The story of the Elk Slayer...............

Our hunting excersion was a complete success!! We had a blast relaxing and enjoying one another's company. Its so weird that were all adults now, that we have personal jokes with eachother and our parents. Funny enough, our parents are still our parents, but our parents are our friends as well. I love the fun that we have as a family.

On opening morning, the boys got up at about 5 to saddle the horses and get to the top of the mountain before sunrise. Its was a very very cold morning! With all the boys leaving their sleeping bags it seemed to make us cold, so i took the job of keeping my mom warm and slid into her sleeping bag with her, but not before stoking the stove with wood. All of girls went back to sleep in mom and dad's tent while the boys were freezing. They came back with nothing, went back out that night, came back with nothing. They were disappointed, but had plenty of time.

The next morning, my brother Jake stayed back with his wife who wasn't feeling well. So, my dad, Justin and Nick braved the cold. I stayed dedicated to keeping Oma warm. We woke up to gunshots, about 8 of them. We were making commnets like, that must be someone who's a bad shot. They must not have a scope, they must have had too much coffee..and so on and so forth! The parents take a shower for us that is amazing. All of us girls got in the shower, i was the last, as i was getting dressed i heard the boys come into camp and my mother making a ruckus. Someone got something...

They were packing a spike that Justin had killed. Come to find out, Nick killed a 5 point, too. I guess they were the ones making all the noise and it was 9 shots. Jut shot at his elk, nick shot at his, they were all compensating trying to get elk down and shots were flying everywhere. They brought the smallest one home first, ate lunch, took a nap, saddled up the horses and went back for Nicks. Jake went so that he could help. We were all pretty excited that they got 2 at one time. We were making jokes that it would be funny if Jake got one down in the same place. They are gone for about an hour when we get a call over the radio saying that Jake had just shot a huge 5 point around the same place the Jut and Nick got theirs!! So we got 3 elk in one day.

My dad has been hunting since we was old enough and killed plenty of animals in his day, he said this hunt was the funnest hunt he's ever been on!! That makes me so happy!! Dad didn't end up getting one, but he didn't mind, he was just so glad to be apart of those memories!! Im so glad he was, too!! I forgot to mention that it had snowed about a foot before we got up there.



Here are some random pics of the hunt, there aren't alot of us girls, we really roughed it and didn't even do our make up.



Munch eating her squash for breakfast, i held her while she ate, and i was on the verge of puking the whole time. Between the look and the smell, it wasn't my cup o' tea. But she's so cute, it was worth it.

She's such a happy girl

The boys coming back the first morning

RRRRRrrrrrrr........

My cute lil sugs in her coat

Nick and Moose

The boys getting ready to go back out

Pais with her daddy's horse

Jut and Hick

So cute

He looks so hot in his shotguns

The mighty hunter Jake

The mighty hunter Jut, you can see our shower in the back ground

The ELK SLAYER...my babe the last 3 pics weren't posed for, i just happend to snap them

Just a cute cowboy

The boys again

Ompa and munch

Dad and Jake with his elk..sorry for the guts in the background

The next day they went back to pack his elk out sorry about the guts again

The horse loaded down

The twins and their horses

Nick brought up the rear and took this amazing pic

The twins again

We put Pais on jakes horse and she started sucking on the horn

Look at those cheeks

Ompa putting Pais down

This is our kitchen, pretty sweet set up

All 3 of the elk Jakes, Juts and Nicks

Taking a nap with the girls after slaying his elk

Cool pic of the horses

Yup, she's a cutie

Nick's elk quartered and hanging in the trailor

Nick and Jake skinning

My cute mom on the four wheeler

He remindes me of Crocidile Dundee, but he's Elk Slayer Stuart

This is our camp, on the left, the blue tent is the kitchen, the tent in front of that was safe haven from the storm and cooking area, the big tent is mom and dad's, the tent on the right is Nick and I's, both have wood burning stoves, then the campfire. Pretty sweet camp!!

Dad saddling Naughty Dottie the mule

Dad and Jake out for another round

I don't have any pics of nick's elk, i have to get them from my brother, but we had a blast as you can see.

I am 11 weeks now and still sick, I haven't been to work for a while, i don't enjoy puking in public restrooms and it has just drained me. Hopefully i'll be going back soon. I've seen one too many Baby stories!