Cattle Barrons

1st Swim Lessons at the YMCA!!

2010-06-08T19:57:00.001-07:00

Had a great time doing swim lessons with Brooke. She had so much fun. It did take a while for her to do some of the lessons but by the end she was doing them. Kicking her feet, blowing bubbles, going under water, floating on back, jumping in water and hiding her ears. Did some songs to keep them from getting too frustrated and to give them a break from a lesson. We start lessons again on June 14th.

Givens Hot Springs

2010-04-12T14:37:00.001-07:00

We went to Givens Hot Springs to have Brooke swim. Here is Daddy trying to get her to kick her feet and to blow bubbles.

She didn't like to get in at first but after a while she learn to love it.

Brooke's 1st Crab Feed

2010-04-12T14:10:00.001-07:00

In line at the Crab Feed.
Our friends:
Kelly, Jason, Kate and Peat

Brooke's first Crab Feed. She did eat her fair share even though you see her binky in her mouth.

Peat holding a bucket of Crab.
All you can EAT!!

Jason and Kelly enjoying their share of Crab.

Tuckered out from the Crab Feed and Camping.

Easter Fun 4/3/2010

2010-04-07T12:40:00.000-07:00

This was Brooke's 1st ever Easter Egg hunt. We have been hosting an annual Easter Egg hunt for the last 6 years for our family and friends. It has been fun to see all the kids run around looking for their eggs but this year was more fun because our daughter got to participate. She had lots of fun looking for her eggs.

Kids from Left to Right: Brooke, Cooper, Gus, Sean, Natalie, Molly and Austin.

Matthew and Jane also joined in but are not in picture.

They had lots of fun even though it was very cold.

We dyed 15 dozen eggs and had 28 plastic eggs with candy.

9 happy kids.

Trampoline Fun!!

2010-03-01T12:35:00.000-08:00

Brooke had so much fun on our friend's trampoline. She giggled the whole time she was in there. She hasn't got the hang of jumping on her own so she settled for sitting down and that was just as fun.

This picture is too funny. Daddy jumping with her.

Playing with her buddy, Brad, who is 22 months old.

Brooke's 1 Year Pictures

2009-09-21T20:06:00.001-07:00

My little Girl had such a fun day getting her pictures taken. My favorite one of her is hugging the bear. I am pleased how most of them turned out. Enjoy!

Best of Buddies!

2009-09-17T19:54:00.001-07:00

Brad, Brooke and Cooper are great playmates!! They are all very close in age. Brad is 16 months, Brooke 12 months and Copper 14 months. I had to take Brooke to Brad's mommy's house for a just a little bit today. It was great to hear she loves playing with them.

Brooke's 1st Birthday 9/4/2009

2009-09-06T14:50:00.000-07:00

We got her a Tinkerbell Adventure Hut. She loves going through the tunnel and all the bright colors on it.

We did a Champaigne Toast to our daughter at 3:16pm the time she was born on 9/4/2009. We can't believe how the year flew. She is just so fun to have. We are very proud of her and she is daddy's little girl.

Tinkerbell Chocolate Cake made by Grandma Austin.

Brooke's 1st taste of her Chocolate Cake made by Grandma Austin. She never got into the cake and as you can see she only ate the frosting.

Happy 95th Birthday Aunt Ethel!!

2009-08-18T19:32:00.001-07:00

We had a wonderful visit with my Great Aunt Ethel. She turned 95 this year. My Aunt Donna baked her a delish Carrot Cake and Aunt Ethel had Ice Cream. She was so surprised to have more company than she expected. She told lots of stories and was so fun to visit with. She is smart as a tack! I was able to video a little bit of our visit that I hope to someday share with my family. We left after a hour and a half visit however you could tell she wasn't ready for us to leave as I wasn't either. I hope to come back and visit with her again. She is an amazing woman.

Here are my Mom and Aunts with their Aunt Ethel.

St. Joe Fun!

