Halloween Night

My 3 kids on Halloween Night!

Breckyn was TWISTER GIRL!

Brynna was ROCKER GIRL!

Brogan was Mickey Mouse!


We met up with Becca and Mya Maxwell and
Trick or Treated well into the night!

2008 Corvett

Papa Harold got a NEW toy.
We all had to try it out!

It was sooooo tempting to go fast!

Breckyn was VERY excited to have the top down
and to go FAST!

Brynna wanted to know where the
backseat was!

Brogan wanted to go FASTER!!

Breckyn's Volleyball

Breckyn played volleyball for the first time this year and LOVED it!
She played on the 3rd and 4th grade team through the Rec.

Games were every Saturday.
They played against Claflin and Bushton's
3rd, 4th and 5th graders.

By the end of the season they were getting most serves over and even making 2-3 passes on one side to volley against the other team. I was sooooo proud of their improvement.
OH! Did I mention that I was the coach??

Team Volleyiscious
Sara, Tara, Haven, Ali, Kaitlyn
Breckyn, Kassidy, Kaitlyn, Madison and Cailey

Happy 40th!

Brian turned 40 on the 4th of October. We had a (kind of)
surprise birthday party for him.
I say kind of because do you know how hard it is for 3 girls to keep a secret???

Our friends from Abilene came down! It was sure good to have them around. We took a moment to take a pic of the beauties!

Part way through the night we ran out of Bahama Mama's! So we all loaded into Jennifer's expedition and headed to the liqiuor store!
If you can't tell, we really didn't need any more!!

Renae Willey posed outside Willies!

I am so glad everyone came and had a great time!
Now, we wait for the next friend to turn 40 and then we get to celebrate AGAIN!

Cowboy Family

Over the 4th of July we were going to have the kids participate in a Circuit Horse show. Breckyn was going to do halter and showmanship.
Brynna was going to do leadline. This is where she and daddy had to dress alike and daddy would lead her in the arena to be judged.
Brogan and Papa were also going to do leadline.
We spent Thursday and Friday riding horses, cleaning them up, and preparing for the show. The show was in Lyndon and we were going to have to leave EARLY!

LONG story short...it was cancelled!!! So we went ahead and got dressed in our show out fits and took pictures!

I thought we got some good ones!

Well, on the up side...there will be another show
NEXT 4th of July!

(Hope our clothes still fit!)

Cowgirl Breckyn

Breckyn and Barney ready for showmanship.

A girl and her horse...

Breckyn sporting her fancy outfit.

Pretty cowgirl

Brynna the Cowgirl

Brynna and Daddy ready for Leadline.

Sporting her styling outfit!

Brynna on Barney.

Brynna sports a little "*BLING*"!

Blowing a kiss...

Brogan the Cowboy

Brogan and Papa ready for Leadline.

Brogan and Barney

Cowboy-UP Little Bro!

One of Brogan's favorite thing is to ride
Papa's Tractor!

Mama Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys...

T-Ball

Brynna has played T-Ball this summer.

I am pretty sure they have won all of their games considering everyone hits...everyone scores...
everyone kicks dirt and puts their mitt on their head when it is HOT!

Brynna's best buddy Mya's mom and dad have been the coaches this year. We thank them for their extreme patience!

Strong City Rodeo

Friday night we went to the Strong City Rodeo!
Brian and I used to attend this Rodeo every year when we lived closer.
It has been a few years since we have taken the kids and we decided it was time to go again!

Friday night was also the Calf muggin' event for kids ages 6-8! Amazing enough...Breckyn was the first one to get a ribbon off a calf's tail!
She raked in $50!
SCORE!
Brynna got $2 for participating!

Once Calf muggin' was over they thought they were starved! SO Brynna got herself a BIG corndog. Her words were "Now THATS a corndog!"

Looks appealing huh?

Bro was completely fascinated with the whole thing. He got impatient in between events, but once the action started he was all eyes! He really like the steer wrestling! He also pointed to the BULL he thought he wanted to ride. "NO! not the black one....that one!"

We all had a great time! There is nothing more American to me than a good old fashion rodeo!

Baby Bed vs. Big Boy Bed

Brogan still sleeps in a Baby bed...That is until today!

Do you think that if the boy is old enough to unscrew the screws on his baby bed he is old enough to sleep in a Big Boy bed?

I Like my new bed...

Do I really have to sleep here?

I will let you know how it goes...

You see Brogan is not a good sleeper anyway! He still, at 2 and a half, wakes up at least once a night! We kept him in a baby bed for so long because you see, even though he is a monkey...he doesn't know he can climb out of the baby bed! Therefore when he woke up in the night we just let him cry himself back to sleep! NOW with a big boy bed...he can get OUT!