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Steak Kabobs on the Grill

April 20, 2014 by Allison

Its grilling season! OK, I don’t know that there is an official grilling season… but if there were I would declare it open! We actually don’t wait for grilling season to get cooking outside. I’m a big fan of cooking on the grill, partly because that means less dishes to do…

One of my favorites to cook on the grill are Steak Kabobs. The delicious, bite size pieces of meat and veggies are the perfect dinner to change things up! I will tell you that everyone loves these. My baby couldn’t shovel them in fast enough. So fast that I was fishing the too-big-bites out of her mouth to cut them down to non choking size. And my boy was thrilled with the idea of eating off of a stick (no surprises there- he is ALL boy). In fact I might cook more on a stick because then he actually eats!

So let’s get down to cooking these kabobs! (PS, isn’t kabobs just a fun word?!)

Since they are steak kabobs, let’s start with the steak. If cost wasn’t an issue, I would tell you to go get a Filet Mignon. But a nice sirloin or skirt steak will do great. Whatever you get, cut it up into 1” pieces. Try to make them as uniform as possible so that they will all cook the same.

With the steak cut up, cut up some veggies. Peppers and onion are a favorite at our house. And zucchini- The Ranch Princess LOVES zucchini. Some days I do potatoes too. If you do potatoes, I recommend that you cook them up before. They won’t cook on the grill long enough to make them tender. I have even use baked potatoes to slice up! If I was a fan of mushrooms I would put them on… but I’m not. Really you can try anything!

This time we had a treat- pineapple! If you haven’t tasted grilled pineapple, you have to give it a try! Some people think it is weird to have warm pineapple… I promise it is so delicious you won’t even think about it!

Once everything is chopped up, it’s time for some marinating. Grab some oil, honey, soy sauce, and lemon juice. Add in a few shakes of chili powder and garlic powder.

Mix, mix, mix and then pour over the meat and veggies. I threw the veggies in a big Ziploc bag with the marinade- it made easier to shake and keep them coated with the sauce. But you can do whatever you want!

When you’re ready for the cooking (like after 2-3 hours… but the longer the better!) pull out your skewers and get to poking. I put them on the stick and then straight to the grill, but I wish I hadn’t. They cook so fast that some were ready before others were even on. By the time we got to eating them they were cooled. So skewer them all at once, grill them all at once, and then eat them all at once!

Turn your grill to high and stay close once you put them on. Remember that since they are cut small they will cook fast. And you want crunchy veggies, not mushy. Cook them about 7-8 minutes, turn and cook another 5-7 minutes.

You know the next step- EAT and ENJOY!

I have to tell you a funny about these… The Rancher had a Search and Rescue meeting, so he got to take his on the run (a meal on a stick is the ultimate fast food!). Not long after he left I got a text from him- #Kabobs #Dabomb. The fact that The Rancher thinks hashtags are ridiculous just makes it all so much funnier!

Steak Kabobs

2 lbs Steak, sirloin or flank
Bell peppers
Small Onion
Zucchini
Fresh Pineapple

Marinade

1/4 Vegetable Oil

1/3 Cup honey

1/3 Cup Soy Sauce

1 Tbsp. Lemon Juice

1/4 tsp Garlic Powder

1-2 Shakes Chili Powder

Cut the meat and vegetables into 1 inch pieces. (I only listed the veggies that we used, but it isn’t inclusive- try whatever you want!) Mix together the marinade ingredients and pour over the meat and vegetables. Cover and put into the refrigerator for 2-3 hours (the longer they sit, the more flavorful and tender they will be!).

Drain off the marinade and put the meat and vegetable chunks onto the skewers.

Preheat the grill to high heat and lightly oil. Place the kabobs on the grill and cook for 7-8 minutes and then turn. Cook for another 5-7 minutes.

10 Reasons Why I Choose to Raise my Family on the Ranch

April 6, 2014 by Allison

Growing up on a ranch, I knew that it was the way I wanted to raise my family. It helps to shape grow a person in so many. The opportunities for life lessons are never ending. And, I know I always say this, but the space is pretty amazing.

No it’s not the only good way to raise a family- there are so many good people that weren’t raised that way. But this is how I chose to raise my family. Here’s why…

1. Everyday we work- we have to. The cows need feeding, which most often requires us moving them to different pastures. Fences, building, and equipment need upkeep and they won’t fix themselves. Bummer… But my kids know how important work is. Already my kids are learning to help and work, to do the best we can and to finish a job we start. More importantly my kids learn to work because they get to go out to work with their dad. Every day they have the best example they need to see a man working.

