End of Summer

 We lived at the water park this year.  Jones was old enough to enjoy it and it was HOT HOT HOT!  This summer has been crazy, hectic and super busy.  We are definitely ready for fall, shorter days, cooler weather and sweet potato pie:)

Fall is so close........It has been so nice in the afternoon.  We have been getting out on the ranger more and more in the evening without having to bring a 10 gallon bucket of water for Jones to play in to keep cool. 

Fun and Breaks!

After our depressing and exhausting June, things are starting to look up.  Summer is our busy time no matter what, plus Cody here by himself has just made it that much harder.  We have settled in quite nicely though, considering.  We have a new norm and a new routine and it fits.  Cody has finally realized he can't work 7-10 everyday and not having a break.  He has started coming in a few hours during the day, when its the hottest to hang out with us or we go to the water park:)  or taking time for himself.

Jones has had a few special days too:)  His first bite of ice cream was for breakfast, he was in love!

It has been so hot that everyday involves water..........

 We have an awesome water park and it's so nice for young kids too!

 The Carter clan came down for a visit!  We so enjoyed their visit and it was terrible short!  Jones walks around saying Eyi for Eli all day long!

 Our water park has a huge area for little toddlers and it's only about ankle to shin deep.  Jones does his best in water up to his neck with no floaty.  I bought him an arm thingy floaty and he hates the restrictions.  So I decided to just let him go and see what he does.  He is a natural and goes everywhere!

 While the Carter's were here the boys went to play golf while the boys napped.  After naps we loaded up and joined in.  Jones loves golf!

 Every night after dinner, before we start our afternoon chores of checking the deer, filling waters, feeling feed buckets and bottle feeding babies, Jones gets a quick dip in his mini pool.  When he is done we clean it out, dry it off and bring it in....HOURS of entertainment!  He snacks in his pool, he races cars in his pool, and just about everything he has in the house ends up in his pool sometime throughout the day.  Best $8.00 spent!

Busy Busy Busy

Once upon a time, there was a worker on a ranch.  He broke everything there was to break that made his life easier.  After he broke everything on the ranch, he didn't want to have to do it the hard way for a while, while everything was getting fixed.  So he decided to quit......with no warning.........and leave his house disgusting.  This pretty much sums up our month of June!

Cody had been working like a crazy man this last month.  He has even put me and Jones to work.  In the morning, not all morning, he will load Jones up in the work truck and go feed and water the elk while I stay and feed and water the deer.  This usually saves Cody a couple of hours to do other things that need to be done.  Jones LOVES it because he LOVES going with Daddy!

We haven't even started looking for a replacement.  We have to get their house cleaned first.....it is a nightmare!  A sad scary nightmare.....I refuse to go over there and clean it.....it's that bad......

 I love love love this place and enjoy helping Cody out, but this is not my baby....it's Cody's.  I needed a huge fat break from this place the other day and luckily our girls game night fell on the perfect night.  I was able to get away for a few hours but my boys had to still work.  Cody had to spray the deer pens and just took Jones with him.  Jones LOVES tractors!  Cody needed a huge fat break to and went to play golf one afternoon!

Jones has been helping us feed baby deer and washing their bottles:)  and feeding the dogs:)

Checking deer with daddy..............

 Jones also got his first shiner and his first goose egg on his forehead this week too.......... He was So proud of his shiner.....he didn't care for the goose egg though.......

 One of the bigger things that Luis broke before he left was the feed trailer something.....:)  The thing that makes the feed come out of a huge trailer thing......:)  So we had to go fill about 10 one ton feeders by hand......NOT FUN!  We have been going to make it easier on Cody.  It has been HOT HOT HOT too!  We bring a huge bucket of water for Jones to splash in while Cody totes about 45 fifty pounds sacks of feed up a ladder to the top of the feeder and then throws me the sac to do away with.........

 Jones has been getting in a lot of driving time.  He should be getting his license in the next week or so........

We are also bottle feeding 6 babies, 2 of which have still not calmed down.  They are crazy! and Cody being Tarzan and doing it all.  I love my Tarzan!

Jones Vacay......

Jones made his first trip to Texas by himself.  I went to Kids Kamp with our little ones from church and was going to be gone for 3 nights and 4 days.  Cody had a lot of stuff to do at the ranch and wouldn't be able to keep up with Jones so we sent him to Grands! We met Papa J and Grammy in Paul's Valley and made the drop off:)  He was so excited when we moved his car seat to their car.  He didn't even care we left him.....:(

He had SO much fun in Texas!

He was able to go personally check on his cow Star.  She is about to have a baby!

 Gram Gram sure did feed me good!  She made me french toast, fresh veggies, fresh fruit and was a cooking machine while I was down. 

I love tractors!  I was a busy bee at DooDee's and Nawna's.  We visited everybody!

 I got to see my Hannah!

 I went to bed good, took naps good, ate good, played good and came back home spoiled rotten!




We were SO excited to have him back home!  It literally hurt not seeing him everyday.........

I had such a great time at Kids Kamp and so glad I went!