Katie's Birthday!

10 Year Class Reunion last Summer '14

Happy Birthday Dear Friend!  Katie Huffman and I were born 6 days apart and have been friends ever since!  We are 29 this year!  Whitney Kent McGraw and Katie Huffman, let's make it one we will never forget!  Love ya girls!

Desolate?!

Woah, I received this photo today from Heath.  This is where they will be hog hunting for the rest of the week.  After they took me to the airport yesterday, they headed to their hunting destination....and this was it.  Even Heath thought they were in the middle of nowhere, now that is scary!  LOL!

Well, all I can say is that I received this picture
of my father-in-law at work today?!

Relax and ENJOY!

It snowed and snoWED and SNOWED all day yesterday and all day today!  Thank you for a *white* Christmas and safe travels for my family to join together!  REJOICE, REJOICE IMMANUEL!

This morning Heath left before sunup for work, like usual.  I prayed and prayed and prayed for his safe return home.  I couldn't help myself to call him, probably before he even got to work, to see how the roads were.  He said snow packed and slow travel.  Later this morning, I called him again and he said alot of places were not even open or had a late opening due to the snow and weather.  This is winter in Western Nebraska.  It was absolutely beautiful for me, who was blessed to have the day off and get to stay home, but for the working folk, not so much.

I had a list of things to do today and enjoyed taking my time to get them done and enjoy them.  Late morning, I put on my coveralls and did chores.  It was fun because I took Penney and the dogs for a walk in the snow.  We all had a blast....see pictures below!  :)

Happy in the *SNOW!*

Lots of playing!

Birdies.

Beautiful barn with snow falling.

Out for a walk.

The farm covered in snow.

Buried deep!

"Let's go guys!"

Miss Penney.

Lovin' Life!

The dogs saw Penney rooting around in the snow, so
they followed suit.  Little did they know, she wasn't
hunting like they were, she was  actually eating the
fresh green grass under the snow.

They appeased me by posing!  :)

Heath is so excited because Mya is becoming a great pheasant hunter.

I love this photo....his smile!

Hunting

We have been really enjoying fresh bird each night this week....pheasant, goose, and duck.  Thank goodness Heath is so good at it because if it were up to me, we might starve!  Funny story about that.  I took this photo on my way up to the top of the hill to join him.  As soon as I got there, he wanted to take a walk down the hill to see if he could scare up any pheasants.  I took a seat on a small bare patch of dirt (with my gun).  I really wanted to see if this photo turned out so I was looking at my phone.  (I usually don't have it with me while hunting, but I wanted to capture some of our hunting moments.)  Well, as I was checking out the picture, a work email caught my eye.  Right as I started reading it, two beautiful pheasants literally almost hit me they were so close.  My only thought was, "Wow!  Those are some beautiful birds!!!!"

Heath slowly came walking back over the hill and politely asked why he didn't hear any shooting.  I told him I just was so enthralled in their beauty, I forgot I was holding my gun!  LOL!

Goose and Duck Hunting

My husband hiding in the weeds.

"Duck!" (No pun intended!!)

I had a really quiet morning as I stayed in bed under our heated blanket to rest, relax, and blog.  I think I totally freaked out our dogs because I seldom do this.  They were quite concerned for me.  LOL!  Heath spoiled me even though the weekends are my turn to cook.  He made me a smoothie for breakfast and a salad for lunch, yes, still in bed at that time!  HAHA!

About 1:30 pm, our friend Danny brought all of his goose decoys out to the house.  Bill was there too.  He comes up from Colorado alot during the waterfowl season.  Heath's brother Bill also came out to join us.  We had alot of fun hiding in the weeds watching, listening, and well shooting.  60 degrees = beautiful day!  As the darkness was setting in, there was a chill in the air.   We were in the middle of picking up the decoys when Heath saw a low duck (finally!).  He told his brother to shoot, but he wasn't quite quick enough.  Heath pulled up, shot, and down the duck went.  A beautiful mallard.  Good job Honey.  We did not get skunked!