The Late Buck

This is my buck I shot during the late muzzle load season. I got him out by the Columbia river early in the morning. I hiked down to the river while it was still dark and sat and watched an area for 2 hours, but didn't see any deer. So I decided to leave, I started walking back to the truck and spotted this deer from about 400 yards away, then the hunt was on. I would wait for him to walk around a sand dune and then I would run as fast as I could until I reached the area I last saw him. I did this a couple of times until I got within about 100 yards, I was about to take the shot but I was breathing so hard that I couldn't keep by gun steady. And in the excitement of going hunting I had left all my extra percussion caps in the truck, so I only had one shot to put him down. So I thought it would be better if I got a little closer. I eventually got within 35 yards and as I crested the last sand dune he popped his head up and looked at me just as I was pulling the trigger. The gun fired ( which is a surprise ) and he went down like a ton of bricks.

The girls really liked the deer. Morgan says she really loves that deer. I am glad Madalyn didn't have a hard time, last year she told me I could never shoot another deer. Maybe eventually I can get them to shot a deer some day.

This is the biggest dear I have shot so I am pretty excited about him. He isn't anything like my nephews monster buck but I guess I still have something to look forward to. My friend at work is going to do a European mount for me.

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I have a few questions for you guys. Has anyone used the P90X work out program? If so how did you like it? Garrett wants it for christmas and we what to find out some things about the program. The other question is he is also looking into some hand held GPS systems, what kind is the best? thanks alot everyone.

90th birthday

Garrett's Grandpa turn 90 years old on Monday. When I think of 90 that seems so old. We went over and wishes him a happy birthday, he is doing alright for his age. Some of the things he says are so funny, I wonder what Garrett and I will be like when we get that old. He is a great example to us in so many ways. We love you Grandpa Jenks

Natalie's First Hair Cut

I finally could not stand it any longer and I cut Natalie's hair. She had a few really long hairs in the back that grew faster than the rest. She thought it was great. I cut Garrett's hair first then hers.

NurseryTime

That is right Natalie is 18 months old and is now in nursery. She did really good, she didn't want me to leave but after 15 minutes I was able to sneek out and Morgan said she was fine. I think it helps having Morgan in there (she is a big mother to her), but she goes out the first of the year.

What a week

Every Sunday our bathroom ends up looking like an earthquake hit it, since we have 3 girls to get ready in a short amount of time our bathroom is where me and kids are at all morning long. The bathroom sink is Natalie's favorite place to play. She loves to pull everything out and loves getting in the pads, all of our kids loved these at this age. Is anyone kids into the bathroom sink?

Natalie has not been feeling very good these past few weeks, and i thought that it was her teeth but after many sleepless nights we took her in and finally got her on some medicine and she is doing much better. We can't wait to get her back into her own bed. When our kids are sick they usually sleep with us, it just makes it easier. Natalie just loves it, she goes to bed in her crib then around 11:00 wakes up and wants in our bed. As soon as she get into our room she smiles and takes her hand and hits Garrett's side of the bed to see if he is there. She loves sleeping between us. On Tuesday for Veterans day we took the kids to see the movie Madagascar #2, it was great your kids will love it. Then I wanted to go Christmas shopping for the grandmas and Grandpas so we got to the first store and lasted 30 minutes then we went home. I hate shopping with kids Natalie is the Worst.

This week will be one I will be glad when it is over. Our ward is having our R.S. annual dinner and program tonight. My mom and I were ask to decorate for the evening, so that was another stress added. It turned out really good. But I can't even go tonight to the dinner and enjoy cause I have 4 extra kids at my house and Garrett is at work today. I have Tia's 4 kids while they are down in Texas looking for a house(I am going to miss them so much) Lets just say I don't know how people do it with twins, right now i have 7 kids under the age of 8. CRAZY!!!!! But my kids are loving having their cousins around and in a month they will not be here anymore so the kids can stay as long as Tia needs them to.

Hope for the Best

I have been thinking alot about this election 2008, this world is a scary place to be right now, and when you have kids we all worry what it will be like for them to grow up. I have wanted to post something about the election but just didn't know how or what to say. I was reading my friends blog (Marcie Koch) and she put it the best way, so i hope Marcie you don't mind but you were thinking just as i was. Here is what she Wrote:
*COUNTRY FIRST*
I am proud to say that I voted for John McCain. He is a class act, a true American, and heck - he chose my BFF Sarah Palin as his running mate!
I thought his concession speech was wonderfully written - it brought tears to my eyes. I, like 56,434,100 Americans, will support Obama as our president and hope for the best in the next four years. I just hope people can look past his color - since our country has been working on ending racial separation and discrimination for over 50 years - and see him as a human being.
I enjoyed Senator McCain's speech so much. I especially like the part about how a person's campaign impacts their whole family. It really really does.

She did a great job. Thanks Marcie!! There so many topics that i don't agree on with obama on. Also how about his illegal aunt that is here, he can't even provide a birth certificate. I'm nervous about what is going to happen to our country and wonder at what point our nation will see the mistake that has been made. Oh well. It is going to get ugly. but i will continue to pray for our President.

pumpkin day

We LoVe CaNdY, can you say more trips to the dentist.

Happy Halloween everyone, and Happy Birthday Emily!!! We started off the day by making applesauce with my mom and Emily. Garrett taught 2 CPR and First Aid classes.

We then got ready for the Trunk and Treat that our primary puts on, it's great everyone brings candy and you go from car to car and get lots of candy. We then went to our normal every year stops to the neighbors and grandparents, then home.Saddle up CoWgIrLs!! Just Waiting for someone to get me more candy

BEWARE

This is Madalyn's preschool class, today was their Halloween Party. Madalyn has been looking forward to the party all week. They all dresses up in their costumes, they had school and then a party.

The school is small 3 boys and 3 girls, we love it!!!!!

She was excited to get her cowgirl clothes on. Morgan really wanted to go to school today. It just looked to much fun.

Her girlfriends Jill, and Kianna

This is outside the preschool teachers house, she had the yard dressed up great. The best I have ever seen. A dead bride, ghosts, witches, vampires, the kids loved it after they found out it was not real.

Be Prepared

Our family now has our 1 year food storage

This is our storage room outside in our garage. For the past year I have really wanted to get all the food storage done and not have to worry about that part of BEING PREPARED. But it is really no fun buying food, there is alot funnier ways to spend your money. We decided that this would be money well spent, plus the more kids you get the more you worry about feeding them in an emergency, you can't bum off your parents anymore. So about 2 weeks ago we really started to find out what a family of 5 needed for one year. We already had our 72 hour kits done so we just went through them and made sure everything was still good and worked. I thought I already had alot of food storage done, but once you go through everything and find out what you really need we had a lot to do. Trenton and Maren gave us some great web sites to check out and that really help out alot, thanks guys. We had some buckets so we went to Costco and bought some things, order a hand wheat grinder and a few more things like powdered eggs, cheese and butter. Garrett went to the Church's Canning Store and did the rest yesterday. We as a family feel a little more prepare, and feel a little better about obeying some advice the prophets have told us to do.