Baby Blackmore has arrived!!!!!

Hope and Ben are the proud parents of a baby boy Trey William. He weighted 8lbs and 20 1/2 in long. Both Mom and Baby Trey are doing good! I will post pictures of him when I get them!!!

Low key weekend!

I hope you all had a great weekend! The girls and I had a very low key quiet weekend. We spent some time in the kitchen doing some baking, did lots of coloring and of course did some cleaning and laundry. With the chaos holidays around the corner we are trying to take full advantage of a weekend with nothing to do and no where to go.

Saturday we went over to Chip and Marilyn's to watch the Husker Football game. It was a terrible game for Nebraska. I just do not know what is going on with the Football Program at NE!!! Hopefully it will turn around soon!!!



Sunday Hope and Ben came over for a little while. It was nice to see them. Still no baby :-( Hope looks great and is feeling good. We are all getting very Anxious for Baby Blackmore to arrive!!





Kyle was in Brookings SD on Friday and then went over to a steer wrestling jackpot in Iowa on Saturday and Sunday. Saturday he had a steer hit him in the face and busted open his lip. He called me and said he was going to the ER he thought he might need stitches. It took 21 stitches and an hour to get him stitch up. I talked to one of his friends and he said it was an L shaped rip. Kyle kind of minimized it when he called to tell me, which is maybe OK. I can't even imagine how uncomfortable it feels. He is being a good sport and not complaining about it.

I hope you all have a great week!!!

Weekend

We had a nice weekend. We had more Nebraska Fall like weather this weekend and today which has been apprecited!

Friday I had to make a quick trip to Omaha. Aubree and I went down to my parents house Thursday night. Brooke and Allyx were there for a couple hours in the evening so the girls had a chance to play. On Friday Aubree spent the morning with my parents and the afternoon with my Sister, Danielle and her 3 boys. She had a good time. Jenae had to stay home since she had school on Friday. I was a little nervous leaving Kyle to get Jenae's hair fixed in the morning, but he did a good job!

Saturday afternoon our friends Matt and Heidi came over to watch a very disappointing football game. Even though the Huskers lost we still had a good time visiting. (OK maybe Kyle did not have a good time---he takes the Huskers pretty serious!)

Saturday evening our friend Eric came. He was in the area for an interview and stayed with us Saturday night.

Sunday we headed out for Church when we saw a big skunk running down our driveway toward the house. Jenae and Aubree thought it was an eventful morning! Aubree is still talking about the BIG skunk. Eric ran steers for Kyle to bulldog. I was happy he was there to run the steers so I had a chance to get house work caught up for moment.

Snow :-(

If you did not know better you would think it was December around here. We had snow Saturday morning when we woke up and again this morning. All this snow is getting me the Christmas spirit all to early. I feel like I should be baking cookies and putting up my Christmas greenery.

With the weather the way it was we had a very lazy weekend. It was a good weekend to clean closets and do projects around the house that get put off until a weekend like this. I packed all of Aubree's 12 month clothes away and got out the 18 month clothes. Aubree has always been a little on the small side for her age. So we are always happy when she moves up to the next size even if it is just 18 months cloths and she is 2 years old!!!! Jenae had a Coyote Chum party on Saturday morning. Marilyn's FCCLA kids all have a little chum (k-2nd graders). They get together to do crafts and play games. She had a great time. The only time I ventured out of my house was to feed the horses and the chickens. Kyle was in warm Texas all weekend long. I thought about him and I was out dumping the snow out of his horses feed buckets and tending to his chores. Oh the life of a rodeo wife!!!

What a nice day!!

Yesterday was a absolutely beautiful day!!! I think it was in the upper 60's. I really lucked out that the nicest day of the week happen to be on Wednesday. All week it has been cold, cloudy, and some days rainy with the exception of yesterday. They are predicting snow for the weekend!!! It is a way to early for winter to be setting in.


Chip wanted to move some heifers so Aubree and I got to go along and help. It was a bummer having Jenae in school so she did not get to take part. It was the perfect day to be out riding. As you can see from the pictures Aubree fell asleep while we were moving the cattle. It is a little difficult to ride with her when she sleeps. At least when she is awake she can help balance herself.

Kyle helped me get all of my plants pulled up out of my garden. I really enjoyed my garden and I am looking forward to it again next year. I will do a few things different. I did not realize how much room the vine plants take up. When my squash plants come up I will for sure thin them done to probably 1!!!

Kyle wanted to practice his steer wrestling yesterday. Chip hazed for him and seemed to get along OK. It is nice to see Chip getting back to his normal lifestyle!

Sale Day

The highlight of the weekend was selling the steer calves at the Ericson Sale barn. It is always a fun day. This was the first year I have helped. With Hope being only 3 weeks away from her due date and with Chip being less than 6 weeks out from his heart surgery they thought they could use my help. It all went very smooth. It was Chips first time on a horse since his surgery.
For the way the cattle market is the calves sold good, so we were happy about that. Aubree sat really well at the sale for about the first 45 min and watched the calves sell, but then she got pretty restless. Jenae was happy when she got to sit up on the top row of seats.

Saturday night Chip and Marilyn took us out for a prime rib buffet at the Chambers Corner. The food was really good. We went over to visit our friends Matt and Heidi after supper. Our kids always have fun playing with their kids.

Yesterday we went to Church and Sunday School then spent the rest of the day at home. It was nice to get caught up on things at home.

It is cold and rainy here today. Aubree got to stay home with Kyle today. They sound like they are having a fun day.