A Glance of 2010
So I started this blog quite sometime ago.... and well I only posted once. So this year I am going to try and be better this year. I had quite the eventful year in 2010 and don't know where to begin. I rang in the New Year in good old Greeley,CO with LeeAnna and her awesome family... who I played marbles with for hours and hours and Grandma Linda and I still need a rematch! Lee's dad took us out to shoot some trap and a few birds! I came back to Utah and started my first semester up at Utah State... which just happens to be the 4th college/university that I've attended, but I am here for good( or at least until May 2012 when I will graduate) I am working on a dual major in Physical Education and Health Education and would like to teach high school when I'm all done.
At the first of the year I also made one of the best deals I've ever made. The deal included me getting a 3.8gpa on the current semester and if I did my dad would take me to Canada ... but for what??? None other than to go Black Bear HUNTING! To some of you, you'll probably think I'm crazy, but to add to the mix I also wanted to attempt killing the bears with my bow! So I got a bow and began practicing about a month before we headed to Canada. My dad came up with the ingenious idea to bring out the ol' scissor lift and shoot out of that for practice (because I would be hunting out of a tree stand in Canada.) So we practiced and practiced, both of us with our new bows ( dad only having had rotator cuff surgery 6 months earlier) We headed up to Rainbow Lake,AL,CA on May 22, which was about a 27hr drive, and arrived at camp on May 23rd.
We got everything unpacked and the guides asked if we wanted to go out that night of just wait tell the morning. So of course we went out that night and had quite the night at the River Bait. We got everything we needed up into the tree stand and my dad just started telling me that we might sit here the whole time and not see a thing.... just then we heard all this commotion from some trees about 15yds away... and then I saw them. There was 3 cubs and there mama hangin out in the tree and we had no idea they were even there! Sneaky lil buggers, So they got down to get some grub and then another bear showed up. The mama bear said "no no you are not welcome here" and chased the bear off and popped her jaw and made this crazy noise and the went back and forth for awhile. Then mama bear got nervous and ran her cubs up the tree and we were trying to figure out what was goin on, when all the sudden there was a bear just about under my tree stand... they were everywhere! He discovered that my bow bag was layin on the ground and decided to put is head in side it and check it out... and rip it... and so dad had to get down and yell and throw stuff so he'd get away from it so we could get the bag! After all this craziness... I ended up shooting a bear that night! The first shot I missed judged and shot over him (well that what I thought until i skinned him and found 2 holes) My arrow stuck in the tree right behind him, so he sat back took a good look at it... smelt it... licked it... and figure it could taste good and bit my arrow right in half!!!! So I said "You're not gettin away with that" and a knocked another arrow and this time hit him real good, he went about 40yds and that was that. Needless to say, I felt pretty freakin cool rollin into camp on the first night with the first bear!
Day 2 and 3 The next day we saw a few bears, and the day after that me and dad split up and sat by ourselves. I unfortunately didn't see any bears that day and of course dad killed one when I wasn't with him. He shot a big dry sow that had defiantly kept well during hibernation. So I can't really tell this big story cause i wasn't there, but the bear only went about 10yds from where my dad shot her, he meant business. Even though I didn't see any bears I did get to go on a wild 4-wheeler ride, carved my name in the tree, talked to myself....and about anything I could to keep myself occupied.
Day 4.... At this bait we saw quite a bit of action as well! First there were 4 bears... that just came in and hung out and vegged like a bunch of teenage boys, although there mother was with them too I think. They hung out for a while and left then we had 3 more bears come in individually, I had drawn on all of them but I couldn't tell how big they were and the others a shot didn't line up.... but that was because the monster had yet to show up. When I saw this bear I knew he was a big one... and I got so excited. I hit my dad and pointed and he said "BIG BEAR BIG BEAR" "GET READY" This bear came strollin in all casual like and then he sat down and I shot ( a perfect shot right through the ticker and the lungs) and he took off and ran about 120 yards and that was it. I ended up having the biggest bear of the week! And the experieence of a life time. So We headed back home and drove straight through, because LeeAnna's family was coming out. Lee got baptised on the 31st of May and I have to say I never thought I'd be writing a baptism talk in a tree stand in Canada.
Her baptism was a really neat experience and something that I won't ever forget. She's a great person and an amazing friend and I was glad that I could help her on her journey to find the right religion for her. Summer seemed to really fly by with a Lake Powell trip in June and I don't even know what I did in July besides working and riding my horses a lot. I went for a solo ride with Special T and got to witness one of the many beautiful sunsets out on Antelope Island
In August I went rafting the Snake river in Jackson and got to do some camping in the Uintas too. I rode my 3 year old horse Buddy for 10 miles...while my dog Lexie followed along. I also got to do some much needed fly fishin while up in the Uintas. Well summer eventually had to come to an end and school started up again and I moved back up to Logan and have great roommates. I started the first level of the teaching program for
secondary education. We had a new addition to the Arrant family, welcoming my new lil nephew Jackson a month earlier than expected. But he is healthy and has become quite the lil chunk. I celebrated my 23 brithday... kinda crazy that I'm that old. 
I also started a new job working for the University Police Dept as a dispatcher. It been a great job and I enjoy it. I played inter-mural flag football and soccer and both teams made it to the championships but my flag foot ball team was the only one to come out with a victory and an undefeated season! I had a few tough classes this semester but managed not to do too bad and kept the class entertained with the bear hunting stories, because for some reason no one ever wanted to believe me and I always had to have pictures to prove it. I finished another semester of school and also started shooting in a 3D archery league up here in Logan. It was great practice and something fun to do during the winter.
I was a relief society instructor this summer and was asked to teach about the life of Christ one week. I could think of any way to sum up his life other than making it into a poem that only highlights his life. Most of all I have been pretty blessed though out my life. If it wasn't for the Lord I wouldn't have had the opportunity to fix mistakes, make it through the good and the bad, always have someone to talk to, and most of all be raised in the gospel and have an eternal perspective on life.
