Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Haha wow it's been half a year since I've written. Sorry! I guess nobody is really following my blog any way.
So news for this time is .... Well I'm starting up my Photography business (again). I think this time I'm really into it though. I have new price sheets and an amazing ability to give my family and friends the love they need without breaking the bank. I'm super excited to have this finally established.
Tonight Dylan went in for stitches in his eyebrow. He fell off his bike and busted his eyebrow open. He needed 4 stitches. It was pretty dramatic. He is my mister DrAmA kInG. WoW he can scream. Brett had to hold him down on the table with his arms wrapped in a blanket and the nurse had to hold his head pinned to the table. Yeah fun for us.
Earlier this year, Cooper busted his eye open too. He was hit with a bat that Dylan was swinging. Haha not so funny.
So far this year we have visited the Dr. more times then we have the entire 5 yrs the kids have been with us. Well for emergency things anyhow.
Tessa is practically running. She is also just as adventurous as Cooper and climbs on EvErYtHiNg!!! And loves being chased around by her brothers and the dog. haha
Well really no news from Brett and I. Well Brett loves his job still. I guess I do have news... I've lost 60 lbs since I had Tessa last year. I'm pretty excited about that. Still going but still excited.
Well that's us in a nutshell.
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Trip Down Memory Lane
I was just looking through my post... In particular, Dylanisms. LOL I just have to laugh when I read those. The funny thing is that he is still just as funny to me. Even though most of those post were when he was like 2 yrs. old and now he will be 5 next month he never ceases to amaze me. I need to keep writing them down. But I need to add Cooperisms and Coyisms. I really enjoy my kids for the most part haha.
Last night, Brett and I got the night off. All the kids had a sleepover at Grandma Sherry's and we went to the movies. We saw "True Grit". It was an ok movie. Pretty funny in some places, Gory in others but over all sad. I mean at the end (don't read further if you haven't seen the movie and would like to) the horse dies, the old man dies, she losses her arm, and ends up as a grumpy old maid. What kind of ending is that? Not to mention that the whole movie is about her revenging her father's death. While she is younger the grumpy "I don't take crap from nobody" attitude is super funny but when she still has that attitude as an old maid... yeah someone needs to slap her and tell her to enjoy life a little more.
Hahaha I guess that is my thoughts about that. haha
Last night, Brett and I got the night off. All the kids had a sleepover at Grandma Sherry's and we went to the movies. We saw "True Grit". It was an ok movie. Pretty funny in some places, Gory in others but over all sad. I mean at the end (don't read further if you haven't seen the movie and would like to) the horse dies, the old man dies, she losses her arm, and ends up as a grumpy old maid. What kind of ending is that? Not to mention that the whole movie is about her revenging her father's death. While she is younger the grumpy "I don't take crap from nobody" attitude is super funny but when she still has that attitude as an old maid... yeah someone needs to slap her and tell her to enjoy life a little more.
Hahaha I guess that is my thoughts about that. haha
Saturday, January 1, 2011
New Year... 2011
Wow It's here. I can't believe that a new year has come and I get to start fresh with so many things.
One of those things being this gosh darn blog haha. I have made a resolution to try again and keep this updated. What a great day to start? 1.1.11 It's amazing how refreshing a new year is to me this time around.
Last night for New Year's Eve I had the kids go out and bang the pans together. It was frigged but I was smart this year. We had a count down and everything but it was only 8 o'clock instead of midnight. haha last year I made the kids stay up all night and 15 min. before midnight they fell asleep and it was miserable to get them to bang pans and want to be out in the cold. So we just did it a little early this year. Yeah we'll do it early from here on out until they can tell time haha.
I have so many things to be grateful for this year. Unfortunately, I didn't take the time to tell you about them before now. However, I will compile a Top 10 Events list and share it now with you... Oh by the way, this is what I am doing for my "Holiday Card" this year. So if you would like a personal copy then just send me your address. I would love to send one to you.
10. No Serious Injuries... However, both Cooper and McCoy tried to bit their tongues off, Brett had hernia surgery, and I broke my foot.
9. Good Medication... haha People often ask me how I can handle having so many kids. Well there you have it. No really though, I am grateful for all 5 of my kids. Sometimes it is extremely overwhelming but that brings us to another point to be grateful for...
