Wrestle

This Past month David and Lynn had a wrestling match. Davd managed to be on top for about 10 seconds but the rest of the time Lynn won. This brought back many memories from when Lynn and Quinn would do this. David is growing up so fast and pretty soon he will be the one winning. The dogs even decided to join in on the match too!

Hay is for Horses...

Micheala and Lynn

For our Saturday we spent most of the day working on the hay. We bailed it and had a great time stacking it and riding the tractor. We bailed a total of 236 bails.

Labor Day at Soldier Hollow

Sheep dog competition

The Sheep Dog competition was so neat to watch. When we went a couple years ago we couldn't wait till the next time we got to see this competition. The dogs needed to go up and get one group of sheep then bring them down through a gate and then to the owner. Then they ran clear up to another group of sheep and brought them through a gate and to the 1st group of sheep. Next they took the entire group of 16 sheep, up and through 2 different gates and down to the Sheep Herder. Following that, the Herder and their Border Collie worked together to get 5 sheep with red collars into a separate group. This was very frustrating for some but others pulled it off very quick. The last part of the competition was to move the sheep into an 8 x 8 pen. This whole competition was a 24 minute process. Some ran out of time and some finished with just a couple of seconds left. The winner the sheep dog competition was 154 points. Wow! If you love watching competitions you'd love this!

Splash dogs

Splash Dogs was neat to watch. You could see all the dogs’ personalities. One of the dogs had to dip its legs in before he competed. Another had to wind up by going in circle after circle over and over again with his toy. The dogs sit at the end of a 40 ft. dock and then the owner goes to the other end and says a command to tell the dog to come. Then the dog jumps off and then they record how many feet they get. We saw dogs jump from 16ft to 25ft. We can’t wait to be able to try it out on Cindy (our dog) She would be perfect for it!

Parkers

The Bratt kids with one of their all time favoite babysitters Sarah Parker.

Heidi and David Lindsey

Liz and David
the parkers had fun looking at the horses (Rosie)
Afton
Dallin, Lindsey, and Afton

This week we had dinner with the Parkers (Sarah Ercanbrack) one of our FAVORITE babysitters. She would come over and play fun games and anything you can imagine a fun babysitter does plus more. She brought her 4 kids Dallin, Afton, Lindsey and David. It was so fun to see her with her little family. They are the cutest little kids. Its fun to be on the other side of things and take care of her kids for a change.

Fish Creek... Prayers Answered

The girls
Bubba, Micheala, & Heidi

we walked in to the gas station to get something to eat and the manager sent us out to wash our boots. It was so muddy we had to keep our boots in the horse trailer because of the mud. At least we rode home with a cleaner truck.
Gussie, Carl & Bubba trying to act serious/mad

We went to fish creek up by Fairview with a family friend, Carl Anderson with 2 of his kids and a grandson. Well we got to hiking and David and Jake decided to go ahead. Heidi and Crystal waited for the horses with Bubba (Carl's grandson) 30 mins passed and the horses met the hikers and we decided to set up camp (in C canyon) before it got too dark. So Lynn immediately took off and hoped to find the boys there. When 10 o' clock came around Lynn showed up and there were no boys. We then immediately gathered and said a prayer for their safety and comfort. We talked to each other and remembered that they were prepared. Jake had a sleeping bag and a cot, while David had all the scout stuff (matches, granola bars, fishing pole, a poncho and a coat) so they would be ok. At 6 o' clock Lynn and Carl woke up and saddled up their horses and hurried before it started to rain while Carl was getting on his horse, she freaked out and fell over with Carl on her, to say the least he was sore all day. Heidi and Bubba kept the fire going and waited for everyone to wake up. By 11 we decided to make a plan if they weren't back by 3 then we would start back up to the trucks and get help. Around 12 Lynn and Carl showed up without the boys, then everyone started worrying. We then said another prayer and to help us know where else to look and do. Lynn rode back up to the truck and brought it down and we loaded all of the horse/camping gear on the truck rather than try to make everything even to pack on the horses. We dropped off the gear at the horse trailers and started to get help. We found one of the Forest Service workers and explained what had happened. They then called search and rescue, while we went over to scofield to where the trail ended. With no site of David and Jake we thought we should head back to where Carl was just in case they showed up. We met the sheriff at a parking lot 10 miles to where we were to go and they told us," They need you up there immeidealty!" What were we to think? So in a hurry to get up there we had our radios to talk to Carl so we could keep in touch. We then saw the sheriff and all the search and rescue. Lynn went and talked to the sheriff It was pouring rain and we were so worried David and Jake were in that storm and by then we radioed over to Carl and we heard David’s Voice! The first thing we said was, "are you ok?" He then answered back and said, “Mom I am a prepared scout!" By then Liz broke down and started crying. Everything was Ok! David kept saying that he was not lost! Well we thought he was, he was separated for 19 hours from us. Thank you all for helping us look for David and Jake. Our Prayers were answered.