Wow, its been a while since I've posted! Its finally a Friday night, and I think this might be the first time in about 3 months that we've been home on a Friday night. I have been wanting to catch up on the blog for a while, but now I'm just going to have to post one big long post with lots of pictures to tell my stories :) In mid-November, we went to a beautiful wedding of my 4th cousin (lol...yes, we figured it out once). Below are some pretty family pictures of some of my loved ones. Congrats Daniel & Sarah!
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| My favorite wedding date in the whole wide world! |
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| Two handsome dudes |
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| The best aunt & uncle a girl could ask for! |
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| 3 handsome generations, my beautiful mom, and my incredible husband! |
The next weekend, we headed to High Places to get some more footage for our TV show and to hang out with "newish" friends :) Derrick hunted hard and found this beautiful sitka buck. He was like a kid in a candy store. Such a cool creature and he was tickled pink to get him...and on TV!
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| The Ratliffs, the Siegels, the Ulcaks, Krause, Smitty, Hali, and Jason at High Places in the Texas Hill Country |
The next weekend was Thanksgiving and we started the holiday at my grandfather Kaspar's house where we had the incredible pleasure of meeting the very first great grandkid...Baby Arthur Elias! Daddy Don took to him in a precious way...I think he was honored that Claudio and Carli chose to name their son, Arthur, after Daddy Don's father who was also born on November 3rd!
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| I got to hold the precious lil guy! |
After dinner, we headed to the wrap up of the 118 year tradition of Texas A&M v. UT football game. It was an INCREDIBLE game...I've never felt that much energy in one place in my life. It was a lot of fun until the last 60 seconds of the game. A&M lost, but Aggies are still awesome and I'm still ever so proud to be one!
We left College Station after the game at 11:45pm and arrived back in Shiner at 2. We switched vehicles to Derrick's truck and got back on the road to Agarita Ranch and drove through the night arriving at the ranch at 5:30am. Derrick wanted to be in the stand Friday morning to try to get a shot at a buck he's been chasing before the commercial hunters go there, but to no avail. The Swenson family from Henrietta, Texas then arrived that evening. We hunted with Travis Swenson in Henrietta this past spring at Turkeyfest and he became our biggest fan. He's such a great kid and we wanted to give him a south Texas whitetail hunt experience. I'm pretty sure he had a blast.
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| Travis shooting the gun he'd get his buck with...making sure he was comfy with it. Tye and Derrick, his biggest buds |
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| We got to play a little pool! |
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| Derrick guided Travis' dad, Cliff, on a great south Texas buck! |
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| Travis got his buck too! We were so proud of him! |
Not gonna lie, life has been stressful. Its non stop deadlines and stress and budgeting with the TV show going on and Christmas around the corner and our jobs being busy and so much more....however, I won't ever forget how blessed I am - no matter how crazy life gets. I understand that the craziness is just a whole lot of blessings piled on top of each other at one time. I'm grateful for the holiday and last night I finally got a chance to to put up the tree, kick back for some online Christmas shopping, eggnog in a cup, and Christmas music in the background. I LOVE the time of year between Thanksgiving & Christmas!
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