8. Amazing Friends... I have the best friends in the whole world. My number one best friend being my husband. (No matter how many times we argue over who my best friend is haha... I always say Angela an he tells me it is him... Well of course) However, I feel really loved by all my great friends in my ward and from other areas. Thank You guys so much for being there for me and allowing me to be there for you.
7. Ability to Travel... We have taken several trips this year. Mostly just Brett and I but there have been a few with all the kids. We always go to Lake Powell, Park City and of course Grandma & Grandpa's but this year we added a few more. Brett & I went to Alaska, Moose Hunting. Time of our lives... will never forget that experience. We also went to Mesa, Az to see Granddad for Thanksgiving. (doesn't seem as cool as Alaska, I know, but the kids joined us on that one and they loved it). Finally, I went to Seattle to visit with my mission companions. I really am grateful for the ability to visit those we love and see new places.
6. Geese a laying... LOL I couldn't think of another way to count this blessing. Being every little thing in between.
5. Education... Kendrick is doing well in school. He is such a smart cookie (sometimes too smart for his own good but who's paying attention haha). Dylan is in his second year of preschool and is almost ready for a reading book. Cooper was tested to see if he could benefit from Speech Therapy and he can. So we will start him this coming month.
4. A Roof Over Our Heads... We bought a new house this year. haha Turns out we love our neighborhood so much that we decided that we wanted to stay forever. We bought the house directly in the backyard of our old one. LOL We have NO plans of EvEr moving again. We will be renting out our old house until the opportunity arrives to sell it.
3. Work... Especially in our downed economy we are so grateful for Brett's ability to have a job. This year brought a twist however, he was given the opportunity to move from UVU (Utah Valley University) and work for a company called Unicity. After weighing the options, we decided to take this new job and Brett will be starting there on Monday, January 3, 2011.
2. A Baby Girl... Tessa was born this year and we are super thrilled to have her in our family. She adds a new dimension that was well needed. It is sweet to see the boys go from rough and tumble to soft and sweet in Tessa's presence. They just melt when they try to communicate with her, especially McCoy. Tessa and McCoy are seriously best friends. It's weird that you can tell that already but they are.
1. The Gospel Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints... Without it I would be nothing. I would have nothing and I would be truly lost. It's because of our faith in a Higher Being that we have been able to endure loss and sorrow but also enjoy triumph and true happiness. I am so grateful for my Savior, Jesus Christ, and the sacrifice He made for me and for all of us. I am going to study more about him this year and I am thrilled to learn how to recognize Him when I see him again. We enjoy our callings in the ward so much. Brett is the Elder's Quorum President and I am the Young Women's Secretary and will be the Beehive Advisor this coming year.
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Conclusion of Alaska Trip
I was so excited to see my kids. When we walked in to Tammera's house, coy was so overwhelmed. He want to smile but he wanted to cry, instead he just hyperventilated.
He hast let us out of his sights at all.
The other kids were excited but McCoy was by far the most entertaining.
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He hast let us out of his sights at all.
The other kids were excited but McCoy was by far the most entertaining.
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Location:Perry, UT
Alaska Trip Day 1
The flights into Nome were great. We started out from SLC at 9:55 am and arrived in Seattle sometime around noon Seattle time. We left Seattle around 1 and flew to Anchorage. After arriving there we waited an hour or so and then flew to Kotzebue.
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We didn't get of that plane and shortly after landing went to Nome.
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We had a few minor set backs. In SLC they inspected our luggage and took out our camping stove. Crystal (Aaron's wife) was still there so she took it home. Then in Seattle the gate agent threw a fit about how big and how many carry ones we had. So after I was a little snappy with him :} he took our two biggest bags and checked them in. We weren't sure however if he sent them on to Nome or just the Anchorage. So we struggled to figure that out. Good news though... They were sent to Nome.
When we finally got all our bags drone the plane we ended up with two of our biggest bags having huge rips all the way around almost and one of the buckles came off our tote. Honestly, how did that happen?
Other then that the trip to Nome was harmless.
The missionaries came to pick us up from the airport and took us to the church where we settled in for the night.
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We didn't get of that plane and shortly after landing went to Nome.
