PB&J

For the past week I've been husbandless. Sean left last Saturday for awhile to go to a few rodeos. Jason, Sean's brother, has been helping me around the house and said he would sleep in our extra bedroom or on the couch if I got scared at night, which is really sweet of him. I'm taking two, two week classes for him to bring up his GPA so he was kind of guilted into being my slave. So far he's done my laundry, dishes, and some dusting! So far I've done about 10 quizzes and work sheets on Music and Sports Officiating (who knew that was a class?)

Yesterday Sean was up at Denver. He didn't do any good. He drew a bad steer that never left the chute, so he never had a chance at throwing the steer. I swear he has THE worst luck of anyone I've ever met! I used to be really lucky, but his unluckiness rubbed off onto me.

Last night he called and said they were leaving Denver and were trying to get to Amarillo by the morning because they had to get a saddle fitted for the horse they are riding and the saddle is in Amarillo. I almost laughed out loud and then started singing the George Strait song "Amarillo by morning" to Sean. After that, that song was stuck in my head all night. As I was bathing Birdie last night, singing that song over and over again in my head a few of the lyrics jumped out at me.. "I ain't rich, but Lord I'm free."

This may have been totally obvious to some people but I just realized that Sean is a "free spirit" of sorts. He doesn't like to be held in one place and he doesn't really like to be told what to do. He's a fly by the seat of your pants type of guy, he NEVER makes plans. He doesn't care about "things" and doesn't have to have a lot of possessions and is happy just being himself and rodeoing.

I on the other hand am exactly the opposite. I like structure. I have a planner that I keep daily and I HAVE to know what I'm doing ahead of time and I have to have plans. I like things, I like direction, and I like being told what to do, because then I don't have to make too many decisions. I want to have a 10 year plan and want to save for my future. Sean isn't worried about tomorrow.

So why did God bring us together? Two people who have nothing in common except hardheadedness. Why did he put us in this constant struggle of a marriage? I thought about it all night, I dwelt on it all morning, and then I realized... We're kind of like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich...wait stay with me here.

I give Sean stability, he gives me excitement.  It would be hard to have just a jelly sandwich because the jelly would be too "exciting" or messy and the sandwich would fall apart.  Just a peanut butter sandwich would be way to "stable" or sticky to eat...just like a life of full stability would be to boring and would be no kind of life to live at all and a life of constant excitement would get unstable and unsafe. So I guess in my crazy mind, that is why God threw us together in life..to balance each other out.. and I guess that makes me Peanut Butter! 

p.s.  Keep us in your prayers!!  Being apart this long is hard and Sean really needs to win some money!!  He's in Odessa next Wednesday and Ft. Worth after that!!

I Heart Faces

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This weeks entry at I heart faces is all about their logo "i heart faces"   Why you ask?? Because it's their first birthday!!   Head on over to I heart faces to see other awesome photos!!

This is my youngest sister, she was nice enough to let me take her photo on the tracks..she got her jeans dirty..sorry!!

I took this of Sean when we went duck hunting a few weeks ago.


I'm not quite sure if this qualifies as an "animal" shot, but I thought it was cool that you could actually see this Lady's face!!

And last but not least the beautiful Kinley Clare who was picking up leaves, I just replaced it with an I heart faces logo!!

Pyromaniac

I got a tripod for Christmas, which was awesome because I didn't have one!  I didn't realize how much I needed a tripod until I used it.  It makes the dark photos so much clearer and my shaky hand just wouldn't let me take darker photos.

At Mom and Dad's house this weekend I took these cool photos of their fire.  I want a fire place!  It was so wonderful to sit in front of the fire and let my back get hot while my face froze, then let my back freeze while my face got to hot.  I felt a little like a pyromaniac, lost in a trance staring at the fire through my lens snapping photo after photo.  It was fun.

Check out my other blog Project 365 for Picture number 4 My FAVORITE photo I took of the fire.  I caught it just as the log broke and sent sparks a flying!!

I hate winter, but I love fire!! 

Interstate Mishap

This afternoon I was sitting on the back porch enjoying the warm sun rays when a huge blur of Chocolate Children flew by the house out into the pasture. I then saw Sean's truck drive by and realized they were chasing him, but he was on the road and they were running parallel to him in the pasture. I thought that was so sweet and figured they would turn around and come back home when they hit the fence that separates the horse pasture from the cow pasture. I was wrong. They kept going and never looked back. I hollared and Banjo thought about stopping but Birdie just kept on trucking and Banjo wasn't going to let her go without him.

They disappeared over the hill and about 5 minutes later after yelling for them to "come," I decided I was going to have to drive a mile or so down the road and pick them u,p wherever they may be. I still thought they would be in the pasture, they do this type of thing a lot. They like to explore as all dogs do.

I drove all the way down the highway until I hit the interstate, where our property line ends. This was way farther than the dogs had ever gone, but I was looking out into the pasture the whole time and never saw them so I just assumed they had gone to the river and taken the long way back home, hidden by the trees where I couldn't see them.

I decided to turn onto the service road and go down to the next exit to get me a coke at the convenience store instead of heading straight and going under the interstate to turn around. As I turned onto the service road and began to pick up speed something across the interstate caught my eye. As my vision focused I realized I was staring at my babies!! Across the interstate, on the shoulder of the road headed south were Birdie and Banjo. They were totally oblivious to the roaring traffic headed north just feet away. If I would've gone straight underneath the interstate I would've been very close to them and been able to have them within seconds, but because I'd turned onto the one-way service Road to get a coke I was going to have to go down two miles to the next overpass and come back another two miles until I was near them.

I totally freaked out. I didn't know what to do. I knew if I hollared for them they would try to get across all four lanes of flying traffic and that was totally not happening. I didn't realize my Tahoe could break 100 but I found out pretty quick that it would top out at 115 pretty quickly. If I'd not been panicked I would've realize how dangerously I was driving but I didn't care about anything but my puppies. In my manic state I called my Brother in law and demanded him to drive under the overpass and see if he could pick up the dogs before I made it there.

My worse fear was that I would drive up and see one of them laying on the side of the road. I couldn't think about anything but getting to them before they got hit. As I was almost to where I had seen them when my brother in law called and said that he had them. I thanked him a million times and then I broke out into a sobbing fit of relief and realized in that moment that I am totally in love with my dogs and will really be upset when they die, because we all die and I know one day they will too.

When I got to the house Sean was back home and the dogs got quite a chewing out and spanking. I wasn't allowed to love on them until their punishment was over. (Sean said) After an hour or so I let them in the house and loved on them until they couldn't handle it anymore!

So that was my dramatic Saturday and everyone is now safe at home and hopefully that will NEVER happen again.

The End.