French Tips and Ranch Dips

A few different events have been happening in our lives lately.  With cattle work slowing down a bit for us, we have had more time to play. When we realized that our year-end formal event (aka. prom) was going to take place at the end of June, we invited our friends from our homeschool classes to learn to swing dance at the ranch.   Previously, our Nebraska cousins visited and taught us how to dance. 

We had so much fun with our cousins that we wanted our friends to learn. Our friends eagerly learned to swing dance!  The night we spent learning together led to an absolute blast at the formal!  

Later that same week our cousins from Nebraska drove down to spend the fourth of July with us. We swam in the pool, blasted fireworks, and kayaked on the ranch lake. The fun on the lake increased in a huge way when we spotted a bridge and decided to jump into the lake from the bridge! 

If this causes alarm, don’t worry….we checked the depths of the water and wore life jackets!  Though slightly scary, it was really fun jumping in with our cousins over and over again.

This ranch “dip” was a fabulous finale to an already fun Fourth of July! Though my press-on french tipped manicure for the formal fell off during our bridge excursion, the ranch dip was totally worth it!