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!!

Saturday Jackpot

So I bush hogged the front yard Sunday. It was about waist deep in weeds. This is not due to the fact that I am lazy and do not want to mow. This is due to the fact that our front yard is really low and since it rained every day in May we were forced to sit and watch the weeds grow in the two inches of water that sat and hatched the biggest mosquitoes in Saline County. It finally quit raining and the water dried and I was able to mow. There was only one wet spot that I almost got stuck in but other than that it was pretty dry. Below are a few "before" pictures. These pictures just don't show how deep it really is. This was also taken last weekend so it had a week's worth of more growth on it. Banjo could walk out into the front yard and disappear in the grass and still be standing up.

If you'll notice I have no after pictures yet. This is because it got dark on me and I didn't get to go back over the yard with the finish mower. The next day Jim took the mower to his mothers to mow and left it over there. So now I have to wait until it comes back to get after pictures. Right now it looks like a Blind Man cut my grass because it's so uneven and has a few missed spots. I had to mow with the small tractor and bush hog, this was my first experience driving a small tractor with a mower on the back. It was quite interesting. I'm not so sure Jim should've trusted me with it.

So anyway to continue posting about my weekend.... Saturday we had a Jackpot at the house. We had tons of people over and really had a good time, despite the 150 degree weather. Due to Sean's rib injury he sat out of the Jackpot and just flagged for the timers. Shannon (the girl with the awesome camera that I'm jealous of) was there and she let me play around with her camera, here's some of the pictures we took...

Sean flagged on Zero! Sean is working with Zero and trying to make him into a Hazing horse which is funny because Zero is around 13 and he's never run before in his life. He's a lazy horse. He'd doing pretty good though.

Sean bringing the steers back

Jason and Jim about to leave the box. (my brother-in-law and father-in-law)

Jason, catching his steer. The white horse, Frosty, looks like something you see in the movies in this picture.

This camera even makes a bird house look good!!

If' you'll notice my camera ticker at the bottom of the page I'm up to 22.7%!! Only 77.3% until I have enough money for my new Camera!!