While we were gone for the summer, Dillan got to go on his first ever by himself and papa squirrel hunt. Look at this huge one he got. He can't wait for his mom to cook it! (Ya, right!)
So when we went back up to the mountain, Dev came with us since the gang was going to be coming up on the weekend for the big deer hunt.
The next day we had snow. Guess whose footprints these are.
By morning there was enough to play in.
Then we had to make time for the cookie monster to make cookies.
The deer hunt began on Friday, Oct 28th. The boys got taken out of school for "hunting experience". Logan went with Grandpa and had to rest on this rock.
Not too much action so a little snooze was in order.
They mostly hunted in the burn area.
The gang's favorite place, the glassless coffee table!
The darlings with their new deer camp shirts that I found time to embroider!
Dev with one of his "rests".
The boys had to assist their papa with a tire change prior to their road trip home.
No deer this weekend but Tony won his third Chase race out of 7 at Martinsville. YES!
So JB earnestly continued the pursuit for the big deer all week long. One day when he was hunting we had 3 girl deer in our yard. Kind of funny.
Stan, our Buddy from MN, died Friday night, Nov 4th of lung cancer. We met him and Barb in Arizona at the RV park and instantly became friends. We were even so honored to go to the Talladega infield with them and were lucky enough to be invited back a second time. Wish we would have known him longer. We will miss him.
Back for another long weekend of hunting. They got taken out of school for another Friday.
And guess what? It snowed overnight so here's Logan rummaging through all of the winter stuff.
Dillan all duded up.
Mr. independent Dev only wanted to wear the red knitted mittens, not the nice cozy waterproof ones.
Backyard fun.
One giant dirty snowball. There really wasn't enough snow to get the sleds out, although the kids tried.
This poor Viking has a drippy nose!
Well, the weekend ended and no deer were hanging so the hunt ended with some good and bad weather, sighting of turkey, elk and many girl deer, a newly heard elk call and lots of quiet time in the woods. Oh, and JB and Greg each saw one buck! No meat for the freezer this year.
So Monday morning, we headed for the valley....with it snowing again! What's with this weather? It's Arizona and it's early November.
Pretty treacherous down the mountain. This was taken when I could see out of the windshield. Most of the time the wipers had ice on them and I was stretched up to see out of the top of the windshield. It was lovely, but I had my seat warmer on!
So the deer hunt is over and next up will be the Phoenix NASCAR race. And, oh by the way, Tony won AGAIN Sunday at Texas and is now only 3 points behind in the Chase. Woo-Hoo!
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