My Weekend

Wow, what a weekend.  Storms ripped through Arkansas and did some major damage.  Not as much as in TN but a few tornados tore up a few communities.  My weekend started off Early Friday night.  Mom & Dad picked me up in Benton and we headed off to Pocahontas Arkansas to watch my youngest sister compete in the State Track Meet.  Pocahontas is about 5 hours from my home town so Dad decided to take our horse trailer (with living quarters) up on Friday night so we could be there early on Saturday morning for the start of the meet and not have to get up at 5 am. 

BTW their horse trailer is nicer than most hotels :)  It has a slide out and a very comfortable couch that Gretchen (their dog) and I slept on.  Friday Night we drove through some major rain and got to the High School to set up the trailer to get some sleep.  We found a birds nest in the back of the trailer.  I felt really sorry for the Momma Bird that returned to find her eggs gone ...

Please notice that this nest was made of hay and Horse Hair!!

Right about the time this photo was taken the Tornado sirens started blaring and the rain was comming down so hard that you couldn't hear inside the trailer nor stand because the wind was rocking it back and forth....   We decided to make a run for the truck where dad was listening to a Bball game on XM radio.  Because ya know..you can outrun a tornado in a truck pulling a horse trailer....

Here's dad checking the weather...he wasn't happy he had to turn off the game... and below is mom reading my radar..she was very worried.

So was I...I just tried to pretend the weather was good and just took photos...

Notice the Purple Triangle...that means Tornado on the ground.

Gretchen was worried too...not because of the storms but because no one was spoiling her. 

The next day was beautiful and Hot and I have a major farmers tan now..ew.

Melissa did great, and their team won state.  Here are some photos I got thoroughout the day.

Fourth in the Pole Vault..not bad for 5 foot nothing!

Long jump,  Not her best day... But still placed. 

300m Hurdles

The boys won state too...

This is the fourth year in a row that Melissa's track team has won state..

And the trophy is bigger than her...

Hope you enjoyed reading all about my family weekend and I hope you are dead from boredom:)

***edited to add.... i hope you are NOT dead from boredom...wow I'm sorry I just wished everyone was dead...??? 

weddings, airplanes,chickens, steerwrestling, and cheerleading

Well after the normal Airport frustration I have made it to Ohio.  Cincinnati Ohio to be exact...well actually i'm outside of Cincinnati.  It's different here than what I expected.  Not many trees, which is totally different from my Arkansas Oak Haven.  I expected it to be flat here for some reason too...huh, guess not.  So the airport was totally a headache, in fact I still have one.   After a two hour flight delay after a mechanical issue I reluctanly boarded the plane and I swear I saw them duct taping the wing back on.  I made it safely to ATL with two crying babies and one precious autistic boy who hummed like an airplane very loudly the entire flight only to miss my connecting flight due to the two hour delay on my first flight.  I got put on stand by for another flight to Dayton and luckly caught it..but apparently my luggage didn't get the memo.  Only a very exciting book kept my mind from having a nervous breakdown and going completely postal..

Do you know how horrible it is to travel on an airplane all day and then get to the hotel and not be able to brush your teeth or change clothes....it sucks.

I hope to return home to 4 and 1/2 healthy chickens.  I think it rained in AR today and according to an old wives tale, baby chicks will look up to the sky when it rains and the raindrops will fall into their open mouths and drown them...  they were left outside in Banjo's dog pen and let me just say that he isn't happy about givin up his house for a few days.  Sean said he would build them a chicken coop when hell freezes over and if I have anything to do with it Hell will freeze over between thursday and sunday and Banjo can have his man cage back. 
Oh and a special Congrats to Melissa my sister who made Alternate on the Arkansas razorback Cheer squad!  Hopefully they will bump her up to the squad!!  Alternate is a huge accomplishment for someone from a ltitle town like ours that doesn't have access to all the gymnastic gyms and stunting classes the big city girls have!!

And another congrats to Sean who finished 8th at the Steerwrestling Jackpot this weekend out of about 70 ppl.  even though 8th in the average was two holes away from winning money he still earns bragging rights and cool points in my eyes!!

And one more congrats to my cousin Sarah who Got married to the wonderful Trevor this weekend.  I got to film the wedding and it was a BLAST..  I highly recommend watching the untraditional entrance the bridal party made!!!

Haha! how fun was that??? 
Ps.  did you notice the shoes the groom and groomsmen were wearing?? super sweet converse tennies ha!

Have a great Day!!

Minus One

I have sad news.  Birdie killed BirdieToo.  She just wanted to play and hasn't yet realized that she's bigger than the chickens.  Sean and I went to lunch and I stuipdly left the chickens in the front yard to enjoy the sun and they wondered their way into the Back yard into Birdie's Pen and she played a little to hard with Birdietoo and I guess he was too stupid to run like the others did. 

