These are the puppies Jip has just had on March 1, 2010. They are at our house in Camp Verde now so people can come and look at them. Jip is happy to be back at work chasing cows.

There are 8 puppies. 3 short haired and 5 long haired. We are keeping 2 for the ranch.

This puppie we're going to have to name Hollywood because she liked to get her picture taken. They are all marked a little differently, some are already shy and some are after all the chow they can get. Sounds just like kids!

Cliff and I were able to go to one of Tyler's football games. GO BEARS! This is Destry's son and lives in Payson with his mom Jamie.

Tylers the smallest dude on the team but dynomite comes in small packages too. They won the games by 2 touchdowns. I don't think I like little guys being able to get hurt this bad but... the pads must work cause it looks like they had a good time and they pay money to do this.

Cliff said some hunters came in and said they found a cow with her head stuck in a tree. We don't know if she developed a taste for honey and was lookin for some or what, but he had to cut her out.

The hunters tried to prop her up with some logs so she could lift her head out, but it didn't work. She just patiently waited while Cliff cut her out and away she ran. Hopefully a bit wiser. Moral: He that pries into every cloud may be stricken with a thunderbolt...or watch where you stick your head, you might get stuck.

tryin' again

Destry showed up to help us brand. He brought some friends to help with the bull-doggin', but they bailed for some fun some where else (he must be running with a smart crowd now)

We had enough help to not need the chute. Coby and some friends, as well as Bill, Wade, Denver and Megan all pitched in. We just roped and drug to the fire. Megan sports a mean vaccine!

This picture shows the

"Smokin Crooked H Brand"

YEH! We got the fireplace done. You can see Bill's mantel above the rock work. Nikki's daughter Paysen is our model. We were watching the kids for a week so Nikki and Caleb could get away for a little vacation before he deploys for a....YEAR! Yikes.

This is the cabin in Happy Jack. The outside is about done but the inside is pretty primitive (if that's what you call blankets for bathroom doors) We're probably done for the year and will add lights, cabinets and floor covering next year. After all, the guys say we don't want to work ourselves out of a job. Come and see us. We're there until October.

blogging solo, yeh right!

This is "Rosie", Paysen decreed it so. Nikki is going to keep her untill she gets big enough to start training on the ranch. Jip has had 5 litters now and deserves retirement. We're going to have to find a new Dad Dog too, unless there's a market for two headed puppies.

This is Nikki's daughter Paysen with one of the bunch.

I wish we could keep the kids little like puppies too.

This is all 8 puppies with 8 of the grand kids (left to right) Porter (Nikki's) Madalyn (Tara's) McKenna and Megan(Dawn's) Paysen (Nikki's) Cori (Tara's) Kyle (Dawn's) Ben (Tara's)

It's beautiful at the ranch but the summer rains haven't come yet. If you have any extra credit coming from your prayers, could you send it our way for some rain. The tanks are getting dry and the grass is curling up. Cliff got released from being the Bishop and they put him back on the High Council. I haven't got kicked out of Gospel Doctrine teacher yet, but I'm working on it. The Antique Shop is still doing great, even though it's stuff people want, not what they need. Every day is a gift. I'm going to squeeze in some teaching with all my spare time (Junior high Art and Home-Ec) sounds like fun now, later maybe not. Well this will probably be my annual blog since I get to this only once a year, So...have a good year.

Colton gave me yet another bloggin' lesson. I'll try to do it often enough to remember. Cliff doesn't want me to because he said I won't stop at personal info not meant for the world. He's probably right. The kids don't want me to because you'll all know what big dorks we really are. They're probably right too. Hey...you already know, so here goes nothing.

We finally finished the cabin enough to move in so we played "Move that trailer" with Dawn's kids. It's been along time coming and it's great to have it gone. The cabin has lots of room for everyone(although we just have blankets over the doorways for now) Who cares! We can run amuck now with the grandkids Nascar racing around the deck. What fun we are already having.