A little Ranch History

The little hill was part of the original Louisiana Purchase

The first building in the area, it has gun sights built in all around. It is the greenest it has ever been due to our monsoon weather.

It was 2 weeks ago we did a last minute Scottsbluff trip, we left at 3pm dropped the boys off at my parents(remember we do not do roadtrips with boys) especially since we had to take the truck. Got to Scottsbluff at 6:30 went to dinner with April then to a oregon trail days carnival. It was a late night. Sunday, meeting with Kip and Coleen, then April brought dinner to their house and cooked while Big daddy consulted on their sprinkler system. It was almost 4pm and we needed to go except now Jade associates Scottsbluff with ice cream, which meant we had to go to the Creamery. We got to the Ranch at 5:30, Dennis wanted to head to where they were haying.

Convention kids

Olivia and a couple of Eloise's girls

20 adopted kids, missing just 4 that we know of.

Hangin' loose

Ok this is just too cute!

For those that are not on FB, here are the pictures of the adopted kids at convention.

Caught in the middle of ?

Cole is back, between conventions Cole had invited Peyton to stay with us. I felt sorry for Peyton because I was so busy that I never really cooked a meal or took them anywhere exciting. It was just survival. But, strange things happen to us so Peyton got to live our wild life!
After we dropped off Drew at civil air patrol we stopped by Wendy's at Colo Blvd and Alameda to get dinner for the rest of us. We heard police sirens and didn't really think anything of it. After we had gone through the drive through I handed the bags back to Cole to see if we got everything...of course not! We were missing both french fries, so I pulled into a parking space and hopped out, leaving Cole and Peyton with the girls. I noticed a helicopter above me and it looked like he was circling my vehicle, that seemed a little wierd...then I noticed a police car parked on Alameda blocking all the cars...and then another police car came screaching up to the other side of the parking lot, a cop jumps out pulls his gun and runs towards the Wendys. I was only half way across the parking lot, I look up and the helicopter is still circling. I decided we are going to skip fries tonight! I run back to the car, and got us out there as quick as I could! Cole tells the story that I was driving 90 through the parking lot. Peyton ended up with a great story to tell his parents! We never saw anything in the news that told us what really happened but the boys have come up with some good stories. I am starting to think that Suburban of mine attracts strange happenings ! At least we didn't get shot in it this time!

Convention Kitties

Remember the kittens that Trent wanted to get a home for? They were the hot ticket out here! Hoards of kids wanting to play with the 3, and then Trent showed up with 4 more...and then the Black cat had 5 kittens on Sunday in the garage.

More June parties ending with Delaney's

Kelly the party queen

Jade Ali Rachael and Anna

Blowing out the cool chinese candle

Coolest candle when the sparklers start to go off.

You light it and it opens, does sparklers and sings

The Anhui girls and my girls at missy Z

Playing with the wagon.

Hotchkiss and Cole

Amy and her boys, the one behind her is a nephew

Patty Kelsie and Darrell

The Raz6pack

Kelsie and girls

Amy and Coy from Norwood

Big Daddy and his girls

The kids in the mid teens

With the boys birth great-grandparents

We went to Hotchkiss to see how Cole was doing...fine...except it is "work"!! He pulled the real pitty party on Grandma, and me! We were almost succumbing to it except if he did come home from the ranch he would just sleep till noon, hang with friends... so basically nothing! So, Big daddy told him that he had to be a man of his word and fulfill his obligation which is only 5 more weeks... He has made some awesome friends and the influence is amazing. If we took him now it would just evaporate. But, mark my words, I bet he can convince some one in the Pagosa springs area to bring him to Elizabeth...I would be surprised if he doesn't! He really has developed a love for convention. It was great to see Patty and Darrell again.

Scottsbluff on Tuesday seeing the cousins

Sharon, Terry and Rio

Edwinna, Paul and Cheryl

Stanley and Rio, you can tell Rio is a Williams!

Big daddy and Jeri

Dianne, Gma and Tisha

Ron, Bob and Dianne

This turned out cute!

Danny's boys

Danny says chasing around a 17month old is much harder in your mid 40's!

Danny and Sharon

Rick and Irene, Kim and Karla

Rick's Derick and Judy

Everyone was starting to leave and I quickly snapped a few pictures. Big daddy's aunt, his mom's sister lost her fight to cancer. We had not seen some of the cousins since the 80's.