Country Love

Valentines Day - the day of love.  What portrays a deeper love than going to the Ducks Unlimited Banquet with your hunting husband.  That is exactly what we did this year, and truth be told it was a blast!  On February 13^th we had a good group of friend come down from Denver to celebrate, which made the whole weekend memorable. 

Taylor, Heather and Nathan made the trip down on Friday.  After we all got settled into the condo that afternoon we met up with Neil, and went out to dinner at a local restaurant called Ken & Sues.  Later that evening we went to the Wild Horse to country dance.  I still need some practice, but I am getting better at the two-step.  For a hip-hop lov’in city girl I have to say I am rather proud of my progressing two-step skills.

We all had a rather lazy Saturday morning, enjoying a fabulous breakfast and our pajamas.  After our wonderful morning we all suited up and purchased all the necessary items to shoot some skeet – clay pigeons.  You have to imagine this scene…three girls, none of us have used a shotgun before and honestly two of us are rather girly and somewhat timid when it comes to guns.  However, we all had a blast!  Taylor was a little Annie Oakley, and Heather and I were just laughing have a great time as we continued to miss target after target.  I think it is safe to say that the boys – Nick, Neil and Nathan had a good time too.

Well Saturday evening was the main event of the weekend, the Ducks Unlimited Banquet.  The event was hosted at the Sky Ute Casino.  We all got dressed up for an evening of country (redneck) elegance.  There was a silent auction, raffle drawings, tasty dinner, and a live auction as well.  The hot item of the evening was the Pick of the Litter raffle – if you win, you get to pick any item from the live auction before the event started.  Nathan and Heather won!  It was a toss up between the hunting Labrador puppy and a shotgun.  To our surprise and Nathan’s joy, Heather chose the shotgun.

Sadly our dear friends left on Sunday morning, not before a yummy breakfast at Carver’s Restaurant.  I have to say that we had a great Valentines Day week!