2009-08-18T19:18:00.001-07:00

We had a good time this year at the St. Joe River however we truely missed our daddy who had to stay in Trapper Creek and finish a job. Our Smackdown winner for Appetizer is Aunt Ilene and signature drinks went to Aunt Donna and Aunt Carol! Congrats to all of you!! We couldn't believe it rained on us the first night and into the next afternoon. Brooke had a hard time wanting to stay in the camper. She is an outdoor girl. It finally cleared up and was able to enjoy being outside. We enjoyed our visit with everyone in our family. We played with our cousin Chloe, Riley, Elise and Cooper. They are all such fun kids! Booke is 11 months.

Mr. Cooper Surplus and Miss Elise Frazier both 4 years old.

Mr. Riley Frazier at 14 months.

Miss. Chloe Hammond at 13 months with her Grandma. (Aunt Donna)

Brooke 10 Months and Walking!!

2009-07-20T19:33:00.000-07:00

She started walking at the beginning of this month and is loving that she can go go go!! WOW how that has been great for us.

She is growing and getting to be a big girl ;>) She is eating pretty good and likes drinking water.
She is starting to say a few words here and there like up and baby. She loves dogs and gets excited when she is around one. We have a swing for her and she can be in that for hours. She loves to read her books. Daddy and I love to hear her tell us a story. It is neat to see that she can understand you when you say No or telling her what an object is when she points and I mean she points at EVERYTHING!

She points to the back door as she wants to be outside the moment she is up in the morning until she has to go to bed at night.
Loves ,Loves, Loves being outside.

4 Generations

2009-07-16T09:11:00.000-07:00

Brooke, Darin, Grandma (Diane) and GeGe (Margie).

Connor, Dan, Grandma (Diane) and GeGe (Margie).

Playing outside!

2009-05-28T20:06:00.000-07:00

Brooke is having fun!! She loves walking the chairs. I line them up so she can go back and forth and I also have her music stand there too. She would rather do this than sit on a blanket and she isn't too sure of crawling on the grass just yet. We stay outside for at least 3 hours. It just way too nice to stay inside in the afternoons!!

Brooke's first trip to the Oregon Coast

2009-05-28T19:38:00.000-07:00

While visiting Brooke's new cousin, Connor, we decided to go to the coast for a day. We went with Grandma and Grandpa Austin. She loved it!! .

She wanted to put her feet in the water with Grandpa's help and she wanted to walk up and down the sandy beach too. I think she loved the feel of the sand.

New Nephew!! Connor Daniel Austin Born May 13th, 2009

2009-05-28T19:18:00.000-07:00

Emily and Connor. Emily looks awesome and Connor is doing great.
I am so glad he is here!!

Holding my precious nephew!! We were so excited to meet him and had a wonderful time visiting the proud parents, Emily and Dan.

Mother's Day 2009

2009-05-11T10:15:00.001-07:00

On Mother's Day we went to CJ Strike that is about an hour away from Boise. Daddy went fishing with Nick and Beth. Brooke and I just hung out on the beach. It was a georgous day!! We brought our camper so she could take her naps (and mommy too). Darin caught 8 little crabbies. Beth caught a big one.
Daddy and Brooke spoiled Mommy with a wonderful card and a gift certificate to get a manicure, pedicure and a 50 min. swedish massage. I am looking forward to having a couple of spa days. Thank you very much!! I love you both so much!

Brooke and her toys! Hat was a challenge to stay on.

Tulips....Spring is here!

2009-04-29T20:13:00.000-07:00

Here are my Tulips that are just beautiful at this time of the year. I thought I would just share. Enjoy.

Brooke

2009-04-27T09:46:00.000-07:00

Here she is in summer outfits Oma got her. The purple dress she got when she was born and the pink outfit she got when Oma was here earlier this month. We are soo ready for warm weather!! She loves being outside. The warmer the better. She isn't a fan of the wind but who is?
She has figured out how to Clap. She does not want to learn to crawl yet. She would rather have me put my hands out and she holds them and walks. Once that takes place then I am in for it.
It is taking forever for her front tooth to come in and at the same time fighting a little cold.
She loves Gerber Sweet Potatoes finger food. She'll eat that rather than the food I make her UNLESS she is super hungery.
She is also getting more verbal. BABABAABAA and almost doing the Elvis lips moving her mouth around. She has also discovered her hands. Looking at them open/close while she drinks a bottle. It is cute. I hope all is well with everyone and we look forward to coming up north this summer. Dates pending but in the works ;>)

Easter Egg Hunt 2009

2009-04-16T13:26:00.000-07:00

Brooke with her 1st Egg

Here are the Kids that we had over to hunt for the eggs. Left to Right: Archie with his Grandma, Gus, Matthew, Sean with their Dad, Mike and sister Jane. Dave with his boys Brad, Luke and Alex. Brooke and I and then Lilly with her Dad, John.

