Labor Day Weekend Fun, Phase I

My Sister-in-law brought her 2 kids to visit us this weekend form North Dakota (her husband--Rich's Brother Jess--is a B52 pilot stationed at Minot, but he's been in the Indian Ocean for 4 months). As usual, the wee cousins had a great time playing together, enjoying Grandma's House and The Ranch.

On Saturday, we worked on the yard until 2:30pm (when it started to rain), then we jumped in the car and drove down the valley to the Paradise fishing access, a few miles past the ranch. The rest of the family was there with all the gear for floating the river. We loaded the kids onto a raft and we tethered ourselves to it and headed down teh Yellowstone River toward the ranch. Mom and Dad Melin took some pix of us all in the water, so I will post those when I get them.

Here you see (top) Addie and Danny playing in the sand AFTER the float; Addie & Heidi on the raft--it took Heidi a while to get excited about the raft, but once she hit the water, she was pretty happy; and all the cousins in the raft (that funny little blondie is my niece, Summer).