2. All around us we see the circle of life. Every year there is new life that brings excitement and hope. But not all new life lasts. Death is a hard thing that we face. Cows, calves, horses, dogs… It’s hard, but it’s a part of life. We celebrate life and learn to move on after death.

3. I don’t know if there is a more natural way to talk about the birds and the bees than actually having first hand on the ranch. All sorts of question come up about why do we keep the bulls away from the cows, where do those babies come from, or what is that cow doing. Yes my kids see it happening and yes we talk about it. But that is because it is so easy on the ranch.

4. What better playground do they need than a big ol’ ranch?! There are fences to climb up, tires to go through, chickens to chase, calves to rope and dirt to dig. Really the list could go on and on… Because there is so much for kids to do on a ranch- no two days are the same and there are no dull days!

5. With so much around them, ranch kids learn to be creative. A stick isn’t just a stick! It can build a fence, it can be sword, a gun or a cane. When my little boy watches what’s happening out on the ranch he gets creative and recreates it with his own little equipment. I never would have thought marbles would be poop for the manure spreader! Instead of just building towers from blocks, we make stacks of bales! Imagination is always at work out here.

6. As kids grow on the ranch, they are given their own responsibilities. It my be feeding the family dog or collecting the eggs or even feeding their own 4h animals. But they know it is their job. Yes we will help, but it is their responsibility to make sure it is done. They are responsible for closing the gate when they go through, keeping gas in the 4wheeler and putting their tack away. With responsibility also comes accountability. And then consequences. Some are good- feeding up your steer makes for a food day at the fair. But not locking the gate means the cows get out. Responsibility, accountability, and consequences- all lessons learned on the ranch.

7. We would like to think that days on the ranch are always happy and cheery, but they’re not. Yes we have awesome days of success. There is that day when you catch your first calf and you feel like you could rope the moon! But then there are days when you get bucked of, lose a glove, and tear your favorite pair of jeans. Frustration and disappointment are just as much a part of ranch life. But with it we learn how to deal with it.

8. I love opportunities we have to work together as a family. We pull out the horses and go to the arena. We all gather to the garden to gather in our harvest. We all squeeze in the tractor to feed the cows. Family is important to me and I won’t let anything, not even the ranch work, get in the way. Instead, we just make ranch time family time!

9. Life on the ranch does so much to help with learning in school. Ranch kids learn everything from learning counting and colors to map reading and geography. There are science lessons as the crops grow with water and sun, and grow more with a little fertilizer. The learning never stops- math, science, geography, history, reading… do it all, daily!

10. My kids have learned where their food comes from and the cost for it. We don’t grow everything we eat (so thankful for grocery stores!) but my ranch kids know that milk comes from a cow, not made in the back of the store. And more importantly they know the cost of their food. Not necessarily in money, but certainly in the time and effort it takes to have.

Yep, the ranch is the place for me to raise my kids. A place to learn, live, and love while every day is an adventure. Especially when it is the day you need to teach the 12 year old how to drive the stick shift feed truck…

The Rancher’s Wife Living in the Middle of Nowhere

March 23, 2014 by Allison

To have the amount of land we need to run the ranch, we live in the middle of nowhere (TMNW). The Rancher would say we GET to, that it’s a privilege. We have the space to ride and play. We can have as big of lawn as we want (or the lawn mower can handle). There aren’t too many neighbors to worry about being quiet for. We get to live life how we choose to! I can agree with him now that I have learned a few tricks to living away from civilization, some that are definitely worth sharing!

1. Get a freezer. Or maybe two… You will curse yourself every time you run out of food, every time you make an extra trip for more food, and every time you try to cram your groceries in the little freezer space above your refrigerator. Yep… get a BIG freezer.

2. Since you bought a freezer, you have room to buy extra groceries… so do it! Load up on your favorite frozen fruits, veggies, chicken nuggets and of course BEEF! I even have butter and cheese in there! And just to be on the safe side, grab a few frozen pizzas for the days that dinner just doesn’t work out. Stick it all in and enjoy it later.

