played their little hearts out. We enjoyed getting to watch Kodi this year take part in the sport that was his Dads life as youngster in South Dakota. Kodi stuck with it and played hard all season....it doesn't sound like Kodi will be playing next year, as he decided football just wasn't his thing. He has however found a new love in the world....and that is cub scouts.(more on this and some pics of him in another post)

Gavin had a great football season!!! his team ended their year 6-2. His two loses coming at the end of the season...one of them a play off game that they lost 8-0 causing their season to come to a screaching hault. Gav had a great season...he averaged 3-4 QB sacks a game and numerous tackles. This year he found a new excitement in playing Defensive End and running the ball a bit as wing back. He spent most of the season playing defense as he is quick as lightening and hammered through the offensive line of the opposing team causing problems for the opposing quarterback. He also was a big part of special teams on kick off return..again for his quick speed and his hard hitting tackles. As Eric would say when it comes to our G...." DYNAMITE COME IN LITTLE PACKAGES". Gavin has a week off then next tuesday he jumps into basketball season. Here we go again!!!

WE HAVE A BIRTHDAY BOY........

FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT DON'T KNOW..... WE HAVE A BIRTHDAY IN OUR HOUSE THIS THURSDAY.....ERIC IS TURNING 35!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY BEST FRIEND IN THE WHOLE WORLD, MY HUNTING PARTNER...AND MY OTHER HALF.
THANKS FOR BEING SO PERFECT IN EVERY WAY! THE BOYS AND I LOVE YOU WITH ALL OF OUR HEARTS!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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The Yearly Idaho Hunt

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We have been home from our Idaho trip a week now and we are slowly getting back on track here at the house and getting cleaned up in the trailer.
We had a blast at hunting camp..... we go with mom and dad and about 10 others. The animals were moving and we had very successful trip!!! By the end of the trip their was a total of 5 elk hanging (4 cows and a spike) and the two bucks we got.

Their wasn't any BIG bulls to be found... sadly two weeks before the opening of the season the Indians came through and shot around 30 head of elk....YES 30. They say that it's their heritage and they don't have to have any tags... they just come in and start blasting....they call it their heritage and culture..we call it BULL SHIT. If it's their heritage..then they can get on their horses and shoot the damn things with their bow and arrows...NOT a high powered riffle.

Its always an expensive trip when ever you hunt out of the state but its WORTH EVERY PENNY!!!!!

Gavin enjoyed his time here at the house with us gone.. .. my aunt Carole came to stay with him, and of course spoiled him rotten. Kodi was with his mom....not much to say about that...that's a WHOLLLLLE other Blog...LOL

OMG...I HAVENT POSTED IN FOREVER!!!

