Slacker....

I have been a terrible blogger lately. I sometimes wish I could say it's because we lead a slow, boring not so interesting life and have nothing to share, but that's not it at all. The past couple weeks has been full of nightly football and soccer games, as well as work, and the weekends filled with out of town bachelorette parties, out of state hunting, and classes.

Tob has been in Idaho hunting with 4 of his friends the past 10 days and although he didn't come home with his own prize, they filled 4/6 of their tags and had a great time. He got home last night and spent a couple hours sharing stories and pictures. I am pretty sure he won't write and share his own stories, but I can at least share his pictures :-)

He spent most of his time outside of Stanley Idaho hiking in some steep country at elevations of 8000-9500ft where he saw a LOT of big bucks and quite a few bull elk.

He hung out with other boys in camo with guns. A group of guys who all became friends working as firefighters together on the Hotshot crew. Guys who are now spred out over 2 states and don't get to hang out often enough.

The temps were cold (low teens to 30's), sometimes with blue skies and other times with rain, snow and fog. Tob recalls not being able to drink water until about 10 or 11 in the morning because it was still frozen.

But those nights that they got in to camp before 2am they were able to enjoy stew and other warm meals cooked over coals in the dutch oven.

While out and about there was no lack of animal tracks. After noticing some spooked elk he noticed some fairly large wolf tracks that had been above them. Among wolf tracks they saw signs of cougars, bears, elk, and deer. Tob did have a wolf tag but never actually saw a live one to shoot.

However Josh did get a little black bear. Apparently at the time of the shot he was thought to be a monstrous good sized 200lb bear and in reality when they found him, he was more like a child's teddy bear. There are a lot of great picture of Josh with his trophy and they had a lot of good laughs as well. But 2 bulls, 1 buck, and a bear wasn't bad for the group and they hope to go back next year! Tob may not have brought home a cougar, wolf, bear, elk or deer but he did bring home 4 FREE tickets from his buddy Randy to a OSU vs UOU game next Saturday in SLC so we instead of a soccer jamboree and an otherwise quiet weekend at home we are off again. I will hold off on the bachelorette pictures for now but 6 of us girls went to Boise last weekend for a girls night out and Miranda Lambert concert. We had a great time and I look for watching one of my best friends Sandy, marry a great guy 2 weekend from now :-)