New Toys, playin jokes, lovin life!

New toys, or well toys for Brandon, we got a new(new to us) swather and baler. I am so excited because hopefully although they are work toys, they will lighten Brandons load a little:):)
Instead of being the only one to bale, now 2 of them can do it in half the time - yipeeeee. The swather was just kind of a bonus and I have not driven it yet but James said "it was a little slice of heaven" true farmers!



Here is my prankster son - oh he always thinks he is so so so funny - sometimes he is NOT. But on this day, Ty and Jake had, had it with his jokes so they schemed and schemed and couldn't come up with anything so Brandon did - I told Riley I wanted to take his picture next to the pivot then Brandon turned on the valve on him - we laughed and laughed - Riley did NOT!!



There really aren't even words......

Here is Luis pulling Ty and Jake back to the barn - the 4wheeler broke down on them, thank goodness Luis was done changing water and was headed back to the barn, Ty was waiting by the 4wheeler and Jake started walking back - funny!! Luis is our water changer, helper, etc(and no we don't make him do anything we don't do!!) He is awesome - a very hard worker and for some reason Jake LOVES him - he doesn't understand anything Jake says, but Jake doesn't care he just follows him around and jabbers at him, so then Luis always just turns around and pats him on the head. Jake always wants to ride with him on the 4wheeler and stuff - pretty funny, Dogs and babies, they always know good!

Jake driving truck - look how small he looks!
You can't really see it but Dodge(the steer) kept licking Annie(the colt) I don't know what was up but this went on for a good 10 minutes(that I saw) Funny stuff!!

James did not think it was as funny as me, but both of these are his pick-ups and no only one is broke down, but it still looked funny - besides he has 2 other sitting outside the barn that need work to, so I laughed - he didn't! Thats all for life at the Oliver house for now:)

Always work, but we add the fun:):)

There is always work to do, but we always seem to find some fun! I LOVE watching Brandon, the boys and James work. Although they are always tired and worn out, they seem to enjoy farming so so much!!

Here is true teamwork, and there were alot of laughs involved, but James couldn't get the endgun to clean out with the pivot off, evertime he started it , it would just clog back up so... He got the Loader and Riley, and while James cleaned the endgun, Riley would back the loader up as the pivot moved - it really was great teamwork, but funny and a good photo opportunity all at the same time!!




Some of our cows pasture at up the Dolores River at Lightenburgers Ranch, it is so so so Beautiful there, they have an awesome set up on the river. Anyways - as the water starts to get lower in the river, the cows like to cross and also go upstream, then they get into the neighbors - ROTTEN COWS - they have perfectly good grass where they are. The Grass is always greener.....
Anyways so we had to go build fence across the river, Yep ACROSS the river, I'm not sure what happens when a late season rafter decides to go down it but that is what Bruce told us to do, so we did it! It was kind of a project, but the boys had so much fun!!

This was the stream that flows when Bruce pulls water from the river to irrigate, it was small, and Jake could play in it easily so the boys named it "Jakes River" It was cute!

Darn Bull, this is why we have to build the fence!!

I hate this picture, but I love it at the same time, and it started out as just Brandon and I, but the boys decided to jump in,and Riley was taking the picture, so thats why he is not in it. Sorry Riley!!

Random Stuff

I hope everyone had a great Fourth of July!! Thank you to our troops that continuosly ensure our safety and freedom!!
We worked on the fourth(I think that is all Brandon knows how to do - but we love him for it!!)

This is our Hay hauler, it is an old Army truck, its pretty cool, and even Riley knows how to drive it - at the time of this picture however, it was stuck in the draw at Fettermans. Unfortunatly to haul hay on one half of this field we have to cross the draw with the hay truck, one to many trips across this time I guess. But with a little help from the loader, and alot of grumbling from Brandon and a few laughs from the boys and i we got it!





This is the Mahaffeys sheep, they were gone for a few days so we fed them, Jake loved it. I liked this picture though because some got on the one sheep, and the other just ate it right off his back - Jake laughed and laughed!






This is Annie, Rileys colt he bought her with some of his steer money. We have 3, but the other 2 keep to themselves,, Annie is very NOSY - the boys couldn't play in the dirt, she kept licking there toys, and sniffin Jakes head, and trying to eat Ty's hat. It was cute - they didn't think so but I did.

Thats about all, nothing grand really just random pictures, I love to capture!