Soapweed and family, it is great to have the photo's again! You must all be having such a great time with those 'grands'.
We just celebrated the third birthday of our first great grand girl and her baby sister was six months old on that day, so have started celebrating 'half birthdays', too. I think the baby didn't care nearly as much about that as I did.
Those little ones are pretty blessed, too, having so many parents and grandparents, aunts and uncles in their lives on a daily basis. Your ranch looks to have a pretty bright future with all that 'help in training', not to mention bright and active minds to help with management far into the future.
The fact that we (generation 3 on this ranch) will turn 75 and 79 in July has such transitions far into the future on our minds lately, maybe due to the high number of funerals of friends this winter. We are truly blessed to have our fourth and fifth generations (two sons, each with a son) as our main ranch crew, and especially by the fact that our grandsons have wonderful wives who love helping with most any ranch job whenever they have the time. AND, best of all for me is that they are doing most of the cooking when we have a bigger crew or need for all our own to eat together, whether moving cattle or working away from home when they need a meal at a location with no kitchen. And sometimes I get to either babysit one or both little girls. Their grandma is now 'home' full time after several years of being a 911 dispatcher in Pierre, and she likes to watch them, too, so I have to share!
mrj
