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Shad Wink 1984-2008

Remembering Shad

I had to do the hardest thing I have done in a longtime. I had to let go of one of my very best friends,my horse named,Shad Wink. Even though Shad belonged to me everyone that knew him loved him, and everyone knew that he was a once in a lifetime horse. shad was my professional barrel racing horse. Shad was one in a million. I started riding him when I was about 11 years old. I remember taking him to a barrel racing futurity in Elko, Nevada. It was our very first big barrel race together. I competed on him in the futurity winning $1,100. That was the beginning of our , barrel racing career together. In Idaho Falls, I exhibitioned Shad in the rodeo and would have won the rodeo barrel racing event, but instead I had to be satisfied knowing that I had out ran many of the very best barrel racers in the country at that time. The next year I bought my permit to be in the WPRA (Women's Professional Rodeo Association). I again entered the Idaho Falls Rodeo winning the Rodeo along with Coke a Cola money and a beautiful rifle engraved by the rodeo committee. A rifle was given to winners of each event at the Idaho Falls Rodeo. Shad and I accomplished a lot of great things together. We made 5 trips to the Wilderness Circuit Finals between 1990-1995, Shad and I took competed a The National High School Finals in 1992 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, The Silver State Invitational Rodeo in Fallon, Nevada in 1994. I feel truly blessed to have been able to own and compete on such a wonderful, talented horse such as Shad. It was a great experience and one that I shall always cherish and forever hold dear to my heart.

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Safety Meeting Experience

I have to share this with everyone. Ryan and I went to a safety meeting for his work yesterday. I got to go the wives were invited. Well anyway this guy was injured due to just taking a shortcut on an everyday routine. The story is 7 years ago he was on his way home from work and he received a call from his wife to hurry home. Because their one year old son just took his first step. But he told his wife that he had to stop and feed their elk first. When he went to feed the elk he had to lift a one ton bale with his tractor. But the tractor was low on hydraulic fluid, and he knew it. But he done it tons of time like the way he was going to do it. But something went wrong and the one ton bale come back and fell on top of him and pinned him under it. He laid there for almost 45 minutes before his wife found him. To make a long story short he ended up paralyzed because he took a shortcut on an everyday routine. His point was in this safety meeting was. Life is to short take the time to fix what needs to be fixed and never to forget to communicate with others. He was a very strong speaker. So let's all not forget to live life to the fullest but don't ever take shortcuts. Always remember to take time just to let other people know that you have time for them. Even if it's 10-15 seconds of your time. Let them know how much you care for them. So who ever reads this blog just remember that I do care and I always have time for you.

Gingerbread House's

Every year in December everybody in the Bywater family makes a Gingerbread house. We all gather at Grandma Bywater's house. The kids like it because they can be creative also get messy. Grandma makes the frosting and provides most of the candy. If want some kind of special candy then we have to provide it. Some of the Gingerbread houses gets pretty creative. I remember one year my sister in law done a log cabin with a barn. It was pretty cool looking. Grandma Bywater makes all the Gingerbread by hand. She let's everyone of the Grandkids have their own Gingerbread house. Then the parents has to do one together. Here are some pictures of
the kids making their house's. This has a been a family tradition ever since Grandma and Grandpa Bywater has been married. The best thing about making the Gingerbread house's is that you can eat the house on New Years Day. It's all edible!!!!!!!

Kelton's Gingerbread House

Bailey's Gingerbread House

SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW

Oh My Gosh I can't believe how much snow we woke up to this morning. The kids were supposed to go to school today and tommorrow but they canceled school today. The sad thing is it's only going to get worse. It is supposed to snow all week long. The kids are having a ball in the snow, even Fancy. It's funny to watch her because she gets lost in the snow. I had to share these pictures with you.

Sandy's Deer 2x2

Ryan's Deer 2x3

This is how we had to hang them. To prevent the animals to getting them.

