Halloween 2011

Bob and my mom had a Halloween party at their place. They made barbeque pork, potato salad lots of cookies and brownies it was all really, really good. I wish we would have got pictures of everbody but only ended up with these two. Sorry no pictures of John he refused to dress up this year. We all had a great time though.

My first elk

I know its not a huge one like you see on tv but its meat in the freezer. I told myself I would take the first legal bull I could since we were on a bull only hunt. I saw a bigger one with 5 cows earlier in the morning but they were too far away and no way to get to them. So I found this huge flat rock on the side of one mountain over looking the valley below and a nice place for elk to cross on the other ridge. I saw another 6 cows that came up behind me there then at 10 o'clock everything was quiet and I was getting sleepy by noon and so I would lay down and just listen and peek my head up every once in awhile but nothing was happening. Then I would get uncomfortable and sit up and eat some jerky for a bit then laydown again and around 2:30 I was sitting up and out through the brush popped out 3 cows and this spike. I knew he was legal size but wanted to make sure nothing bigger was behind him so I waited a few seconds and nothing else was coming plus I only had an open area for a short while since they wer trotting across. So i tried to find him in the scope but couldn't so I looked back up to find him then down in the scope again and the only thing I could think to do is a deer bleet to try and stop him but it didn't work so I fired a shot and he didnt run any faster so I jacked out a shell and popped in another and shot again and he started to stumble but was still up and I didn't want to let my first elk get away wounded likethat so I was shooting again as he started to fall and when he did it was so steep that he rolled down the hill about 30 feet. He don't look that big in the picture but after dragging him down the rest of the hill to skin it out made me realizehow big and heavy they are even going downhill. To give you an idea of how big it was the legs that we quartered out were probably close to 100 pounds a piece.

Mom and Dads 2011 visit

Eastern Idaho State Fair Stealing Angels and Ronnie Dunn

The Stealing Angels is made of of a group of girls that met on a reality showed that never aired. It was based on family of famous people and the producers thought they would maybe fight but they ended up gettin along good and started this group. The tall one is Jennifer Wayne, John Wayne's granddaughter. The other is Caroline Cutberth which is a decedent of Daniel Boone, and the feisty brunette is Tayla Lynn, Loretta Lynn's granddaughter. It was hard to get good pictures of them because they never stood still, but they were alot of fun. Tayla kept looking at Shana and smiling then she told Shana that she looks just like her best friend and thats why I keep looking at you. Ronnie Dunn came on after that and put on a real good performance and told some good stories one is about how people told him he has too much money to sing his new single "cost of livings high and going up". He showed a trailer of where he grew up at and how he scraped by playing the beer joints and he said he can relate to that song. We enjoyed both performances so much that it was one of our favorites that we have been to.

John, Paul and Bob's horse ride at Jackass Meadows

Josh Turner concert

Little Buckaroo Rodeo

Bannock Montana ghost town