Memorial Day weekend at the Ranch

Welcome to the Heaton Bar-K Ranch.

We arrive to the Ranch Saturday at noon. Below is a picture of the pond. If you enlarge it, you can see the white specs. It was snowing on Memorial day. It was cold up there last weekend.



Once we got off the highway and onto the ranch road, we let Jileigh drive. On the way out we let Beauchene drive with Matt's help!

I took a few pics of the cabin and the scenes from it but the memory card was asking to be reformatted. I took it out and put in a new one. Unfortunately, I didn't realize that I lost all those pictures. Fortunately, I did have a second card to use the rest of the time. I just wish I would have retaken some of the pictures. I also lost a cute one of Beauchene with his Grandma H.

This is the basement or otherwise known as the game room. This is where we send the noisy kids to play.




Saturday night, we has a talent show. The girls did a skit about 3 princesses and a witch. The boys had a hand-stand contest. Talon won that by a long shot. Jaren sort of cheated by leaning against the beam. Jason helped the kids do a 4-person push up. Talon is in one and Jaren is in the other.


The kids sure had a fun time playing together. Jileigh played with Sara. Talon and Jaren played Candy's boys the first day and the with Jack and James and Dalton. Then on Monday they played with Kelsey and Isaiah.



















Angelique played with Morgan the first day and then with Abbey the rest of the time. Safia played with Emma and Sariah and Brandon.


Safia and Jaren had a mock wedding. It was too funny. Jileigh and Sara were the Bride's maids.



Dave spent a good part of the time putting up the new zip line. It starts nest to the old cabin and runs 500' down the slope to a tree next to the creek. Fun! The kids were on in non stop. Most of the adults went on it too. The one time that I went on it Saturday night in the dark, I screamed the whole way down. The adults were going over 23 mph (Ed clocked it on his GPS). Dave tried his hardest, but he could never convince Great Grandma Nora at 85 years to go on it.

The picture with Talon on the swing set has the old cabin in the back ground. It is mostly just a mouse house now, but the family had this one before they built the 3-story one that we presently use. Hydee and Jen, I promise I will do a better job of getting pictures of the cabin when we go back in July for our family reunion.

Most of the time there we just visited and visited while we cooked, and cleaned. Our family was in charge of cleaning the porches and the outside grounds. Grandma Nora was pretty determined to get the whole cabin cleaned, so I helped her clean the basement and the main floor. The Grylas "went to town" on the kitchen. They cleaned out every cupboard and even under and behind the stove. Lise - Carolyn mentioned that she missed having you there because you are so good at getting to work and cleaning out places.

As we were getting ready to leave after we had everything packed up, I went to the car and it was locked with the keys in the ignition. I had a flashback memory. (As we were leaving the house Saturday morning, I ran back inside the house for something. As I was walking out the door, I noticed our spare key on the key hook. The thought came to me, Take that key. So I stuck it in my pocket. Each day as I put on a new pair of jeans, I put that key in my pocket.) So finding that all the doors were locked, I reached down in my pocket, got out the key and told Matt that he was married to an inspired and smart wife.

Leaving the ranch was bitter sweet. We enjoy our time there so much, but it is always nice to come home. Our dog was sure happy to see us come home and so was our garden.

Matt found a couple of pictures of the cabin from previous reunions so I posted them below.