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How Did We Get So Lucky?

Jaycie loves to hold her baby sister.

Jaycie always says, "McKenna is so cute." Jaycie enjoys to look at her and just giggle.

Jaycie loves her sister so much!

Jaycie always trys to comfort McKenna when she is crying by hugging her, giving McKenna her binky, or bringing her toys.

Already Rolling Over At 6 Weeks

Just Some Cute Pics

What a pretty girl

Getting so big

Loves her mobile

Mommy caught her attention for a minute

Enjoys the bath much more these days

McKenna 1 Month Old

A Whole Lotta Grouse

Wow, Tyler invited me to do some grouse hunting on some trails that he knows. I love to hike after grouse, but I had to admit that using the ATV was a very productive way to go. We covered about 12 miles of trails and shot 5 grouse each!! We couldn't have covered that kind of ground on foot.

Here is the haul...we would ride around until we spotted one in the trail or off the side of the trail, then we'd bail out go after them. Sometimes we would shoot on on the trail and flush another few just off the side of the trail. In one group that we went after there were 5 plus! In another group there were 4. I am not sure we can top this day.

You can see the type of terrain we were in. We also saw 3 moose.

These are all spruce grouse (gold banded tails). They are called so, becasue they like to hang out in spruce pines and eat the needles. They also eat the cranberries that grow wild here.

Overall, not a bad day...shoot ten grouse in 4 hours! Takes away some of the pangs of missing out on the Utah duck hunt.