A crafty day spent on a ranch

Yesterday, Samantha and I went over to my friend, Jennifer's house to make my Christmas cards. Yes. I said Christmas cards. Last year I didn't have time to make them, so I ended up buying cards and that is no good! Little Samantha was also creating her own artwork with markers and stamps. She has the creative bug and so does Kent :-)
It was a beautiful day on her property (a ranch just outside of Williams). She has a garden and I took a picture of one of her three pumpkins currently growing. This pumpkin is perfectly shaped...just wait until that thing starts to turn orange! Jennifer is battling gophers in her garden. She had a good size watermelon growing and the dang thing ate half of it! Jennifer and her husband are on a mission to get rid of those annoying rodents... if the gophers go after her beautiful pumpkins...she just might lose it...because growing season is coming to an end rapidly. I also took a picture of the barn that sits on their property, it is over 100 years old, and looks like a painting with the backdrop of yellow flowers draping the meadow...breathtaking.