Blog Hop

With nothing else to do on a rainy Tuesday in Central Arkansas I thought I'd join in on today's bloghop. It looks pretty fun today, The sentence below was given to us by Brent at Mck Linky and I'm supposed to fill in the blanks. I'm curious to see what everyone else has filled in.


You just found out you have one week to live. The first person you call is __Sean__ and say ___(hysterically) Sean I'm dying Oh my Gosh!___. Immediately after hanging up the phone, you leave the doctors office and before heading home you go to ___Shake's Frozen Custards__ so you can _ eat all the custard I want without worrying about gaining weight__.
You gather your family at home that night and say ___I'm dying and I have one week to live and we're going on vacation!_____ then all of you together __Watch TV..probably whatever I want since I am the one dying.___.

You book a three day trip to three different places because you've always wanted to _Go to Australia__, __See the Grand Canyon____ and ___Go to Bora Bora and stay in one of the huts over the ocean they have there_____. On the way back from your trip you stop off at __Hastings Movie Store____ to __Pay my late fees so my family won't have to :)__ because you've been meaning to for a long time.

For two more days you spend your time reading _my Bible__, writing __Letters to everyone______, and _
__cleaning out my room and closet_. You make sure you __Write my will_, _Buy Life insurance___ and _Clean my car___... three things you know you should have taken care of but have been putting off.

The final day is too personal to write about but you wonder to yourself: why did I have to get a death notice before I finally did all those things this week?

The reason I'll probably keeping putting off all those things is _Because I'm lazy____ but ____I just enjoy my lounge time way too much_____.

I guess today I've learned that I am lazy and a Procrastinator. I really hope I don't die suddenly. The people I leave behind are really going to hate me after they have to clean out my closet :)

Don't forget to Enter my Give Away!!

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Queen of all Give Aways!

***Congrats to ZeeMaid winner of the prize package from Betty Crocker and Dawn the winner of the Necklace!! Thanks to everyone who entered!***


I'm having a WONDERFUL Monday!!

Guess who was voted Homecoming Queen today!!!???

No...not me...

My Little Sister Melissa!! I'm so super excited for her!!! She is so excited too! I can't wait for her to go dress shopping and pick out a dress. I might pretend I'm in homecoming too so I can try on dresses... Do you think I could pass for a high school senior?? Oh that would be so fun.


I'm So excited that I think I will give some stuff away!! Last week Betty Crocker contacted me and asked if they could send me a Betty Crocker Gluten free snack pack...um yes please!!

This was on my porch this afternoon when I came home from lunch. I couldn't wait to tear into it!!



This was what was inside. Fruit Roll ups, Fruit Gushers, Fruit by the foot...Oh I've died and gone to heaven! AND it's ALL GLUTEN FREE! The Create a Bug gushers are Fat Free and only contain 60 calories. Birdie and Banjo tore into the yoyo and frisbee while Sean and I enjoyed a quick game of pickup sticks...all included with my package. I immediately ate two fruit roll ups and one fruit by the foot and had to have Sean hide the box so I wouldn't eat anymore.


The people at Betty Crocker want to give you a prize pack too!! AND...Even though I haven't quite launched my etsy website yet...it's still a work in Progress... I've decided to go ahead and include one of my stone Necklaces as part of the giveaway.



So leave me a comment and tell me what your favorite childhood snack and or toy was AND blog about my giveaway..and you'll be entered to win the Betty Crocker prize pack and A Super Cute Jenna Made Necklace! Or you can just be boring about it and leave your name only :) I'm going to leave it open until Next Monday so Lots of People can have a chance!! Have a Great Monday!!! I Know I am!

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Rodeo Weekend

Well we had a Great Weekend had the Arkansas Rodeo Finals!! Sean ended the year in First place and won a Trophy Saddle and Buckle. I'm so proud of him! He placed second in the average at the finals and won one of the three rounds. Here is a picture of all the steer wrestlers in the Finals...they are all short and stocky...the typical build of the Steer Wrestler. ha!Thursday Night Sean was the last guy to run his steer. The time to beat was a 5.7. Sean completely showed off, throwing down his steer in 4.7 seconds, winning the round! I was super ticked because my camera died about 2 minutes before Sean's run..go figure..

Friday Night Sean drew a steer that was a very fast...and I mean fast.

Just FYI there are many many different factors in having a good run on a steer. The bulldogger has to be good, the horse has to be good, the hazing horse has to be good, and the steer HAS to be good. Other wise, things go wrong.

Sean's Steer was so fast that he didn't catch him until the very end of the pen making his time a long 8 seconds. This really disappointed Sean because it put him third in the average instead of first...the photo below really made me feel bad for him. You can tell he was a little sad.

Saturday Night Sean drew another sucky steer that almost tripped Frosty, his horse, but somehow Sean caught the steer and had another long time. His total time of all three nights was 22.3 which normally would be horrible, but because the Steers were bad he ended up second in the average. His spirits picked up on Saturday and his goofy self showed up during the awards ceremony. I asked him to take a picture with his buckle and to smile...

...this is what I got.

Then I told him to shut his mouth and smile and I got this....Finally he smiled. I swear...taking a picture of Sean with a normal smile on his face is like pulling teeth!
Here is Sean's Saddle. It's a really nice tooled Cactus Saddle.

Here's his new buckle. I already put it on his belt. Guess it won't be shiny for much longer after he steer wrestles in it a couple times!

We had a really great time hanging out at the Arkansas Finals Rodeo this year! Every night we hung out after the rodeo with everyone and they played guitars and talked about rodeo stories...which turned out to be quite interesting and quite hilarious. Well we're rodeo free until weekend after next where we will go to Ft Smith for the Regional Rodeo Finals (which includes mostly people from AR, OK, & part of TX.) Sean leads the year in the Regional Association by about 300.00 so he HAS to do really good in the finals to win the year and the saddle and buckle. So keep him in mind weekend after next!!

HELP I Heart Faces!!

Help! I'm new at photography so I thought I would participate in the I Heart Faces Constructive Criticism thingy today.

My husband is a steer wrestler (aka bulldogger) for those of you who don't know (that's not him pictured below though) anyway I bought my Canon Rebel XS to learn to take photographs before I spend the "bigger bucks" on a more advanced camera. I bought it specifically to take Rodeo pics.

So help me out here. I was using a 300x zoom lens, not on a tripod because lets face it, who wants to carry around a tripod to rodeos?? It was really sunny obviously and I got great detail in the dirt but the bulldogger's face is way out of focus and the exposure is weird. I played with this photo in Corel PaintShopPro but this is the best I could get.

I'm not gonna lie, I have no clue how to tell you what settings I used because I've already deleted this picture off my camera, but I'm pretty sure I was in Tv mode and it was up close to has fast as I could get it to go.

***Edited to add
Focal Length: 281.00mm
Exposure Time: 0.0003s (1/4000
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO equiv: 800
White Balance: Manual
Metering Mode: Center Weight
Exposure: Shutter Priority
Thanks Jessica!! Didn't know that was possible!***


What can I do to make these more clear??? Help!

Also... How in the world do you take great photos at Night Rodeos?? If I turn the ISO up to get a clean shot I've got white noise galore. With the largest aperture I can't get a clear shot, it's too blurry. I've been told to get a lens with a larger aperture, 4.5 is what I'm using now. I can't afford to buy a new lens right now... any suggestions???

Thank you for all the help I can get!!!