July 10, 2013

A Day in Colorado

Not to overwhelm you with pictures, but these pictures all did occur on the same day. It was a good day. 

And a lot of these pictures are courtesy of Geoff and Jocelyn. But I am not going to go through and label each one. But know they took a lot of the nice ones. 


Columbine by the back step. A good way to start the day.


Picnic breakfast under the tree. This looks idyllic, but actually the kids were hooting and hollering around in the house and I didn't want to wake everyone, so after telling them 10 times to be quiet, I gave up and decided to picnic. 


The kids loved the rose bushes. They had a secret hiding spot back behind the rose bushes. 


Orianna put up signs for their secret spot. One said "No smoking" one said "No kissing." At least we got the important things clear. 


Shucking corn


Poppa showing Aislyn how to do it



Proud Lily


Sunshine-y Orianna


Loy helping Gilbert


Love this picture. 


Elsie being goofy


And Aislyn had to do it too


Digging


Loyzer girl and her puppies


Cousins


Larissa and Orianna


Brylan and Gilbert


Rissy helping Gilbert. 


We had a birthday day, with birthday presents for everyone from Poppa and Dawna and Jerad and Mandy


Orianna got a new cowgirl hat. So terribly pleased.


Elsie laughing at Fido


Brylan telling something or asking something. He even involves his foot. What a kid!


Aunt Jocelyn imparting knowledge


Elsie June-a


Orianna took some pictures. This one is sort of cool. 


And this one is very nice


A roping dummy 


Gilbert was tuckered out


Moving cows to the corral



Love this picture of Mick and Justin






Then we all walked up to the corrals to watch them brand and innoculate the two late calves





Sweet girl



Roping the calf


Got him!


He was hard to throw. It took Justin and Jerad to do it.


The watching crew


Little cowgirl


Branding. 


Boots


Justin holding the next calf


It looks dead, but it isn't. 


Geoff 




Girls


I know, I took a lot of pictures of Orianna this day. She was cute in her new hat!


Those Cotten boys


Elsie feet


Toes


That's my cowboy


Grinning Lily


Love this picture




Jocelyn and Geoff


Justin having a cowboy moment


Mandy and Jerad waiting



Geoff and Aislyn


Mick yakking on the phone


On the way down from the corrals


Cowgirl shadow


Fence and grass


Grandma Dawna letting Brylan drive


Larissa and Orianna pushed Elsie home


Roses on the table



Bringing the horses home



Love this



Letting the horses eat, unsaddled


A watusi cattle. And no, I don't know how to spell it. 


They have huge horns. Their necks must be all muscle.


The horn base is gigantic.


Then Poppa took the kids for horse rides.


Aislyn


Jerad and Aislyn


Poppa admiring his grand-daughter. 



Orianna





Lily


Aislyn's foot. Isn't this an awesome picture? I know Jocelyn took this one. 


Comparing hats


Jerad and Elsie. 


A very tired little cowboy was roused out of bed to come see the horse riding. 



Isn't he cute?


Love this!


Then Jerad took Mandy on a ride and had her wave at us all too. 


Mandy's Fido


Kids in sunlight. Cooking up a play for us


It was a variation of Hansel and Gretel. 


Gilbert and Aislyn had no scripted part. They were the comic relief




Mandy danced with Fido during intermission. 


Birthday cake for Orianna and Elsie


Elsie all caked out.

2 comments:

Cecil and Amy said...

There are some AWESOME pictures in this post. The land is beautiful. It's also neat to see Justin in his "other" life.

Evan and Clover and Co. said...

What an idyllic day! It combines all that's awesome about ranching/Colorado/grandparents/cousins into one post. Definitely some frame-able pictures in there.