This
weekend we decided to celebrate Scott's birthday. After the kids got
out of school, we headed up to the mountain up from the feedlot. While
it's been really good weather lately, it was a little nippy (although,
it's February, no snow, and the kids didn't wear a jacket or coat for
most of the outing, so no complaints here). Scott brought the horses up,
every family brought their guns, and we roasted hot dogs over a fire :)
The kids had a lot of fun finding spent shotgun shells, and looking for
glass bottles to shoot (no worries, we cleaned up the glass after we
were done). There was some fighting over wanting to keep the
bottles...who knew beer bottles were so pretty? But we finally convinced
the kids that shooting them was a better option. The adults got to chat
while the kids played in the dirt. Each family took turns with the
horses. I can't believe how pretty it was up there. Like I said, it's
February and no snow which is awesome (even if we do need the moisture),
but the contrast between the orange mountain and the green trees was
breathtaking. I'd never been up that way before, and I'm hoping to
convince Dan to take us us there again so we can explore some more when
others aren't waiting for the horses and babysitting those that stayed
behind. Then we shot the kid's 22's. Even Milee got in on the action
this time, and she was so proud of herself she did a clap skippy jump
thingy when she was done. It got really cold by the time the sun went
down, so we packed everything up and headed home. After everyone had
baths and got cleaned up Jed and Nanci and their family came over to
watch some movies. We need to do more stuff like this as a family. It
was awesome.
