Perfection

If I had to pick the perfect weather, today would have been it! The storms that hit Dallas all the way up to OKC this afternoon formed right above us this morning. It turned black, sprinkled for 10 minutes and headed east. This storm brought us 68 degree weather, clear skies, cool breeze and the brightest sun ever. Since I don't have the kiddos right now, I was able to spend my day outside, perfection. Yesterday was a beautiful day too, but a little windy. We headed out on the 4-wheelers yesterday to put out corn, fill feeders and check the game camera's and we could hear the red deer and the Elk going nuts. I guess they were trying to call up a mate! It was a really great sound and peaceful. I still get amazed each time I go out on the ranch. Somehow we always manage to find a new hidden road/path/secret passage to explore. We also found a few old old old deer feeders and turkey feeders. They just need to be cleaned up a bit, new batteries, fresh corn and they will be good to go.


We also have some sad news. The last set of twins that were born were way premature and we didn't think they would make it, but they pulled through and have been doing good. Last week the bigger of the 2 had a cold/pneumonia/runny nose. Cody gave her some meds and crossed his finger but she didn't pull through this time. She passed away on Sunday. The other little one is doing good and she is not sick, I hope this cold front that moved in doesn't change that. The high tomorrow is suppose to be in the 50's. The other deer and babies will be able to handle the cold weather, so lets hope little girl can too.

They call me Big Poppa...

We got a new addition to the family here on the ranch today. It is almost time for the rut and since we lost all our breeder bucks this year, it was time to get another. I think by the end of the month we will have 4 more breeder bucks and 20-25 more breeder doe. This big guy came from a guy down the road and scores around 190. Since he is from around here he will have an easier time surviving the heat next summer and we will keep him in the breeder pens. The other 4 bucks are coming from Minnesota. I think the plan with those will be to breed the doe in the breeder pens and then we will set them out in the high fence. Since their northern deer they will have a better chance surviving next summer in the high fence than in the breeder pens. I think they are gonna pull straws from them too, so we will have backup if they don't make it.

Summer is officially over up here! It has been so nice this week. Everyday has been in the 70's and humidity free, so it feels like it's 68 and perfect. Last night I had to turn the air conditioner off because it was so chilly and I was able to cuddle up with a sweatshirt! Last night was a GREAT night because it was the start of comfy sweatshirt season, I picked up a pizza (and it didn't make me deathly sick), read my weekly magazines, and Cody got to do a little dove hunting. He took Louis and Fransisco with him because they were curious about how that worked. Last week we invited them over and we cooked dove for them. They asked about a million questions from how many can you shoot with one bullet to how does a dove look. They loved the dove and told us we had to try tongue since we made them try something new. So last night they decided to bring some over for us. Luckily they brought it over and left. I just couldn't eat tongue, no thanks! They invited us over this afternoon for a fiesta. They received a phone call this morning at 4.00 a.m and their friends were in Woodward and that they came to visit. This is hilarious to me, they didn't call first and they drove all night with like 12 people scrunched in a car. To Funny! So they had a fiesta today and had normal fajitas and it was yummy! Louis, Fransisco and Gizella amaze me sometimes. It is refreshing to know that there are still people out there who are committed to family, who are honest, and who would give you the clothes off their back if they thought you needed them. ALso, I noticed they had a table outside that all the food was sitting on. It was so cute. I kept staring at it and it finally dawned on me that it was the same wood that they made our deck with. They had taken all the scrap pieces and made the cutest wooden table ever! If I knew they were that good I wouldn't have spent money on a table and just bought chairs and had them make us one. It was that CUTE!

No Place like Texas!

We had a fun trip home this weekend. I am so bummed because I didn't take one picture while I was there :( Cody had fun in West Texas and brought home a bunch of dove...yum! I had a fun weekend with the girls. There is nothing better than staying in a nice hotel even though your house is 10 miles away, a home football game, pedicures, sushi, a movie that I have been dying to see, watching the little kids, Patrons, seeing family, girl talk with Hannah, and relaxing at Nannies!

I think the hardest thing about living far away from family is not being able to see the little one's grow and then coming home and they don't remember you :( I don't think Sadie remembered us and that is sad. Little Joe is still to young but he let me love him up on Monday before we left! So to Kevin, Angie, Mark and Sheila, from now on you have to show Sadie and Josiah a picture of me and Cody everyday and if you want you can show them 10x's a day! :) Until they get old enough to remember us and just throw our names out there often to them :)

While we were away this weekend Gisella had her baby. She had a boy and he might be one of the cutest babies I have ever seen. She also decided to keep both babies while she is at home with the little one and so I have a few weeks of freedom :) She really is super mom. We stopped by late Monday night when we got in to see baby Louis and Jocelyn and I really did miss Jocelyn while we were gone. Yesterday I took dinner over to them and they told me that Jocelyn cried for me when we left on Monday :)

It might be a good thing for her to watch both babies right now because I woke up this morning feeling poopy.

We had a great time in Texas but it feels good to be back at the ranch. The dogs sure did miss us too! They were ready to get out of their pens and run around a bit. We took a long walk today and I wore them out, that when we got back home I didn't have to bribe them with a treat to go back in their pens, they went home by themselves! :)

Deck...Whoop Whoop!

Our deck is finished! Louis and Fransisco did an aesome job and we are so thrilled to finally have steps off the back. Our new deck furniture fits perfectly and now we have a place for our grill as well! Cody and I sure are blessed! I am so thankful that Cody gets to wake up every morning to do what he loves to do and so thankful that we work for such a great family. He sure does take care of us up here and thanks for the deck!


Well, the last 2 babies went outside tonight. I am super excited to get my laundry room back and can't wait to sanitize it for good and keep it that way for at least a year! Cody wasn't to thrilled about putting them out since they are still pretty small but it was definitely time for them to be normal. They are more skittish than the other's we have bottle fed and hope that they will continue to come to us when we bottle feed them because they are definitely too young to be weaned. Since we are heading home this weekend it was just easier to go ahead and put them outside. The other 3 outside that we have bottle fed seemed to welcome them in their pen!

Also Joceleyn has been doing really good. She doesn't cry as much when I put her down and if she does I just have to tell her "no crying" and she stops and laughs! I have been teaching her little songs and hand motions and her mom asked me tonight if I have been teaching her 'this' or 'that' because she sais Jocelyn does the hand motions at home :) Too cute. I have also ventured out a bit in town with her and she does really good. I have taken her grocery shopping, to the bank, post office and just running errands and she is too good! I am getting alittle nervous about her little brother joining us. I hope I can handle both of them and do a good job with them. He will be born sometime this month. I cannot believe it is already September! Where does time go?