Clowns and Crows

Happy Halloween 2008! I had so much fun this year with Jabin and Haddy's costumes. I knew Jabin was going to be a rodeo clown and last minute I decided to make Hadden his barrel. I wasn't sure how the barrel would turn out so she was the back up clown in the barrel so people would know what she was. The kids loved it and we had a lot of fun. It was so easy and inexpensive. Dallas made an adorable scare crow. I asked her if she would be our cowboy and she said only if I can have horns sticking out of me like the bull horned me, so I told her we would do the scare crow this year.

School Parade

Preschool Parade

Busy Bee Preschool

Bull Fighters!

Dallas Posing

Pickling, Reading, and Baking

This is what I do in my spare time, besides camping and riding horses. I did a lot of pickles this year and Haddy and Jabin helped me make this peach pie. I had to hurry and finish the "vampire" books so I could read Scarlett (Gone with the Wind sequel) and watch the movie! They were both so good.

My kids fight over who gets to help me in the kitchen. I told Hadden she needs to get down and move the stool out of the kitchen and she climbed up again and said, "but mom what happens if you need some loves". She is such a little character.

Currant Creek Round Up

These are some pictures of this years round up. It was sooooo cold (mucho frio, as Jose would say) but I had so much fun! The first day we were after some bulls and my brother headed up high in the pines and me and Matt were behind him. I looked below the pines and said, "it looks boggy" and Matt said, "It's not" and as soon as my horse took a step we were in the bog! I got out of it somehow and Matt didn't. Jack, his horse, ended up upside down in the mudd Matt's saddle, gun, and all. We pulled him all the way over and cleaned off his saddle and luckily his horse was fine. Jack had another bad day on Monday when he got in some wire while trying to get out of another bog!
We had a great time though. I love spending time with my brothers and their friends, I end up laughing the whole time. Our cousin Ben is the tall handsome one in the pictures :) I was trying to get a picture of all of us that was squished in the truck and it only ended up showing Matt, Ben and Me but there was Mac, Tadd, Daniel, Sam, and Judd in that truck too, it was so funny.
Thanks to my mom and dad for watching the kids for us. Dad said the kids wouldn't eat his chili dogs and they told him his house was haunted and the carpet was moving. They got quite a kick out the kids and their wild imaginations!