When I got home Birdie was very proud of her accomplishments..which she should've been, she's a bird dog.  I on the other hand felt awful that I left them unattended and Sean disposed of the dead chicken...and Birdie retrieved it and brought it back...twice.  At least we know she's a good retriever. 

So what else is going on at the Circle T? 

The Trees have leaves..
the grass is green..
Banjo is having hip problems majorly..
Birdie might have to go to a trainer. Sean wants her to be a great hunting dog but I don't want her to go away!
Sean seems to be enjoying his new job..
The 5 chickens are getting a coop..
I planted some snapdragons and they looks great..
Everything is covered with pollen..

Oh Yeah and Friday Night I went to see Lady Antebellum and Tim McGraw in concert in Little Rock with the girls.  It was a lot of fun!  I wish I would've brought my Rebel Camera...I instead decided it might be dangerous so I took my point and shoot...it sucked.  I wish I would've had my Rebel so bad...here's proof the point and shoot sucked.

Blurry

This was full zoom..we had good seats be we were still far.  We went down to the bottom row to shoot some good pics and found three vacant seats and sat front row for a little while!! 
This is how close we were after... no zoom.

Then the people who were stitting there finally arrived 30 minutes later and we went back to this:

It was still a blast...and Tim crowd surfed!! 

Have a good monday!

Whew..

Whew... What a LOONG weekend.  Of course, my weekend did start on Thursday Afternoon so I guess it really was a long weekend.  Tunica was a great time, except I didn't win any money...I actually lost a little.  It was still fun though.  No fingers were lost, so that was good.  We got very little sleep and had lots of fun!!  The Texas Hold Em poker table made me lots of money, and the slots took it all back plus some...I hate slot machines. As we were leaving the casino on Saturday a older Lady hit the Jackpot on a $0.01 slot machine and won $970,000!!!!  WOW!  Why didn't I play the cent machines?  Oh yeah, I did and they took all my money.     (why is there not a "cent" sign on a keyboard?) 

I came home to a clean house and no laundry!  I was so happy Sean helped out while I was gone.  He called at one point and asked how two people had so much laundry and that he thought it multiplied when he pulled it out of the dryer.  I told him welcome to my world, and our dryer also eats socks.  

When I got home last night the Chocolate Children were so glad I was home.  I went to bed and watched the "Life" series on the Discovery Channel...Did anyone else catch that?  If not you MUST watch it!! It's amazing.  It's like the Planet Earth series but better...I can't believe how cool nature is.  There were a lot of animals that I had never seen before from Africa that were really wild looking.    I asked Sean,  "I wonder if people from Africa see Racoons and Armadillos (our AR critters) on TV and think, 'How Wild!'"

Last night before I went to bed I noticed four shotgun bullets sitting next to Sean's recliner.  I asked where they came from and Sean just said Oh I found them.  Well I don't know why he didn't go into detail about where he found him until I woke up to feed the dogs this morning.  There was a box of clay skeet on the porch, that was empty... There were shot gun shells laying around....and my yard was COVERED in orange pieces of clay...  Apparently him and his friends wanted to shoot skeet yesterday but it was raining so they SHOT SKEET OFF MY BACK COVERED PORCH.   I'm pretty sure that shooting skeet off your back porch is one of Jeff Foxworthy's redneck jokes...I'm pretty sure. 

I'm not quite sure why this makes me mad...or why I don't think it's a good Idea.  It just seems to me like so many things can go wrong while shooting skeet off a covered back porch.   All my hanging plants were taken down so they wouldn't get shot and I looked to make sure my porch wasn't peppered in pellet holes but it looked like they didn't shoot anything but skeet.   I'm just trying to figure out..if Sean was trying to hide the fact that he shot skeet off the back porch,  He did a sucky job at it.  :)

Offically A redneck,

Hello Monday

Hey Blog world.

I'm still trying to wake up on this monday afternoon.  You would think loosing one hour of sleep wouldn't make a difference but good grief I could curl up under my desk and nap for awhile....but I'm not complaining because I welcome the Springing-Foward with arms wide open!

I had a good weekend.  I went to Gavin's First Birthday and took some pictures for Monica and went to Nashville to a funeral for a family friend. It was nice to celebrate both of their lives this weekend. One just beginning, and the other ending. 

I know this is totally random and I don't know what I was watching that reminded me of this TV show but Do any of you remember the Snorks?   I loved this cartoon when I was little!!   I had totally forgotten about them.  It got me looking on the internet for some of my favortie Cartoons, which I've done before, but I just got in such a good mood thinking about my favorite cartoons!

Some of my other Favorites were Jem, Care Bears, RainbowBrite, My little Ponies, Smurfs, Fraggle Rock, The Jetsons, Rescue Rangers and there were lots others...  

What was Your Favorites??!!!

Oh and If you haven't noticed...I've followed the crowd again and added a question box to my sidebar...if You want to know something about me just ask... I'm not sure what else people would want to know about me because I pretty much tell everything on my blog but if you have any random questions to ask Go for it!!

Arkansas Longhorns?

