NOOOOOOOO….you CAN NOT ride your sister like a BULL!!!!!!

Sooo….if you know our family, you know that I have a little cowboy…….it makes my mama heart feel better to still call him “little”. 

This story begins when he was about 2 1/2 years old and THE Girl was not even crawling yet…….YES I KNOW YOU HAVE HEARD THIS ONE, but it leads up to the next one, so bear with me!!!!    SHEEESH!!!!!

I am in the kitchen making something and I hear this little distressed squeaking noise from the living room…..I walk around the corner and there is THE Girl on her stomach with her big brother on her back…….he has a rope under her and has one hand high in the air…..

“WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?!”  I ask ever so calmly!!!

 “I was just riding sissy like a bull!”

***Things you NEVER imagine coming out of your mouth as a mother………“NOOOOOO……..you CAN NOT ride your sister like a bull!!!!!”

He never again pretended that THE girl was a bull, but the couch arm, the footboard of the bed, the toy box….etc…..was fair game.

I REALLY thought he would someday grow out of this stage, but at almost 12 (aaaaggghhhhhh) he still wants to be a bull rider.  So what does a mother do in a case like this…….?!?!?!    TAKE HIM TO MEET PROFFESIONAL BULL RIDERS, of course!!!!! 

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So he hung out with and talked smack (lots of it) with Luke Kelley, Lorenzo Rios, and Fransisco Morales!   I REALLY think Cory and Luke were cut from the same cloth!   OH MY GOODNESS!!!!!!  They talked smack for a good 20 minutes till Cory shut him down with “I’ve had more girlfriends than you will ever have in your dreams.”  That is when Luke turned to me and told me “He definently talks like a bull rider!”  oh my!!!!

What I got from the whole experience…………This is what I wanna do when I grow up!!!!!!!……..

MY George Eastman…….

These are a bit old, but ones I def NEED to share…….During the school year, last year, THE Girl had to do an oral book report and dress up as the main character…..She came home with a book about George Eastman……and the pics are the rest of the story…….ENJOY!

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my precious girl!!!

This IS what a ‘hookey mom’ would do…

‘Man’,  Thanks for the  question that helped me make the decision!  Much appreciated!

So…. he is going to hunter’s safety…some things you fight for and something you just close your eyes, shake you head and say ‘whatever’!

“Albuquerque…we have a problem”

So apparently, the Spelling Bee is scheduled for the same day that the boys are scheduled to go to a ‘Hunter’s Safety’ class with some friends….HHHMMMM….what to do.

If you know Cory, you know what his answer is…

Cory's first kill

 But as a mom, where do I put the priorities?   He was SOOO amped to win the school bee,  I think it would be really good for him to go to the Bee, and there will always be another Hunters Safety class, but can I make him and his dad see my point….this remains to be seen!

I don’t have pics, cuz I have a job :(

*****I don’t have pictures of this, because I have a job that I have to take care of other peoples children while my children do amazing things that I miss out on!*****

Well folks…a miracle happen today…someone I birthed won a spelling bee! 

WHAT!?!?!

I know!!!!  It is C*R*A*Z*Y!

If you know me, you understand and you are about to fall out of your chair at the thought of an offspring of mine being in a spelling bee of all things AND winning it!!!!  Yes, I know…a beauty contest would be a little more believable, but I am really not making it up! 

Oh!!  by the way……it was Cory and we will be heading to Alb.  (hi Debbie can we stay with you!?!?!  😉 ).

Is there really anything better…

…than a package in the mail?!?!
I just love getting mail (even if there are little tacky notes on the envelope)!
Thanks Kat! It might just be my new fav shirt! I love it!
As for the ‘Oklahoma who!?!?‘ comment…Shelby was the one who got the package out of the box and she could not understand how someone did not know about Oklahoma…I am thinking it might have backfired on you! Cuz now no matter how much I talk up you being smart and all, Shelby will always remember you as ‘The one who didn’t know about Oklahoma!’ HMMMM.

"Oklahoma Who?"

Thank you Big!  I love it!

