My Heart Is Melting

Brennden said the sweetest thing to me the other day that made my heart melt. I was putting away a few photos and he was helping/watching. He looked at one of them from my wedding and said, "Mom, why are you putting that away? You look so beautiful." Awww. Isn't that the sweetest?

Angie's First Elk

This last weekend Angie, Josh, Dad and I went for Angie's first elk hunt. Our scouting day went great, we only saw one bull, but saw tons of fresh sign. The opening morning we went to our spot and waited for the sun to rise and the elk to start to move. We saw two elk right as the sun was rising, but were unable to get a shot off. After about another twenty minutes we saw three elk running through a clearing on the side of a hill about 350 yards away, but were unable again to get a shot off. Ten minutes later we heard Josh's shot and after thirty more minutes we headed towards Josh and tried another area for about thirty more minutes and headed back to help Josh dress his elk out. We then went back to camp and napped before the evening hunt.
In the evening we headed to a spot we had seen while hunting near Josh, two hours of waiting and nothing showed up so we left and tried to see if they had moved into another area near by, and lucky for us they had. But unlucky for us they moved out to fast before we could get set to take a good shot. We then headed back to camp to wait for the morning. Josh and Dad left to take his elk back to town and left Angie and I for the morning hunt.
In the morning we headed back to the spot we had seen them in the evening and tied up the horses and began to sneek up the trail. When we got to the spot were we had seen the cows the night before we scanned the meadow and found 2 bulls and 3 cows slowly moving out to the trees. Angie got set on the north side of a thicket to take her shot but couldn't quite see what she needed due to a small rise in between her and the elk. A quick move to the south side of the thicket and we could see them meandering there way towards the trees, Angie got re-set took off the safety and boom. The cow arched her back jumped, and began to run towards the trees. We began the hard game of wait then chase and after about two minutes started to walk to were she had shot the cow, but before we could get there we heard the cow fall and hit the ground about 75 yards from were she had been shot. A quick trip to the horses, phone call to Dad, and forgeting we had a camera later we began to dress the elk. Angie held down her breakfast and actually did quite a good job in skinning and quatering her cow. We then put the elk on Fraiser and began the long (actually it just felt long, it was really about 40 minutes) ride to the truck and the hunt was over.