Family Vacation

A couple weeks ago we were invited down to the Robison Ranch for a few days. The manager is a friend of Brian's. The same ranch he took the girls to last year and where the dad of our new baby horse lives. Anyway, he (Tabor) invited the whole family down. We took Roxy and Jazzy and Brian helped Tabor herd some cattle while the kids and I hung out on the ranch. One of the days we went to the Boulder Harvest Moon festival. We have never been to an event quite like it before. It was pretty fun. A little odd, but fun.  A lot of people in Boulder are hippies and live off the earth, natural foods, etc. They had a lama wandering around the yard, taught classes on weather, candle making, "hay making", and gardening. A long with spinning wheel demonstrations. They served food and herb tea, then when we used a plastic cup, plate, or utensil, we had to wash them to be reused. The girls had a blast making pottery, while Kort got attacked by a rooster.

Here are some photos from around the ranch:

Inside the very large arena. 

Here is Wilson. Our baby's dad. He is a son of Peptoboonsmal. 

Here is Jazzy running around

Brian and Tabor heading out to change sprinklers

Indoor arena

Bull pen

Crazy kids

Jazzy, once again. 

It is an amazing, beautiful ranch and I could live there quite contentedly. 

Tabor's wife, Katie, was so nice and fed us every night. She took us to the festival and the museum. They are a very nice family. 

Our last day there we took a drive towards Escalante and went for a really fun hike to Calf Creek falls. It was beautiful! 

Summer

Its finally Summer! We've been having fun with these cute little puppies.

Shelby graduated from Preschool!

Last year we heard on the news about fireflies in Utah. They were spotted out at Warm Springs. We never saw any last year when we went looking. A couple weeks ago Brian contacted the professor at BYU who wrote the article about them and we learned how and where to look for them and this year we were successful! They start flashing about 40 minutes after sunset.  It was a really fun activity for the kids!

Memorial weekend we visited graves with Grandma and Grandpa. We soon discovered that cemeteries and Kort are not a good combination. I hope we got the flowers and pinwheels put back to the correct headstones. 

Rian also reached a milestone by graduating from 6th grade! She is excited (with a little bit of nervousness) for Jr. High!

Spring

We've had a very busy spring this year. Last Wednesday Candice and I left for St. George to be with Mom and Dad while she had her back fusion surgery.

We took these three with us:

We stayed until Saturday night. The surgery went very well but Mom has really had a rough time from the pain and medications afterwards. We all took turns tending kids and being with her in the room. She went home last night and she is actually able to get a lot of good rest now, thankfully.

We put the cows out in the pasture. They were as happy as we were!

Today I am sick so I am using my time in bed to post photos. 

We also played midwife to Cabela who had 10 puppies today! She had 11 but one was stillborn. 4 are chocolate, 6 are black. 

We are also wrapping up the school year, clogging, and soccer season. Along with yard work and other projects.