Happy Halloween

We ventured to Oakley to the trunker treat this year. The kids had a great time and got a ton of candy. Koy was a Knight, Ashton a Cowgirl, Tess was Cinderella and Challas a Giraffe, Jhet was Superman, Hallie was Tinkerbell and Charley was Tigger. Tess really loved her wig and the chance to wear princess garb in public. Koy loved his sord. Ash loves her chaps but really did not feel that well that day. Challas hated his getup, it slowed him down... he was fine after he found the suckers! Trick or Treat!

Happy Birthday Tessy

Ok so I am still posting things that happened in October! I just hate to miss stuff! So Happy Birthday Tessy, I can not believe she is 4 already. She is a very strong willed princes, so sweet, so funny, we really get a kick out of her. She LOVES babies and every thing that has to do with them. She will be a good mother! We celebrated her birthday twice once at Grandma and Grandpas with lots of family and again at home on her Birthday with Nanna and Pops. We love you Tess, keep us smiling!

Challey Man Mess!

At the age where he is into every thing and climbing onto everything, this morning I found him in this mess, he thought it so great and was just eating away, I guess I was not fast enough getting his breakfast!

Priceless!

Our children spend lots of time at the corral in the fall, helping to work the cattle in the chute. This day Tess was watching Matt and Bret de-horn a calf and cauterize it to help with the bleeding. As she watched and smelled the burning her face got funnier and funnier, the look on her face priceless!

Pushin' Cattle to Etna

Pops and Nana's favorite canine family members, Bud and Roy.

Ashton and Pops, enjoying each others company.

Mckoy and Ashton, I so love this picture, they are the best of friends. I wish I could only hear what they were talking about, they rode like this for quite a while. Pretty dang cute!

The scenery is pretty this time of year despite the dust!

Each year we help Nana and Pops push their cattle to Etna. The last couple of years McKoy has been big enough to help. Well this year Ashton was finally big enough to help to, as soon as she found out she could go with them the entire way on her own horse she was on cloud 9 for days. She rode Brogan, and McKoy rode Vegas. Daddy, Pops and Uncle Frank were also there, it was a beautiful day, we followed in the trucks to pick them up when they got there.

Yet another enjoyable thing about fall, working along side your family in beautiful weather.

Fall

The crew.

Ash, Tess and Challas in the ranger.





Challas our littlest cowboy!

Tess we call her our diamond in the rough! She likes all the pretties on to go and play in the mud!


What is not to love about fall. It's one of my favorite times of the year. As usual we were very busy. Gathering the cows to wean and preg check, this day early in October we had gone to get pictures of the cattle coming into the meadows, and sat talking to the cowboys at the gate after. McKoy had helped them bring the cattle down and really enjoyed that. The girls so envious of him, they were glad he let them take a ride on Brogan after. I captured these cute pictures of Tess and Challas in the tall grass. Like I said Fall is so great!