Next year we hope to have Molly, Natalie and Austin to join us.

Happy Easter Everyone!!

Brad and Brooke

2009-03-31T20:59:00.001-07:00

Brad is my friend Amanda's youngest boy. I am babysitting him every Tues and Friday for 3 months. It is so fun. This has become a great thing for me and to have a playmate for Brooke. Brad is 10 months old and a very good boy. Brooke is a week shy of turning 7 months. They are becoming buddies. Brad can go all over the place while Brooke sits ;>) She'll get the hang of it in no time then I'll be chasing them all over the house ;>)

Underground Irrigation North Side Pasture

2009-03-31T20:34:00.000-07:00

Through snow and hard wind these hard working men, Doug, Darin and Uncle Mike, put in underground irrigation in the north pasture.
We will still use the wheel lines to irrigate the pastures but this location will save us time. So instead of transfering the hand lines back and forth we will keep those on the south side of our pasture.

Next ranch project...Fixing Fences!!

6 Months Old

2009-03-30T20:37:00.000-07:00

Isn't she CUTE!!??

I can't believe she is 6 months old. She does have 2 bottom teeth that are in.

Pictures were also taken with her Grandpa and Grandma Austin.

Camping and Crab Feed 2009

2009-03-16T13:18:00.000-07:00

Brooke enjoyed her first camping trip for the crab feed in Halfway, Oregon. Once we got there she talked nonstop!! She did so, so good. She loved being outside and sitting around the campfire. She even held her first pinecone and pineneedle. Grass wasn't ready to be explored yet. ;>) She slept great in the camper. We are set to go on more camping trips!!

Brooke and Daddy!!
She was watching all kinds of people. We are so glad she likes being in her backpack. Thank goodness we were able to borrow that camo snowsuit. It was perfect. The weather was just right. Not too cold to wait in line to get into the crab feed.

Our friends.... Jason, Kelly, John and Joni and behind me is Peat and Kate.

Crab was very, very good. We all ate way too much but that is what you're there for.

Brooke fell asleep as we got in and settled. While she slept in my arms Darin feed me big chunks of Crab!! Yummy.

Down for a catnap by the fire at our campsite.

Oma's pictures of Brooke

2009-02-16T14:15:00.000-08:00

Oma feeding me with Rice cereal mix with applejuice. I had fun she is a funny Oma :>) smiles Brooke

"Aren't I Cute?" says, Brooke

I Love Mommy! We hang out together.

I love Daddy! He makes me smile!

New Calf!

2009-02-06T20:18:00.000-08:00

Here is Momma with her new baby! Darin found him all cleaned up this morning.

He is big boy weighing at 98 lbs!

5 months old!

2009-02-06T20:03:00.000-08:00

Brooke is growing and is more fun each day. She is such a happy little girl that melts Daddy's heart.
She loves storytime at the Library on Wednesdays and visits to our friend Amanda's house to play with her kids. She is learning to take a bottle and so far it is going ok. She has moved to the crib and is mostly sleeping through the night! Her favorite thing to do is to stand. She laughs when she does it. She almost can sit up on her own. We are still working on her rolling on to her tummy. By next month she should be eating, crawling, sitting and drinking all on her own! Where does the time go?

Brooke is 4 months old!!

2009-01-08T19:54:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone!! Hugs and Kisses to OMA and PAPPA, AUNTS, UNCLES, COUSINS and GRANDMA and GRANDPA!!