We had a few minor set backs. In SLC they inspected our luggage and took out our camping stove. Crystal (Aaron's wife) was still there so she took it home. Then in Seattle the gate agent threw a fit about how big and how many carry ones we had. So after I was a little snappy with him :} he took our two biggest bags and checked them in. We weren't sure however if he sent them on to Nome or just the Anchorage. So we struggled to figure that out. Good news though... They were sent to Nome.
When we finally got all our bags drone the plane we ended up with two of our biggest bags having huge rips all the way around almost and one of the buckles came off our tote. Honestly, how did that happen?
Other then that the trip to Nome was harmless.
The missionaries came to pick us up from the airport and took us to the church where we settled in for the night.
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Location:Nome, AK
Alaska Trip Day 12
I woke up with a layer of frost on me. And actually to Brett shaking me. Apparently he had been trying to get me to wake up for some time. Once I finally woke up he said it was time to move and we loaded our bikes.
Off we went though the uneventful trail. Had we crossed the night before we would have ad to do it with a trailer and that would have sucked.
We rode back into town on our 4-wheelers. We had to stop to have Brett drive my Dad's bike because he was falling asleep.
When we got into town
We went to work cleaning up our stuff and packaging up the meat and horns to be shipped home.
The missionaries helped up take care of things and we were able to het on our plane on time.
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Off we went though the uneventful trail. Had we crossed the night before we would have ad to do it with a trailer and that would have sucked.
We rode back into town on our 4-wheelers. We had to stop to have Brett drive my Dad's bike because he was falling asleep.
When we got into town
We went to work cleaning up our stuff and packaging up the meat and horns to be shipped home.
The missionaries helped up take care of things and we were able to het on our plane on time.
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Location:W 120 N St,Orem,United States
Friday, September 10, 2010
Alaska Trip Day 11
Today brought mixed emotions. We started off fine. In fact kinda happy because the storm had finally lifted. The sun was shining and surprisingly the leaks in the bunk house had calmed to a small drip maybe every 5 seconds. Haha
Once we got outside we realized the beauty that we had be missing. It was nearly breath taking to see the smooth sea out ahead and to look up the shoreline and see the sun breaking through the small clouds and over taking the Bluffs. It was amazing. Unfortunately, my pictures didn't do justice to the real thing.
Brett asked if I would join him in panning for gold. He wanted me to take a picture. I think the fever had hit him in a very small way because once we got down to where Bill had been teaching Brett to pan he wasn't moving :(.
Meanwhile, my dad, Aaron, and Brian started helping Randy break apart his equipment. I guess that when they leave camp at the end of the summer the have to dismantle everything. They do this so that when people come through on snow they don't have the ability to still the equipment. The take the tires off and everything and hide all of it in the hills. Maybe they put it in a Conex I'll have to ask one of the guys.
At one point, actually before they started working, my dad said that it was a good idea to pack up and head out, especially while it was not raining. I was so thrilled. At first I thought I would wait for Brett to finish up and then we could go clean up. An hour and a half later I was ticked.
I was so suck and tired of being there. I wanted to have a place to vi pee that I didn't feel like I was going through a haunted house to get to. I craved a clean kitchen and a garbage can. I was crawling in my skin to think that there were rodents all around me and mold on everything and I couldn't wrap my brain around how someone in their right mind could live like that... Even if it was for just the summer.
I was furious that Brett asked me if I wanted to pan and as soon as he walked back to his pan he didn't even look back at me. Like he had forgotten I was there and that he was going to give me a pan too. ( he later explained that once he started at it again he remembered that Bill had told him to stay over the bucket... Why he couldn't explain that to me I don't know and why I sat there waiting for him for 45 min. I don't know that either.) I had finally had enough and Brett could sense that I wasn't happy. He asked me a question and I snapped at him and said I was done. I wanted to leave and go back to Nome.
I guess I finally threw a little tantrum. :{ I went in the bunk house, unpacked my sleeping gear and took a nap.
Turns out I wasn't the only one that was fed up with the place. My dad, Aaron and Brian had been roped into helping Randy get all his gear taken care of. And by the time we were actually ready to leave we had like 5 generators and all sorts of other equipment that Randy wanted us to haul out. Tension was a little high.
