October 2018 at the Ranch
A fall break trip to the ranch where nobody got sick? Unbelievable! Yes, we had a great time, played in the mud canyon, went up to the mountains and filled…
October Delights
First, a few miscellaneous pics I took between September and October: Next, some pics from a picnic with Grandma. Even though it was October, it was still plenty hot. But…
July Pics
Catching up with pics for the year, I need to go back to July, when I inexplicably stopped attending to the blog. July contained two special birthdays: Ruben, who celebrated…
2018 Christmas
Ah, Christmas! No matter how scattered and ill prepared I am due to dealing with one sick child after another after another, we still manage to have a beautiful and…
July 4th at the Ranch
Ahh, 4th of July at the ranch! This was our first 4th with 6 new Heidmanns, and we had a blast. No, not literally. We didn't even have any sparklers,…
Calamity, Company, Cuteness and Conviviality: Catching up on February
I fell behind in blogging quite early in February, but there was a pretty significant reason I got derailed. Those of you who know me on Facebook are already up…
Tonic To My Soul
Today marked the end of another amazingly wonderful week with Vicki. We've known each other 37 years! Her visits every spring are a tonic to my soul. So how did…
Christmas Vacation
Our two weeks off of school was plagued with a lot of sickness this year, as it came in waves and hit just about everyone, and me last of all.…
The Biggest News Ever
Despite having made a trip up north just two weeks earlier so Paul could attend to some ranch association business, we had long planned to take the kids up the…
Thanks-birthday 2017
Our November celebrations this year were relatively quiet. Grandma and Grandpa Heidmann joined us for Thanksgiving day, and it was a playful time with giant celery sticks, great vats of…