Clayton Parade

We met Aunt Sissy, Uncle Ted and Jeremy in Clayton for the Parade. Mom & Dad went to Springer and got Grandma Nona and met us there.

Poor Ben I kept him locked up in the stroller I was afraid he would run out in the street. The big kids had a great time. They loved catching the candy that was thrown. One of the floats was throwing those drink cozies. My cousin Jeremy tried to get the kids to grab one for him, and they just looked at him like he was crazy. They were probably thinking that's not candy why would I want to get that.

Fireworks

It's really dry out at the Ranch this year so we weren't going to be able to set off fireworks this year out there so we got some and set them off in town. Raton only had one firework stand this year and they didn't have a lot of options but we got what they had that wasn't super expensive. I was shocked at some of the prices. Do people really spend that on fireworks. Any way Pictures of our firework show.

Riding our gator

Hailey & Jacob got this gator for Christmas a few years ago from Pappy. They haven't been able to play with it much because of where we live so last summer we took it to Raton where the kids would have more room to play with it. They had a great time riding it all over grandma Annie's yard.

A morning of hard playing wears a baby out. He fell asleep at the table eating lunch

Pretty flower weeds

West Pasture

Aunt Sissy needed to take a load of water to the West Pasture so we tagged along so the kids could see the cows too.

Hailey was Aunt Sissy's helper. I don't know how she does it with out her.



The boys both fell asleep in the truck on the way over there. So the slept through most of it.

I'm not very good at taking pictures of myself, but this one didn't turn out to bad.



We were talking about my babysitter Lucinda, and here came a momma cow with 5 or 6 babies. And A. Sissy told Hailey that that cow was a baby sitter cow. The kids got a big kick out of that.



Ben woke up and there were cows all around us and he gave them all dirty looks and looked at me like what are these big things and why are they making all that noise.

Pops

One of our favorite parts of going to the ranch is we get to ride Pops.


Hailey's always so excited to ride pops


Last year Jacob refused to ride he said it was scary but this year he told me "I'm gonna ride all by myself." but when we got over there he said "I think I'll ride with Hay" once he got up there though he told me "this isn't scary at all it's fun"

He really enjoyed it this year. Which I'm glad because I don't want him to be a big scardy cat.

Ben refused to get up there by himself and every time I tried to put him up there he would grab on to my head, scream and refuse to let go. So I decided to try to put him up there with the big kids. He was OK with that and found that it was actually fun.






He wanted another turn So I stuck him up there with Hailey





Hailey learns something new every time and this year she learned how to turn him by using her knee and the reins. She was so excited every time she got him to turn the way she wanted him to.



Ben Ben riding in the golf cart. There was no pleasing him when we wanted him in the golf cart so he wouldn't get stepped on he screamed and tried to climb out, and when we let him out to walk with the big kids he ran back and jumped in to get a ride.




Jacob was supervising Pops eating his dinner.

The golf cart

Aunt Sissy uses a golf cart to do her chores around her house. My kids think it's the best thing in the world and want to ride it all the time. They think it's a big toy.

The Ranch

Ben really bonded with Aunt Sissy's Puppy patches, Ben and her are both puppies so that had a lot in common. I would laugh at them patches would get to rough with Ben and knock him down and Ben would cry so then the next time she would start to get rough and Ben would grab her around the neck knock her to the ground and jump on top of her. We would laugh that he was practicing to be a bulldogger.

Patches likes to sit in the back of the golf cart so Ben decided he needed to climb in there with him. He wanted to be with his buddy.

Just a cute boy.

another cute boy.