This weekend!

I can't forget to tell you about this entire weekend too! It was way too long to put in the last post. Friday night my mother in law Donda had bought tickets to the Steelfist Fight Night. A few of our friends were actually fighting so she bought tickets to support them. Also, my sister in law Lanci's birthday was on Saturday so we decided to celebrate Friday before she left the next day. All i can say is we know how to have fun. It was so much freaking fun! The fights started around 7 and ended around probably 11 or 12? I honestly can't even remember. Afterwards we went to a bar that Lanci went to a lot when she was younger. Then we ended up going home. It was such a good night! Defintely a well deserved break for all of us.

With the deer hunt opening up on Saturday morning we've been hunting as much as we can. Bry doesn't get many days off so we had to use our time wisely! Saturday morning we drove out to Springville and planned on going up Shingle Mill. Bry's family has been going there for hunts and family reunions for a really long time. Steve(Bry's dad) had actually gone up the night before and camped there while we were all out at the fights. We had just gotten to the golf course before it goes up the canyon when we passed Steve. He flipped around and we talked for a bit about what he'd seen and if we should even go up. OH and before i forget, i should also add we'd had a hell of a morning searching for Bry's deer tag and still hadn't found it. We were actually hoping that it was in the same envelope as Steve's. Unfortunately, it ended up not being in there. So we decided that because we had no deer tag and there were way to many hunters up there vs. the small amount of deer he'd seen we'd go home! Once we got to our house here in Wallsburg we got on our four wheeler and headed up behind the house. After we got up there quite aways we parked and started hiking. We went from one ridge to the next and back again. We ended up seeing 3 deer and 4 hunters on the ridge opposite us. All in all it was a big disappointment! We hiked back down to the four wheeler and headed home. On Sunday Bry actually had to work so we couldn't go up until after 5. A friend of ours called Bry that day and told us he'd had someone show him some deer on the opposite side of the valley. So i made sure to have everything we needed ready to leave right when he got home. We had just enough time to get to where we needed to go and walk around for maybe 30 minutes. We actually ended up riding off the mountain in the dark. Both Bry and Tyler had hesitated to mention neither of the four had headlights. Yeah, i was a little angry to say the least. Luckily Bry has a flashlight app on his phone that is actually really bright! We turned that on and i had to hold it the whole way down. It worked out pretty well and ended up being quite the wild ride! Too bad we didn't see any deer. Talk about frustrating! I was close to giving up the entire idea all together. Bry convinced me otherwise. I have always wanted to see what it was like to climb to the top of a mountain. To be honest i think i had a little too many crazy pills or maybe ate some lead paint as a child. The entire hike was so freaking tiring! At one point we were actually walking right behind a herd of Elk. When we had parked the car at the bottom of the mountain we heard them bugling like crazy! As we got to the top we were following right behind them. I can't even explain what that moment was like for me. Elk are my favorite animal and their bugle is my favorite sound. Even if it's the 500th time i've heard it i will almost always smile uncontrollably or tear up. So for me to be able to be that close and to see them instead of just hearing them was amazing. It was definitely number 3 on my Top 5 favorite moments. I still can't believe it! Anyway, we had driven up as far as we could then hiked up the rest of the way. We were literally at the top of the mountain right behind our house. If i pointed it out to you i think you'd laugh in my face. I still can't believe that i did it! I feel like flipping my body the bird and telling them I TOLD YOU SO! It was such a beautiful view and the most amazing experience to share with Bry. It's amazing what you can do if you just try. Especially when you have your world's biggest fan cheering you on and holding your hand the entire way. But to our disappointment we saw 3 freaking deer the entire way. All of which were either Does or too fast to tell what they were. So yet again we came off the mountain with nothing! Luckily it was a beautiful hike and we had gotten to see the Elk. Once we got home were hurried to Heber to gas up and come right back to Wallsburg and hit a different spot. All i can say is i am SO freaking disappointed. I feel so bad for Bry too! Hopefully when we go back out this Friday there will be deer left for him. All in all it was a crazy beautiful experience and one for the books! Now i am in so much pain that i just don't want to move. Which is probably why i am blogging hahah !! Anyway i hope you enjoyed this : )