I am discovering my voice and love to talk and scream so loud in the mornings!! I like to touch Mommy and Daddy's faces, taking my baths at night where I splash water all over the tub. I also enjoy my Saucer/bouncer. I am drooling a lot and like to chew on other people fingers and I love when Mommy and Daddy massages my gums. I can't wait for warmer weather so that Mommy and I can go outside more.

Winter Wonderland

2008-12-20T15:54:00.000-08:00

We went for a Saturday afternoon drive up to Anderson Dam. It was a beautiful drive and saw a few bald eagles, deer, elk and antelopes.

Mommy is staying home!

2008-12-18T10:58:00.000-08:00

Mommy is staying at home with me and not going back to work. I get to play and have fun with her all day! Thank you Daddy! See me playing with my saucer/jumper Oma? Thank you very much. I am getting better on my tummy too and I like seeing myself in the mirror.

Christmas Tree Hunting 2008

2008-12-08T11:59:00.000-08:00

Here we are with the 3 of us in front of our Christmas Tree. We went with our friends John, Heidi and their daughter Lilly. The little girls did great. We had fun and enjoyed our time together with our friends in finding the perfect tree.

Thankful for lots of Love

2008-12-06T19:48:00.000-08:00

This year I want to thank our lucky star. Darin and I are thankful for a very beautiful healthy baby girl. Tony and Heidi a very handsome young man and a great big sister. Lindsey and Clay a beautiful healthy baby girl as well. We are thankful that everyone in our family is healthy and all are doing well.

Look who is Smiling!!

2008-11-18T07:38:00.000-08:00

Here she is smiling and having a conversation with me. When she does have focus on me boy does she ever put on a super big grin! She loves talking and is doing it more and more with me as the day goes on.

This is her talking to me.

Total concentration on me while I was making all sorts of sounds and movements of my mouth. Love this picture of her.

Miss Brooke at 2 months

2008-11-11T19:02:00.001-08:00

Our little girl is now a little over 2 months old. She is smiling and is talking. She weighs 9 lbs 9 oz. (I can't get a good picture of her smiling I miss it every time I took a picture) She loves to talk to Mommy in the mornings and while she gets her diaper changed. We play a lot of animal sounds and talk about our day and the Thanksgiving Holiday that is coming up. We are excited to have her meet more family. She just started to suck on her hands and sometimes she will talk during and occassionly she will find her thumb. She is just so Cute!

Zoe

2008-11-07T15:00:00.000-08:00

Taking a nap in the sun.

Trick or Treat!

2008-10-31T20:02:00.000-07:00

Happy Halloween Everyone!

Open Weekend Success!

2008-10-28T20:08:00.000-07:00

What a Beauty! 5x5 Bull Elk. Well worth the 32 mile hike put into this hunt.

Miss.Brooke

2008-10-06T20:13:00.000-07:00

She got her one month old pictures done today. She showed her model instinct!! Announcements on the way.

1st week home

2008-09-14T20:37:00.000-07:00

Brooke has discovered her thumb!! She is one week old in this picture. She is doing so well. She had her check up with her dr and she weighed 5lbs 14oz 19 inches long. Dr said she looks great and will surpass her birth weight by the end of the 2nd week. We are very proud of her!!

My brother and his family came down to see Brooke. Here is Elise the oldest cousin seeing her for the first time and giving her lots and lots of kisses. Darin and I also had awesome help from Oma and Papa and Aunt Heidi and Uncle Tony. Thank you for all you've done for us this week!!

Welcome Baby Austin!

2008-09-08T10:15:00.000-07:00

Here she is! Our perfect little Angel.
We want to welcome our daughter Brooke Danielle who was born on September 4th at 3:16pm. She weighed 6 lbs and is 20 inches long.

Daddy's Little Angel!

Daddy dressed her in her first outfit to go home. We left on Saturday afternoon and what a beautiful day it was.

All dressed and ready to go home!

Thanks you all at St. Luke's who helped Mommy and Daddy and I.

Opening Day!

2008-09-01T20:29:00.000-07:00

It was a hour and half of bliss!

34 Doves

4 guys and 3 Dogs

"PRICELESS"

St. Joe Family Smackdown 2008

2008-09-01T19:53:00.000-07:00

My first glass of WINE in 8 months!! It was very good and it was great to share that moment with Heidi and Mom.

