Sunday, May 10, 2009

Branding at Grandpa Mike's


We spent the afternoon at Grandpa Mike's branding his calves. I didn't get any pictures during the branding until the last two calves when Dylan and Colton wanted to ride them. While Brian was getting the bull rope on Dylan's calf, he got a little wild and Dylan wisely decided not to ride. Colton however got right on his and made it a couple of good jumps before he landed pretty hard on his head. He also rope burned his hand and decided it wasn't so much fun riding bulls. But, about an hour later he was back to wanting to be a bull rider again. I really need him to talk to some ropers! Anyways, after all that, I got some pictures of Logan riding, but I didn't get any of Dylan who spent most of the branding riding his horse around. I'll get some at our branding in June though.














Dylan's portraits

Ok, so I finally got Dylan's 8 year old pictures taken. I took them the morning of Mothers Day so it was a nice start to my day! He is such a joy and I love taking pictures of him because he is really the easiest of my boys to get in a pose and stay and look natural and stay and smile and stay!










































Monday, May 4, 2009

Finally a little bit of spring!

We finally had some dry weather this weekend. After church we all enjoyed getting some sunshine yesterday.
Dylan jumping on the trampoline

Logan inbetween a bunch of activities Colton finally mastered his bike yesterday!!! Good job Colty!


Branding

On Friday we had the first of our brandings this year. We only had about 35 calves to brand so it went pretty quick. We woke up that morning with 2" of new snow so I didn't think we would brand, but Brian was determined. He plowed a spot at about 6:30 that morning and with the sun shining all day, the temperature reached around 50, so it actually was mostly dry by that afternoon. The boys had such a good time wrestling and roping. Thanks to everyone for giving us a hand.



Dylan wrestling with some help from Uncle Jeremy
Dylan and Chase wrestling with Uncle Jeremy
Colton and dad wrestling
Colton holding on for dear life
Logan waiting for some action
Colton roping a calfDylan, Brayden and Chase roping
my dad branding
Logan and dad wrestling
Logan and dad
Brian, Lynn, Mike, Jeremy Logan keeping an eye on the babies
Chase roping a calf
Dylan caught a calf
Brayden caught a calf