3. Every visit to town warrants a trip to the grocery store. Even if you think there isn’t stuff you need, go. I always end up grabbing a couple of gallons of milk. My family can never have enough milk! In fact, I get so much that I freeze some to ensure that we don’t run out.

4. Living far away from a gas station makes you realize how precious fuel is. In an ideal world you would have your own gas tank at home to fill up at. But if you can’t manage that, always leave town with a full tank of gas. Running out of gas in TMNW is SUPER frustrating and there is nobody to blame but yourself.

5. It’s sad to say, but since there are less trips to town (because it takes up way too much of the day just to get anywhere) you don’t always have fresh stuff. Either learn to live with that or learn to grow a garden. I suggest the latter because there isn’t much more satisfying than a good green salad from the backyard!

6. Those man car skills really are not just for men. Learning how to change a tire, check the oil, airing up tires, and using jumper cables is something that every person living in TMNW should know. Cowboy Charming (instead of Prince Charming, right?) is a LONG way away and really doesn’t have time (or even want to) to come save the day.

7. You will spend lots of time in the car… LOTS. Make sure you have a car that will be able to go the distance (especially if you didn’t learn those mechanicing skills we already talked about…). Just accept already that putting more than 15,000 miles on the odometer in a year is normal.

8. And if your car is getting that many miles, so are your kids. There have been a lot of late nights spent on the road. Teach the kids to sleep in the car. Take pillows and blankets, at least one for every person… or maybe two. Heck, take all you have in the house and borrow from the neighbors if you’ve got to! The extra work is worth it! And since the babies will be falling asleep always take pjs so they can just got straight to bed once you hit home.

9. Take out doesn’t exist in TMNW. Nor does delivery. Sorry, you GET to have a home cooked meal every night. I highly recommend meal planning, left overs, and guilt trips to get someone else (hubby, anyone?) to make dinner. If all else fails, get out the frozen pizza- that’s why you have a freezer, remember!

10. We don’t have a time to make lots of trips to town, nor do really want to. So with each trip, make it worth it! Hit up the grocery store, the bank, the hardware store, the post office, CAL Ranches, and the local Good Will. Or maybe just Walmart… they’re supposed to have it all, right?

Living in TMNW can make life tough, but choosing to make it work makes it all worth it. For us, getting to live where we have the space to do what we love is always worth it, even when I have more milk than I know what to do with!

Taking on Texas

March 21, 2014 by Allison

Its crazy to believe that it was only a week ago that we were living it up in San Antonio. The Rancher and I managed to leave the kids with grandma and took on a little vacation (oh ya, we went to a wedding too!). Texas is a great place for a couple of ranchers to visit because our boots and buckles totally fit in. We could have been taken for locals… until you listened to us talk of course!

Before we got too busy with the hair and nail prep for the wedding we played tourist for a bit!

Like to the Alamo! Which everybody and their dog was there too. Maybe we shouldn’t have gone during spring break… It was a good hangout for the preacher man too. I didn’t hear what he was saying, but he was pretty fired up!

There were some beautiful places around the grounds at the Alamo. I wish I could have taken some it home to be at my house. A little pink amidst the brown would be awesome!

My new sister-in-law said that we had to go to Rudy’s BBQ for lunch. Apparently its famous throughout Texas. With all of the hype I was expecting something huge and somewhat of a nice restaurant. But its not… its a hole in the wall. And in Texas that means that it is the real stuff. I’ll admit that it was stinking good! This from a bunch of country folk that love their BBQ! I highly recommend it!

The Rancher found the Rose Palace, the home for George Strait’s Team Roping Classic. He was supposed to be picking me up but got distracted when he saw so many horse trailers passing by. Ya, he totally ditched the idea of coming to get me. Eventually he came back (he knows what is good for him), but he started explaining really fast why he was late. He didn’t forget about the roping… We had to go back and check it out before we got on the plane. I guess its better than going to the roping instead of the wedding…

Walking through the city was so fun for this country girl. I don’t want to live there, but there are so many fun and interesting things to see. I love the shops, the architecture, the people, the landscaping… ALL OF IT! Maybe its because we don’t see so much of that around here, like a stoplight. We don’t have those in our town of 90 people. Or tall buildings or cool fire escapes. Its all so exciting!

The Rancher’s Wife on Mandy’s Recipe Box

March 11, 2014 by Allison

I’ve really been working hard at this blogging thing lately. And sometimes it hurts my head. The people that rock at this are amazing because they are creative thinkers, graphic designers, crafters, researchers, photographers, and awesome multi-taskers because they are mothers and wives too!

