Saturday, May 3, 2008

The first brandin of spring!!

The boys roundin up the cattle
My father in law Ron, he's quite a ham when it comes to pics and we love it!! That's his trusty steed, the gator!!
Nick and Jade getting things set up. Those are the branding irons.
Jade's brother Shad and Dad Bob!!
The ol' Ham, Ron!! He looks good on that horse!
Tj, Nick's cousin and Nick BS'n
Good old Wade getting the shots ready! If you can enlarge the pic to see his handle bar mustache, he's been growing it for a while and its pretty cool! Fits him to a "T"!
That'd be Tj again. He's always good to help out, and he's a heck of a hand!
Kayleen works at The Majestic Ranch for troubled kids and she brought some along! This is Luke and he was quite the go getter!!

Me taggin the calf
That's a good pic of how it all works. The cowboy ropes the calf and drags it to the head catch where we tag the ears twice and gice steriods to the steers and casturate as well as give shot and brand. Pretty tramatic!
Nick, Ron and Kay
This would be one of my favorite guys!! Bill Kennedy!! He knows how jumpy i am and loves to get me. He's so fun to be around and works really hard!! He's one of those cute older guys!!

Nick branding the calf


Ashley (Wades wife, she has REALLLy LONG red hair and its gorgeous), Wade and Tj after were done The other 2 boys that Kay brought with her. They sure know how to entertain themselves with nothing!!!
Ashley and Ronda ridin the Gator home! This pic was supposed to look like they were going fast by the look on their faces!! Pretty cute gals!!!

Divas!
We came home to visitors!!! My brother Justin and his wife Mallory and thier little girl Paisley came to see us and help brand tomorrow!!
He's such a good dad!! He was looking at her and saw that she had some buggy's so he got the squeezy thing and went to work!!
He's so cute!! But she's even cuter!
Mallory's face is priceless!!

Now this is cute!!! He was so scared to hold her cuz she's so tiny and young! He's never held such a new baby!
He was uncomfortable and so was she.......

so Jut helped resituate, it was so cute to watch these 2 with her! Much better
AAAAAHHH!!

2 comments:

Sarah Smith said...

Tell Nick that i love his pants! They are Hawt!!!!!

Ronda said...

I love all of these pictures!! So fun to look at! Such memories! I love the Gator ones, you can just tell by lookin at it that it goes a billion miles an hour.......................NOT!!! xoxo