WE GOT OUR DEER

Well we got our deer on Monday the 13th. I had to show you a picture of this moose. He scared the crap out of me. It was monday morning on the 13th, and I had to take the kids to school. So I though on the way back I would go another way home. I was looking for deer on the way home. When I came around the bend and there he was climbing the hill. Good thing I was in the car. I just happened to have my camera so I took some pictures. At that time I didn't care if I saw a deer or not. Because I was in aw of just watching this majestic animal. I think they are just beautiful. I had my dog with me. She saw the moose and went bannana's. She was barking and growling at him. I watched him until I couldn't watch him no more. Then me and Fancy came home. Until I decided to go out later. Later that day Ryan and I decided to go out. He asked me to go and brush through some trees, and meet him on top of the ridge while he was watching. So I started to go down through the tree's of course being a little scared. Considering we have to watch out for cougar's where we live. So I walked a little ways stopped, looked around making sure I wasn't getting stalked by a cougar. When I finally made over to Ryan we just sat down and waited. It was getting late it was perfect timing. Because the deer started to come out. We heard some rustling down below us, so Ryan said to be ready for anything. Next thing here comes some doe, and more doe. Then out come these two bucks. Ryan shot first the deer didn't know what hit him. His was walking away from him so he hit him in the back of the head. Mine was standing broadside I hit him right in the lungs. So here we are on the mountain with two deer to clean out and it's starting to get dark. I'm trying to hurry and get them tagged. Ryan is trying to hurry and get them cleaned out. He said to me we need to hurry before the cougars smell the fresh blood. So then I go into panic mode. Because it's getting dark, fresh killed animals, and there COUGARS. I was kind of freaked out. We started down the hill pulling our deer. Of course I'm not much help pulling the deer. We realized we have a long way to pull them. Ryan had said that he had seen our neighbors earlier coming up the mountain. So I'm thinking to myself boy it would be nice to have some help. Before I knew it here comes our neighbors bee bopin down the mountain. We asked them if they could help up us. THANK HEAVENS FOR THEM. We would probably been up there till midnight. We got them home washed out and hung. We had to hang in the tree funny. Due to the fact that we have dogs and other wild animals around. Here are some pictures of them.

It's Deer Hunting Time

The general deer hunting opened October 10. Talk about a whole different world up here when it comes to hunting. It's s different than Utah. Up here you can still buy your tag after the hunt has opened. Where in Utah you can't, once the hunt open you can't buy your tag. The deer hunt ends on the 31st of October. Almost a whole month. I can't believe it. Where in Utah it's a couple of weekends is it. Then the Cow Elk runs in with the Deer hunt. So were going Cow Elk hunting which starts on the 25th of this month. So that means we can hunt deer and cow elk at the same time. It's also different because you can hunt in the whole state of Idaho, but you just need to make sure your not on the Indian Reservation. Also there's certain area's that are 2 point only or 4 point only. There is so much country to hunt up here. So many hiding places.
Well we headed out on the 10th up behind our house and we seen a couple. So Ryan and Bailey decided to walk down through some trees. They pushed a couple of deer out. Then I started walking down the mountain along the edge of the trees. I scared out some more deer. I noticed that one was a buck. I really didn't he a good look to see how big he was, but I knew he had horns. But before I could get my rifle up, he flipped around back in the trees he went. So I yelled at Ryan that there was a buck coming his way. The buck stopped for a little while in the tree's long enough for Ryan to tell it was a buck, he went to shoot. But that deer must of known what was going on because just as Ryan went to shoot. The buck took off up out of the tree's before Ryan could do anything. He yelled at me that he was coming my way but I was to far down the hill. He had gone up and over before I could get up there. Damn Deer anyway.
Bailey was so funny because she said that when she was in the trees that this doe come up and looked her almost straight in the eyes. She said that the deer looked scared shit less, and was saying in her mind the deer was thinking which way do I go. Bailey said she had never been that close to a deer before. Kelton was at home through all of this. He said it was to cold for him. I think the TV was calling his name. He's my couch potato. Oh well he loves to watch his football with his dad.
I'm going to try to get some deer hunting pictures sometime soon. Every time I think about it I realize I don't have my camera. I'm just being a blonde.

Kelton's Birthday

Kelton turned the big double digit 10 on August 11th. We were mean parents and played a dirty trick on him. We bought him a cap gun that was a rifle, and some real pellets. We gave him the pellets, he opened them and and he thought that was preatty cool. Then we gave him a the cap gun rifle, and watched him open it. When he opened it he looked at us like we were crazy. We told him that we thought we got him a real pellet gun. He looked at like we were stupid. After a little while we gave in and told him there was another a present underneath our bed he had to go get. He went and got it and brought it up and opened it. He got his very first gun. It is a pellet gun that can also shoot BB's. He thinks he is pretty hot stuff. He's already trying to outshoot his dad.

Bailey's Barrel Racing

This year Bailey is the only one that has done really well in the Barrels. She went to Salina Utah in July, and brought home some wonderful prizes. She won a beautiful jacket that is all embroidered on the back. She also won a laundry basket that was embroidered on it as well. She won enough money she bought herself a breast collar for her horse, and asked me to put rinestones on it. She wanted pick rinestones and silver rinestones. I'll have to get a picture at put it on here. I'm just proud of her she has done really well this year. This picture is her on her horse Celiene. They get along so well.

Bailey's Barrel Racing

Bailey loves running barrels. She used to have a horse named JR. He done a wonderful job for her, but he got really sick and we had to put him down. But the amazing thing about this horse was he had cateracts on his eyes and he couldn't hardly see. The only thing he could see was shadows, but some how he was still able to run barrels for her. He would give her his all. In 2006 she won her first saddle, it was so exciting.


Bailey and JR running barrels in the
Western Nationals in Ogden UT
2006

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