We FiNaLlY got on our bikes and took off. It was about 4 o'clock or so. As we got going we realized the trip back was going to be horrendous with all this extra stuff.
After traveling about 3 miles and nearly tipping the trailer again and again Aaron thought maybe it would be a good idea for someone to rub alongside the trailer while someone else drove the 4-wheeler. We were only going 5 miles an hour anyway. It worked out great. Brett got his exercise and the trailer didn't tip any more. He was liking it too... Every once in a while he would crouch down and scope up some blueberries and plop them in his mouth. It was all fun and picking though :) he did have to push and hold down the trailer in the muddy bogs. And then when the road was somewhat decent he would jump back on the 4-wheeler with me. If the trailer bounced around too much he would jump off again and do it all over again.
After going through a really tough bog we decided maybe we should say a family prayer. Just to remind you we had only been traveling for about 7 miles at this point and we had at least 13 more to go. 13 more miles got us back to Randy's truck where we were going to dump his gear.
Aaron was teasing with Brett to pray that we could harvest our tags and complete our journey. Brett did just that. He asked for safety, comfort and Inspiration and then asked that we might be able to harvest the animals that we came there to harvest. I'm not kidding you not a half hour later we were doing our thing and Aaron, Brian, and Brett noticed some birds flying over a spot. It looked suspicious to them so they thought they would go see if an animal had been killed and then hopefully a better animal would be on it.
When they discovered that it was nothing they could see they all started picking berries haha I joined in.
My dad decided to ride up the way a bit as he peered over the river and out through the willows.
All of a sudden, I saw him waving us over. Was it a bear or some other animal. I got Aaron and Brian's attention and we all head over.
Aaron arrived first and frantically waves Brian over.
Brett and I started to pick berries again. We didn't want to disturb whatever they were looking at. But then my dad waved us over just as frantically. Once we reached their side, my dad pointed to the willows. There laying in the tall willows was a big huge honkin moose. Not just any ol' moose... One with big fat shovels on his head. We hadn't seen one of those yet. All we had seen to this point was cow moose and calves. It was the biggest animal I'd seen out there.
As I settled in I pulled out my camera. Just as I had focused on the big guy I heard Brian discussing where he was going to shoot. Then he shot just like that. Time stood still forever I swear... But really it was just seconds. One shot and it was a hit. Big Papa reared his head and started to run off. Aaron then shot and and hit again. But he did not want to give up. Brian then shot again. I'm not sure where that one hit.
Turns out the 1st shot hit in the nose and the second was up the bum. Haha
Trick thing about this moose was that he was bedded down across the river. So in order to harvest it, now the guys had to get to it. That meant they had to go down in the willows and cross the river and then bring out the moose. :) and not so funny thing is that the time of death was about 9 o'clock pm. So it was getting dark and the process was projected to last well into the night. It was getting cold and since my visibility was going to be impaired by darkness I wouldn't be able to watch for bears very well or whatever animal decided to check things out. We felt extremely vulnerable.
Well we set to work right away. I was on "bear watch". That meant that I sat on higher ground with a gun (yeah right haha. I didn't want to shoot this gun) and scanned the river beds for anything that moved besides the guys. Holy Crap that was an undaunting task. I was scared that not only would I need to get the guys alerted but if I saw a bear I would have to shoot this gun to scare it off. Ahhh
Well my dad decided that he needed to be as loud as he could and I was trying. To yell conversations back at him so that the noise might deter an curious fellow. My dads singing got louder as the night went on and my edginess became was the darker it got. It seemed as though everything was moving (although the wind wasn't blowing and everything besides us was relatively calm). But my nerves made eyeballs appear and water splash and rocks tumble.
Aaron and Brian went to work taking care of the moose by cutting off the meat and saving the cape and the horns. My dads job was to walk the meat from the moose to the river where Brett had set up a pulley system with a rope.