Today's post is a Not me monday with a few cows at the end. 



This weekend I did NOT eat three bags of cotton candy, a pound of nachos, a large bilizzard from Dairy Queen, and I did NOT drink like 78 cokes :)  I would never be that much of a pig.

I also Did not wear my boots (covered in cow crap) into the movie theater to watch New Moon at 9:30 immediately after Sean ran his steer, and did not, secretly wish that Jacob was my boyfriend....eight pack abs and all. 

And now to the cows...

Today At Lunch I went home to see if Sean wanted some lunch because today they were Working Cows, separating the momma's from the babies. Of course I had my camera and thought I'd take a few shots

Can I share a few? Ok Good.

Some of our cows have Long horns...they are called "longhorns" pretty creative huh?

Some of them have shorter horns, they are Corrientes from Mexico.  I think this one's horns were victim of a Steer wrestling match gone wrong. 

They come in all shapes and sizes and colors.  My favorite are these white and red ones.   I don't really know why...

Actually to be honest...these are my favorites

Look at all these cows...
Hey, wait a minute...that's not a cow.

That's just Mr. Key, Don Key. He keeps the coyotes away, supposedly.

Oh, excuse me, I didn't realize this stall was taken....





There...that's better.

There's my cowboy, in his cowboy hat and shirt and...well never mind.


Here's his ranch hands.. I hear the one on the right is really lazy and the one on the left begs for food a lot.

Oh how sweet it is to live on a farm.  Have a good Monday!!

Goodbye Monday

Is there anyone out their that actually likes Mondays? Maybe Monday's should be taken out of the week, but then I'd hate Tuesdays. Really though, it's not the whole Day of Monday that I hate, it's Monday mornings.

I had a sucky Saturday and an OK Sunday due to Celiac Disease and a major migraine but Friday I actually had a great time. So Friday afternoon around 2:30ish a major thunderstorm blew up and work was no longer a workplace. Everyone upstairs came running down stairs, the tornado sirens went off, and it rained so hard you could hardly see outside. There were limbs and trees down all over town! Sean and I were supposed to leave for a rodeo at 3:00 so I had to drive home in the storm, it had let up a little by then. When I got to the barn I found Sean running around in a camouflage rain poncho gathering up goats. A tree had fallen onto his mothers goat's pen and they all ran for the hills. It was a sight!

Sean and I were the only two to go to the rodeo so it was kind of fun. We took the scenic route to Lincoln,AR (up near Fayetteville) and got to see lots of beautiful scenery. We also saw a dairy farm. We don't have those around here in central Arkansas. It was neat to see all the black and white dairy cows! It was also nice to spend the evening alone with Sean. We are having one of Sean's friends from New Mexico stay with us for a few weeks so we aren't going to have many alone nights for awhile. By the way have you ever heard anyone from New Mexico speak? Their accent is really different!

Anyway I rounded out the weekend in bed with a migraine and cleaned the house a little.

Wow what a boring post, no wonder no one reads this thing! Here, here are some pictures of the dogs to make even more boring!

We hear a fourwheeler!

There it goes!Wait he's leaving!Ok Banjo How do I get out there?


Bye mom!

It's the steers in the mud...

This is one of those Mondays. You know, the kind where you wake up and just want to roll over and go back to sleep all day. I wish the sun would shine a little bit. It's rained nonstop all weekend. It rained so much that the river came out of the banks and flooded about 50 yards into the pasture. They had to move the cows early in the morning so they wouldn't get washed away.

Friday night I went with Sean and two other steer wrestlers to the Rodeo in Forrest City. The steers were horrible and Sean never even got a chance to get off his steer. The arena was very small but lots of people were there. Again, I wish I had a camera to take better quality pictures. We were in the middle of some crop field right next to the State prison. I could just imagine a prison break happening in the middle of the rodeo and the escaped prisoners coming to the rodeo to mug someone, take their clothes, and blend into the crowd and kill me. My imagine runs wild sometimes... Anyway, I've decided to make a picture montage of all the places I go with Sean this year. That way I remember everything and I don't get so bored sitting in the stands by myself. There are so many things interesting to see at these rodeos. Most of them are put on by smaller towns and a lot of them are either part of a fair or some sort of festival. It's always fun to see the different types of folks that show up and see all the kids excited about the events. I guess I've been going to so many so long, it's lost all of the excitement for me, now it's just boring and I can't wait for it to be over. The atmosphere at most of these rodeo's are so laid back and so slow. It seems that everyone forgets the hustle and bustle of daily life and just lets time go in slow motion, I like that feeling. It seems weird I think of the rodeo as slow and laid back because all the events are timed and everyone is in a hurry to get their steer thrown, or calf roped, but it's just the whole small town "old west" atmosphere that seems slow; the southern drawls, the lemonade and iced tea, the kids running wild, warm sticky weather, the lazy mosquitoes, and the smell of leather. Don't tell Sean but I kind of like this lifestyle.