i'm home!

i just got back yesterday from being at the ranch and shopping in el paso! and the ranch wasn't as bad as i thought it would be. it was actually kinda fun! gramma judy and the Calls came out for a few days to help with the round up and i kinda felt bad for the calls cuz they had to stay in the bunk room. it has about 6 or 7 mattresses in one big room with one bathroom. me and mom cleaned it out before they came and it was pretty dirty. but we got it all nice and clean for them. then rounding up the cattle was the funnest. i got to take my horse (the black one with a white stripe down its nose and one white foot) and go with all the boys to round up the cattle in the pastures then take them back to the corals by the house to be branded. i didn't really help with the branding though. the second day was the bestbecause we were rounding the cattle up in a bigger pasture so there was a lot more cattle, and it was overcast most of the morning so it wasn't hot like the day before, and then joey, Paula and their family came over to help with the branding. the part i like a lot about rounding up is when a cow breaks away from the heard, how fast horses can run to chase it. and cows can run pretty fast. i love running on horses and seeing how fast they can gothough. another fun thing we did was everynight me, max, victoria c.,bowen c., dane and uriel would all go and play spoons on the dining room table. we laughed sooo much at like everything. and then in el paso all we did was go school shopping and eat and sleep. wasnt too fun since i really only need to get jeans and shoes.