Elk Watch!

This is the latest and greatest thing we do together as a family and quite often load up with Kristen, Jamon and all the kids to go look for elk. We always have a great time and the kids love it. They all know how to do their own elk calls -- even Hollis. Often times though, Makenna will say "Here Elk, Here Elk"! Makes me laugh every time. When Dustin went on his hunt this year, Makenna would often include the elk in her prayers -- I guess she hears us talk about them a lot. There hasn't been one time that we have went to look for elk and haven't seen some. We have probably been elk watching about 10 times now. In fact we did that for Dustin's birthday. Some times we will even get to hear them make calls -- so cool! The cool thing is they are only about 15 minutes from the house so we don't have to drive that far. These pictures were taken in August, but the last couple times that we have went they seem to be a lot bigger with bigger racks. We just went out this last week and on our way home it was dark, but no fear, Jamon has this huge spotlight and shines it outside as Dustin drives down the road. We came to this big open field and Jamon spotted like 30 elk -- it was great! There were probably about 5 bulls or so in the group and you could definitely tell which one was the leader because he started to try and push the cow's in the direction they should go. He then started to almost draw a line on the ground with his antlers -- he probably didn't like the spotlight on him. He looked like the biggest one as well. We love to go elk watching!