OMG...IT HAS BEEN FOREVER SINCE I POSTED!!!
WE HAVE BEEN CRAZY BUSY AROUND HERE. THE BOYS ARE STILL GOING 100MPH WITH FOOTBALL AND BOTH ARE DOING WELL. KODI'S TEAM IS 2-2 AND GAVS TEAM IS STILL UNDEFEATED AT 4-0. YEEEEE HAW GO BOYS!!!!
WE WRAPPED UP OUR EARLY ELK SEASON WITH NO ELK IN THE FREEZER..BUT A COUPLE OF FUN HUNTS.
ON OPENING MORNING ERIC AND I SET UP IN A SMALL CLEARING, WHERE WE CALLED SEVERAL TIMES. THE BULLS WERE BUGLING WHICH IS ALWAYS FUN TO HEAR, AND WERE RESPONDING TO ERIC'S "HOT COW CALL". WELL IT WASN'T LONG, AND ERIC HAD A BOYFRIEND!!! ERIC WAS SITTING WITH HIS BACK TO THE CLEARING AND ME FACING IT....WHEN IN CAME THE BULL.. I LOOKED AT ERIC AND HELD UP FIRST 4 FINGERS, THEN 5. HE WHISPERED TO ME " 4 OR 5" AND I NODDED MY HEAD. SOOOO WHAT DOES ERIC DO, TRIES TO TURN AROUND TO SEE.
WELL, HE THOUGHT I MENT THEIR WAS 4 OR 5 COWS.. BUT I MENT A 4 OR 5 POINT BULL!!!!! THE BULL SPOOKED, THE MINUTE HE MOVED. OF COURSE A BULL COMES IN...AND NO BULL TAG... JUST COW OR SPIKE. THATS WHY ERIC TURNED AROUND BECAUSE HE THOUGHT I MENT THEIR WAS 4 OR 5 COWS. THE BULL WAS A NICE ONE CAME INTO 45 YARD RANGE. (WE RANGED IT AFTER HE LEFT) A NEAT EXPERIENCE THAT MOST PEOPLE WILL NEVER HAVE. THAT AFTERNOON WE SAT UP IN ANOTHER SMALL GREEN OPENING. THIS TIME WE SET UP OUR MONTANA'S ELK DECOYS, WITH PLENTY OF SCENT. AFTER SITTING FOR TWO HOURS..ERIC IN TREE STAND AND ME ON THE GROUND....I HAD TWO COME IN MY WAY, AND ERIC A NICE BIG COW. ERIC HAD NO VITAL/ETHICAL SHOT...AND MINE WERE OUR OF MY SHOOTING DISTANCE. TO US.... THIS IS STILL A SUCCESSFUL HUNT.....AGAIN MOST PEOPLE WONT EVEN SEE ONE DURING THE SEASON.
AS WE ARE IN THE RUSH OF HUNTING AND FOOTBALL I HAD TO HAVE MY ISSUES..OF COURSE. MY ARM PORT (WHICH IS A PERMANENT IV ACCESS I HAVE IN MY ARM FOR WHEN I BECOME ILL) DECIDED TO GO BAD AND FLIP OVER IN MY ARM. WITHIN A WEEK OF THIS HAPPENING I WAS SENT TO SPOKANE ADMITTED INTO SACRED HEART AND IN THE OPERATING ROOM. THE OLD ONE WAS EXTRACTED AND THE NEW ONE PLACED. I SPENT A COUPLE DAYS IN THE HOSPITAL BECAUSE MY ASTHMA FLARED FROM THE ANESTHESIA AND MY ARM SWELLED. IT WAS A WEEK MONDAY SINCE THE SURGERY. THEY TOOK OUT ABOUT AN INCH OF SCAR TISSUE AROUND THE HOLD ONE AND HAD TO DIG OUT A "POCKET" FOR MY NEW ONE. I'M RECOVERING QUICKLY AND HOPE TO BE ABLE TO PULL MY BOW BACK IN A MONTH OR SO...JUST IN TIME FOR LATE SEASON. THE BAD PART ABOUT ALL OF THIS IS NEXT THURSDAY ERIC AND I LEAVE FOR OUR BIG IDAHO HUNTING TRIP...WE GO WITH MOM AND DAD AND THEIR HUNTING CAMP. WE LOOK FORWARD TO IT ALL YEAR...NOT TO MENTION IT IS SOOO EXPENSIVE TO HUNT OUT OF STATE SO WE HAVE TO SAVE FOR IT. NOW....AFTER ALLL OF THAT I CANT HUNT.
BECAUSE OF THE INCISION IN MY ARM. MAKES ME WANT TO CRY...BUT ITS MORE IMPORTANT THAT I HEAL..SO I CAN HUNT IN THE FUTURE.
ONE MORE THING BEFORE I END THIS LONNNNNNNNNNG POST.... WE HAVE A NEW ADDITION TO OUR FAMILY. HIS NAME IS "WEATHERBY". HE IS A LITTLE YELLOW BUTTERBALL. FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT REMEMBER MY BABY TOBY THAT WE LOST TO A CROOKED TRAINER... WEATHERBY IS RELATED TO HIM, IT IS HIS NEPHEW. HE IS GAVIN'S DOG, AND IS GOING TO BE HIS BIRD DOG FOR WATERFOWL HUNTING. FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE ASKING................................NO WE WONT BE SENDING HIM TO A TRAINER. I WILL DO IT MYSELF!
WILL POST AFTER OUR IDAHO TRIP.. PRAY FOR ELK FOR ERIC.