New Baby!!

Okay so no not me but, my mare. We left her out with our roan stud last year, I wasn't to sure about the whole thing but Cowboy was all for it. She has slowly been getting bigger and bigger. Well I was out on Friday and noticed she was starting to bag up just a little but, really figured we had a little more time. Then on Saturday the weather her was horrible and I sat in a class all day for one of the classes I am taking. So, by the time I got home Sat late afternoon I can right in the house and relaxed. Cowboy went out to feed and I stayed in as he said he didn't need any help. So Sunday I get up at the crack of dawn and head back to my boring class for an all day lab. Promptly I get a text early in the morning that says " Sugar is having her baby". WHAT? I text him back wanting to know details and such but the reply I got was something like we are going to breakfast and what time does Alco open. Alco is our little Wal-mart in the next town over. Are you serious? I go about blowing his phone up with texts, I can't believe that he just left my mare in labor. He tells me nature will take it's course. I understand that but, didn't you want to watch and what if something would have gone wrong? No, he didn't want to watch and nothing was going to go wrong, he just wanted to eat his breakfast. So, once he gets home he finally sends me a picture.



I am blowing up his phone again asking boy or girl? Remember I am in a class that is why I am texting. He finally sends back that it is a boy.

Well that stinks I am stuck in class for the day and I have a new baby to play with and love on at home.

I finally get home around 3 or 4 in the afternoon and get to run out to see him. I didn't even stop at the house I already had my camera with me so I drove right out to the pens and hurried along. What was funny was when I got there my SIL and Cowboy are standing out at the fence, momma and baby were over in the ban. I thought to myself I wonder why they are out here and not in there seeing the baby. I get out of the burban and she says to me I haven' gone in yet to see him, I wanted to wait and let you see him first. How sweet was that!

So here are a few of my photos, I am still editing more.










Oh I just love him!

Almost Wordless Wednesday!

I say almost cause I need to tell you the story behind this photo.   When we go up to check the pasture of some of our horses I almost always take pictures.  This day they were at the front of the pasture and we had to drive past them to get to the gate.  I rolled down my window and turned around in my seat and hung out the window to try and get some pictures of them running down the fence line. Yes, I know that it isn’t a great photo.  But when, I got home and started looking through my pictures I noticed something.  Anyone see anything out of the ordinary in this photo?

If you look closely down the dirt road you will notice a small “baby” deer standing down there watching.  We had just driven up that road and didn’t see it.  But, I managed to get it in several of my pictures like this that I took. 

The time has come to say good-bye to them.

We have 2 fillies that we have had for sale for a little while now.  We had a few interested people but, no buyers.  So Cowboy has been watching the sales and finally one has come up that he is interested in taking them to.  So last night we drove up to the pasture to load the two up.  The six that are in this pasture are always excited to see us.  We honk and they come a running. Last night was no different even with the truck ad trailer sitting in the pasture.  

The one in the front, the buckskin is one that is one of the two that is going to the sale. The other of the two is this black fily. I do love her but she just doesn't fit in to what we want our horse to be. She is more aggressive than we like so she needs to go. We get the trailer opened up and the buckskin jumps in first thing so we hurry up and close the middle gate behind her. She was the one that we thought would be a pain to load. Lately she has not wanted to be caught. Then the black filly, Winter, came right up and stiffed the trailer out. I thought this is going to be easy cause she acted like she was going to just jump right in. Well that wasn't the case. We go about our routine. When we come up to check the horses we always bring some grain for a treat for them. Left the trailer open and while they are eating their feed the "three stooges" decided that they were going to get in the trailer. Mind you these three are not one of the ones that we are needing in the trailer. Then they decided that it was time to get out. I guess they started to get a little nervous. Once the stooges got out of the trailer we were finally able to get inter in the trailer on on our way we go.

I hate the Kansas wind.

The wonderful Kansas wind was horrific today. That is really an understatement. It started this morning and is still going strong. Not only are my eyes full of dirt, but I was almost blown away this morning. I went to pick up the youngest cowgirl from a sleepover and she was actually blown down. I thought it was a little funny but her on the other hand didn't think so.
We decided it was a lost cause to do anything productive outside today so, we were in playing the Wii and watching movies. When our horse boarder came to the door to tell my hubby that the door to his building was about to be blown off. When he and I get out there yep it is off it's hinges and about to fall down. The only thing we could do at the time was to help it all the way to the ground. We didn't want it to blow over at the wrong time and someone get hurt.


