We have had a good Memorial Weekend. Saturday we stayed close to home and did house work. Sunday we went to a calf roping and steer wrestling jackpot. We had a good time.

We are having a nice day at home today.



I hope you all a great weekend!

It was an uneventful weekend here. It was nice we were able to be outside a lot. Friday Kyle was in Abbeyville Ks. He did OK, but I do not think he placed in anything. Friday Chip and Jenae wanted to do some asparagus picking. Aubree and I went a long for awhile. Saturday we went over to Ben and Hope's house to visit in the morning. They have been doing a lot of landscaping. They really have their place looking nice. Today we went to church and came home and did housework and yard work.
Every year Kyle and Chip help with big cattle drive. They move cattle 18 miles. This year Jenae gets to go along with Beauty. She is all excited because they get to cross a river. I hope all goes well! If I remember to send the camera with Kyle hopefully he can take some pictures that I can post.

Have a great week!

Garden time!!! I am not a gardener, but I thought it would be a fun summer project for the girls and I. They have really gotten into it! All we have planted so far is our pumpkins and sweet corn. Hopefully tonight we can get our cucumbers and squash planted. I do not know how patient Jenae is going to be. She was thinking that corn should be up by now and we just planted it last night!

We have had a lot of help getting our garden spot ready. Chip took down a tree and plowed up the sod. A neighbor came over and tilled it up with his tiller on the back of his tractor. Then last night Hope and Ben come over and tilled it with a hand tiller and gave us advice on where to plant things.

Like I mentioned I am not a gardener..... so if any one has any gardening tips, feel free to pass them on!

We had a good time in McCook. It was nice to see some friends and hang out as a family. The weekend started out not so fun. We went down early on Friday so that Kyle could help break in the steers. One of the steers got the best of him and kicked Kyle's arm. It did something to his bicep. We were not sure if he tore, pulled or badly bruised his bicep. It was bothering him pretty bad. He was able to swing a rope so ended up roping and turning out in the steer wrestling. It seemed as the weekend went on his arm was bothering him less and less. On his 3rd calf he was 8.9 sec and won the round. That qualified him for the shoot out. The shoot out had 8 guys and were eliminated one by one. He made it to the final 4.

Jenae had a blast playing with all of the little rodeo kids. Memphis Brown and Jenae became best friends through the weekend. They ran and played all weekend long. They were both sad to say good bye.

As long as Aubree was on a horse or outside she was happy. She was not happy when it was time to go back to the trailer.

I have Tuesday of this week off instead of Wednesday. I am hoping to get some yard work done and maybe start working on my garden. Kyle is going to be busy helping a friend brand on Wednesday and work cattle on Thurdsay. Friday he is going to Abbyville, KS for a rodeo.

I hope you all have a great week!

We had a good day for a branding. Lots of sunshine and a little breeze. It was a great day. The branding started about 1:00 and they had everything branded and moved to pasture by 5:30. We had everyone come to our house for supper afterwards. I think everyone had a good time, however, I am pretty sure Jenae had the best time out of everyone. She LOVED going on cattle drives. She has no fear what so ever of riding and riding fast. She wanted to ride Beauty from our house back over to Chip and Marilyn's house (Beauty stays there) with Hope and Aubree riding Bentley. She loped the WHOLE way home. Leaving Hope and Aubree in the dust. It worries me her going that fast on the road, I know she flew through the intersection with out looking. We are going to have a little talk with her about some ground rules while riding.

Tomorrow we are going with Kyle to Garrett Nokes jackpot in McCook. It should be a fun weekend!

I hope you all have a great Mothers Day weekend! Remember to be extra nice to your Mothers!!!

Well it has been a busy week for us. We went with Kyle to the Rodeo in St Paul a week ago on Saturday. He did well. He got 5th in the calf roping, 2nd in the steer wrestling, and tied for first in the saddle bronc riding. Monday we had Scott Halsey's funeral. It was a nice service. Kyle left right after the funeral to head to Guymon., OK. He was gone all week. Wednesday night was Jenae's Awana program. This weekend we did a lot of yard work, house work and Jenae did a lot of riding. It was a productive weekend. I feel like we got a lot done. Kyle will get home really late tonight. He did well in Guymon, he place 3rd on his 2nd steer and 3rd in the average. The girls and I will all be glad to have him home for awhile. We are branding on Wednesday lot there is a of work to get done before then. It should be a fun day. I will try to post some pictures from the branding.
I hope you all have a fabulous week!