Hay Is For Horses!

Time for our annual hay purchase. I'm going to put the logistics of this transaction on my blog as I can never find the receipt when it comes time to buy again next year. Steve always wants to know when we bought the last hay and how much we paid. 64 bales of grass hay @9.50 per and 64 bales of alfalfa @ 8.00 per bale. Thanks Trey for the help. Trey and Steve had the first 64 bales put away and stacked in 30 minutes and the next 64 in 45 minutes! We couldn't have done it without ya.....well we coulda but it would have taken a lot longer. Ha! I love my handsome boys.

Santannah was helping put it away his way.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TREY!

Trey is "25"

I don't know where the time has gone......Trey is my baby? CRAZY

We went to Flagstaff to CELEBRATE Trey's big day. Did I mention how cool the weather was in Flag. We had rain on the way home too!Look how Brinton distrusts us...all we wanted was for him to smell the pine tree.

We went to a bird show and on a little nature walk. The gangs almost all here.

Trey's self portrait.

Charlotte liked the pine tree, uh a lot. Weird.

We decided this pine tree smelled like butterscotch. A new flavor.

This is a Nixin hug. I luv it when she does this and its usually at a dead run.

Nixin loves her PaPa!

They had two Ravens that were trained to take a folded dollar bill from you and place it in the container. Smart birds the raven.

Nixin didn't want to do this at first but she finally did give the Raven a dollar.

Awesome!

Little imps with a little imp.

Umm, not sure exactly what Jenna and Nixin were doing but they had a good time.

Here is the nature portion of our walk.....There was much more. They had a plant called Lamb's ear. The leaves were as soft as a new born lamb. Unbelievable.

We went to Boot Barn and I tried these boots on Nixin. When it came time to put her shoes back on I tried but she said "No, boots"! Whatz G-Mama goin to do......give her the boots! They light up when she walks. Too cute! Brexton and Cote got walking sticks for our next hike.

We ended with a great dinner at Salsa Brava.

We luv you Trey and Jenna!

The Calgary Stampede

We had a fabulous time at The Calgary Stampede! I wanted to experience it once in my lifetime and now I can cross it off my "bucket list". Don't have too many pics as the action is way to fast to capture and we did have some rain on and off. We attended the Rodeo, the Chuck Wagon races, participated in a Flap Jack flip and catch competition,did some sight seeing, had the best prime rib dinner of my life and the worst two hamburgers on the face of the planet(truly the worst) lots of walking,watched a cutting horse competiton, a miniature horse show (Amanda would have loved it) saw Bill Anderson of the Grand Ole Opry perform,a grandstand show with singing,dancing,motor cross and fireworks. WoW!

I found the people of Avatar in Calgary Canada! Very friendly........

Makutu's Island with the Boys

Steve and I had a great time with Cote, Crew, Brexton and Cole. We took them to Makutu's Island where everyone had fun climbing,playing games and eating pizza. Crew showed us all how to play Deal or no Deal! Then the boys spent the night and we went to see "The karate Kid" movie and In N Out burger for lunch.

We missed Martin as he was out of town...I guess we will had to do it again!

Torreon with Brent and Judy

Steve and I spent a short weekend at the cabin with our goodfriends and traveling compadres the Hanks the end of June. We took a drive around the area up thru Taylor to the Temple in Snowflake. The country and small towns and this old schoolhouse reminded me of Panaca. It made me want to visit. We had a very nice weekend.