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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

"Load up kids, let's go find a deer!"

(I didn't take this pic)
I love this time of year. Not just because of the gorgeous colors and the amazing smells that come with fall and harvest, but because it's deer season!! We have always enjoyed going deer hunting, but now it's even better because the kids love going too! "Load up kids, let's go find a deer!" That's all we have to say and they are in the pickup with goodies in hand, all anxious to find a deer. We went out to our favorite little place and Rowdy went out for a walk while I stayed at the pickup with the kids. But the kids didn't mind, nor did I. They had a great time running and playing on the sands and I had a great time taking pics of them.
The kids loved running and jumping off the sands.

We love this picture because Bryndi jumped so high and it looks so funny!

While the kids and I were messing around, Rowdy was on hot pursuit of buck! He ended up shooting it and the kids were so excited to go see dad's deer. So we made our way out through the sagebrush and found Rowdy and his buck.

Way to go Rowdy!!
Future hunters!
It was so pretty out on the desert that night. I had to take a couple more pics.

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

We're Back!!

I know it's been A LONG time since my last post! And a lot has been going on these last few months in the Rigby home. Summer has come and gone but not without leaving us with some fun times and great memories. We kept busy with baseball, soccer and 4H fun.
Britton's 3rd year playing baseball.
Bradyn's first year playing soccer...she loved it!
Bryndi's first year doing chickens at the fair. Her chicken's name is Cheech. She got grand prize in showmanship.
Oh and we can't forget the pig wrestling at the fair!

Cousin Emilee Crapo, me, sister-in-law Whitney, and sister Jennie
made up this totally awesome team called the Piggly Wiggly Gals! We had a lot of fun and ended up taking 3rd place. Everyone needs to wrestle a pig just to say you've done it!
Brooks is growing up fast, he's a big 6 months old now. He went to the doctor on Monday. He weighs 15.5 lbs and is 26.5 inches long. He is trying real hard to crawl and sit up now. It won't be too much longer!
Love the crazy hair do!

We even had a couple birthdays to celebrate last month. Braylie's birthday was September 1st and she turned 4 years old. She had a fun birthday with lots of fun stuff to play with! Now that she's 4 she's learning to do all kinds of fun things like write her name, learning colors, shapes and numbers. She'll be ready for school in no time!

Rowdy's birthday was on September 15th and he turned 34 years old...ya old man! I think Rowdy had a good birthday. He had the opportunity to spend his birthday with the kids while I went to work.

That's the other crazy thing in the Rigby house....I am a working woman now! I work part-time at the hospital as admitting clerk. It's a great job and works out well with Rowdy's work schedule so that he can be home with the kids when I need to go into work. It sure is hard to leave my family though. One thing I've learned for certain after taking this job is that I took being a stay-at-home-mom for granted! Getting out and interacting with adults is a great thing for all of us to do but I sure miss just being home with my family at all times! It's nice when we do have time together though because we try to make the best of it. This last weekend was such a nice weekend so we decided to go to Kilgore to see all the pretty fall colors. It is so beautiful out there right now. We took a few fun pics of the family. It's impossible to get everyone to look at the camera at the same time!


When we were done taking pics Rowdy decided to bugle and cow call just to see if any elk would answer. To our surprise a bull elk bugled right back. So we all sat down and let Rowdy call in hopes that we would be able to see some elk. It wasn't long and two cows and a calf elk came up about 20 yards from where we were sitting. The elk just stood there and stared at us trying to figure us out, so the kids had plenty of time to have a close up of these elk. Unfortunately the bull that was bugling never would let us see him. But the later it got a couple more bulls started bugling. The kids loved it. We walked down off the mountain and made a fire and roasted hot dogs. The whole time we were eating our hot dogs the elk were still bugling it was a great night. The kids are excited to do that again. Hopefully next time we will get a chance to see a bull!
Here we are waiting for the elk to come up the mountain.

Here we are walking back down the mountain, elk still bugling even with the flash of the camera and kids laughing!


I think Brooks is gonna be our next elk caller...he was really good except for a couple times he added his own sound effects. But the elk didn't mind a bit! We had a great weekend!
(sorry this was such a long post)