July 4th Weekend 2015

Our July 4th weekend was jam packed and super fun this year!  People always ask me what we're doing when it's a holiday weekend, and my answer is always the same - if it's summer, it's just an extra day for us to get our work done and have a normal weekend - that's the life of livestock owners!

We had a fun and productive weekend and made it home for some family time on Saturday night and Sunday.  Here's our weekend in pictures!

FaceTime with Carrie while Mommy packs

Why does he always make a mess when I'm in a hurry?!

Loves his daddy

Cowboy Sam - been up since 5:00 and been riding all day...worn out!

Chance's parents joined us for the weekend and his mom and I took Henry to play in the creek where the water is shallow before supper.  He had a blast and kept telling me this is "Hen-y's wa-wa"...so sweet!

  

Gus was watching for snakes and protecting his baby

Rides anything...even coolers lol!

  

(L) Figured out how to take pictures with my phone...oh no!  (R) reading with Daddy

On Saturday morning, the crew headed out to gather the rest of the heifers so we could doctor a few and move them to a different section of the ranch.  Chance and Sam had gathered most of them the day before, but that many acres with only 2 people was tough.  Henry had been up for several hours in the middle of the night, so he and I slept in (until 7:30) and got up to help with phase 2 of the morning work.  Our friend Drew came down the night before, so that made 4 horses and a pickup (Chance's dad) - way easier!

Headed north!

All 142 head made it with no issues...yay!

These girls will be 1st time mama's soon!

  

Team pictures! 

The crew :)

Henry loves to ride...makes me so happy :)

"Bye Monny"

Giving Uncle Drew bye hugs

  

Sprinkler fun!

Kisses for Daddy

Naptime!

We got everything cleaned up and headed home Saturday afternoon so we could have some family time around the house.  Daddy spent the morning filling up Henry's pool and water table so we could enjoy some outside time before it got too hot.  We even went swimming at our neighbor's pool for a little while.  

Selfie!

Jumping into the pool - Daddy was making lots of splashes

Counts to 3 and squeals the whole time

Sleepy boy

We painted a 4th of July shirt (on the 5th, but who's counting?!)

Grammie and Grandpa came for a visit

  

Love this guy

Using her hurt leg...finally!

Our finished art project!  Oops, the lines are crooked :(

Sam the gardener - pretty much the only way our garden is surviving!

In his spare time (wait, what's that?), Chance worked on our master bathroom and started laying the tile for the shower floor.  It's coming along!