Labor Day Weekend

Monday was spent recovering from the weekend's fun...perfect, just liek last year, except this year I am not going in to labor and having a baby on Tuesday (but we will celebrate that baby's first birthday tomorrow!). Here's how the weekend played out:

Late Saturday morning we arrived at the ranch to pick and press apples with our Melin family.

Here's James on a quilt at the ranch...
...and here he is beggin Matthew Melin to teach him how to walk.
Here's Matthew's Dad, Uncle Jess, washing apples fo the press.
Here's Addie cranking the press and Heidi being silly.
Heidi, Dad, Jess, and Addie:
That's how you make apple cider, y'all!

Heidi in the ranch police boat sandbox looking for bad guys...

Summer's the captain...

Cousins in the sand!
Later, we floated the Yellowstone again, kids in the raft, and Rich & I tried out our new deluxe tubes--AWESOME! Very fun, very cold.

Uncle Jess & Matthew
Heidi at dinner eating dutch oven meatloaf (I was already at work).
Ahhh...the ranch at sunset!