One of my very dear friends has an incredible food blog called Mandy’s Recipe Box. She lives out here in the booneyswith me and is a farmer’s wife herself! She has been my go to girl to learn some of the ins and outs of the blog-o-sphere.

She has invited me to her weekly link up parties where tons of bloggers put up some of their favorite posts on her site. Its a great way to meet other bloggers and share your own content. Last week one of my posts was featured as a favorite. Yahoo!

If you get a chance, go check out Mandy and her stellar recipes. You won’t be sorry!

Beef Fajitas with The Rancher’s Wife

March 9, 2014 by Allison

As folks that raise beef, we eat beef. We love beef- every tender, juicy bite of it!

Lately I have been craving fajitas. Beef with a little Mexican twist is always a favorite for our family. The Rancher especially loves Mexican food, but it has to be good. I mean he lived in Mexico for two years (you should ask him about it)so he knows the real stuff! So when he says I did good, that means I really did good!

I wish I could share our DELISCIOUS fajitas with you, but alas… I can’t. So how about instead I share the recipe and all the fun I had making them (because it was so fun!).

This might take some room, so click on to read the whole fajita story and recipe!

Lets start with the spices. I don’t want to say its all in the spices, but it just isn’t quite fajitas with out them! Get a little bit of onion flakes and paprika. Add that with some cumin and garlic powder. Then bring on the hotness with the cayenne pepper, chill powder and the red pepper flakes. Give it a little salt and sugar and you have a tantalizing concoction that will bring you fajita heavenliness!

With the spices ready to rock and roll, mix in the olive oil.

Pour a little bit more than half of you marinade on the beef. Slather it around and let it sit (in the refrigerator of course!). You could just cook it up now but the longer you let it sit, the better the flava!

But this is a good time to get your veggies ready.

Pull out the peppers and onions and get to choppin’. I go with a variety of colors because it is oh, so pretty! And the combination of their sweet and spiciness is awesome.

Some days I go with just a straight white onion but today I was feeling the red onion too.

Check out all of that color! Even the pictures look good enough to eat!

Next step- mix way! Get that marinade on all those peppers and onions. Go, go, go! Some days I even use my hands (shhh, don’t tell!)I even rinse the bowl out a little to get every last bit of it! Put it in the refrigerator to marinate while we keep going.

When your ready, lets get the steaks cooking. I wish I had one of those fancy-shmancy grill pans… but I don’t. So I just pulled out my favorite cast iron skillet. And if you didn’t want to do that, you could put ’em on the grill outside. Whatever you do, cook the beef!

But not too long- you want it nice and pink in the middle. Remember that as hot as it is, it will keep cooking a tiny bit after you pull them off.

Bring out the peppers and onions for some cookin’! Since I cooked my steaks in the skillet, I poured my veggies in the same skillet to keep that savory juice left from the meat.

Don’t over cook them, because then you have smushy mess. We are going for crunchiness!

While their cooking, head back over to the steaks and cut them into thin slices. Yep… cut, cut, cut! Can you smell it yet? Oh, hold on! You’re almost there!

Once the veggies are awesomely cooked, throw the meat back in the skillet to keep it all nice and hot. Its a great way to serve it up too! And not to mention, there is one less dish to do (I’ll admit that I will avoid one more dish to wash at ALL costs!).

Now we’re ready for the best part- eating them! Grab your tortillas (extra yummy if they are fried in a little oil) and your favorite fixings! We go for pico de gallo, mexican cheese (The Rancher LOVES oaxaca cheese!) and a little freshly squeezed lime juice. How ever you do it, pile ’em high and enjoy!

Beef Fajitas

Beef Steak (flank and skirt steak are the most popular, today I used sirloin because that’s what I had!)

2 tsp chili powder

1 tsp salt

1 tsp paprika

1 tsp white sugar

1 tsp onion flakes

1/2 tsp garlic powder

1/4 tsp cayenne pepper

1/2 tsp crushed red pepper flakes

1/2 tsp ground cumin

2-3 Tbsp olive oil

1 red bell pepper

1 green bell pepper

1 yellow bell pepper

1 onion (or 1/2 white onion, 1/2 red onion)

Tortillas

Cheese

Pico de Gallo

Limes

Sour cream

… and whatever other favorite fixings you want!

