Catching up - Jonas and Glenna bring their Dad to the ranch .....

It was late December, after Christmas and before the New Year, my friends Glenna and Jonas brought their dad to the ranch.  Mom (Carolyn) had a day out, so it seemed perfect timing for Dad (David) and the Rapp kids to have a day at the ranch.

Aside from the fact the Rapps are very cool and very nice - they arrived with delicious homemade cinnamon rolls!  Yum!!  Truth be told, those cinnamon roll never saw sundown - as scrumptious as they were and homemade to boot - oh yeah, they were gone before the sun set and were goooood!!

Back to the Rapps at the ranch.  Grace had a great time with her new friends.

You can just see Grace running in towards the ball.

Grace says "Jonas, I don't know exactly what you are doing - keep it up, I'm having fun!"

Grace and Jonas in motion ..... Glenna standing strong in the middle.

New recruit to the game - Dad Rapp joins the fun

The mysterious and incredible magician,  the "Amazing Jonas" and his beautiful assistant "Incomparable Glenna" ..... watch as they effortlessly levitate a dog (that would be Grace).  Amazing Jonas raises his arm, Incomparable Glenn recites the magic words and presto change-o.... poof!  Grace is levitated - All four paws off the ground!  Cool huh?!!

Or if you don't know the magic words, you can throw the ball for her .....

So they did some Gracie playing and .......

Went for a ride in "the machine" down to the owl tree ... saw the owl in flight. 

And, with seat belts buckled, did more than a couple of 'doughnuts'!  Doughnuts in the machine - Guess that is a fair trade for home made cinnamon rolls.

And they helped Andrew run the log splitter

They are both really good at running the wood splitter! 

I think they had fun, they wouldn't let Dad have a turn.

Saw oriole nests.

And went climbing on log bridges across the creek ....

This is like one of those hidden object pictures ....You can barely see them through the tangle of branches - if you find Glenna's bright green jacket, just to the right you can see Jonas' blue jacket with red letters.

Jonas emerges from the tangle of branches, almost all the way across the bridge.

And he makes it to the other side .... well done!!

 Glenna heads for uncharted territory and a log bridge that has not yet been crossed.

Glenna and Dad crossing the log bridge

Stopped up at the house to meet LB.  Had hot chocolate and hot apple cider and played with LB (LB is one of the house cats, LB stands for Little Bit, which by the way he isn't so much a "little bit" of a cat any more) till they flat wore LB and LB's toy out.

and HORSES!!

They met the horses.

 Glenna and her new friend Nicker.

and they met HANK!!

 Glenna getting up close to make sure Hank can get to the treat she has for him.

 Jonas joining in the fun.

Hank and his new friends, Glenna and Jonas.

Hope the Rapp family had a good time - I know Grace and Hank and Nicker and LB and I did ..... !!!