Cowgirl

Aspen and I went down to the Summercamp last weekend to help gather cows off the mountain. Aspen has ridden a fair amount at Grandpa Lambert's house and a few times at the ranch and other places, but this is the first time she has ridden, by herself in the mountains. Obviously ridding in the mountains with all the uphill, downhill, side hill, oak brush, cedar trees, fences, etc. is quite different. Aspen did AWESOME! She rode all over the ranch for nearly 2 days. She help gather the cows and never fell off once! :)

After spending 7+ hours in the saddle on Saturday, and another 4 Sunday morning - Aspen and I are both a little sore. But we had lots of fun and can't wait to do it again. (Thanks Holly for letting us go!)

Aspen's Shirt got snagged on some Oak Brush. Next time Daddy will get her a better shirt to wear.

Aspen found an Elk Shed.

After talking with Grandma Becky about when she was a little girl - Aspen had her heart set on riding bare back.

Polly Pockets

A couple of weeks ago a was just getting home from a hunting trip in Colorado. I opened the door to an empty house (Holly and the Kids were at Grandpa Strong's house). When I came into the front room I found this:





Apparently the was a Polly Pocket Parade or possibly Jessica was just having a hard time deciding what her Polly pockets would wear and decided to lay out their entire wardrobe on the floor. I thought is was cute. Jessica is definitely the Princess of our family!

Aspen Driving !!!

Last weekend Aspen and I went to the Summercamp for a weekend of Bow hunting. We had a good time despite the fact that we didn't get a deer. We saw some, but no shooters within bow range. It was good just to get away and spend some time in the mountains. We did see a lot of wildlife on the trip including: Deer, Elk, Bear, Coyote, Badger, Prairie Dog, & Sage Grouse. No great pictures as I left my camera's memory card at home in the computer. All I had was the camera on my phone.

Aspen spent a fair amount of time riding the 4-wheeler as well as a short ride on one of the ranch horses. But her highlight of the trip was when Daddy let her drive the truck!

I remember when I got my first chance to drive the old 1979 Toyota pickup truck that my Dad had when I was a kid. I'm not sure how old I was, but I definitely remember how much fun it was, and how big and grown up I felt.

As you can imagine Holly gave me the look when she found out and saw the video. :)

(I have been quite busy lately and have not updated the blog much. We are in our new home, have been for a couple months now. I need to take some pictures of the finished product and post them here. Of course "finished" is a relative word, the house may be done but that just opens the door to the next project - the Yard!)