He had stretched a rope across the river, around a willow bush and then back again. My dad would hook the bag of meat on the rope and then scoot it across the river where Brett would take it off. Brett would then take the meat from the river and bring it up the hill to a tarp that he had layer out next to the other 4-wheelers. Yeah I was not only sitting all by myself on a hill but now with raw meat. Grand idea guys... Anything else you could do to make a bear want to skip on over to see me? How about a call? Is there a bear call that would bring him in ? Haha
Brett first started out dumping the meat at the river an then he decided that was dumb, he should just bring it up to camp. And before he really started to walk it up he thought that is stupid he should get the 4-wheeler and drive it up. He get into a pretty go system of driving a bag of meat up, dumping it and then as soon as he saw my dads light moving across the willows he would go back down to the river an do it all again. That was better for me because then I wasn't by myself the whole time.
This process actually didn't take as long as we had thought it would.
Once everything was up by the 4-wheelers we really set up camp. It was then about 1 o'clock or so. It was getting really cold for me. My toes where damp which made them freezing in the cold. Other then that I was pretty well off. The guys on the other hand... Not so much. They had been wading through the river at least there and back once if not more times. Brian's feet were so cold he frantically went about trying to warm them up. he was then only one that didn't have waders on. My dad got busy making sure the meat was cooling down and wrapping up the cape. I tried to get dinner going. Brett and Aaron worked on getting all out stuff gathered close and actually setting up a camp. They were all cold and wet. Not a great combination.
Eventually, we layer down a tarp, got the sleeping bags out, took off all our wet clothes and crawled in to bed.
Unfortunately, someone had to stay on bear watch. My dad decided that he would do that and Aaron ended up staying up all night too. They finished packing up the meat and putting it on the bikes. They also put the horns and cape on Brian's bike. At about 4, Brett nudged me to look up in the sky. It was the first time the sky had been clear at all let alone enough to see the stars. So here we were freezing in the middle of nowhere and there was a huge display of twinkling lights up above us. That was truly breath taking. My dad pointed out the North Star. It was pretty much dead center of the sky. All the usual constellations were nowhere to be found but a whole new set were laying blanketed across the sky.
If that wasn't enough the Most amazing thing happened. All of a sudden it was as though someone was painting the sky. The Aurora Borealis graced us with it's presence. WOW! That just topped our trip. It was pretty light in color but the way it danced across the sky was like someone was orchestrating the entire display. This was one of the things I wanted to see in Alaska. The Great northern Lights as they danced across the sky. It was amazing.
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Once we got outside we realized the beauty that we had be missing. It was nearly breath taking to see the smooth sea out ahead and to look up the shoreline and see the sun breaking through the small clouds and over taking the Bluffs. It was amazing. Unfortunately, my pictures didn't do justice to the real thing.
Brett asked if I would join him in panning for gold. He wanted me to take a picture. I think the fever had hit him in a very small way because once we got down to where Bill had been teaching Brett to pan he wasn't moving :(.
Meanwhile, my dad, Aaron, and Brian started helping Randy break apart his equipment. I guess that when they leave camp at the end of the summer the have to dismantle everything. They do this so that when people come through on snow they don't have the ability to still the equipment. The take the tires off and everything and hide all of it in the hills. Maybe they put it in a Conex I'll have to ask one of the guys.
At one point, actually before they started working, my dad said that it was a good idea to pack up and head out, especially while it was not raining. I was so thrilled. At first I thought I would wait for Brett to finish up and then we could go clean up. An hour and a half later I was ticked.
I was so suck and tired of being there. I wanted to have a place to vi pee that I didn't feel like I was going through a haunted house to get to. I craved a clean kitchen and a garbage can. I was crawling in my skin to think that there were rodents all around me and mold on everything and I couldn't wrap my brain around how someone in their right mind could live like that... Even if it was for just the summer.
I was furious that Brett asked me if I wanted to pan and as soon as he walked back to his pan he didn't even look back at me. Like he had forgotten I was there and that he was going to give me a pan too. ( he later explained that once he started at it again he remembered that Bill had told him to stay over the bucket... Why he couldn't explain that to me I don't know and why I sat there waiting for him for 45 min. I don't know that either.) I had finally had enough and Brett could sense that I wasn't happy. He asked me a question and I snapped at him and said I was done. I wanted to leave and go back to Nome.
I guess I finally threw a little tantrum. :{ I went in the bunk house, unpacked my sleeping gear and took a nap.
