A Walk in the Hay

Rhonda (Chris' mom) planned a fun picnic for Chris' youngest cousins. We walked up to the spring and found a spot on the side of the hay field where we were near Lynx and her colt, and on the way the kids completed a scavenger hunt Kimmy (Chris' sister) had prepared for them. Those in attendance were Rhonda, Chris' sisters- Kimberly and Aubrey, Chris' cousins- Austin, Haley, and Rachel, and Autumn. Oh yeah! Chris' dog, Tip, and Autumn's cat, Koda, even joined us! ;)

 Austin is such a goof ball!

 Austin completing the last task of the scavenger hunt, "Take a picture of the colt," while Haley looks on.

 The colt giving us a buckin' good time!

 He's so cute!

 Laurie's kids are so cute!

 The picnic spot.

 Koda trying to find a cool spot to wait out our picnic.

 Tip keeping an eye on the colt.

 Rachel and Haley with their lunch bags.

More Family Times

Autumn spent a week at her parents, ending with Chris joining her that weekend for a Girvin family reunion (Autumn's paternal grandmother's family). We didn't do anything too exciting and don't even have any pictures of the reunion, but it was fun just to be with family. Our favorite part of the reunion was, of course, the volleyball and softball games.  On the way home we were lucky enough to get to stop at Shoshone Falls, outside of Twin Falls, ID. It was so beautiful!

 Luke's family met us at Shoshone Falls.

 Gage is an...interesting poster.

 Riley is so serious.

 Then Gage put on Papa's irrigation boots and couldn't hardly walk!

 Papa (Autumn's dad) and Sydney at Morgan's softball game.

 Autumn did get to go to one of Morgan's softball games. Tried going to one of Syd's too, but it got rained out.

 At Shoshone Falls.

 Amazing!

Memorial Day 2011

My family came to our place for Memorial Weekend. We were fairly lucky and didn't have rain until Monday morning (instead of the whole weekend like last time they were all here). Activities included 4-wheeling with Ginny's family, visiting, a hot dog roast, target practice for the guys and a photo shoot for the girls, and festivities at the Historic Townsite, including the 5k walk for Ginny, Amanda, Becky, and myself.  The kids had a good time just playing on the farm. Other excitement was a new colt on Memorial Day and the purchase of a new horse for Autumn!

 Lynx's colt was born about 6 am on Memorial Day.

 Nieces and cousins playing in the back yard.

 Tango and Lynx loving all the attention (before Lynx had her colt).

 Hot dogs and s'mores!

 Imaginations run wild!

 Autumn's nieces (minus 2).

 Autumn and nieces

 Autumn's new horse, Cricket.

Flooding Spring 2011

What a wet Spring! Chris says this is the first time he's ever seen so much water that they have to sand bag the canal.