Disneyland

The kids and I got to go to Disneyland with my parents and my Brother Jason and his family a few weeks ago. JC wasn't able to go with us this time, I think JC layed in bed and cried every night that we were in Disneyland without him, yeah right, but I do know he was wishing he was there when we went to the beach. Maybe next time.

This is going to be an overload of pictures so readers beware

Right when we walked in to Main St. we got to take a picture with Mickey. That was perfect for Cody, it set the mood for the rest of the trip.

James and Jordyn were best friends all through the parks. James would keep his arm around Jojo so that she wouldn't be scared on rides, so sweet.

Sadie and Paige also had tons of fun going on all the "big kids" rides together.

Paige, Abbie, Jason, Me and Cody all waiting to go on Pirates. This was one of 3 of Cody's very favorite rides, I think he rode it 4 or 5 times while we were there.

The second day we were there we went to Bolsa Chica beach. We all had so much fun this was mine and Sadie's favorite part of the entire trip.

Cody was not a big fan of the waves and water but he loved the sand.

Jojo just is always happy to be anywhere!

I am trying to talk Sadie in to boogie boarding, and Jason is trying to do the same with Paige...

but they were not havin' it they liked to just play in the waves.

 

So Jason and I were the only ones who did try and we had so much fun!

Well that is the first 2 days I will post the rest of the pictures later, I have tons more!

The Branding

Today we did some branding and Sadie was the best crew member we had. She tagged ears, sprayed after they were cut, helped dehorn, give shots, get hot irons and put cold ones back on the fire, and even got to help brand one. When she was done she even had her first Rocky Mt. Oyster! Jojo and Cody enjoyed from afar and after 120 calves we left the rest of the work to the men so that we could get started on making lunch. Here are the pictures.

Dwight and JC

Cody waiting to get sarted

Jojo, Sadie and Cody still waiting to start helping

Dwight and Doug

Trey and Tyler pounding the nordfork

Spence roping calves

Sadie and Doug working on calves

JC, Cody and Kelly- white shirt day at the ranch

Kelly Jojo, Cody

Sadie eating Rocky Mt. Oysters, yuck

Sadie and JC

Hot after a long day!

Ole Yeller

Snakes

After a long day of grocery shopping with the 2 little kids I picked Sadie up from school.

On the way home I got a phone call from JC. He asked when I was going to be home and told me he killed a snake.

He cut of his head and JC said it didn't rattle at all. Some guy from this area said they usually don't around here for some reason, that makes this snake situation even worse!

Yikes I am scared to death of these things so we had a long long talk with kids about being careful.

Stitches, we don't need no stinking stitches!

This seems to be the norm here at the Young Ranch

 

This was the worst bleeding head wound we have had yet, keep up the good work son!

 

this is Jojo first real wound, we are proud of her but she is going to have to work a little harder if she wants to keep up with her little brother!

Seriously, what is wrong with my children and contently getting hurt. At least next time I will be prepared I now keep super glue and surgical tape in the first aid box.

It's always fun when Buchanans come!

Ok the past week we have had my Big Brother Chris and his family come and my other brother Jason's family come, minus Jason, visit us.

I am not the best at remembering to take tons of pictures the way Maren is so I stole some from her blog that you can read about if you click here.

 

Chris, Courtney and their crew came last Saturday and stayed a couple nights. We rode horses and went into Tombstone and had a BBQ and just kinda hung out, that's what we do out here is just hang out mostly.

see what i mean

nick riding

zach riding "by himself" looking good up there buddy

Sadie giving Josh a ride

We had a great time with Chris and his family I should have had my camera out for more pictures I will have to get them form Courtney

When Maren and the kids came we went to Sierra Vista and went swimming and we also went to Bisbee. That is such a neat little hippie town

Cody, Paige and Jester, Jordyn, James (who is not happy), Abbey, and Sadie

The kids waiting to swim. Not photoed-James, he was motion sick from the mary-go-round.

They have a neat pool in Sierra Vista that the waves come on every so often and slides to go down. The kids loved it and we loved how well they slept that night!

This is Bisbee. It is this neat little artsy-fartsy town that everyone should see at least once while in AZ I never expected it to be like this, it is an old mining town we all had fun walking up and down the streets and stairs.

this is my cowboy, notice he has his rope in his hand. It goes most places with us so that he can "rope" me with it when I try and make him hold my hand.

We found a store that was coved in bottle tops, the kids loved it

This was outside someone's home they had turned a bunch of junk into hippie junk. all the circle things spin and there was a dinosaur made out of old pipe it was kinda neat.

this is JC after walking around Bisbee all day he was to tired to go any further

 

After a long day we stopped and had ice cream.

 

We had so much fun with all of our family and can't wait to see everyone again soon.

Mom, Maren, and Ashley

Hey these are the paint colors that I want to do my house. Not all of them tho.

 

I like the darkest blue, it not as bright as in the picture, and maybe not for a wall but for some pillows or just accents.

 

I like the darkest brown and the middle, the end one looks a little gray but it is not

the fist color is a yellow and I don't like it but the middle is like a rust red/ orange and the green is really pretty. the top picture shows it better.

Tombstone

OK I know it has taken me a long time to post something about where we moved sorry things have been stressful here. We really do love it so far. We have been here about for about 5 week and are all very happy. This is what we woke up to our first morning,

Seriously? Snow? It melted off quickly and then we had rain for the next 2 week, which we appreciated very much.

We got Sadie into the Tombstone school and she has made lots of new friend and loves being "the new kid". This is what Sadie and I see every morning while she eats breakfast.

For some reason we all sleep very heavy here and wake up in better moods, I am not sure if it the darkness or the complete silence well other then the coyotes, and yes I mean both kinds.

We have some great neighbors, the Arreola's, We love them and their kids very much they have 3 kids the close to Sadie's age but all of them get along greatly together. Plus Cindy is a great cook and they keep us in yummy salsa and tamales.

Pablo, cody,jerry,sadie,jazmine,jojo

Ernesto, Cindy, Me, JC

The kids have been able to ride more often because the stalls are just right here so JC doesn't have to load up and take horses or kids anywhere to ride, they have been loving that.

Thanks to my uncle Lacy we got a new puppy also, it is a Jack Russell Terrier and we named him Jester cause of his patch over his eye. Jordyn says that she is his mama and never lets the poor thing alone, not his best picture but the only one I have in my camera.

Like I said we all love it here and are glad that we moved I will have to post more pictures of the house and landscape around later but this will have to do for now.

We Finally did it...

Jordyn has been begging me for the last few months to cut her hair, I never could bring myself to do it but finally this weekend Sara did it.

I think that she looks like a doll. We donated all 10 inches to locks of love.

Sadie is rockin a short sassy new doo also I will have to post pictures later though.

Going Private

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