He got his 1st Buck!

Thursday afternoon Jason and John Egbert left to go deer hunting. Jason was having awful back pains. Scouted around and saw 7 doe.

Friday morning the kids and I headed to St. George to stay with Jamie and her kids. We stopped at a couple of my favorite St. George stores then took the kids swimming in an awesome indoor/outdoor pool that even had a lazy river. The pool closed early because someone pooped in the pool. We went to the park.

The boys found and watched 2 bucks through a scope for 2 hours. Jason shot from 200 yards with no scope and missed, reloaded the mussel loader and was able to get a second shot. Hit the deer in the foot and he ran away.

Followed the blood trail until dark. John had a close call with a rattlesnake. Mapped on the GPS were they left off and headed back to their hotel.

Jamie and I stayed up way to late chatting, making watchbands and hair bows.

Saturday the boys got back up before sunrise and found were they left off on the blood trail. Found the deer alive backed into a corner and Jason shot him from 30 feet. Gutted the deer, and spent the next 2 hours carrying the deer down the mountain. Jason was in a lot of pain.

Me and Jamie played with the kids, took 1 five year old, 4 three year olds, 1 two year old and a 4 month old baby out to dinner to the Pizza Factory by ourselves.

Boys got home. Jason was dying with pain. John did the whole deer-slaughtering thing. Jamie and I bathed all the kids and put them to bed. I took Jason to the E.R.

10 minute wait in the Emergency room. Awesome care. Jason was passing a kidney stone. After a shot of Morphine he was doing much better. Cat scan showed only 1 stone and only about 2 inches to go.

Sunday morning Jason was doing much better and we headed home. He credits John for the deer.

A day in the life of Jason

Ever since Jason started working with Scenic nearly 4 years ago he has wanted me to come along and go on a flight with him. I am pretty embarrassed to say that this past week was my very first time going. Don’t ask me why it has taken me 4 years but it has. We have taken the kids to see the airplanes and climb inside them and the kids have gone for a flight with him, but I never have. So last week when Jason called me to say his next flight only had a few passengers and that I should come I couldn’t think of a good excuse and so I went.

The kids were all surprisingly well behaved and it was a very enjoyable experience. We just did an air tour over the Grand Canyon where you don’t land you just fly over it. The whole trip was just over an hour and was a nice little adventure in the middle of our day.

Jason likes to take the camera to work with him sometimes to snap pictures of his office view and since the ones I took didn’t turn out very well I will post some from his collection instead.

This one I would rather have not seen. Notice that the Prop is Not Spinning! Jason calmly pointed out that this is an everyday thing that he does while training his students. SHUT OFF the engines midair to give training on what to do if you really lost an engine. Maybe I should be a little more worried about his job that I am!

And just a cute picture of my sexy pilot.