Our Days Around Here

Our days around here are usually crazy ones! With four small kids it is bound to be that way...


Tre and Gentry head off to school, but not without hugging Coy until he freaks out and wants left alone.


Gentry is only nice to Coy when she is leaving for school. For some reason she all of the sudden wants to hug and kiss Coy when any other time of the day she is running after him with her claws out.


Bridger is usually always happy in the day. The other day Gentry's Snow White wig came in the mail and I had to see what it looked like because she was still at school. So Bridge was my guinea pig, but he didn't care one bit that I was trying the wig out on him. He thought he was pretty funny. I laughed so hard at how calm he was with it on his head. He didn't touch it one time, he just left it alone. He is a goof!


Coy is my mischief maker around here. He gets bored when the kids are gone. For some reason he has a thing with my mascara and almost every day he gets into it and eats it and paints himself with it. So here is what he looked like after a great mascara snack. And if you think he is dirty, you should see my walls, Gentry's bed, and my mascara tubes!


While the kids are gone is when I get all my baking and cleaning done. I usually bake bread once a week and then finally, I made my own butter! I was so excited, it was so easy and it actually tastes really good! I was quite proud of myself, and I know pride is not a good thing, but come one, I was excited! So see Gini, it isn't hard and it does turn out yellow!

First Annual J3 Ranch Rodeo

Casey had a ranch rodeo at his arena Saturday. It was a lot of fun. They had six teams consisting of four guys and had four events; team branding, trailer loading, ranch doctoring, and muley roping. I didn't get any pictures of the muley roping, it got too dark for my camera by the time we got to the last event. The cowboy's families came out to watch and there were a lot of people who came out.


This was during the first event, team branding. There were two teams at a time going for this one.


A lot more people than we expected showed up to show their support. There were a ton of kids there so they all had a blast. This is only a few of them, there were more behind the hay and watching the rodeo. They were everywhere. Casey joked that next rodeo he will charge by the kid instead of each contestant!


Gini and Renae Jaques kept score, along with Bud and Amy.


Mike Pearson, James Pearson, and Dustin Wells were all on Daniels team. During the trailer loading, they had to rope the calf and get it loaded into the trailer, and shut both latches on the trailer in the shortest amount of time.


...almost...


Ah, and it is in the trailer.


There was a big hole in the ground that was a magnet for kids. Coy especially loved this hole and played there the entire rodeo. He was a gray little dust bomb by the time we left that night.


Dustin Wells and Daniel


Mike and Dan during the calf doctoring event.


Samantha loved playing in the hole too. She was covered in dirt because Coy kept throwing it on her, little stinker. But she just kept playing and never flinched, she is so cute!


Bud and James looking over the final scores of the night. Jesse Jensen's team took first place. It was a pretty fun night.