Sunday, September 21, 2008

Wood Cutting Trip at the Ranch

I can already feel the warmth from the wood stove. It is so cozy and nice when we are all gathered together around the fire and listen to a book read by the best dad ever...Chad-dad. We have been reading the "Little Britches" series and it has been so delightful and inspiring. Hard work, honesty, and faith are the themes throughout the books. We are all trying to build our "character house" and make it impervious to the outside influences of the world.

Dead-eye Talon...He is a great shot and very accurate with his gun. Thanks to Grandpa Ron for teaching him safety and gun sense. The guys shot my Dad's new shot-gun which packed quite a punch. I consider it a mini-cannon. When asked if I wanted to give her a go, I promptly said, "Heck No!!" I would have gotten knocked on my rear I'm afraid.

Beautiful Scenery of Zion

Beautiful Girls and Grandma. They had fun making dream-catchers and cooking up some yummy dutch-oven 'taters and steak. It was perfect weather and so nice to be up in the mountains.

The Sunset was Spectacular.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Now this was almost a perfect day at the ranch ending with toasted marshmellows, Really toasted!
Grampa enjoyed the shooting too, and Gramma. Great Day Guys!

Laura said...

Well, after the pine gum incident, I will obey the laws of nature from now on!!

Kendall and Lee'sa said...

I'm going to have to check those books out. I'm scared of the big guns too, but I'm actually a pretty good shot with the smaller ones...(don't know names) :) I get really nestolgic this time of year, especially when I hear of the cool crisp air and autumn colors of the north west. It's still 98 degrees here and not very colorful. However, I'll be posting all my nice mild winter pictures when you are all going through snow storm after snow storm! :)