Monday, June 9, 2008

Joel Flake Family Reunion 2008

Matt, Whitney (and Natalie), Ashley (and Wesley), Haley (and Preston) riding horses.

President Derek Flake, the cowboy. If only his people could see him now.

Melanie and Emery in the hail on good old Jack Attack.

Austin and Luke during the hail storm, getting ready for their 1.5 hour ride around the beautiful Moses Ranch. Sarah is in the back directing traffic while Justin and Eden look on.

Ashley and Wesley riding Lizzy. Ashley was freezing the whole time, although she has on 3 jackets in this picture.

Whitter with Natalie on our very fun ride.

It was so beautiful out there.

Going around a beautiful pond.

Haley on Jack with Wesley. Matt was on Lizzy. He started out with Jackson, who fell asleep on the back of the horse so he went back home.

Here's a shot of their fun swing with Justin pushing kids. They really do have an amazing place up there.

Here you can see that Matt has just been yanked to the ground when the zip line rope wrapped around his leg while taking off with Derek on it. Pretty wild and painful, I would imagine.

Justin thought he could talk Eden into going. When she wouldn't have any of it, he tried to put Jude on. That didn't work either.


Wesley went on the zip line quite a few times, although he only had one shoe on most of the time because the other one got wet in the creek. Preston also had one shoe on for the same reason. Or was that because they had to share a dry pair of shoes?

Another shot of the beautiful scenery that we saw on horseback around the Moses Ranch.


Austin took look on some more horse rides after his 2.5 hour nap in the car and after the hail stopped. It was such a fun time up there!

Austin showing off his skills on the barrell race.

Derek leading Merrody and Natalie around the corral - what a good uncle.

Justin and his two kids, Eden and Jude, riding around the corral on Jack.


Austin and Luke watching the barrell racing.





The video on the top right is of little Joel riding on the zip line. That kid was so into it, he went like 5 times.

1 comment:

Flake Family said...

Are these the ones of the beautiful ranch and horse rides, etc. Those are great photos. I love to send them to my siblings, but someone would have a hissy! JK. Beautiful shots. Dad.