Going on a bear hunt!

"We're Going on a Bear Hunt" is one of my favorite children's books. Well, last weekend Brett and I ended up on a bear hunt! We went to the mountains in Northern California to camp and hunt with Brett's parents, Uncle Lee, Aunt Renee and his cousin Sydney. I of course hung out with Kayleigh while Brett got up at 5 am to go hunting. Well Saturday afternoon, Lesa watched Kayleigh while Brett and I took their four-wheeler out with Lee and Renee to "hunt." We didn't see much of anything but were having fun just riding through the mountains. Well, it was almost dark and we decided to take a break from riding and walk through this clearing into some woods just to see if we could see anything. Renee went off a different path to look for quail. I am following Lee and Brett is behind me when Lee freezes. I look ahead and see a HUGE bear! I froze! This bear was big, scary and looked like it was about to charge. All I could do is whisper to Brett "Holy crap it's a bear! Holy crap it's a bear!" over and over. Brett never got to see the bear, but I had a full view! Well Lee fires off a shot and as he is reloading this bear barely flinched. She moved her head but her body was frozen and still looked like she wasn't backing down. He fires off another shot and she takes off running. Being the hunters they are, Lee and Brett haul off running to find this thing. They are looking for blood to see if he hit it and running as fast as they can. You can imagine that I am totally freaked out at this point and screaming for them not to leave me! They stop for a moment to listen and we hear Renee somewhere in the woods behind us screaming for Lee. She screams that there is a bear in the tree in front of her. Keep in mind, she is carrying a gun but not one big enough to take down a huge bear. Lee and Brett were thinking they got lucky and could shoot the bear out of the tree. Well, we back up and find out it is a cub. As if I wasn't freaked out enough already, I know that messing with a momma bear and her cub is a really bad idea. Lee tells us to back-up slowly out of the woods. I got to see the baby cub before he ran out of the tree and deep into the woods. He was so cute! We were all glad that Lee didn't shoot the Momma once we saw she had a baby. So that is my crazy bear hunting story! We had a fun time camping and Kayleigh did great!

Other than our camping weekend, we have just been working and hanging out around the house. Kayleigh is growing up so fast and learning all sorts of new things! She is rolling over back to front and front to back, although she only does it when she's in the mood. Imagine that! Stubborn like her Momma! Yesterday she learned to spit. I thought babies drool (which she does), but spit? Really? They certainly don't list that in the development milestones for babies. I told Brett and he said "Did you tell her no?" Well, if I had stopped laughing and told her no, I'm pretty sure she wouldn't have understood me anyway! She has become a Chatty Cathy lately and now apprarently enjoys spitting, on me of course! She must have talked for an hour nonstop last night! She is up to 13 lbs 10 ozs as of last week and is still so long! I can't believe how quickly she is growing up!

Today we are looking forward to the Georgia game! Kayleigh is a big fan and wears her cheerleading outfit for all the games!

Tuesday is my birthday, so our friends, Crissy and Chris, are going to watch Kayleigh so Brett and I can go see Nights in Rodanthe. I can't wait! I'm sure it is just going to make me miss Hatteras even more!

Also, if you could say some prayers for my grandmother and for Cason, we would greatly appreciate it! My grandmother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and had surgery last week. She will be starting chemo in the next few weeks. She is so strong but I hate we are so far away! Cason will be starting the process for a kidney transplant, so pray they find a match and that all goes smoothly.

Hope everyone is doing well! Love from the Bonner's!