We also have a new skylight in the same building that we now have only one door too. The problem is I wonder who is going to climb up there to fix the damage.



Then there is the loafing shed that already took a beating last weekend from the heavy snow. The roof was partially caved in from the weight of the snow sitting on it. We had closed the gate so the horses coulnd't get in there and get hurt. The wind today finished the roof off.




Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day.

Weather...

I am not very creative on the titles of my post I know. But that is a lacking department here, sorry. Anyways the last 4 days has been beautiful her. Yesterday it was 60 degrees here. I have hurried home every night, changed clothes and been on the back of a horse till sundown. It has been wonderful. Today well it is 30 degrees here right now. I hung outside long enough to get everyone fed and watered and ran for the house. I look like an Eskimo when it is this cold. Seriously all you can see is a small bit of my face, only cause it is helpful to see when you feed otherwise they would be covered too. I did manage to get a few pictures taken this week. Not alot and there are none of me. YAHHHH! I hate to have my picture taken.
These are just updated pictures of little cowgirls black eye this is day 3. It never looked as bad as I really expected it to. Thank goodness.





Then we have my handsome cowboy who apparently didn't like it when I called him my stable boy. But, at the time it kinda fit. I told him I needed for him to go saddle my horse so I could change and he did it.



Last for today is my oldest leading our 2 year old stud "Jack" around. Jack is just starting his whole training process. Here he has only been saddled twice and is doing awesome with it.



Hope everyone has a good weekend. Maybe with it being cold I might get some housework done. Don't hold your breath on it though.

Some more of the kids loot...

Here is a couple more pics of some of the stuff the cowpokes got at the awards.

Here is oldest cowgirl sporting the new halter, lead line, and her hat.



Here is little cowboy sporting new halter, leadline, hat, buckle, and his shirt. His goal was to use all the new stuff before the end of the day. He almost accomplished it.




Little cowboy had to ride to be able to use the saddle pad so, we saddled up his horse. He rode for a while then was gracious enough to let his little sister ride. He hesitate letting her ride because he is going to retire his rodeo horse to her for next year. He really need something faster. So, he is trying to talk grandma out of one of her horse ( one that I use to run barrels on). He says he is not ready to ride my mare yet, he has seen her buck and is worried he is going to get bucked off. So you have to excuse her attire we haven't found her any hand-me down boots yet. Nana bought her these mud boots and they are her new favorite shoes. (They are even on the wrong feet.)



Sorry Dad I stole your picture. If anyone has any little girls boots in size 9 we are taking donations.

Buckles, we now have buckles.

The awards banquet for the rodeo circuit the two oldest cowpoke participated in was tonight. Instead of receiving monetary awards after each rodeo the kids get tack and such at the end of the season. As long as they participate in 3 rodeos and the finals they get the loot of goodies. In my opinion this is way better for the kids that are just starting out.

All my little cowboy wanted out of the whole banquet was a dinner plate belt buckle( you know the ones you could turn over and are as big as a dinner plate.)Well guess what one of his awards was for.



The the oldest cowgirl didn't care at all what she got. She was just excited to get anything. Well guess what she got a buckle too.




They also got a jacket, t-shirt, hat, feed bucket, bucket strap, brushes, comb, dewormer, saddle blanket, bronc halter, and some other odds and ends. Wow, they sure did get a lot of loot for just having fun every Friday night all summer long.

Busy Hectic Life

Okay I know I have been gone for a little while, okay a long while. But to my defense. I have had a horse show, a county fair, and a family emergency.

To start, the horse show was for the cowpoke kids and 4H. Both of my kiddos did awesome. My oldest cowgirl broke out in a lope. Which is truly amazing considering we barely trot. The little cowboy did awesome and Cowboy took one of our horses and did great.

Little Cowboy had a pig to show at our local county fair and he received a red ribbon for that. Not bad for his first time with a pig. The fair was great but, hectic. We spend the good part of 4 days at the fair barn.



Then this last weekend we thought we would get a relaxing weekend but, didn't happen. I get a call on Friday afternoon that my dad has passed out and had a seizure at work. He is rushed to ER and the run all the fun test on him and find a mass in the soft tissue of his brain. He ended up having to have surgery on Sunday and now we get to patiently ( mind you I have no patience) wait for his pathlogey reports to find out what the mass is. So I have spend the last several days at the hospital.

Mind you my house looks like a bomb went off and I am pretty sure my horses and dogs have forgot who I am.

Please pray for my dad and that his path reports come back clean and that the surgery is the only thing he is going to have to endure.
Thanks