Before I start writing about how busy our lives have been, I first must vent. This sweet, innocent, fury, cute picture is a picture of my dog aka Roxy. Yes I know she is adorable (even though I have been told that she has a face only a mother could love) but do not let her fool you. She has an addiction. An addiction to destroying my house!!!! She gets bored when Eric is at work and I am at school. To show us how much she hates us leaving her, she chews up our things! Here is a list of all the things she has chewed up in the last 4 1/2 months:1. My Camera Case
2. Four Hair Bands
3. Eric's Red Devils Blanket
4. Not One but TWO of our remotes
5. Christmas Lights
6. All the Boxes our Wedding Presents are in
7. My Friend's Wedding Present
8. Her Kennel
9. Part of the Wall
10. Candles
11. Socks
12. Two T-shirts
And the biggest thing that I am most upset about that she has chewed up,
13. Our Love Seat
We have tried everything to keep her from chewing on things but nothing has worked so far. I even called my Uncle Richard. He is a vet and he said that she needs to be locked up when no one is home because her breed is the type that will chew up everything you own until the day they die. We hate locking her up :( but we cannot have her keep chewing up our house like this. I try and make my house look nice and I cannot have my sweet little pup tearing it up!
Alright well on to all the things we have been doing since our last post!
First and most importantly, Eric got his first bull elk with his BOW! Yep, he is amazing. I was there to see it all! It was so exciting. I am so proud of him :) Once Eric shot him we waited a while to let him die. After waiting for a bit we started looking for the blood trail. We were able to follow it for a little bit and then the blood just stopped. There was no sign of the elk. I was even on my stomach looking for blood and low and behold NOTHING. I was so nervous because I knew that if we did not find the elk Eric would not be happy. I think I prayed approximately 18 times for us to find Eric's elk. So while I was on my stomach army crawling around the forest looking for blood, Eric was wandering around the forest. After about an hour of searching, Eric found him! There was not even a drop of blood around him!!! Eric then quartered him up (with a little help from me!) and we started hauling him out. It only took us TWO TRIPS!!!!! On the first trip Eric had a pack so we were able to put a lot of meat on his back. I helped by hugging a front quarter to my stomach. I was able to haul it around for quite a while until my stupid shoulders started hurting! Then Eric carried it the rest of the way to the truck. On the second trip, we loaded up the rest of the meat onto Eric's back. That was a bad idea. It had to have weighed at least 80 pounds or more. I felt AWFUL. I didn't have a single thing to carry and we had to stop about every 20 yards so that Eric could rest. All I could do to help was be Eric's cheerleader! We eventually made it to the truck. When we made it home we washed up the meat and set it out on top of our roof. The next day Eric loaded up the meat in the truck. During this process he lost his wedding ring :( It is still currently MIA.
The Elk
BLOOD!
Poor Exhausted Eric :(
The next weekend Eric and I went to the Dierks Bentley and Lynyrd Skynyrd Concert. We somehow scored awesome seats. When I went to buy tickets the guy asked what type of tickets I wanted and I said the cheapest ones. So I got two of the cheapest tickets and then the guy upgraded us to floor seats for free! We were only three rows from the stage!!!!! It was a pretty fun concert. Eric and I had a lot of fun!!!!! Eric was so impressed with Dierks hair that he is even growing his hair out like Dierks now :)
Then the next weekend we went to the Boise v. Wyoming game. Needless to say, we got our butts kicked. We still had a lot of fun though!!!!
Then the next weekend Eric bought me these beautiful Gerber Daisies. He did it just because he wanted to!!!! How sweeeeet is that!!!!!!
After that weekend Eric started his 9 days on and 5 days off!!!! He came home last Tuesday and was able to stay clear until Sunday!!!!!! And on Friday my entire family came up for the Homecoming game. It was a very fun weekend (even though I didn't get a single picture). Minus the fact that one of my brothers ruined our toilet. Both of them feel the need to lean back on the toilet tank when they are taking a #2. One of them leaned back on the toilet on Saturday. Because they did this, our tank started leaking like CRAZY! Who leans back on the toilet? Or as Eric likes to say "It's not a freaking recliner" hahahaha! Well the leak ruined the flooring around the toilet so Eric had to tear that up and he has to replace it during his next break from work. Also Eric and my Dad spent about 4 hours fixing the toilet. I am glad to say that the toilet is fixed, the tank is a little crooked, but fixed all the same. I am so happy and glad that I have a handy man for a husband :)
So between the fun weekends and the crazy amount of homework I have been getting, our life has been very hectic. It has finally started to slow down again though :)
