Saturday, September 3, 2011

Red Canyon Lodge

Well Daniel's Colorado hunt didn't yield any deer but they still wanted to hunt, so we decided to go Red Canyon Lodge- "The civilized way to enjoy the great outdoors." It is up near Flaming Gorge, we stayed in a little cabin and the boys hunted in the mornings (if you can even call it that) and in the evenings my mother-in- law, Em and I came along for the ride. We hung out in the cabin all day, rented a paddle boat and went around the lake and tried to fish and fed the ducks. One night we ate at the restaurant and enjoyed watching this chipmunk stuff its cheeks over and over again with bird seeds and had the most rich, pure, dense, chocolate-heaven cake! Oh, I want more of it! Camp fire hot dogs are also a favorite.
I dressed the part in my camo and really enjoyed the beautiful mountain hills and sunset.
We saw a few deer and Daniel even got out and stalked some and I was terrified I would witness the massacre, but luckily they ran away! ha ha. He did kill his deer the next morning though but at least I wasn't around.  


The cabin. It was like a duplex. Our last day we got neighbors from Pennsylvania and they were mountaineers and made it clear they have been all over the world climbing mountains. They were nice though. They came all the way to Utah to climb Kings Peak and said it was one of the hardest mountains they have ever done.

Emilee wearing Daniel's hat.

beautiful view from the porch.



Are we cute or what?

Friday, September 2, 2011

Canning


Daniel and his Dad went on a hunt to Colorado. While they were gone I stayed with his mom (so we didn't have to be all alone in our empty houses.) We decided to do some things to keep us busy; canning was one of those things. It took a few days for us to finally get things going and we were ready to can- got peaches one day, picked apples another. Daniel's cousin Melinda was helping too, and we all went to the store to get more jars and we came back to my in-laws house and the dogs were outside, and her car was moved. We were all a bit freaked out until we went around to the back and Daniel and his dad had returned from hunting. Their trip was planned for ten days but they were back after four. It totally shocked us! So they lucked out and got (or had to) help us in our adventure. Turns out Colorado have a severe lack of deer, and they damaged the truck and had to return while they could still make it. So learning to can for my first time was pretty fun, and we got alot of apple sauce, a few peaches and bottled apples. It seems like alot of work, when you can just go buy a can of fruit at the store for some change, but I liked it anyways.

peeled, cored and botttled apples. They looked kinda pretty in the jars.

Finished porducts!
jars and more jars.

a few peaches

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Have I told you lately that I love you



I love being a mom! I don't know what I did before Emilee. I think it's so fun, and I am amazed everyday that she is mine! I just hope I can teach her all the right things in life and make my own mother proud.

Like mother like daughter


I Know Emilee looks ridiculously like her dad so I enjoy when I find similarities to me!

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Introducing Rice Cereal

 August 6th. First "solid" food!


seems pretty happy to eat, although it gets EVERYWHERE. What a messy kid. It's a little less messy now that she and I have had some practice with it.

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

learning to...sit?

I adore her experssion!
It's like she is surprised she is sitting, or a proud little smug look. I can't quite tell.

Whoa! Tip over. She can only sit for a very very brief moment.
The usual theme for fall is "We interrupt this marriage to bring you hunting season." Well I was getting tired of that, so to solve this problem and give me and Daniel something in common he bought me a bow. I'm not into actual killing of animals but my first target practice was really fun.

Green arrow is Daniel's. Pink is mine. Two words: OH YEAH!