Happy Birthday little Brosky!

Jordan wanted to go to a Cougar football game for his b-day, so we finally got him hooked up with Cosmo. It was a fun experience. Of course, as his parents, Karlene and I had to suffer along, always sacrificing for our children.

Another year older and...ahh, whatever.

Opening my gift clear from Japan!

THANK YOU!

Halloweeny Time!

The kids and I went hunting up Bountiful and down Farmington canyons. "Just keep your eyes open kids. You never know, we might drive around the corner and just see one standin' there. We'll knock 'im down, throw 'im in the back of the truck and head on home."

Up in the back of old Steep Hollow. Apparently there used to be some big old bucks here back in that old man's youth. I guess now we go for sentimental reasons. We did have a fun time though. The weather was beautiful.

Everybody grew some real nice beards for the hunt

Camp

Old buck stories around the fire

Nathan keeping watch over the proceedings

Bologne around the fire

Good morning you old man winter. It was quite the storm for early October.

ELK HUNT 2008. EEE-YOLK, EEE-YOLK, EEE-YOLK!

Early morning breakfast

Shelter from the rain
Most of the scenery is beautiful
If you look hard, you can see bigfoot running just behind the pine tree.
Gorgeous!

SWEET SUCCESS!

Justin was an awesome hunting partner. This dude could spot a fly sitting on a log a hundred yards away!

Now the work begins
Collecting the delectable meat
What is that hangy thing?
Yes, the sweet state of Utah wanted us to haul the dang head out for testing. Lots of fun.

Once you have your tag filled, you earn the right to sleep in the next day and watch the sun rise from camp. It was awesome.

A very happy Kyle after sweet success on the last day.
Again, most of the scenery around Bean Ridge is really quite beautiful
The meat haulers
The meat getters

A real Bean Ridge beauty. (the elk)

Inspecting the rigs after another successful ride out of the bog.

The fruits of labor waiting to be attended to at home.

HUNTIN' VIDEOS

Early morning breakfast

Conference around the campfire

On the hill with my good little guttin' buddies

A little bit of the drive out of good old Bean Ridge

A few pics from Aug/Sep b-days

Hogle Zoo

I am personally not as big of a fan of Spaghetti-Os as this little sweetheart