Here is Aunt Krista and Uncle Darin's Favorite Little Princess Elise and Mr. Riley Frazier!

Baby Shower with my Family. Thank you all for such great Gifts!!

Darin and Jason hanging out waiting to be judged on their Dessert.

The Smackdown Dutch Oven WINNER!! Tony and Heidi took the prize. It was a delish, dutch oven cake.

Enjoy that trophy!! We will come back and WIN ;>)

Bull Trout Lake

2008-09-01T19:41:00.000-07:00

This place is beautiful. We camped here in July and the weather was perfect. Great weekend to get away as it was getting too hot in Boise. Its not far from Stanley, ID. We camped with our friends John and Heidi and their daughter Lilly. We did NOTHING but relaxing and hanging out.

Hay is in for Winter!

2008-07-09T20:05:00.000-07:00

Wahoo! The Hay is in!! Thanks to Pete. They started at 7 am and finished about 1 in the afternoon. Giving Pete breaks as needed. He stacked 504 bails of hay by himself. Darin was able to use a skidsteer to haul in 6 bails at a time and bring it to Pete's level to stack. That was a big help! Doug and Darin are very thankful to get this in before mother nature decides it wants to rain.

Baby Austin's Nursery

2008-07-09T19:45:00.000-07:00

The Baby's Nursery is painted over the 4th of July Thanks to Grandpa and Daddy to be!! It only took them a hour to get it done and did a second coat the next day. I like it and yes it is bright. I hope that the furniture and decor will balance it out. The Furniture is on its way and will put that up when it is here.

New Baby Calves!!

2008-06-09T19:28:00.000-07:00

This is our 4th baby calf this year. He is an all white face bull calf!! Our Idaho had a hard time with this little guy! Thank goodness Darin was there when he arrived. He was flipped upside down when he was born. With quick action Darin straightened him out and moved him onto the grass and Idaho came to clean him up quickly.

This is our 5th and last baby born for this year. He was born on May 31st while Darin and I were up in Coeur d'

Alene for the weekend.

He arrived with no issues. ;>)

Memorial Day Weekend

2008-06-09T18:47:00.000-07:00

This River is the North Fork. This was our view from our Bed in our Camper. We saw a cow Elk cross this river around 9:30pm. We also saw Eagles and lots of Blue Herons.

The White Cloud Mountains were really neat to see up the East Fork of the Salmon River.
We saw all kinds of Deer.

This waterfall was very close to our campsite.

One of the many beautiful sceneries we saw up the East Fork of the Salmon River.

Anniversary Inn

2008-04-28T18:13:00.000-07:00

We stayed at the Anniversary Inn on April 19th to celebrate our 2 year anniversary. We stayed in the Swiss Family Robinson Room. It was very nice. The Breakfast the next morning was delish. We had a shower that water came out of an elephant's nose with the tub surrounded by rocks. Our bed was up the stairs onto a "treehouse".
This was a gift given to us from a Dentist Darin help build his office. He thought that Darin did above and beyound and wanted us to have some time together. Thank you, Dr. and Mrs. Klure.

April Fools!

2008-04-06T10:52:00.000-07:00

Welcome our baby girl calf that was born on April Fools. Here she is with her Momma. Darin and I were able to watch her be born. Again, no assistance needed by us. She looks exactly like Uno who was born four days earlier than her.

We watch these two play together in the evenings. Their Momma's have to smell them in order to tell them apart. It is fun to watch. We were told that Uno is a bull calf but she is a girl. ;>)

2008 New Baby Calf!

2008-03-30T14:29:00.000-07:00

Here is Uno 2008! (Names are starting over for 2008.)

He was born on friday March 28th early in the morning. Momma was able to have him all by herself with no assistance. ;) He weighs 87 lbs. By the time I headed to work he was all cleaned up and walking around checking things out.

Here he is getting a good bath from Momma. He is very clean and soft baby.

Momma and Uno side by side. She is very good with him. Always on the lookout and keeping him close to her.

Austin's Easter 2008

2008-03-30T14:09:00.000-07:00

Here is the Gang!! Arhie, Jett, Gus, Sean, Matthew, Alex and Luke. They are all lined up and ready to go.

