Ode to my genius of a brother....

So here I am back to the flies....I am never excited for winter but I am this year so that the flies will be GONE. I'm still getting my exercise swattin' at them all day long and then what do they have the nerve to do? They land on my cup of water. I kept having to get a new cup everytime I got a drink because I didn't want to be drinking fly germs and whatever else they leave behind. At the end of the day I would have a sink full of glasses to wash, well that just wasn't going to fly with me (no pun intended). One day I went down to hang with Jeannie and I saw this amazing contraption, my brother had put a little cup over his glass of water so the flies wouldn't get on it and he could drink from the same cup all day long! DING DING DING! Check it out!

YIKES!

Just a tad bit embarrassed to post this picture but I just had to prove that I really rode a horse last night. The Laurels came over last night to ride horses and they were a little bit nervous. I kept telling them come on it is so much fun, not scary at all, but really I was terrified for them because I'm scared to ride a horse. So after they were done I had to admit that I am way toooo nervous to ever ride horses, well that was the wrong thing to admit. Needless to say here's the proof that I ended up riding Spud last night and it was pretty dang fun!

Cowgirl UP!

When Londyn was 5 years old she fell off a horse and broke her arm, she was scared to death to ever get on a horse again. A couple years later her dad made her ride again for a few minutes and she was so nervous she and her dad were both miserable. Up until about 1 1/2 years ago she wanted nothing to do with riding horses. One day she decided to ride bubbalicious, (Dan named that horse-how scary is that) the licious of all horses, Dan hated that horse and we later sold him, but I wish we had him back he was an awesome kid horse. But we have learned around here if you're a horse and you're not cutting it as a rope horse, off you go! Anyways she started riding and was getting so good she grew out of bubbalicious and she decided she wanted to start barrel racing, so we got her Liza, a fantastic barrel horse. Londyn is a natural on horses. She has really practiced hard and is getting better and better.

She joined Weber County Jr Rodeo and has really enjoyed competing. I'm so proud of her, it is so fun watching her dedication and drive to get better and better at something she really loves! The video below is of her first huge competition with 361 barrel racers, her time was 15.24 seconds, pretty smokin to a mom watching her daughter go whizzing by, we don't know if she placed yet.

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Hip Hip Horray....

The Tooth Fairy was finally able to fit Preston into her busy schedule!
And what is that he is wearing around his neck? It is his medal he won at the school walk-a-thon, for walking 100 laps. He was so excited to have it he had to sleep with it!

All out Bulletin.....

Has anyone seen the tooth fairy? Preston lost a tooth 2 days ago and every morning he wakes up all excited and checks under his pillow and the tooth fairy has not been here yet! I think the tooth fairy better put a reminder in her calendar on her phone so she remembers to come to Preston's house!!!

Spending Spending GONE!

You know the old saying "Don't spend it all in one place" - well I didn't heed to that and I spent it all in one place, The Quilted Bear. These are a few of my purchases I made. I decided it is High Time I start decorating my house, we have already been here two years, and no decor I really LOVE - so here's to shopping! I'll make sure to spend widely I mean wisely (I said that for Dan's benefit)

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Go check out this super cute Jewelery that my sister in law makes and enter to win a super cute pair of earings!!

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