TGIF!!!! I posted a couple more pictures from Wednesday. It was so warm that day! Today is it is only in the 60's, but still a nice day.

We have a busy weekend planned. Jenae is going to a birthday party for her friend Cole tonight. I think they are going to go fishing. She is really excited about that. She decided she wanted to give Cole one of her toy horses. She is really big in to re gifting :-)

Tomorrow we may head to Ericson to the Pitzer horse sale. Then tomorrow evening we are going to load up and take a little road trip to St. Paul Minnesota. Kyle is entered in a rodeo there on Sunday. We are planning to drive through the night and get there sometime in the morning.
We will not get home until the middle of the night Sunday so I am going to take Monday off.

A friend of the family/neighbor, Scott Halsey, lost his battle with cancer yesterday. Please keep his family in your prayers. He was only 40 years old and leaves behind a wife and 9 year old son. It scares me how fast life can change. I try to count my blessings everyday for what God has blessed me with, but I also know my life can chage in the blink of an eye. One of my favorite bible passages is
Psa 90:12
So teach [us] to number our days, that we may apply [our] hearts unto wisdom.

I hope you all have a great weekend. I will try to post some pictures from our rodeo weekend on Monday.

What a wonderful day it was here NE. We had a very busy day yesterday. In the morning I met with some clients about some insurance. The rest of the day we were out and about enjoying the sunshine and warm weather.



For those of you that do not know my in-laws live just 1/2 mile down the road from us. The arena is at there place. After dinner we saddle up and the 4 of us rode our horses from our house over to Chip & Marilyn's house. Aubree was able to get in her afternoon nap on the way over. Kyle roped on the horses that he is training for some other people. Jenae did a lot of riding on Beauty. Her riding skills are improving daily.

We finished up the afternoon with steer wrestling practice. I am afraid all of my time in the sun is going to leave me a little red in the face :-)



Then it is was off to get Jenae cleaned up for AWANA. It was her last week of regular AWANA and next week is her program. She is really looking forward to that.



I hope you are all able to get out and enjoy the beautiful weather...before it changes!

We had a good weekend. Our friends the Behlkes came up to do some turkey hunting this weekend. Eric brought a friend of his from Ames, IA and his Dad, Ted, and Brother, Nathan came up from Benkelman, NE. All together they got 5 big turkeys. It was fun to have them around.

The girls and I just kind of hung out all weekend. It was rainy on Saturday so a good day to stay inside and get some house work done. There was a Little House On the Prairie marathon on tv. Jenae was on cloud 9 getting to watch that. It followed the book story line, but with a few embellishments to make it a "movie". Jenae and Aubree both have colds so we skipped church on Sunday. It was a very relaxing and enjoyable weekend!

I hope everyone had a great Easter. We had a busy weekend, but we had a great time. Saturday Jacque and Lacey pick Jenae, Aubree and myself up and we headed to Albion to visit our Grandpa who is in the hospital. We then went to my parents house for the afternoon. It was a nice day. We were able to be outside and do some riding. That night we had Brooke's Birthday party. Kyle had a branding to go to on Saturday. He came down to Newman Grove Sunday morning. We headed into my Grandma's house for dinner. After dinner the kids hadhouse. The girls had a great time looking for eggs there as well. Hope has some new baby kitties that they got to hold.
an Easter Egg hunt. Shortly after the Easter Egg hunt we loaded up and headed to Ben & Hope's
We are excited to share our latest news in our family. Jenae and Aubree are going have a new cousin. Ben and Hope are going to have a baby in October. We are all really excited and happy for them.

Well it has finally warmed up here . Today warmed up to the mid 50's. It was a good day to do some grilling. The girls enjoyed being able to be outside and play. This afternoon Jenae wanted to color Easter Eggs. She really enjoyed it. We had to dye the eggs on the kitchen counter to keep Aubree from "helping" too much. For those of you that do not know we have hens that lay brown eggs. I was a little worried how brown eggs would take the color, but they actually turned out really pretty.



Jenae's Grammy Marilyn has loaned Jenae her Laura Ingalls Wilder books. We read them every night to Jenae. She has become a HUGE Laura Ingalls fan. A town near by put on a Laura Ingalls program. When Jenae heard it advertise it on the radio she really wanted to go. Kyle kept Aubree at home so that Jenae and I could go. Jenae was by far the youngest person there, but I think she enjoyed as much or more as everyone else. She also met someone else named Jenae. That made the night extra special.

Well it has been a snowy weekend here in Nebraska. We had a blizzard that started yesterday afternoon. We had a total of around 6 inches of snow.

Friday night we went out for supper with our friends Matt and Heidi for Heidi's birthday. We met up with our friend Amber and went and did a little bowling. It was nice to have an evening out before the snow hit.

It sounds like the weather is supposed to be getting nicer. Hopefully it does sooner rather than later :-)

Happy April fools day!
It was nice to see the sun shining today. The girls and I were in the house most of the morning and this afternoon we were able to go outside for a little bit. Chip wanted to move some of the heifers from his place to our place. It was a fun afternoon. Aubree fell asleep while riding with me when we were sorting off the pairs we were going to move. I was able to get a couple of pictures from the cattle drive.