Rachel's book report for school. I read this one too, it was a good book :)
Pretty rainbow
Took everything out of the side shed and used a sledge hammer to take out all the shelving.
Everything that came out
Rachel made a shelter for her friend's new mini horse out of stuff that came out of the side shed.
Performing musical numbers for our friends.
James loves box elder bugs :)
Shizzie got into a tiff with Jack, poor guy.
Supervising Rachel's first time mowing the lawn. Just like my Dad and I :)
Cool masks from Aunt Jennifer.
Anne's Anne Sullivan project for school. She did research, made the posterboard, dressed up, and gave a presentation about her through zoom for her history class.
New tire swing!
This girl has some long hair (Rachel)
Got a little trim.
Starting to frame the treehouse.
Mother's Day church in the mountains.
Jet also loves caterpillars
A horse skeleton we found on the beginning of a hike
Horse training day in the pasture.
Pretty Irises
My awesome Mother's Day present from Zac (new toolbelt)
The barn (formerly known as the side shed) is finished!
Helping me make masks for the church.
I saw so many kind and uplifting things written on sidewalks, posters, and on the sides of houses!
Anne's teachers came to say hi in person at the end of the school year. She sure loved Mrs. Powell and especially Mrs. Neumaker.
This was a really fun to do with Zac. We make a good team.
So do they (Anne and Rachel) when they want to.
Drive-by goodbyes on the last day of school. What a crazy end of a school year.
Helping Dad clean out the family cometary out in St. John.
Rachel's namesake (Ona America Draper Russell)
Rachel wanted to grow her own pumpkin patch.
Thatcher South Dakota Family Trip 2020
This bat was in the lake and swam a good distance before it got to shore.
This was seriously one of the coolest campsites that we had been to.
Rachel catching butterflies.
Fun shooting bb guns with cousin Brock
Lots of really cool rocks to gather and collect.
And bugs, haha.
Mt. Rushmore!
Uncle Dylan lined everyone up and gave them each money and said they could spent it on whatever they wanted there!
They were very grateful :)
With cousins! Brock, Brooke, and Briel
We had so much fun kyaking on the lake at the campsite, even though the water was freezing!
Good grub.
The kids loved snuggling together in the camper.
Uncle Gabe teaching the kids to shoot.
Boys will be boys :)
Some good burgers in town.
I loved seeing all the Calamity Jane names. One of my favorite movies.
Fishing
Anne caught a big one!
The kids were very sad to say bye to Sandy.
Chasing butterflies and dandelions.
Also from Calamity Jane.
Zac gutting Anne's fish.
Our cool cabin near Devil's Tower.
Anne snuggling with T.D., the Colorado Thatcher's dog.
Anne liked her fish!
I went for a hike.
Devil's Tower
The kids loved seeing this amazing piece of nature.
Prairie Dogs
Ice Cream Time!
On the way home from the trip Rachel jokingly and lightly punched Sarah in the nose and caused a gusher of a nose bleed.
James was bored.
We all were...
This was a cool surprise stop on the way home.
Movie Date night at the open indoor Water Gardens theater!
Taking the reigns.
Our little raspberry harvest.
I built a turkey coop for our two turkeys.
Cute little bushy blonde
Our two new turkey poults.
Mashed potatoes and gravy :)
Pool day
It was sad to say bye to these boots. They took me to a lot of cool places. But it was their time.
This chicken kept brooding and being a pest, so we butchered and ate her.
First complete game of upwords with Rachel.
Beautiful flowers out front.
Starts
Cute baby horse and her Mama near a place that we did a petting zoo.
Family movie night.
Fireworks at Water Gardens
Fun at the pool
Clearance plants at Lowe's
Sushi!
Doing our nails
Anne doing her summer school life skills class.
Bubble bath time at Grandma and Grandpa's
Park near Grandma's house
Homemade pizzas
For Father's Day I totally redid the den to make it into an office for Zac. I even learned how to install a doorknob with a lock (that was trickier than I thought it would be).
One of Jet's favorite magazines, haha. (the Harbor Freight ad)
Making Stone Soup
The kids on a solo trail ride around the equestrian center.
Trail ride with Anne (the Taylors let me borrow Keeper :)
Cleaning out the water trough. Not one of her favorite chores (Rachel)
Anne loved to dress up Jack.
The Rodeo was canceled this year so we made our own strawberries and cream.
Aw man, it put these pictures in backwards. Oh well. This was one of my favorite memories last summer. We decided to try our first family backpacking trip. It ended up being twice as long as we thought it would be and pretty steep. But the kids were such awesome troopers. We ended up not eating dinner till we got to Silver Lake at about 8pm. It was the best tasting cup of Ramen we had ever eaten. Poor James ended up spilling his and his sweet sisters all shared some of their precious dinner with their brother.
This was my favorite picture from the hike. It totally captures their feelings of "We did it!!"
When we drove home the next day these treats never tasted so good :)
Where we hiked.
James was our alarm clock.
Monopoly!
I built our new turkey's coop :)
Movie date night again :) There wasn't a lot to do that summer for date night, haha.
James doing trick riding on Jack, haha.
Taking the reings.
Our little raspberry harvest.
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