Life on the ranch

The wonderful thing about living on a ranch is that you have so many things around you from which to make Christmas gifts.  And with 7 kids making gifts for each other, it’s exciting to see the things they come up with.   A book shelf, an airplane, a boat formed from a hollowed out piece of wood, painted pieces of wood and a “forget-me” stick.             A wire picture…

Josh and I are big college people.  Meaning we want our kids to go to college after they graduate from high school.  Because of that , we started talking them about college even before they went into kindergarten. We talk about all the subjects in college that there are to learn about and what each of the kids would love to study more about.  Of course, when we mention college to the younger kids, the…

There is quite a difference between the snow levels between this year and last year.  We were skiing last year at this time.   Today, Brundage hasn’t even opended yet.   Yesterday Tamarack opened for the season but they’ve been making snow for quite some time.  The weatherman says we are in an inversion. But, since the weather hasn’t brought snow, we’ve been doing other things….. like making Christmas stuff         getting…