2010 Squirrel Hunting Tournament Champions

Of all the hunting seasons there are, I do believe that Chip loves squirrel hunting the best….I never had any doubts that the boys wouldn’t win the tournament, but the fact that they were able to break their own records was beyond any expectations!  The won the tournament with 95 SQUIRRELS for the day!  Can you believe it?  That’s just crazy.  They beat the second place team by 50.  

Here they are with the morning kill of 44.

and the evening kill of 51…

There were 12 on their team, so if anyone out there is wondering…yes, they were legal. 

Now this little thing is just too cute to kill right?  Don’t ask my boys that question!

I don’t eat them.  Personally they look a little like rats with bushy tails, but let me tell you, those men love em!  My daddy would have been all over this!

The PRIZED hunting dogs!!!  They are actually the “B” team, but I think they’ve moved up to first string after yesterday!

Here’s Chip and his buddy, Steve, with Molly and Skeeter…their prides and joys!!!  I think Skeeter just may rate higher than me at this point.  :)

Today is the last day of squirrel season for this year….they needed 34 more to break last years record…still waiting to see if they make it.  To be continued….

Update: 6:30 p.m.  - They ended up with 29 today…just 5 short of last years record:  912 That’s ok guys….909 is nothing shabby!

Chip’s quote of the day:  “We’re the best there is, the best there ever was, and the best there’ll ever be.”  Does that sound a little arogant?  lol

The do love their squirrel hunting!

Jessica is 22!

Oh my gosh, Mom’s got the camera AGAIN!!

Smile Jessica!  It’s your birthday!

Clint and Jackie are along for the festivities.  This was a double celebration….Jackie and Bill Bill were celebrating their 52nd Anniversary!

Jessica opened her gifts…..

Jessica has been hinting FOREVER for this “happy everything” platter.  She can change out the top to match whatever holiday is passing by….I thought the birthday cake was appropriate for today.  She can get the rest of the holidays! The yummy cake….she’s almost to the point of setting off the smoke alarms!  (We’ll have to start using those big number candles!)  :)

I think someone made the “too many candles” comment at this point….

Good job, Jessica!  You ALMOST got them all in one breath!

Why is it that my birthday’s never bother me, but seeing my children have grownup birthdays is killing me?

NO day like a SNOW day….

well, at least we could have had enough snow to justify being out of school today.  It WAS really pretty, but now almost gone!!!

The roads are all fine…we should not have missed school today…just another day to make up at the end of the year.  :(

I got up this morning and took a little walk in the woods behind our house with Clint and Daisy.  It was so pretty.  Here’s what our house looked like this morning.

This is the house from the back.

Clint stuck his hand in to measure how much snow…MAYBE three inches…

 

 

 

Our backyard…the pine trees in the woods are covered!   Some more of the house Jessica joined the fun…(SHE had to go to work!)

 

     Daisy was finding all the squirrels…from the sounds in the woods, they weren’t happy about the snow! 

I miss the excitement that used to fill my house when snow was approaching!  :(  No one built a snowman…no one played much in it…everyone had to work.  BOOOO, if it had to snow, it should have snowed MORE so we could have all stayed home today and play.  Oh well, I enjoyed seeing the beauty of the white stuff…I do love snow.

Snow is “snow” pretty!!!

Today we got our first “big” snow of the year!  :)  We don’t get much snow, so just a little bit makes us very happy! 

This was the house this afternoon.  Tonight we have more snow, but still no word on Magnolia closing school tomorrow.  All the the schools in the area have already announced the closing, EVEN SAU!  Unbelievable!

I thought the trees are so pretty.  Here’s a couple that I made pictures of tonight.

The kids got home from work tonight, and agreed to go out just long enough for me to make their pictures!  Boy, times have changed!  I remember when they were little, I couldn’t keep them inside when it snowed!

When I took Mali out, she was not happy about it at all!

I can’t wait until morning!  More pictures to come!