Hunter Man

He's got it bad. When I first met Rob, he liked football, fly fishing, and he wore nice clothes. It's been 8 years since we met. Now he likes politics, hunting, and he wears camo! After missing out this deer season, he wasn't going to let bird season come and go without a little meat to show for it. He went to Mount Sterling with his brother a few weeks ago and came back with this:

His first rooster pheasant

Apparently that experience only tickled his palate, because this weekend he and my brothers, Daniel and John, headed out to a hunting reserve about an hour away to have at it again. It was my brothers' first time hunting and they did great. Both got a pheasant their first shot (we are related to Wyatt Earp--it's gotta mean something, right?)

Johnny

Daniel

Rob

They knew I wouldn't be too happy to cook birds up (I mean a frozen tender is one thing, but eyes and a beak...), so they brought it home like this:

We cooked it last night, and it was great! Way to bring home the dinner, boys!

Halloween

I think the major highlight this Hallween was decorating our entryway! I was going for a Fall Harvest theme, but Rob wanted the spooky spider webs, so we just did them both and had a blast. These pictures don't do it justice. There were orange lights and spiders dangling down. One of the little girls in Robbie's preschool refused to come into our house because she thought the webs were real!

Robbie was a little dragon/dinosaur this year. He couldn't make up his mind about our ward's trunk-or-treat. He would go to a few trunks, get his goods and then say, "Okay, I have enough candy," and head back to our car. We went through three times before he had actually hit all the cars. When we got home we decided to do some real trick-or-treating, but since most of the homes in our tract are vacation homes, we had to drive from house to house on the 4-wheeler. It was a great new way to trick-or-treat.

Froggy Ty getting pumped for his first trick-or-treating experience.

He LOVED it! Getting and then keeping the candy in the bag was impossible for him. It went from hand to mouth so he had a very loney bag. Once he got the hang of the whole thing, he was just hilarious! One woman opened the door and Ty started screaming with excitment and then lunged for the candy in her arms! Enthusiastic, this one.

And off they go....