Hunting Season

On Wednesday, Lauren and I left with Grandma and Grandpa to Eastern Oregon for our hunting season. She traveled so well. It's about 10 hours all the way to where we camp! This was one of our pit stops. Lauren loved to stretch her legs!


Daddy had shot his buck that morning in a different unit and met us over there late that night. We had some father/daughter photos the next morning. It's just a little guy!


Lauren liked to hold the antlers! But they were too heavy to do it by herself, so daddy had to help with a finger.


Getting dirty in Chesnimus soil! This was after our walk-a-bout!

Our walk-a-bout was very entertaining even though we didn't see any bucks. Daddy, Lauren and mommy took off down one drainage, while grandma and grandpa went down another. I wish I would have had a picture. Daddy had Lauren in the Kelty backpack. We were sneaking along a game trail when daddy whispered "stop." About 80 yards away came a BIG bull elk. The wind was just right, mommy was in camo, Lauren was in camo and daddy was in black. He never saw us. As he got closer we realized that he was a 7x7 and probably would have scored 350. This big Rocky Mountain elk was 6' tall at his shoulders. He came within 20 yards and what does Lauren do.....GRUNTS! She's obviously watched too many Realtree Roadtrips! It was priceless. He stopped dead in his tracks, looks at us, can't smell us.....so he comes closer! At about 15 yards, daddy finally took a step out behind a tree and he bolted. Gosh he was pretty. I said "too bad I didnt' have my camera" and daddy said "too bad we didn't have a tag!" He's right! Poor Lauren though....her standards are all screwed up now. Daddy and mommy will have to work hard to live up to those expectations!

Here are some 1 year photos. The day was pretty....cold, but pretty. The Seven Devils Mountains were off in the distance. She is such a ham!







Lauren had a great time. It was pretty cold for all of us....17 degrees the morning we left! She was a little wind burnt on her cheeks and sleeping in the port-a-crib really didn't happen much! We came home with daddy on Saturday so he could get his deer cut up and to the taxidermist. And last night we all slept SOOOOOO well. Mommy needed that!