Turns out I wasn't the only one that was fed up with the place. My dad, Aaron and Brian had been roped into helping Randy get all his gear taken care of. And by the time we were actually ready to leave we had like 5 generators and all sorts of other equipment that Randy wanted us to haul out. Tension was a little high.
We FiNaLlY got on our bikes and took off. It was about 4 o'clock or so. As we got going we realized the trip back was going to be horrendous with all this extra stuff.
After traveling about 3 miles and nearly tipping the trailer again and again Aaron thought maybe it would be a good idea for someone to rub alongside the trailer while someone else drove the 4-wheeler. We were only going 5 miles an hour anyway. It worked out great. Brett got his exercise and the trailer didn't tip any more. He was liking it too... Every once in a while he would crouch down and scope up some blueberries and plop them in his mouth. It was all fun and picking though :) he did have to push and hold down the trailer in the muddy bogs. And then when the road was somewhat decent he would jump back on the 4-wheeler with me. If the trailer bounced around too much he would jump off again and do it all over again.
After going through a really tough bog we decided maybe we should say a family prayer. Just to remind you we had only been traveling for about 7 miles at this point and we had at least 13 more to go. 13 more miles got us back to Randy's truck where we were going to dump his gear.
Aaron was teasing with Brett to pray that we could harvest our tags and complete our journey. Brett did just that. He asked for safety, comfort and Inspiration and then asked that we might be able to harvest the animals that we came there to harvest. I'm not kidding you not a half hour later we were doing our thing and Aaron, Brian, and Brett noticed some birds flying over a spot. It looked suspicious to them so they thought they would go see if an animal had been killed and then hopefully a better animal would be on it.
When they discovered that it was nothing they could see they all started picking berries haha I joined in.
My dad decided to ride up the way a bit as he peered over the river and out through the willows.
All of a sudden, I saw him waving us over. Was it a bear or some other animal. I got Aaron and Brian's attention and we all head over.
Aaron arrived first and frantically waves Brian over.
Brett and I started to pick berries again. We didn't want to disturb whatever they were looking at. But then my dad waved us over just as frantically. Once we reached their side, my dad pointed to the willows. There laying in the tall willows was a big huge honkin moose. Not just any ol' moose... One with big fat shovels on his head. We hadn't seen one of those yet. All we had seen to this point was cow moose and calves. It was the biggest animal I'd seen out there.
As I settled in I pulled out my camera. Just as I had focused on the big guy I heard Brian discussing where he was going to shoot. Then he shot just like that. Time stood still forever I swear... But really it was just seconds. One shot and it was a hit. Big Papa reared his head and started to run off. Aaron then shot and and hit again. But he did not want to give up. Brian then shot again. I'm not sure where that one hit.
Turns out the 1st shot hit in the nose and the second was up the bum. Haha
Trick thing about this moose was that he was bedded down across the river. So in order to harvest it, now the guys had to get to it. That meant they had to go down in the willows and cross the river and then bring out the moose. :) and not so funny thing is that the time of death was about 9 o'clock pm. So it was getting dark and the process was projected to last well into the night. It was getting cold and since my visibility was going to be impaired by darkness I wouldn't be able to watch for bears very well or whatever animal decided to check things out. We felt extremely vulnerable.
Well we set to work right away. I was on "bear watch". That meant that I sat on higher ground with a gun (yeah right haha. I didn't want to shoot this gun) and scanned the river beds for anything that moved besides the guys. Holy Crap that was an undaunting task. I was scared that not only would I need to get the guys alerted but if I saw a bear I would have to shoot this gun to scare it off. Ahhh
Well my dad decided that he needed to be as loud as he could and I was trying. To yell conversations back at him so that the noise might deter an curious fellow. My dads singing got louder as the night went on and my edginess became was the darker it got. It seemed as though everything was moving (although the wind wasn't blowing and everything besides us was relatively calm). But my nerves made eyeballs appear and water splash and rocks tumble.
Aaron and Brian went to work taking care of the moose by cutting off the meat and saving the cape and the horns. My dads job was to walk the meat from the moose to the river where Brett had set up a pulley system with a rope.
