Mud Puddle

One of our risers that feeds our pivot broke and flooded part of our new arena and of coarse they boys found it. Sid and I were busy putting panels up for the arena and thought it was great that the boys were occupied......that was until I saw them up close. They were soooo muddy! But they had fun! While the boys were so occupied with the mud puddle Sid was tightening some wire on one of the panels and pulled back too hard and hit himself in the mouth with the pliers and chipped his tooth. I thought it was pretty funny, but Sid did not. After the boys got done playing in the mud puddle we sent them in house to take a shower (you should see my shower....but that is a whole nother story) and next thing we know here comes our naked Jace with marshmallows on wooden skewers. What to do with that boy?

Fun On The Fourth

Our 4th was layed back, quiet and relaxing......just what we needed. On the 4th Sid came home early and we had a fun dinner with Dallas and Margaret at their house. Then we all came home and took a nap. We woke up and did chores and then did some fireworks at our house and then went up on our dirt bike track and watched the Richfield fireworks (they were lame this year) and came in the house and went to bed. Saturday Sid and I left the kids and went shopping in Twin and went out to lunch, came home took yet another nap, woke up rode the horses, watched the UFC fight and went to bed. It was a good day.

Date Night

Last night I got to go on a date with my husband. I love when he calls and asks me on a date. I know for a fact the last thing he probably wanted to do was drive to Twin after working all day, but he is so sweet to remember me and my "needs". We went with Craig and Natalie (it was actually their idea to go out) and went to Outback and Cold Stone. We had such a good time, we laughed ALL night. I think I really needed that. Anyway, I highly recommend a good date night to everyone that reads this.

Jace (aka Jack Jack)

So we have all seen the movie The Incredibles....well there is a bonus little cartoon called, Jack Jack Attack and our cousins have decided that is totally what Jace acts like so that is his new nickname. Jace was over at Deanna and Alex's house and Alex told Jace that it was not ok to pick on the dog with 100 stitches that just got hit by a truck (how mean I know) and he went running into the house and told Deanna "that Dad outside is MEAN!" Jace can make a super cool "mean face" and he even growls now when he does it. He really makes me proud. If you tell him that if he can't listen you are going to spank his bum his reply is "oh no you can" instead of "oh no you can't." I think by the time we are done with him we will be on a first name basis with the ER.

Baseball

Baseball is over and I have really mixed emotions about it. I am glad because I am so busy and will enjoy having Tuesday and Thursday nights to ride my horses, but I really really liked baseball. We lost 2 games and won 5, so I was really proud of my team. I had 2 girls on my team that those last couple of games improved sooooo much, it was really fun to see. I think next year that I will loose all but 3 of my players, so I will miss them. But the good news is, is that Breck will get to play on my team next year and I will finally get to watch him play.

Swimming Lessons

We had our last day of swim lessons today. It has been a fun two weeks, but I am glad that it is over. Tanner passed level 4 with flying colors. He and his cousin, Olivia, were in major competition (I have no idea where he gets that from) with one another and they really pushed each another to really improve. Tanner is really amazing to watch his front crawl and his breast stroke, I think he could easily beat me. Breck passed level 3, even though he thought he was going to drown when he had to tread water for 30 "whole" seconds. And Con passed level 1 even though he swam for about 10 minutes everyday this week. His teacher said that he could touch and he wasn't scared so he got to pass......whatever works I guess.

Goats

On Saturday we went and bought 2 new goats. We couldn't go to the junior rodeo so why not go by some goats right.......right! So we now are the owners of 2 fabulous new goats. One is Benny and one is Goliath. We bought them for the boys to practice their goat tying on, and Breck is getting really good.