FOOTBALL season!

The reason for my absence lately is football (both kinds).  Cory is in Football now and Shelby is in Soccer.  This is really the first time they have been in two different sports at the same time (and for my sanity, maybe the last)!  Cory has practice M-F 5:30-7:30.  Am I the only one who thinks this is totally rediculous? and Shelby has practice M, W, and F 5:00-5:45.   ANYWAYS–enough of the belly achin’ and on to the good stuff!

Cory had his first game on Saturday.  Although he was on the team last year he never got to play (remember the McDonald’s Door  accident?!?! )  So Saturday was his first game ever and he came up to me right befor the game and said   “Mom, I have a butterfly right here.” (and points to the right/center part of his stomach)

All that practice paid off…Cory’s team (the JETS) beat the other team so bad, they stopped keeping score at half time and just let the clock run the whole second half!

Here are a few pics from the game!!  Enjoy!  (double click the picture to see it bigger)

Looking to see who came to cheer him on! 🙂

 

Shelby’s First Soccer game is this Saturday…will post pics then!

Goats and Dancin’ boots

           ****I wish I had pics of all of this….but I don’t, so use your imagination****

Cory loves to help his PaPa do anything and everything.  PaPa and NaNa have had goats then they get tired of messin with them and sell them and then get more…and on and on!!!   Just the other day we were walking to the mail box and Cory said “You know mom, PaPa is gonna break down pretty soon and buy some goats.”   The very next day Uncle Ricky came by and said PaPa was gonna buy some more goats…Cory got very excited, jumping up and down and screaming…“I told you he was gonna break down, I told you!”   Now, if you know Cory, you don’t have a problem at all picturing that!

For the last few of days it has been Cory’s (mainly) Jody’s and PaPa’s mission to go get that load of goats. The weeds around here are head high (to Cory 🙂 )

Day #1  Jody started to back the truck up to the “goat trailer” and it got stuck in the combination of goat poo and hay.  Apparently, the moisture from the last weeks rain could not escape, causing the nastiest stinkiest mess!

Day #2  They let the truck sit to let the poo-hay dry out.  (Cory was not a happy camper.)

Day#3  (While we all were at work and school) Nana Jane got the truck out and parked it under the car port (without the trailer).   ” I guess we aren’t going to get goats….again!”   (pouting)

Day #4  (While we all were at work and school, again)  Nana Jane got the truck backed back in the goat pen and hooked up to the trailer.  Cory was very excited when we drove up and saw the trailer hooked on, but went to “check on it” and saw it was stuck…not so excited

Day #5   The truck sat…..more drying out time. 

Day #6      (This is where the boots come in)  Jody got home from work today and after playing with Shelby in the sprinkler for a while, he and Cory went to get the truck out….Jody sends Cory to the shed to get a rake and Cory stops for a minute and says….

“Well, these are not ranchin’ boots, they are dancin’ boots, but I guess I can work in them for a little bit.”

These boots he speaks of are a year old, barely fit, and are terribly trashed!   Apparently that makes for good dancin boots.    ?!?!?

Back to the goat story…..Cory, Jody, and I spent about an hour getting the truck un-stuck and they are getting goats as I type.   The goat gettin trip was my currency with Cory and school this week….what will I do next week?

Hope you have a wonderful week-end filled with wonderful memory making opportunities. 

Out of Order…

This post is a little “out of order”…last week-end (before school started) we took a quick trip to Ruidoso…

 

We went to check on the cabin, not sure what we were going to find since the flood, but it was all intact!  The stream behind the cabin was running pretty good and we took a little hike down it

Shelby exploring

 

Cory exploring

(will those pants ever be the same?!?!)

There are lots of clover patches by our cabin and I always look to find a four leaf clover….

I was so very excited to find one right away!….

MY Four Leaf Clover!!

I could not understand why no one else was as excited as I was…until I saw that…..

Shelby found one TOO!!!

Shelby and I went back after our hike to see if we could find any more, but we didn’t….I think after we could not find anymore, Shebly understood how unusual it was to find one.