WEEKEND AT THE ROBINSON'S RANCH

This last weekend Emily invited us and the Eastman's up to her father-in-laws ranch. "We had a blast!" is an under statement. The boys had so much fun and so many great experiences. We were outside doing something the entire weekend. The ranch was gorgeous. Its a 149 acre horse ranch. Emily brags about it, but you really don't comprehend until you see it. It made Dad and I want to win the lottery so we could get one of these. On the first day the kids rode bikes, played ping pong and rode around in the "mule". When we first heard about the mule we thought, " a donkey?" Nope, it wasn't a donkey! Joe took the kids back in the woods and got it stuck in the mud and had to get it towed out. The kids thought that was so fun. Flying around in the mule was definitely one of the highlights of our weekend. Joe's dad went out the next day and bought two more! We brought Jake's four-wheeler out and all the kids rode around on it. When it was Ethan's turn, I had the video camera rolling and captured Ethan actually rolling the four wheeler on top of him. He took off to fast and was trying to turn it around and it tipped over and rolled on top of him. I was freaking out. What scared me the most was that gasoline was pouring out. I was afraid that it was going to catch on fire and I couldn't get him out from under neath of it fast enough. I think I was more scared than he was. He ended up with just one big bruise on the side of his leg. That wasn't the only exciting scare that we had. After letting all the kids ride the horse and pony in the show room, Dad, Emily, and Joe took them in the fields. All the horses decided to have a competition to see who could buck off the first person and Joe's horse won. When Daddy's horse started to buck, I was sure he was going to fall off, but he was amazing! He stayed on even when the horse was only on his back two feet. He was a true cowboy! I was so impressed by his skills.
We also fished. They had a beautiful pond with an island in the middle. The fish had not been feed for over four months and they were so hungry they would bite the hook alone! It was so much fun watching you guys caught fish after fish. I have never heard grown men say...."STOP FISHING WE CANT KEEP UP." We could have had fish for dinner for weeks!

We also did some clay pigeon shooting. We had so much fun. These are memories that we wont
forget for a long time. Its nice to get away and forget about school, work, house work etc....We have such good friends, and by the way most of these pictures were taken by our wonderful photographer...Becky Eastman. She was so nice to keep her camera around her neck the entire time to capture all of our adventures. The pictures are great, but doesn't do any justice to how much we enjoyed ourselves. Thanks Emily and Joe for showing us such a good time! And thanks so much for Joe's Dad, Elmo. He was so nice to the kids and was so kind letting us use all of his cool toys!