pictures i promised you

Here is a the classic “finalization photo with the judge” and no, we probably shouldn’t have both worn plaid, but oh well.

this isn’t the most in-focus picture of baby dude with his birthmother, but i love the expression on both of their faces.

and here I am making a strange smiling-while-chewing-my-food face at one of the few dude ranch activities we got to fully enjoy–the campfire cowboy breakfast.  Complete with serenading, guitar-strumming cowboy (you can actually see about half of his guitar beside that tree trunk in the photo below) and a “hayride” to and from the site.