Nielson's 2009 Deer Hunt

Turns out John's "John Deer" shirt is a lucky shirt. Opening morning found John, Kim, Stetson & Austin covering the 100 of miles of roads located in the Coral Pink Sand Dunes. They were looking to find a buck for Kim, and find one they did. A two point jumped up along side the road and took off running. They parked the truck and took off in hot pursuit. Six hundred yards into their journey they stumbled across this bruiser. John didn't wait around for Kim to shoot this one, but as luck would have it Kim got a nice buck a few days later. As a side note, Stetson and Austin both killed bucks on the muzzle loader hunt. Not to bad for a couple of green horns!

Mt Dutton Elk Hunt

That Thing They call Rodeo

The Nielson family was successful at last night annual Peach Days Rodeo.
The success started with Dakota catching a chicken- funny thing is that John donated a rooster he wanted to get rid of because it was so mean and that is the one Dakota caught! Good thing she choose to trade it in for a dollar.


John & Wyatt did the Hyde race- I think this is the funniest event to watch- here they go...



Josh & Austin both signed up to ride a steer.
There was about 10 boys ages 8-13. Most rides were under 3-4 seconds. Last year Austin stayed on the longest and won a belt buckle plus $27.00 but this year his bull turned just right and bucked him off.

But he redeemed himself by catching a greased pig.


Josh had a very successful ride- he stayed on the full 8 seconds.

Then he was surprised when he collected his prize money- he was expecting under $30 but since he was the only one to stay on 8 seconds he got the whole pot- $77 plus a nice belt buckle!! Way to go Josh!

Manti Reunion

Here are most of the reunion pictures I took- I think everyone needs to post their pictures so we can all have access to them. If you cannot post to the Samson blog send me your email and I'll make you an author- lisamnielson@yahoo.com Also Jaycee said she wanted the Texas Sheet cake recipe so here it is for whoever else may want to add it to the recipe book-
1.) 2c sugar 2 cup flour 1t baking soda 1/2 t salt mix in a large bowl
2.) in a sauce pan boil 1 cup margarine 1/4 cup baking cocoa 1 c water mix into dry mixture
3.) add 1/2 cup buttermilk 2 eggs 1t vanilla mix well. pour into an ungreased cookie sheet. bake 20 minutes at 375
4.) 5 minutes before it is done boil 1/2 cup margarine 4 T cocoa 6 T milk. Then add 4 cups pwd sugar & 1t vanilla. Pour over cake as soon as it is done.

Aubree's Adoption

Introducing Aubree Avalon Sair

After 21/2 years it is finally done!

You are all invited to share in the moment!

Grandpa's Fishing Trip 2009/2007

We caught 100 fish between 15 of us

Big fish fry

Scott,Eddie and Stetson

Eatin Breakfast

Hunter

Justin and Steve Terry

Stetson and Josh with Grandpa

Mike

The BIG fish I caught

We went down to Otter Creek for our annual fishing trip. We had a great time and caught 100 fish, we made off great this year! Who was there: Grandpa, John, Stetson, Austin, Whyatt, Justin, Noah, Griffin, Mike, Josh, Scott, Eddie, Adam, Hunter and Conner

The Gang on Picture Day

The Gang on our Picture Day
Dallas & Emmy

pictures

Our four 2 year olds
Hannah and Grandma Randee
Stetson and Dakota (Picture Day)
Emma & Aunt Ash

Surgery