This our cousin's youngest boy Gus. He got himself quite a few eggs ;>)

This is Jett who was our youngest egg hunter. He did pretty good for a one year old. He is pictured here with his Dad, Cody.

This is Alex who immediatly devours his egg ;>) He is our friends Dave and Amanda's oldest boy.

This is Luke with a blue egg. He is our friends Dave and Amanda's boy.

Crab Feed 2008

2008-03-16T20:05:00.000-07:00

It was that time of the year again to head to Oregon for the all you can eat Crab Feed. It's also the time to get out our Camper for the season. We camped in Oxbow about 17 miles outside of Halfway, OR. This campsite is great. This time of the year it is inexpensive to camp and includes a nice hot shower!! We camped there for 2 nights. It was a very nice warm weekend. Our friends John and Joni joined us Saturday and stayed the night.

Here we all are at the Crab Feed!! As expected the line was long and we barely made in for the first round. It was very fresh -good-eating crab. I ate nothing else but crab and drank good ol Sprite ok...I did eat a little bit of garlic bread. We hope to continue this because we enjoy our first camping trip weekend get away. We will have a new addition to the family next year and hope that he/she will enjoy it as much as Mommy and Daddy does ;>)

Winter Wonerland!

2008-02-03T12:13:00.000-08:00

Between 5:00 -6:00am down came the snow!! Darin took our tractor and plowed down our driveway, back around our house and in the riding arena.

Our poor dogs were stuck in their house. This snow drift covered their water bucket. Darin did shovel it out.

New Carpet is in!!!!

2008-02-03T11:36:00.000-08:00

Here is Darin working on getting all the staples removed. We decided that we would remove the old carpet ourselves. We removed all the carpet including our bedrooms 3 weeks in advance. It wasn't too bad removing the old carpet but we both couldn't believe how dirty and filthy the old carpet was.

Here I am vaccuming up the loose paddings and staples and the dirt that you wouldn't believe. It was a dirty job. I can't believe we let kids crawl around in this carpet!!!

Here it is. It was instald Jan. 23rd. This carpet has specks of green, brown and light cream. I am very please on how it turned out. We also put this carpet in 3 of our bedrooms. It smells so good and feels so nice, we finally have fresh clean carpet.

The Austin's Family Cruise /Panama Canal

2007-12-09T18:04:00.001-08:00

This is our Princess Cruise Ship. There were about 2000 people on this ship with 850 staff workers. It is a huge ship. There was a casino, movie theatre, 2 resturants, bars, a buffett, 2 pools, hot tubs galore, gym, spa, just to name a few. We sure had a great time relaxing and being with our family.

The Panama Canal. This is an amazing experience. This picture was taken from our balcony and you can see another ship behind us. This ship is 87 feet above sea level and before it can move forward the water ahead of him has to rise to 87 feet also. There are six total locks, 3 on the Pacific side and 3 on the Atlantic side. It is gravity driven no pumps. There is a canal captain steering us along with little trains pulling against us to keep from hitting the sides of the lock. It is very interesting and amazing experience. This took most of the day to go through.

Huatituko, Mexico. Our first Port. Dan, Emily, Darin and I went into town and looked around. We were there for only 4 hours. It is a beautiful place. We will hopefully come back someday. I love Mexico.

Emily and I went and did wine tasting on our Princess Cruise Ship. It was set up in our Dining area were we ate our dinners. We were able to taste samples of Chardonnay from Kendall-Jackson, Pinot Noir from La Crema, Cabernet Sauvignon from Wolf Blass (Australia)Sauvignon Blac from Errazuriz and Sauvignon Blac from Nobilo. From this we recieved a shooter glass to take home. It was fun.

In Costa Rica Diane, Doug, Darin and I went on a Countryside tour and Coffee plantation tour. It was very fun.

As you can see I volunteered to taste their coffee. I am smelling the coffee aroma by continuously sturring my spoon. HMMMM!!!

Only if you had smellavision. ;>) With your spoon you would then slurp your coffee instead of sipping it. You get more flavor from the coffee that way.

