July in a flash.....

 Oops I fell face first in the mud Ma.....

Let me in dad let me in, Challas can hardly stand it watching from the side lines he wants to be in there ropin with dad.

Fouth of July in Grouse, Challas dummy ropin.

Koy and 44 cruising down the poles..

Tess smokin the stick horse barrels.

Hallie coming down the home stretch.

Kylee, Ashton, Mesa, Tess and JJ buddies in their club house under the bleachers.

Gabe flippin the goat.

Jhet's right at home on his stick horse...

Isaac goat flopping.

Ashton headed out to do the poles on ol Brogan.

Two pretty cute cowboys and cousins! Challas and Jhet, Jhet was going with Challas to get the ribbon of the goats tail, I'm pretty sure we will see a lot of these two headed out to do something for a long time to come.......

Papa, Challas & Uncle Davey, a BBQ in Burley with the family was fun day.

Ash, Challas and Koy with the new kitty's Nanny got for the kids to take home. Thank you Nanny...

Check out our big fire works, Matt got some great ones in town this year we so enjoyed.

I am as amazed as you are I grew these tomatoes, they were so good.

Tiger is well loved by this little one.

Koy our biologist caught a bunch of tadpoles at the rodeo on the 4th of July, they turned into frogs and are still his prize pets. What a cute boy....

Koy also loves Tiger

And the other two kitties tolerate all kinds of Love!

So all that yummy desert was for a Bridal Shower for Esther, Griffin's future bride. What a neat girl, so much fun and sweet we are so excited for the tow of them... Big day is Aug 18th.

Challas finally looking at me and smiling whoa, snap it fast ma.....

 Challas running out to get the ribbon off the goats tail at the kids Gymkhanna. He really loves this sport!

Here is part of July in a flash it was a busy month, more to come...

Hope you are enjoying the Sunshine...we are!

 Koy and Tess practicing their Yoga...

 Ok Strike a Pose....

 He also likes to play with George...

 Challas was going to bring Penny Pup with him whether she wanted to or not....

 Ashton was trying to scuba dive...

 He was liking the shades too.

 Challas tried out the sprinkler too.

 Tess was pretty excited to be wearing her giraffe bikini, you could not tell by the pose!

 Koy in the sprinkler.

 Ashton in the sprinkler.

 Pretty fun kids, they really do play together well.

Kids and Calves and the Homing Pigeon

 How about that sight, every morning and night the kids head out to feed the bottle calves, Challas trekking right along with. I love looking out the window or door seeing them trek out to find them.

 Sometimes they ride their bikes, pretty good spot Koy found for the bottle!

 And when they are done feeding them usually I hear laughing and screaming and see kids running and calves behind, the calves always want more bottle and the kids take off running so the calves follow its funny. When they do catch up the calves just lick them looking for more!

 Koy holding Red, he is so ugly he is cute, no really he is a cute pup.

 The calves caught up to me today, CC on the left is our kids calf and George on the  right is the ranches, check out George he's got his tong out ready to lick!

Every year sometime in the spring or summer we have a homing Pigeon land and stay a few days, they are quite tame and just mill around for a week or so and then usually move on. The one this year had a lot of white on him. Unfortunately for him Bret's dogs had him for lunch, so he won't be flying home. They are neat birds the kids like to watch them and we have caught a few of them to see what the bands say.

Last Tourt Creek Branding

What you say..... McKoy found a plastic sack to collect the bean bags in and was rigging up a hanger for it with a paper clip from his belt loop.  Looks kinda funny.....

 Matt launching one out there to neck this calf that is on the run.

Tess and Mike, Tess is so in love with Mike and he is pretty sweet to her. He put up with her wanting to be right next to him where ever he is and talks to her. When he comes over she dose not even play with the kids she stick where ever Mike is. One day she asked me if Mike was going to pass her by, I said what do you mean, she said well if he dose not like me anymore and likes Gracie ( another little girl who really likes Mike to), so I had to explain that Mike likes everybody and she said but I'm going to marry him. So then we had the talk of she is to young for that and he is to old for her and that she could like Mike as her friend. She was glad about that because Gracie is to young too... Whoa, do we have our hands full or what. The teenage years will be a joy!

 Matt working a cow on Crazy Jack after branding was finished. Jack did well, he acts like he enjoys it.

It was a cool day and just a few cow to brand but we had a good time and good help.