Mix together the chill powder, salt, paprika, sugar, onion flakes, garlic powder, cayenne pepper, crushed red pepper flakes, and cumin. Add olive oil and stir. Pour 2/3 of mixture on the beef in a prepared dish. Coat both sides of steak, then cover and return to the refrigerator to marinate. Slice the peppers and onion and pour the remaining marinade over the veggies, coating well. Cover and return to the refrigerator to marinate.

Heat a skillet over medium high heat, add some oil and cook steaks 4-5 minutes, turning after 2 minutes (for medium rare). Remove the steak to the cutting board. Let the beef cool a few minutes and then cut into thin slices.

Heat the same skillet to medium high heat and add the veggies, cooking only a few minutes. They should be hot but still crispy. Turn off heat and add sliced beef to the skillet.

Serve it hot on tortillas with your favorite fixin’s!

I think that we made enough, lets invite a few cowboys over!

10 Lessons I Have Learned as a Rancher’s Wife

March 2, 2014 by Allison

There are a lot of things that I have learned while I have been a rancher’s wife. Some have been from my own experiences and some have been from fellow ranch wives. I guess the most important thing I have learned is to just live it and love it! Here are a few other tips I have figured out along the way…

1. You must always consult the cowboys when you are picking your due date (like you can really decide what day you are going to give birth, right?!). You should never have babies during calving, branding, spring turnout, haying, fall gather, weaning, or preg checking seasons.

2. Once you do find an acceptable time to have a baby (or you have come to some compromise to manage having a baby in the midst of the chaos) expect to hear 9 months’ worth of cow pregnancy related jokes. I wish I had a buck for every time I heard The Rancher tell me he was bringing the chains, just in case.

3. Cowboys work much better on full bellies. It is in your own best interest to learn how to feed the masses. It should include meat and potatoes. Always.

4. There are days that The Rancher has to leave the ranch for some project, but is absolutely sure that he will be back in time for lunch. I still send him with the lunchbox. Fate has it that when I DO send a lunch they will be home on time for lunch. But when I don’t, everything goes wrong and it turns out to be a long and hungry day.

5. During the busy season (which could be ANY day), your Friday night date might just be a tractor ride or a ride through the cows. And he does appreciate that you are there for more than getting the gate for him.

6. Never do something once that you don’t want to be asked to do again. That advice was given by my mother and mother-in-law- one that didn’t want to be the one to milk the cow (even though she grew up on a dairy) and one that didn’t want run the swather. Both brilliant women!

7. When you go out with the cowboys, be sure to load your horse in the trailer last. That means you will unload first, giving you enough time to be on and ready so that you don’t get left behind.

8. If ever you get yelled at while you are out helping, it is a sign of real love, not the lack of. He is yelling at you to save your life, so don’t take the time to make him say it in a nicer or way or to say please. Just do what he says.

9. The faithful ranch dog is more than just a dog, and therefore is entitled to privileges, including riding in your car, coming in your house (both happen no matter what condition he is in), and having a place to sit with the rest of the family on the already squished 4-wheeler. And just face the fact that he will be in at least one family picture (you just don’t have to put that up one on the wall).

10. Always keep one cowboy around the ranch because destiny will have it that when your best helper is 3, the cows, horses, bulls, or chickens will get out. It’s likely that with them all being gone they have taken all of the 4-wheelers too and all you have left to chase them in with is the riding lawn mower.

BONUS(because I love you!)
Remember that a rancher is on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, ALL year. That includes nights, because that’s when you get a call from the state police that you have cows on the freeway. Or the boss calls for help because the calves are on their way into town at midnight. It also includes Sundays (the one day a week you try to slow down), because it seems that the range water always goes out just after church. It includes special days, like when you have just had a new baby. Sometimes the boss calls to haul spuds that day. And it certainly includes the days and nights of freezing temperatures when the rest of the world heads in. Just be sure to be ready with something hot for when they come back to the house!

There are so many more I could share, and I will someday. Life is never dull as a rancher’s wife. It’s our job to just take what comes our way and work with it. I love the lessons I learn from being The Rancher’s Wife!

I Hate When Death Wins

February 28, 2014 by Allison

This isn’t the post I had intended to share with you today, but I just had to write this (maybe you’ll get a double dose of The Rancher’s Wife today!).

