Matt, Genie, & the Boys

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Pheasant Hunt

Mocha on Point out front - I shot a nice rooster from this point

My friend Scott and I with our birds and dogs

Today a couple buddies and me went out pheasant hunting. Although it was bright and sunny it had snowed that morning. We ended up doing alright, we shot 11 of the 14 birds that we found. A couple of the ones we didn't shoot had flushed way too far out of range for us to get. Mocha did unbelievable for being a pup. She was very solid on all of her points and found several of the birds.

For those of you I haven't updated, Mocha and I competed in our first Field Trial event a couple weeks ago. The puppy trial was on Sunday so we opted to compete in the derby trial which has older more experienced dogs in it. My opinion, she would have easily taken first in the puppy, but then again I'm very biased.

Well after all was said and done Mocha did amazing. She took 4th place and received all the points she needs in the derby to move towards being a field trial champion. Her style was on fire, she pointed a bird from about 40 yards out and held it like a champ. The breeder was there with his pup from the litter (which happened to be the pick of the litter) and he was very proud to watch how well she did. (By the way, she whooped her brother) We should be taking some first place spots this year as she progresses and learns more what the game is all about. I'm very proud of her.

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Happy Cody

Cody is one of the happiest babies i've ever seen. He loves to laugh, especially when you change his clothes.

Woods Cross Easter Egg Hunt

The boys get so excited every year for the city's easter egg hunt and party. The city does a really nice job every year with their Easter celebration. Both boys got full baskets of eggs.

Easter Eggs

We had a lot of fun decorating eggs for easter. Mason and Caleb couldn't wait all week. Here is Caleb putting tattoos on his egg. Every time he was putting one on he would start humming.

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Christmas Eve

We got a lot of treats and goodies from several friends and neighbors. The boys loved it.

Mason said later that we should just make Christmas the day you can eat anything you want. He would have eaten every treat in the house until he was sick.

Grandma Jenkins sent each of the boys very cute pajamas for them to wear Christmas Eve. Mason woke up at 2:50am Christmas day. I ended up taking him to the guest bed to let Mom try to get more sleep. Mason was so excited that he couldn't go back to sleep. He was moving around so much that he built up a bunch of static electricity. When he found out that his pajamas sparked when he rubbed them he said, "Grandma sure knows how to pick the best pajamas ever!"