He had stretched a rope across the river, around a willow bush and then back again. My dad would hook the bag of meat on the rope and then scoot it across the river where Brett would take it off. Brett would then take the meat from the river and bring it up the hill to a tarp that he had layer out next to the other 4-wheelers. Yeah I was not only sitting all by myself on a hill but now with raw meat. Grand idea guys... Anything else you could do to make a bear want to skip on over to see me? How about a call? Is there a bear call that would bring him in ? Haha
Brett first started out dumping the meat at the river an then he decided that was dumb, he should just bring it up to camp. And before he really started to walk it up he thought that is stupid he should get the 4-wheeler and drive it up. He get into a pretty go system of driving a bag of meat up, dumping it and then as soon as he saw my dads light moving across the willows he would go back down to the river an do it all again. That was better for me because then I wasn't by myself the whole time.
This process actually didn't take as long as we had thought it would.
Once everything was up by the 4-wheelers we really set up camp. It was then about 1 o'clock or so. It was getting really cold for me. My toes where damp which made them freezing in the cold. Other then that I was pretty well off. The guys on the other hand... Not so much. They had been wading through the river at least there and back once if not more times. Brian's feet were so cold he frantically went about trying to warm them up. he was then only one that didn't have waders on. My dad got busy making sure the meat was cooling down and wrapping up the cape. I tried to get dinner going. Brett and Aaron worked on getting all out stuff gathered close and actually setting up a camp. They were all cold and wet. Not a great combination.
Eventually, we layer down a tarp, got the sleeping bags out, took off all our wet clothes and crawled in to bed.
Unfortunately, someone had to stay on bear watch. My dad decided that he would do that and Aaron ended up staying up all night too. They finished packing up the meat and putting it on the bikes. They also put the horns and cape on Brian's bike. At about 4, Brett nudged me to look up in the sky. It was the first time the sky had been clear at all let alone enough to see the stars. So here we were freezing in the middle of nowhere and there was a huge display of twinkling lights up above us. That was truly breath taking. My dad pointed out the North Star. It was pretty much dead center of the sky. All the usual constellations were nowhere to be found but a whole new set were laying blanketed across the sky.
If that wasn't enough the Most amazing thing happened. All of a sudden it was as though someone was painting the sky. The Aurora Borealis graced us with it's presence. WOW! That just topped our trip. It was pretty light in color but the way it danced across the sky was like someone was orchestrating the entire display. This was one of the things I wanted to see in Alaska. The Great northern Lights as they danced across the sky. It was amazing.
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Location:The Bluffs in Nome, AK
Alaska Trip Day 10
Okay so my phone died while were at the bunk house so I couldn't add day 10 on that actually day. Sorry we are going to have to go at this by memory and right now it's kind of shoddy because of events from day 11 that we will get to later.
So we woke up on Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock. By the time we got all our gear on it was close to three. We were headed to catch salmon at the silver creek.
We took the 4-wheelers out going along the shore. It was an awesome feeling to chase the waves in and out. I've always wanted to do that but I've always dreamed of doing it on a horse in Hawaii... Hummm 4-wheelers in the rain of Nome, AK. That will have to do for now.
We got back up the tundra at one point and headed across toward some willow bushes. As we went up and down the willow line we looked for a place to get through. After all our efforts were exhausted and Brett an I tipped our 4-wheeler we decided to come back.
Turns out after looking at the GPS (that we left behind) we were off by only about 1/4 mile. So through the willows and we would have made it to catch salmon and possibly see a bear.
It feels like vie told this story before. I guess I'll have to read my own post and see where that day left off.
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So we woke up on Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock. By the time we got all our gear on it was close to three. We were headed to catch salmon at the silver creek.
We took the 4-wheelers out going along the shore. It was an awesome feeling to chase the waves in and out. I've always wanted to do that but I've always dreamed of doing it on a horse in Hawaii... Hummm 4-wheelers in the rain of Nome, AK. That will have to do for now.
We got back up the tundra at one point and headed across toward some willow bushes. As we went up and down the willow line we looked for a place to get through. After all our efforts were exhausted and Brett an I tipped our 4-wheeler we decided to come back.
Turns out after looking at the GPS (that we left behind) we were off by only about 1/4 mile. So through the willows and we would have made it to catch salmon and possibly see a bear.
It feels like vie told this story before. I guess I'll have to read my own post and see where that day left off.
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Location:The Bluffs at Nome, AK