I hate death. And I hate that even though as hard as we try, we lose sometimes. I think I take it personally because it means that I wasn’t enough. Today I had to face that reality again.

The temperatures are warming up enough (or I am sick of being inside) that I decided to go for a run this morning. It was just an ordinary run- I thought I was dying but still going. I was jamming to my iPod and picking up speed as I headed down the last hill. This is where it all changed.

I noticed there was a heifer in the already-calved-pen that was stuck on her back. If a cow gets on her back and her feet uphill she can’t get up alone (sometimes I think I feel like that…). If she is left like that long she could die. Needless to say, when I got up to her, I called The Rancher to come fix it (because he can fix anything!). His response was to do it myself… um… no. I can’t really do a job that takes the two of us. At this point I noticed that she was calving and so we had even more reason to hurry.

After The Rancher’s speedy arrival (that seemed to take hours) we pushed and pulled and grunted and finally got her un-upside down. Then we realized that she couldn’t stand. When cows have been trying to have a baby for a longer time than usual, the pressure can make it so that they can’t get up. This was actually ok because it meant that we could pull the calf right there.

The nose of the baby was sticking out and we could tell that he was struggling to breath. That calf needed help and every minute counted. Which meant we didn’t have time for the calf puller or chains or even gloves. We ended up using a bungee cord to wrap around the calves legs, the wench on our 4 wheeler to do the pulling and yours truly stuck her bare hands into the heifer to help during the tough spots. It wasn’t the most conventional way of pulling a calf, but it worked.

Once we got the calf out, we went to work getting him breathing. A lot of times just tickling the inside of their nose will make them sneeze and that’s enough to jump start them. But that didn’t work…

We tried rubbing his back and chest, trying to wake him up a little more. That didn’t help…

The Rancher got down to him and tried some mouth to nose breathing. With every breath he would give, the calf’s heart would beat a little faster… for a while. But eventually it wasn’t enough and his heart stopped. He died even though we were there to help him. He died while we were doing all we could. He died while my hand was resting on his little chest, willing his heart to beat again.

There comes a point when see that you are going to lose. And its at this point you put everything you have into it, denying the horror that is becoming reality. You hope that your will and determination will cause something miraculous to happen so that you don’t have to face the truth. The truth that calf has died.

This is one of those days that we don’t love on the ranch. We are reminded that we have limits and that there are some things we just can’t fix. And I hate that. I really hate when death wins.

Wintertime Horses

February 25, 2014 by Allison

Every few days The Rancher takes a bale of hay out to the horses. The last few times that he has gone to feed he has a slight issue… the horses have been getting out! He pops the gate open, drives the tractor into the pasture and then once he has cleared the gate out they go.

But being the ever vigilant ranch wife I’ve been there to the rescue. I mean, you can’t really miss eight horses running down the road. I feel guilty admitting this, but I do love to see them run. Its like back in the day when bands of horses would run wild, free… and crazy. Ya they were crazy, but still beautiful!

It really only took a minute to get the horses back to their pasture on those few days they were out roaming. Giving a good cowgirl whoop and holler is just the trick to get those horses to turn back. Do you think it would work to get my kids to come back like that?

One fine morning we had the privilege of helping The Rancher feed the horses and we must have been good luck. Not a single horse ran out! They must have known that I wanted a few photos. I love a winter shot of the horses in the snow. Their long, thick winter coat is its own kind of beautiful.

Favorite Super Bowl Ads Representing Ag

February 10, 2014 by Allison

I love football but I’m not a huge Super Bowl fan… There, I’ve admitted it out loud. I really am more of a college sports fan so I don’t really even have a favorite pro team. And since motherhood began my attention to sports has REALLY dwindled.

Even though I’m not a fan, that doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy a good Super Bowl party with the treats and commercials. It seems I only get the highlights when we rewind to rematch the amazing plays (thank you TIVO) but this year I hardly got to see even the commercials. Ya, you probably guessed I was busy wrangling my crazy kids. And making football cookies with The Rancher’s Sidekick… But of what I did get to see, I loved how many had roots in agriculture.

This was probably my favorite!

There was an ad I was watching for but it didn’t air in out here (it only went to 20 cities). What is so fun about it was that it about being a ranch mom and featured a real ranch mom that I follow! Fun to see someone representing the rancher’s wife club and doing it so well.