A perfect day for TWO picnics!

We didn't plan on having a picnic for lunch, but G'pa George helped us decide to have one. He accidently got stuck in the mud with his 4-wheeler. Susie and I had run to a nearby town that morning, and bought some groceries. We didn't have a chance to run home from our trip to town before we met Chris to go and pull G'pa George out. We had fried chicken, a gallon of milk and plastic gloves that we used for cups. You have to do what you can in a pinch! Susie's blog has pictures of our picnic too. :) It was such a beautiful day.

It seems this year we cannot help but be stuck in either the snow or the mud. Now Fischer plays "stuck in the mud again!"

Our dogs enjoyed all of the fried chicken scraps.

Hazen had to take a few bites of fried chicken too. He kept licking his lips after that!

The plastic gloves actually made great "cups" for the milk.

Fischer rode with G'pa on the 4-wheeler after our picnic. He loved it!

We decided to grill outside at our house for dinner yesterday too.

I thought you would enjoy this picture especially Mom. Do you remember when we had to tell Mike and Jim not to beat the fire? We had to tell Fischer several times to stay away from the fire, and to not beat it with a stick.

We found this buffalo horn on our picnic at lunch. Chris and I decided we better put it on our table inside. It is really neat to think that at some point this buffalo crossed our ranch, and either lost his horn or died in the very spot we found his horn. (Do buffalo lose their horns???) A little piece of history...

Baby Corbin

Fischer is having to learn to share Owey and Kristi. He did great, and now he says he wants to see "Owey, Kristi and Kristi's baby." Corbin is so sweet, and I cannot believe his full head of hair. He has more hair than Hazen. :) We loved seeing them last night.

Fischer loved holding baby Corbin. He gave him lots of kisses and pats.

Fischer always had to sit right next to Kristi.

Hazen and Corbin are only 8 months apart. :)

I think we have a trio of redheads!

The boys loved playing with Corbin's new toys.

Odds and Ends

Jen, I thought I would blog some scrapbook pages that I have done lately. The pictures I took of my pages are not very good, but hopefully you can see them okay. I love this class, and thank you for all that you have done. :)

I plan on adding some of the extras that I ordered from you.

The things I heard while this was going on...

"Mom, I'm tagging the calves."

"Mom, I'm dumping on the hay like G'pa does in the tractor"

"my parking garage"

"Look Mama, it's on a big hill"

"Look Mama, I'm stuck in the dirt."

"I'm stuck in the cattle guard!"

Hazen eating his gerber puffs.

Fischer drinking his "surprise milk" (chocolate milk) out of a big boy cup. :)

This was the scene outside this morning...

So I am doing lots of blogging inside. :)

I think I am going to add some green buttons in the middle of the white flowers. What do you think??? I need to do some journaling too. (Anyone can comment not just Jen) I would love some suggestions. :)

Our branding...

This picture pretty much sums up our branding day. We had lots of fun, lots of smiles, and some of us were VERY dirty.

Fischer typing his name on the "coo-ba-dee-boo." (computer)

Fischer wanted G'pa to sign his name on the "coo-ba-dee-boo" too. Do you notice that Fischer is wearing different pants and socks??? Fischer needed a new wardrobe after snacktime at the branding. :)

Our newest baby. Isn't she cute?

Hazen enjoying lunch.

Kirby, Jed, Chris, JD and Kacey enjoying a break and some food. :)

Baby Burris is such a cutie!

snacktime at the branding...

Allison, Larkin, Fischer, Colton and Fallon

We loved having Lisa, Holly and Dixie come to our branding. They were such great help with the meal and kids. I couldn't have done it without them. :)

Allison was such a big help with Hazen.

Colton and Allison had a lot of fun together.

Colton, Burris and Fischer giving the horse some grain!