The Hunt is ON!: December 2009

Monday, December 7, 2009

Making the "PERFECT" Card

Matthew and Tyler want to send Craig the perfect Christmas card this year. (and can I just add- Craig HATES bling on his dog)

So... just to show Craig how well they are taking care of his dog...his brothers bought the dogs matching red dresses, and some shinny gold bling..

They even painted their nails. For the perfect "look". Now we just have to get his card in the mail. He will LOVE it!!

Saturday, December 5, 2009

So last weekend Kary went hunting with Clay. The hiked all over and never saw a single elk. At one point during the day Clay fell down while they were walking, and found out later he had broken his ankle in two places. (it is not safe for them to go out together I guess) So after 3 or 4 trips he decides that today is his lucky day...
He went by himself because evrybody else was busy. Just as it got light he sees a cow elk and takes his shot. One shot and it drops. Then he sees about 50 more run out of his little canyon (that he didn't even know were there). He finds it very easy, and starts the fun part. Did you know that elk have about 6 times the amount of blood as a deer? It takes a little longer to do the dirty work. The fun started when he was trying to figure out how to get this huge thing back to the truck when he was alone. Lucky for him his 4 wheeler has a wench on the front. He hoisted the elk up with the wench, and very carefully manuvered the bike right underneath it. (of course you just got the easy version) After "skillfully" loading it in the truck, he was ready to head home. Thank goodness the guy at the meat processing plant knew the tricks to unload. But the best part is- HIS FIRST ELK IN 25 YEARS!!!!

FUN!!

the young men and young women in our ward decided to do something fun for their activity for the end of the summer. All 6 groups had to build a boat, it could be made out of anything you wanted as long as it only cost $35.00. All the boats were made (Kary's group- the teachers- built a 12 foot long, 4 foot high, pirate ship) the whole group headed out to Quail Resevoir to have a race and see who would float. Tyler's group tied a matress to some big foam blocks, and Matthew's group took a large sheet of plywood, cut two holes in the middle, put buckets in to sit in, then put big round pipes under the edges. It was an interesting sight when all the boats got to the water. Matthew helped build his boat, but he had football practice while the activity was going on so- Craig took his place on the boat. To make a long story short, the priests (Matthew's boat) won the race, Deacon's got second, then the girls after them. The pirate ship- it sank. But not before the boys had time to bomb the other ships with water balloons. All of the kids had fun.