Hauling Elk to Tooele

Dallen and I just got home from Lake Powell on Tuesday and on Wednesday received a phone call that my dad needed some help hauling two loads of elk to Tooele for another elk rancher named Chad Hymas. We said that we would help him out and on Thursday morning we started the 5 hour drive down to Monticello again. With how much we’ve been gone lately our house might as well be considered a storage shed. Haha

We got to Monticello, loaded up 5 cows with us and turned around to retrace the trip that we had just made earlier today. About when we got to Price, UT we heard a “pop” noise and the truck and trailer started shaking. When we pulled over this is what we found…

One of the trailer tires had become sun rotted after being parked for so long and the tread came off while going down the load. We didn’t have a spare tire or any tools to fix anything so we made a couple phone calls and with some help from my mom, we were able to have the Wal Mart mechanic wait for us as we made our way into Price. When we showed up and he saw that we had live animals in the trailer he said we would have to take the tire on and off the trailer on our own.

After a little time, money, and work with the star wrench we were able to get the tire fixed and were back in business again. We are lucky to have caught the guys at Wal Mart or we would have been stuck in a bind!

The elk unloaded great and we made it back to our house in Lehi at about 2:00a.m. finding that we had forgotten our house keys in Monticello when we traded our car for the truck and trailer. Eventually we were able to brake in through the window and get a couple hours of sleep before we started another trip to Monticello and back.

Our second trailer load was a bull and a cow and they traveled great. On our way through Cedar Fort we picked up my roommate Anna Barnum to visit for a little while on the drive. It was fun to visit with her since it was the first time seeing her since I moved out from our apartments.

Here are a few pictures of the elk we unloaded in the second trip. It was awesome watching the bull run out of the trailer and to take a first look around at his new home.

Lastly, I can’t forget to add that Dallen found a couple more potential derby cars in Moab that we stopped to look at on our way down. I don’t remember the names of each of them but he said there were a couple cars that were awesome!!!

Workin' on the Derby Car

Just when I thought we were going to be able to stay at our new house for a while, we find ourselves back on the road to work on the DERBY CAR. Dallen has built derby cars and crashed them since he was 16 and has now got the “derby fever”. We came down yesterday (Thursday) morning to get some things put together on it and then worked today until mid afternoon. We are going to Monticello for the 4^th of July weekend and then get to spend a couple days at Lake Powell with the family and boat!


I helped with grinding the metal down where the welds needed to go and then Dallen was able to teach me how to weld with his wire feed welder. I wasn’t very good at first but after a couple of practice rounds he approved and let me weld up some of the doors on his car.



It was fun to work in the shop with Dallen and to help him along with his project. In the meantime Christine worked on another project of hers and restored this music chair that I gave to her. She really has a talent with these kinds of things and her house is decorated with many, many shelves and projects she has restored. I need to learn how to do what she does someday so that I can have a cute house like hers!

On Friday my Great Grandma Sonderegger came to Nephi so Dallen and I could give her a ride home. She had spent some time in Salt Lake with her sister Charlotte going to plays, making quilts, visiting, and spending time together. It is something she likes to do pretty often. Hunter came back from Boise Idaho from his wrestling camp and Payton and Cade are coming along to go to Lake Powell with us as well. I am looking forward to spending the weekend with my family and to have some fun in the sun!!!


Just a few pics of the work in progress…

It was fun to watch Dallen and his dad work on the car together. Thank you Eddie for your help! We love you!