They used a coffee press instead of a coffee maker. BIG difference. I got a complementary hat.

Sunset from Aruba.

Aruba is only 19 miles long 6 miles wide. Beautiful white sandy beaches and blue water. The whole island looks like a desert with cactus galore.

We were able to rent a van and tour the island ourselves. We went to a beach and swam for a while and then drove around the rest of the island exploring.

Opening Day Success!!!

2007-11-04T17:07:00.000-08:00

Opening Day Success!!!

Darin can't believe hunting season is over.

I am looking forward to good eats.

Quatro has Arrived!!

2007-09-29T17:19:00.000-07:00

Yes, SHE has arrived all by herself. Her Momma is the one behind her and did a fine job of delivering. Whew! We are so so Glad!!!

She was born on 9/28 sometime between 5:00pm -6:30pm because I discovered her at 6:50pm.

She is tiny compared to Tres who was born 5 days earlier.

Well, sadly but thankfully this concludes our newborns of 2007. We will be expecting our first Uno 08 in March 2008. It has been a successful year of all our new arrivals. Hopefully next year we will have the same success.

Baby Girl Tres

2007-09-29T17:14:00.001-07:00

She is one day old in this picture. She is doing really well. She and her Momma join the others in the pasture.

Its a GIRL! Baby Cow

2007-09-24T16:32:00.000-07:00

This is Tres and she was born this morning. Momma' s water broke just after 7:00am and she arrived at 9:20 am. She had to have help from Darin and Pete. She is doing just fine. She is just a beauty.

I will post more pictures of her up close.

St. Joe 1st. Annual Smackdown Babyback Ribs Competitors

2007-07-30T20:45:00.000-07:00

Tony has offically opened the 1st annual Smackdown Cookoff.

Holmes is preparing his Smoken Smackdown Babyback Ribs.....

As Darin is preparing his Winning (later announced) Smackdown Babyback Ribs.

Silver Creek Plunge

2007-06-19T20:25:00.001-07:00

This is Silver Creek on your way up to Silver Creek Plunge, Idaho.
Beautiful drive.

Here is our campsite at Silver Creek Plunge. We were right next to the road. It was about the only place available when we arrived late friday night. We scouted for better camp spot the next day but no such luck. It is a beautiful drive up there however, we will not return to this area to camp again. There were way too many people and dirt bikes going up and down the road all day long and there weren't many places to go in order to get away from all the campers . The hot spring was a nice set up but again too many people and not that warm. It was not to our expectations. We heard coyotes at night and saw some Elk foot prints around our campsite. If you want to ride on your dirt bike all day long this is the place to be but if your looking for peace and quite we don't recommend camping here.

New Arrival !

2007-06-13T20:40:00.000-07:00

Please welcome the arrival of Dos. June 12th between 5:00-6:30pm he finally arrived!!
We were expecting him to arrive on his due date June 10th but nope ...not quite yet he wasn't ready. Darin kept a close eye on Momma making sure she was ok and to see how close she is getting but with all the chores going on too we missed this exciting time of his arrival. His momma did all the work and we are very proud of her. Darin found him at this spot in our pasture all cleaned up and walking! We are sorry we missed it all. It was a very different experience from when we had Uno.

He is a soft little fella!! We are very happy with his markings.

Up close his has very long and beautiful eyelashes.

Rough Day!!!

2007-06-11T18:11:00.000-07:00

Here is our first bull calf, Uno, that was born in March. He is 3 months old now and has no idea as to what is just about to happen to him.

Uno is patiently waiting as Darin and Brady set up the calf table.

Locked down!

OMG!! What the Heck???
He didn't know he was going to be turned to his side.

Momma hanging around her baby as she didn't like him being helpless. He didn't know what was going on and probably that was a good thing.

Dr. Renner castrating as Darin and Rob assist.

Dr. Renner branding.

Here is what our brand looks like.

Miss. Idaho and Black Momma

2007-06-05T20:59:00.000-07:00

Here is Miss. Idaho and Black Momma hanging out in the pasture.

Black Momma is pregnant and is due on September 22nd. We will AI Miss. Idaho this month.

