The Carlen's

2008-11-03T15:44:00.000-08:00

Jake went up to Logan for the opening of the pheasant and duck hunt. Waylon and his friend Kaulin went with him. They hit the Jazz game Saturday night then woke up at 4:30AM to go duck hunting at Benson Marina. It was a fun weekend.

Elk Hunt

2008-10-05T20:32:00.001-07:00

This water hole was about 100 yards from our camp spot.

This weekend was Jakes elk hunt up Cedar Mountain. He has a bull tag and his friend Kaulin has a cow tag. His brother Ty came down from Logan with his girlfriend Nataliet. Friday night the weather was aboslutely perfect lots of wildlife out and about. The boys camped over Friday night and around 6 AM Saturday morning it started to rain pretty hard and never did stop. It was muddy and our gear was soaking wet we didn't even see so much as a squirrel because of the rain. So we packed things up and headed home it was snowing by that time and there was about 3-4 inches around the Cedar Breaks area. It was still a good time but no elk yet the hunt ends mid October.

Cedar Mountain

2008-10-01T21:12:00.000-07:00

For our anniversary Megan got me a game trail camera these are some of the images from it keep in mind it was only up for 3 days before we pulled these videos off it. I'll post more as we get them. But for now I'd say were off to a great start.

Talk about close encounter!

Hope this little guy makes it through the winter he's pretty skinny.

Turkey Time

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!

2008-09-21T22:02:00.001-07:00

Well we hit the big 1 year mark! Its gone by fast. We went down to Vegas and stayed in a suite at The Venetian it was great. We went to the buffet at Mandalay Bay for dinner then came back to The Venetian and did a Gondola ride outside. It was nice there is a clip of our boat driver singing for us below. It was an awesome way to celebrate our anniversary.

NIGHT FISHING

2008-09-21T21:36:00.000-07:00

These pics are from fishing at Sand Hollow with our friends Kaulin and Julie. We went out about 9 and came home around midnight. We caught a few bass and almost hit shore so all in all it was a pretty fun night.

All Tuckered Out

Bass Fishing at Sand Hollow

2008-08-28T20:58:00.001-07:00

FIRE!

2008-08-28T20:25:00.000-07:00

RIP little mexican restuarant dive

Singstar

2008-08-27T16:30:00.000-07:00

Tuesday Night our friends from Arizona came up to visit. We had dinner and played some Singstar it was a good time.

PINE VALLEY

2008-08-23T15:38:00.000-07:00

Here are some pics from Pine Valley.

Megan's New Car

2008-08-11T16:20:00.000-07:00

Otter Creek Trip

2008-08-09T22:02:00.000-07:00

We went camping for two nights at Otter Creek near Circleville, UT. Grandma and Grandpa Carlen met us there and we stayed in the trailer with them. It was fun we had alot of laughs and caught some good size trout. It stormed off and on the entire time but luckily we had the trailer. And actually the weather change was a nice break from the scorching St. George sun. Here's a few pics of the trip.

Megan and Grandpa Carlen with her 2lb Rainbow

My beautiful wife helping me cook

If you don't like the weather just wait ten minutes!

Navajo Lake

2008-08-03T19:51:00.000-07:00

We camped over at the lake it was way pretty. The temperature was perfect overall great camping trip.

Fish on!

Coyote Hunting

2008-07-28T23:23:00.000-07:00

I finally convinced Megan to come coyote hunting with me. We didn't get any coyotes but we did get close to some deer. Megan even tried using the calls... not too shabby for a rookie.

Us Being Us

2008-07-22T23:11:00.000-07:00

Hidden Canyon Hike Video & Lake Powell

2008-07-21T22:01:00.000-07:00

I've started to dabble in making photo video clips. This one has pictures from the Hidden Canyon Hike that we did with Megan's Mom and Brother back in June in Zion's Park. As well as some Lake Powell pictures.

Our turtle Olivia

2008-07-21T21:31:00.000-07:00

We've had Olivia for about a year now. We take her on long walks, bathe with her, read her late night bed stories....oh wait we're not gay pet lovers. We do like her though its pretty entertaining to watch her eat!

(Warning: This clip is a little graphic for the little ones!)

American Idol

2008-07-08T13:09:00.001-07:00

We ate at the Mandalay Bay Buffet before the concert it was awesome! One of the nicest buffet's I've ever been too. The concert was great we had alot of fun. After it was over we stayed at the Marriott it was nice to not have to drive home late after the concert.

On Saturday we went to the American Idol Concert in Las Vegas.

David Cook

David Archuletta

Lake Powell '08

2008-07-03T21:05:00.000-07:00

Here is a recap of our trip to Lake Powell. I thought it would be nice to break up the drive to Bullfrog a little bit so I booked a room on Priceline.com late Thursday night. We left Friday night and stayed in Richfield, UT at the Travel Lodge. When we got there they told us we were in a smoking room after finding out that the room smelled worse than a Vegas Casino we asked to swap for a non-smoking they charged us extra to switch. Well worth the money we thought but that was before we saw a man walking a giant cat with a leash down the hall. Sick!!! After settling into our room we drove all around Richfield trying to find something to eat. Who knew that the entire town shut downs after 9:00 PM? We ate at a podunk little pizza shop then returned back to the Travel Lodge. We watched a movie then fell asleep when we woke up the next morning the power was out, but of course only on our level. So we couldn't even get ready which was the entire reason for staying there in the first place. Megan found glass all over the bathroom floor too. So the trip was already off to a good start... luckily the rest of the trip was great.

We pulled up to the boat slip Saturday afternoon and helped load the house boat up for our week long excursion. We stayed in Iceberg Canyon a Carlen favorite for the last ten years.

(This is picture of our houseboat parked in Iceberg Canyon, its a panaromic so thats the same boat in the pic twice)

The weather was perfect hot outside but the water temperature was refreshingingly cool. The water has raised about twenty five feet from last year. The water was full of logs and debris whenever we were in the ski boats we had to have log spotters but luckily we never did hit anything big. A few highlights of the trip were

Water Weenie football

Scuba Steve

We also climbed "Hole-in-the-rock"

Of course Layne was there to make us laugh

Megan boarded better than ever before!

Cliff Jumping

Sleeping

The crew

2008-06-22T13:59:00.000-07:00

This week was a busy one, but also a fun one. First of all we went up to my cousin Jenna's wedding in Draper on Thursday it was good to see family that I haven't seen in a long time. The wedding turned out great and everything was really beautiful. After the wedding we went up to Logan since we haven't been since Christmas! We had alot of fun one of the highlights of the trip was Megan was able to get up on the wakeboard for the first time! It was great without any coaching or tips she just popped right up. Now we need to work on how not to face plant.... ouch!

WELCOME TO OUR NEW BLOG

2008-06-22T13:55:00.000-07:00

Welcome to our new blog. I'm new to this so bear with me while I figure this website out. I have decided to create this blog to update friends and family on all the latest and greatest.