Have you ever heard of
Maupin? Well, that's where we went last Saturday with all the activity day girls in my ward. It was a two hour drive from Bend, but it was worth the money in gas to get there because we had a
fantastic day at the Swan's ranch. We met the most wonderful sister from the Madras ward who lives on this ranch and since it is the lambing season, we got to go check it all out. The day started out by waking Brooklyn up at 5:00am to get ready to go. The lambs would be waiting for us to feed them their breakfast! We picked up a few of the girls on our side of town and then met the group at the north end of town to caravan our way to the ranch. I had never been to
Maupin...why would I have? It's in the middle of nowhere! But I was
surprised by the beauty of this area. Sister Swan greeted us and brought us into her house to explain a little about the lambs and the girls got to help prepare the formula and pour the bottles. They helped feed the lambs that needed bottles and watched Sister Swan administer some shots and learned a few interesting facts about ranch life and the work involved in caring for animals.
Here is Brooklyn feeding a lamb her bottle.
She LOVED holding this lamb.
Here she is holding another lamb. She was concerned about it since Sister Swan would be giving it shots in a minute. She knows all too well about getting shots since she just got her own at the doctor's office a few days before....four of them! So she was sympathetic. She told the lamb not to jerk her leg or she would get a bruise...she was speaking from experience the wise child now offering advice to the lamb!
We walked about a mile across this terrain to visit a very old
cemetery that they take care of on their 19,ooo acre ranch. People that once owned the land in the 1800's are burried there. The girls got to pull a handcart and
surprisingly they said that was one of their favorite things they did that day.
They got to do many other activities this day and we left the ranch a little tired, sunburned and happy.
She LOVED holding this lamb.
Here she is holding another lamb. She was concerned about it since Sister Swan would be giving it shots in a minute. She knows all too well about getting shots since she just got her own at the doctor's office a few days before....four of them! So she was sympathetic. She told the lamb not to jerk her leg or she would get a bruise...she was speaking from experience the wise child now offering advice to the lamb!
We walked about a mile across this terrain to visit a very old cemetery that they take care of on their 19,ooo acre ranch. People that once owned the land in the 1800's are burried there. The girls got to pull a handcart and surprisingly they said that was one of their favorite things they did that day. 
They got to do many other activities this day and we left the ranch a little tired, sunburned and happy. 
6 comments:
Wow! That sounds like a great activity! I wish my daughters could have gone. It looks like Brooklyn had a lot of fun. How sweet of her to be so concerned about the little lamb. That really touched me. Are you an Activity Day leader? I think that would be a fun calling!
okay so your activity days group is WAY cooler than mine ever was!
Such a cool activity. You rock!
That was a GREAT day! Im so glad you and Brooklyn could come. Next year???
So...I was Achievement Days leader in Houston, and we didn't do anything like that! I'm feeling just a tad guilty.
That looked like a ton of fun!!
What a fabulous activity!!
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