Firewood

2007-06-05T20:50:00.000-07:00

This picture is the second of three loads from ONE tree. Its all home now and a total of four cords of wood!! What a nice relaxing weekend we had :^)

First Cutting

2007-06-05T20:35:00.000-07:00

This is our first cutting from our west side pasture of 12 acres. We were able to get 295 bails of hay.

Zack and his brother Ben helped us stack our bails into the barn. It was a very hot (98*) day. Did these two "city slickers" know what they were getting themselves into and will they do it again?? We think not!! They did worked hard and did a great job. We appriciated the help very much.

Thank you.

Campsite at Burgdorf Guard Station

2007-05-29T21:22:00.000-07:00

This was our spot for the weekend. We loved it. There were 2 more places available but no one came. It was just Darin, I, Henry (the host) and his wife. We felt we choosen a great spot to camp. We would come back to this place again.

We were soaked from the rain earlier in the day. A warm fire built by Darin hit the spot.

War Eagle Lookout

2007-05-29T20:57:00.000-07:00

We tried to get to War Eagle Lookout but couldn't get through with the snow.
This fire burned in 1995. Can't believe how much this area is gone. It is pretty on the way up but once you've reached a certain area and as far as you can see there is nothing but burned trees that were once standing there.

Here is our bike that we tried to get through to get to the lookout but we ended up pushing it back out the way we came in and it was a good thing because we found out later that the rest of the way still had snow.

Elk Heaven

2007-05-29T20:35:00.000-07:00

Burgdorf Meadow is just absolutely beautiful. We saw about 50+ Elks during our stay. This is heaven to them. The young ones were playing "tag" by running in circles around the adults and then kicking each other with their front legs. It was a sight to see. It was the perfect time of the year to see all of this.

Summitt View

2007-05-18T18:09:00.001-07:00

It was May 6th and we were on top of the Galena Summitt (8990 ft) with a beautiful background view of the Sawtooth Mountain Range. This drive is between Ketchum to Stanley, Idaho.

Fish Hatchery

2007-05-03T18:13:00.000-07:00

After feeding the ducks we went to the fish and game hatchery and saw lots of fish. She like this and always wanting to see more.

Feeding the Geese

2007-05-03T18:09:00.000-07:00

Sunday Morning we all went to Ann Morrison park to feed the ducks and geese. There were a lot of geese and some had babies too. She had a great time giving BIG size bread to them. She was fun to watch.

Zoo Boise with Elise

2007-05-03T18:00:00.000-07:00

Heidi and Elise and Mom came down to visit me last weekend. I took all of them to Zoo Boise. Elise enjoyed all the animals they had there. The Monkey were the most memoriable because they were in action of swinging and singing. She also enjoyed seeing the Turtles as you see in this picture here. The Day at the Zoo was beautiful and fun.

Homemade Wine for our Anniversary.

2007-04-24T16:21:00.000-07:00

Darin and I celebrated our 1 year anniversary!!
We opened a bottle of homemade wine that was given to us at our wedding and was told wait until our one year anniversary to open it. It was well worth the wait as we both enjoyed the aroma and flavor of this wine.

1 yr. Anniversary Wine

2007-04-24T16:18:00.000-07:00

Here is what is looks like when poured into the glass.

Wine with Filet Minon, Jumbo Shrimp,

Ceaser Salad and sauted mushrooms.

Elise's Egg

2007-04-08T20:11:00.000-07:00

Looky here girl, Aunt Krista and Uncle Darin found your egg. ;>)

Hunting for more..

2007-04-08T20:09:00.000-07:00

Micheal John's boys

Matthew, Sean and Gus.

Egg Hunt at the Ranch

2007-04-08T20:05:00.000-07:00

Here are a few pictures of friends and cousin's kids that had a great time finding the Easter Eggs.

2007-04-07T18:54:00.000-07:00

Here is what it looks like now, we will get better pics when we can roll it outside. But this is right after the last coat went on.

New Paint!

2007-04-07T18:51:00.000-07:00

Here is what it looked like before.

Just Started

2007-04-04T20:10:00.000-07:00

We have just started our site to give you and idea of what goes on with the ranch. Enjoy!!