The Vanover Family

Whether we like it or not 2010 is here. I hope we all like it because it sure beats the alternative, right. The year has started out very co...

Celebrating birthdays in December was Stacy McCallister Looney on the 22nd.

Dathan and I finished our hunting season on Dec 12th. I guess you could consider us fair weather hunters. lol Anyway we hung up our weapons....

Margaret has laid the law down and said I needed to take time off from hunting and enjoy Thanksgiving. Donna, Hanna and Ashley came in Novem...

We decided we needed to take at least 3 0r 4 doe each year to improve the overall deer heard. With that in mind Rodney and Dathan both shot ...

We saw the first signs of scrapes on Oct 30th. I cut the corn field on Nov 4th. Deer moved in right away and started using. I saw several sm...

Dathan and I have relocated a couple of our stands, pre rut activity will start soon. Several good days on the stands since season opened....

Yea! Its October and deer season is here. Dathan and I have finished putting our tree stands up and we are officially ready to hit the woods...

All good things must come to an end. After we said our dreaded goodbyes, Sonny took us to the airport the next morning. We had a layover in ...

We finished the day driving to a park and more sightseeing. We had a great day. We saw lots of wildlife including mule deer and a rattlesnak...

Sonny and Mary had a get together at their house the evening after Tyler's game. There were probably 20 to 25 people there. Again, Mary ...

As luck would have it we were visiting during Erica and Tyler's sports season and we were able to watch a volley ball match and a footba...

Margaret has been busy getting us ready for our trip out west to see Uncle Harold and family. Aunt Kate, Margaret and myself have been plann...

Dathan and I have started hanging tree stands as it is only a month until opening day of archery season. We have seen some nice shooter buck...

The party broke up around 4 pm and we said our goodbye's and were back on the road again. We drove to Savanna, Georgia. We drove through...

Not only is Carrie a wonderful lady, but she has a great group of children and grandchildren and they seem to be very close. Margaret and I ...

We drove on to Palatka that evening and stayed at the hotel where Aunt Carrie's Birthday party was being held. We were all bushed and tu...

Its time to continue north as Aunt Carries 90th birthday is tomorrow August 8th. We have another stop or two to make before we get there. Ba...

Another long day and more to come. We were officially headed north again. The next day we went to the Greek village of Tarpon Springs and vi...

After a long day at Silver Springs we continued south and drove to New Port Richey , Florida to Margaret's Uncle Bill Shortridge and hi...

On Sunday August 2 nd after church Margaret and I left on a road trip to Margaret's Aunt Carrie, who lives in Palatka , Florida to help...

Jessica competed in her first 5K road race on July 25 th and she was so funny, she was a nervous wreck. Even though she is in great physica...

Margaret's granddaughter Brittney and her boyfriend Bob came in for a visit July 21st thru 24th. We took them to our camper in Giles Cou...

We had the opportunity to go on vacation July 12 thru July 17th with Jonathan and Jennifer and the girls. We had planned a trip earlier in t...

We had better weather the following day and took them to Fort Witten in Tazewell. There were many interesting things we saw including the mu...

Uncle Charles and Jean visited us for a couple of days and we managed to take them to Mountain Lake and Fort Whitton . Mountain Lake in Crai...

Dathan and I have started planting the summer food plots for wildlife. The weather seems to be good for the growing season, guess we will wa...

With warm weather rolling in, Dathan and I Started getting the ground ready for summer deer food plots. Margaret and I went out to one of h...