Shed Hunting

This is Javan's favorite (and my least favorite) time of year. Shed hunting is when you go out and look for the antlers that deer and elk have "shed" from their heads, and you collect the antlers and bring them home and store them in your "shed", until your wife is fed up with the amount of sheds piling up and then you sell them for a small profit. Javan absolutely loves this. He would go every day, or weekend if I and work would allow. But alas, we do not, so Javan cherishes the time he gets to spend doing it. Ethan has also picked up a liking for the sport. So one afternoon when we got home from church Ethan started packing up his backpack and telling us we were all going shed hunting. We decided that since we were all going we couldn't really do much hiking and that a little walk out in the woods would be a good family activity.

Ethan and Ally were soon distracted by all the rocks and cool places to jump off and climb on that they stopped to have a rest, or play in the dirt, or lift this giant rock.


Ally making a nice pile of sand.


Ethan loved to climb up this hill.


Ryan got a free ride in the carrier.


Ryan and I, he did pretty good as long as we were moving, the strings on my sweatshirt were also a highlight for him.


Javan, the mighty shed hunter, did not find any sheds on this trip.


A little video of Ethan and Ally's "slide"