Dry Head 2017

Saturday, we helped Grandpa Asay take his cows into Dry Head to the their summer pasture. Carson, Travis and Christian got up early and headed out to grandpa's house to leave by 6:00. Landon and I left our house around 7 so we could fill up with gas, get ice and load stuff up. It was a pretty warm day for moving cows that hadn't been watered the day before, making for a long, hard day of moving cows. They ended up only taking the cows part of the was to the Ellis place and are planning to move them again on the 4th. The boys all took turns riding and walking behind the herd and were pretty wiped out by last night! All in all, it was a good day and the scenery was beautiful as usual!

I made candy mix for our annual trip in. It's kind of become a tradition that I bring it on one of the trips in to Dry Head and it's a tradition that I stole from my grandma. She used to always make and bring it when we branded calves at my uncle's house when we were younger. It's always a hit!

Travis and Carson riding.

Landon was so excited when we finally got to a spot where he could saddle a horse and ride!

Travis taking a turn walking behind the cows.

Carson

Christian and Landon

Christian, Landon, Stetson and Carson following behind.

Michael with Stahle, Landon, Christian and Stetson.

It's always super dusty!

Landon loved getting to ride by himself!

I was the chauffer for the many kids that wanted to watch a movie during the day. Travis was taking a break from the sun because he had a pretty good headache.

Carson's turn to walk behind, Christian, Janelle and Michael.

 Coming down into Dead Man.

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Christian said that Landon did an awesome job on maneuvering Tonto the pony around. He was quite impressed with how confident he was getting on him! 

Landon and Tonto!

Michael, Daniel, Landon and Christian. Getting the cows through Dead Man is always hard. The cows finally come to some water and don't want to move!

We had a nice little sandwich picnic once the cows were in their pasture and enjoyed a rest for a bit.

Lovell's Days week

We enjoyed all of the Mustang Days celebrations a week ago. Travis was asked to be in a kids boot camp routine this year for the follies. We were able to attend on Wednesday night and watch his group. They did a really good job with their routine and he was sad to miss doing it in the Thursday performance due to a baseball game!

The group that Travis performed with. He had such a good time!

Some of the kids were asked to do handstand pushups and Travis did a great job. We had practiced at home a few times and they were not so great, so I was glad to see he didn't kick his partner in the head or land on his face!

After their Wednesday performance. Because of baseball, Travis wasn't able to perform for the Thursday follies.

Uncle Jacob was called up on the stage to do his best impersonation of Old Faithful in between acts. He did a pretty impressive impersonation.

Tuesday, Thursday and Friday nights, we spent watching Travis play baseball over in Powell at their tournament. The beat one Powell team Tuesday, the #1 Powell team Thursday, sending them into the Championship game Friday against the Braves from Lovell. The Braves ended up coming out on top in that game, which was a tough loss. We had beat them twice in the season (they beat us once), the last time was 10-0. They were just the better team that day! Travis had great coaches that taught him a lot this season!

Travis had quite the crowd of followers at his tournament games. One night my aunt, uncle and cousin from Evanston showed up adding three more to the crowd!

Having a talk after their loss.

Travis and Landon did swimming lessons every morning during the week. Landon was super excited to do them...Travis not so much. He hated the fact that Carson didn't have to take them this year and he did. Once he started them, he liked them though. They both ended up passing their classes this year and will be moving up next summer.

Travis swimming through the hoops.

Landon waiting for his turn to get in.

Friday night after baseball, we rented the kids a movie and headed down to listen to the Cowley's boys play in the street. There weren't too many people our age hanging out down there, but we stayed for a couple of hours and enjoyed the music and people watching! Saturday, we went to the parade and went to lunch over at Grandma Dorothy's house. The family is in the process of trying to sell it now, so this was kind of the last hurrah for the house. We enjoyed sandwiches and hanging out with Brad, Ranee and their kids and Sherrie. After lunch, we headed out to the lake for a couple of hours, but headed home before it got too crazy out there with people showing up for the fireworks. We didn't go to the fireworks this year because Christian has church meetings starting at 5:30 am and I was talking the next morning in sacrament meeting and needed to be prepared for that.

Michael, Christian, Daniel Robertson and Kade Caturia catching up before the parade started.

Finally got to go out in the boat! Can't wait for some more boat time!

The boys enjoying their time on the tube.