Bittersweet Weekend

This past weekend we made a quick trip back to MO to help take down deer stands from the land Jason & Justin have hunted since they started. It was a sad weekend because Justin, Jason, Megan, & I all harvested our first deer on this property and Jason & Justin won't be able to hunt there anymore. We drove back Friday night and finally arrived in Shelby County after 1:30. We headed out Saturday morning to the woods and met Justin, Megan, and Jason's cousin Billy Joe to take down the stands in the rain!

Out in the woods- it didn't rain the whole time, but it did the majority of it. I learned rain does not stop the bugs! Jason taking down the buddy stand- where I fired my first hundred shots and finally killed my first deer in the fall of '05. Looking back into the woods as we left the farm.

Luckily, the weekend wasn't all so sad. We got back to Jason's house with enough time to hang out with his mom, dad, Justin, Megan, Allison, & Rhett. Billy Joe and a friend of Jason's showed up later that night and the boys played playstation well into the night.

Back at Jason's mom & dad's- Rhett was all smiles! Jason & Rhett hanging out on the floor. Allison giving Jason bunny ears Justin just being himself After taking a few pictures I turned the camera over to Allison who turned out to be quite the photographer. She took this picture with about 100 others including canned food in the cabinet and the loaded dishwasher!

Sunday morning after breakfast we headed to my mom & dad's. Thankfully, Jessi & Travis were able to make plans to eat lunch with us at mom & dad's so we could see them and Andi & TJ. After a few hours of visiting with them and some great homemade pie we headed back to MN.

Andi showig me how to "flip"- yes I even did one myself. Andi's pose when I told her I was going to take a picture. When I said "say cheese" she told me "I not say cheese" so we got a serious look! We took a break from flipping to take a picture together. TJ smiling & crawling everywhere!

When we left my mom & dad's we had to detour as some roads were closed due to water over them. Here is a picture of a bean field under water near the road. For those of you who don't know where 6 & 15 meet we were south of Edina.

We had a great weekend even though we spent quite a few hours on the road and the reason for the trip wasn't ideal.