Father's Day 2012

Father's Day as so much fun that we seriously lost track of time! My parents came to town and after a quick lunch, we were on the road to Perry, OK.

My dad has had a life-long dream (okay...it may not be his entire life, but its been a dream of his for as long as I can remember! And, since a parent's life only starts when their child's life does....right????) of owning longhorns. And, it just so happened that KP and I became friends with some longhorn ranchers a few years ago.

Matt and Mel (owners of Semkin Longhorns) have become some of our best friends and since knowing them my dad and Grandma Lavalle bought some longhorns. {Below is a picture of Gus. He is the oldest longhorn on the ranch and his horn-span measured at over 100-inches this last year!}

For father's day, we took my dad out to the longhorn ranch for the first time. We saw SO many!!! Including all the one's my dad owns (which I will save for a separate blog post). They are such beautiful creatures!

We were able to not only look at them, but hand feed them as well. There are a few that will even let you pet them. The older they are, the more friendly they are. The young ones aren't as trusting of humans yet, but I know one day, they'll be eating out of our hands too.

Check out these little "toddlers" - the longhorns in the pictures below range in age from one year to two years old.

We seriously had no idea how long we had been on the ranch until we were heading home four hours later. We were all super hungry and I was very thankful for that because I made my dad's favorites: Fried chicken and Lemon Meringue Pie!

 

Hope all you dad's had an enjoyable weekend of being celebrated!!! 

{And, if you were dying to know...Ruger and Rossi celebrated KP in a big way! They bought him a card and there MIGHT be a video on his phone of the three of us singing Celine Dion's "I'm Your Lady". Poor Ruger had to sing a girly song, but he is SERIOUSLY the best singer in the family.}