Sleepover !

It is great to gather around the fire pit at th property and roast up some marshmellows

The best and easiest way to make S'mores - using cookies that have the chocolate in place. 

Thatcher can roast a MEAN marshmellow

As you can see in the far background, the Welch Ditch Dam isn't in yet, so the creek is low.  Boy the kids had a great time fishing, and playing along the banks, and making dams with rocks and sticks. 

When it started to get dark, we came home and had..........what else?
The LITTLES favorite - Tomato Soup and grilled cheese sandwiches.

Bright and Pays hadn't come up for the Ranger Ride prepared to sleep over, so Kacey had run to the dollar store to get some PJ's.  Bright's was covered with her favorite - FLAMINGOS!!  She was so excited.   It took quite the doing to get the 3 smaller ones showered.  We used to have the BIG TUB, but not since the remodel.  Grandpa and Tagg took over kitchen duties, while I supervised in the bathroom.  Two loads of laundry later, and everything was  CLEAN. 

Next morning it was pancakes for breakfast. 

Bright in the Barnyard 

A little goat time in the barnyard.  These mamas will be having babies soon.  

Up to the Porterville Cemetery to check out
the graves of their ancestors.
Here by the Dickson grave of Billy and Mary Ann, who are these kids 4 x Great Grandparents.
Grandkids - Me (Grandma) - Grandpa D (Great Grandpa) Grandpa Dickson with the Chickens (Great Great Grandpa) William Henderson Dickson (Great Great Great Grandpa) - and Billa and Mary Ann Dickson (Great Great Great Great Grandpa and Grandma) 

Also, the Rich/White side of the family
William White is their 5 x Great Grandfather, who died about 120 years before they were even born !
Grandkids - Grandpa Roger, Grandma Ben (Great Grandma) - Elmer White (Great Great Grandpa), Lester White (3x Great Grandpa), Frederick White (4x Great Grandpa) - and finally William White (5 x Great Grandpa)

And finally BACK to the property to play in the creek some more and SWING SWING SWING