Quite the adventure...

Well, I must say we had QUITE the weekend! Friday the day started off with a funeral for a sweet man who I've known all my life (his cute family has been in my moms ward for as long as I can even remember, and he was also one of my moms oldest and dearest friends since they were just little kids growing up together in Sunset). It was one of the neatest funerals I have ever attended. Such a beautiful tribute to that amazing man. Afterwards my mom, Hailee and I went to lunch at Great Harvest (yum) and then I was off to run some errands, including taking Duke to get a much overdue haircut! I got to meet up and chat with one of my sweet friends while waiting for Duke to get finished. He looks cute as ever btw! Later that night I met up with my mom and Hailee again to go to Red Lobster for her birthday dinner. After dinner we went to the Fremont-Layton football game to cheer on our Luke H. #31 and of course, Fremont dominated! I will always be a Silverwolf :)

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Saturday Cody and I started our day about 5:30am. We met up with my cute FIL Greg and some of his friends to head up to North Fork to hunt for my moose. They were sooo sweet to take me up there and spend the whole day helping me. We took horses so we could go way up to the top and not have to hike for miles :) It was my first "offical" horse ride, I have only been on a horse one other time back when I was in high school and I really only sat on the horse for about 5 mins and walked around the pasture. So, needless to say I have not had a lot of experience! I was terrified to have to ride up a mountain on a horse all by myself but it actually was pretty fun (besides being sore the day after) and I'm so glad I got over that fear, ha ha! We saw TONS of moose that day and even got within less than 50 ft. of a pretty good sized one. The only shot I could've taken though would have been shooting down at it and there was a little scout group about 300 yards below us, so obviously it wasn't a shot I was going to take. Bummer. About an hour after that we spotted a HUGE bull moose that all the guys were freaking out about, saying it was the biggest one they had ever seen up there. We debated for a while on whether or not to hike down to it to see if we could get it. Cody and I decided to just go for it even though I had plans with the girls to go out that night. We figured we would have plenty of time. Oh boy, were we WRONG! Cody and I hiked down this huge, steep mountain side trying to get closer and by the time we made it all the way down we couldn't find him anywhere :( we did see lot's of Cow moose though. Once we were down- there was no way we could hike back up so we had to follow a revine all the way out. It was probably 4-5 miles and we thought no big deal, easy. We couldn't have been more wrong though. It ended up being a 4-5 mile walk straight through a river. At that point we had no choice to turn back or to climb back up the mountain (it was straight up on both sides). It was by far the hardest, scariest experience either of us have ever had! We were muddy and wet up to our waists, we were carrying some binoculars and two guns to make matters even worse. Cody ended up taking my gun and carrying both because we were constantly falling and slipping on the rocks. Everytime we turned a corner and thought we were getting close there was even more river for as far as we could see. We finally made it out a couple hours later and found the rest of our group who were scared the whole time that something had happened to us. There were times where we were both unsure how we were ever going to get out of it. We barely made it out before it got dark (sooo scary)!! My sweet Cody was the only thing that kept me going. He stayed behind me to make sure nothing happened and he had it even worse than I did carrying all the heavy equipment. We were so lucky that neither of us ended up with a sprained ankle, or worse. (We'll take our bruises!) Pretty sure I cried the whole time, poor Cody. I'm writing all this here so we will always remember it, even though Cody and I are the only ones who will ever know how truly SCARY the whole experience was! I obviously didn't make my plans with the girls that night (our annual trip to Gardner Village for Witches Night Out- that was a whole other cry fest in itself), by the time we got home all we wanted to do was shower and chill out in our pj's together. We both woke up yesterday barely able to move and covered in bruises. We're still finding them everywhere.

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Sunday was Hailees actual birthday so we went over to my moms for dinner, cake and presents. Cody and I bowled in our bowling league last night after leaving my moms (and after taking some pain pills to help us through). Today we're both still a little sore but doing much better for the most part! We didn't get my moose and might still try again before my hunt ends on Thursday but we'll see how the next few days go first. Codys deer hunt starts this weekend so he'll be gone with the guys for a few days and next week he'll be back on the day shift at work.. YAY!! I can't wait to have my hubby back :) This weekend will be a FUN one and I can't wait for Saturday!!! (It's a secret though, so I can't post about it until next week.)

Sorry for the long, boring post but it was definitely a weekend I needed to write down so Cody and I can remember everything about it. Not really sure if we want to right now though.. ha ha. I'm just glad we're ALIVE!!

I'm so thankful for Cody, seriously. He is one amazing man.

I had some pretty bratty moments during the whole thing and he was still there to comfort me and take care of me. I love you babe, more than you will ever know.