A milestone..........Kace's first kill

For the past eight months or so we have been trying to take out boys one-on-one on individual dates with either Nate or I.  We try to go once a month.  This month was Kace's turn to go with Nate and Ty's turn to go with me.
Ty really wanted to go to the Dinosaur Park for our date and when he was over at T's house he invited them to come along with us.  So we had a double date!





I am really glad we did because the park was empty and it probably would have been boring for him with just me.

I think the pink dinosaur picture is funny because Emily and I have been talking recently about how our boys really like short pants.  They put them on every day.  Ty insists that they are not short and they fit just fine, but he looks so goofy in them.  This picture really shows the floodiness of their pants.  I should have taken one when they were standing up.

Nate asked Kace is he wanted to go jack-rabbit hunting and to go shoot guns.  Kace was ecstatic.  He was counting down the days until he could go.
So they went to the spiral jetty (I had to google it to see what it was) and shot guns at stuff.  While they were on their way home I got an excited phone call from Kace saying that he shot an animal.  They didn't see any rabbits, but he did shoot a badger.  He was pretty pumped.  I, don't really understand the excitement about shooting things, but to each their own :)

 

Here is Kace's story in his words:  "We were driving and weren't even to the spiral jetty yet and all of the sudden dad said, "Oh baby, oh baby, we have got to get that." So we jumped out, opened the trunk and got out the .22 rifle.  We got really close to it and it started to run a little bit.  When it started to run I thought its top speed was about 10 mph pretty much.  And I couldn't find it in the scope for, like, five times.  We were only about 10 yards away from it, and FINALLY when we chased him around for a little bit, then I FINALLY found him in the scope and shot it.  I shot it in the spinal cord and paralyzed it, but dad shot it again to make sure it was dead.  It was fun!"