Hey everyone. A few days ago, Wednesday to be exact, TW threw the idea at me that he wanted to go bird hunting and asked me if he could go. Now take into account please that I am very used to just getting up and going and doing what I want when I want and now I have been sitting at home all week with a gorgeous fussy baby. :) I told him no. Background on my husband……he’s hardly ever home! He is a football coach at a small school so you know what that means. Wednesdays are usually the only day of the week that he’s home somewhat early and there was no way I was going to let him skip out on parenting duties……without me!!! So in-laws to the rescue! TW called up his momma and asked if she could watch Titan for us. She arrived to pick up our darling little boy who loves to cry. :) She asked me if I was going to Little Rock again for a shoot. Nope I replied. Then she asked if I was going to stay and get some editing done. Nope I replied. Then with a puzzled look on her face I sheepishly explained that we wanted to go bird hunting. (Neither of us are really big hunters). I felt a bit guilty at that moment. I just asked someone to take my kid to watch him so I could go and trudge through a field looking for birds……. Well I quickly got over the guilt and enjoyed a somewhat fun afternoon with my husband (as fun as walking through a field gets).
This is the only shot I got of myself and it was really by accident. Glad I got it though.
I don’t think I realized that a game farm just means they buy birds and then release them out in the open for you to come shoot……I guess I thought it was enclosed?
I think anytime my husband gets to go out and hold a gun he gets excited just like a 10 year old! :)
I giggle like a little girl when I see this picture of Ellie. We went out with Pointers that naturally hunt and find birds and I brought along Ellie who is a bird dog as well just a different kind (she supposably retrieves them -remember when I said we weren’t big hunters). This picture totally describes what Ellie thought of the whole experience! She truly had no idea why she was there or what she was supposed to be doing, all she knew is she was having a blast running through the grass, smelling all the new smells, and hanging out with all these new dogs she’s never met! I love my Ellie!
Just a shot of the other two pointers that came along on the hunt. I love their little beards!
Ellie was like the troublemaker in class too. I think the best thing she did the entire time was distract the other dogs from hunting! She just wanted to play that’s all!
My beautiful girl.
You’ve already met Winchester (AKA Winnie) if you’ve been keeping up with the blog, but this is TW’s beautiful girl.
We hunted until it was dark and I was able to capture this beautiful skyline shot!
Enjoy!
-erika
-Donnally
