Tuesday, August 18, 2009
vacation in flordia!!!!!
QUICK! LOOK FAST!!~!!!!!!!!!!!!! DREW IS SMILING!!!! A REEEEEEEEEEEEAL SMILE! as many of you know, my husband does NOT enjoying getting his picture taken!!!! however, vacations seem to be the one time he "allows" me to take pics of him!!! so here are just a couple pics from florida. we had a wonderful time, the kids were VERY good to and fro, and we had an excellent helper in tow! alexis carmony! who is OFFICIALLY 13 now! woo woo! babysitting here we come! anyway, here is just the couple family pics i got. not many, but at least we got one!
Monday, July 13, 2009
and so we begin.....
most of ya'all know that i grew up participating in our local 4H club, and showing at the county fair. you know....."back in the good 'ol days"..... :) i, however, never showed these stubborn little animals!!!! SHEEP! this is olivia's 2nd love now.....(besides the horses) i think we have officially jumped on the "sheep wagon"! our good friends, addam & jill carmony and their kids, are HUGE cattle people. but a couple of years ago, they too ventured out and tried their skills at the whole sheep showing thing! their two little showers, cole and alexis, both are just good showman when it comes to showing.....well....pretty much ANYTHING! they both have wonderful God given skill to being showman and are helping olivia along the way! 
so some how, they roped us into buying a sheep for olivia to show in a few of the open shows! :) (it's all their fault) there is this circuit called the indiana club lamb circuit (or i think that's the right name) but there are shows ALL over the state of indiana, and there is a point system that allows kids to win all sorts of different awards. we aren't involved in the point system just yet.....we are just getting are "feet wet" for a little while!!!
but anyway, olivia has taken to the sheep amazingly well! for as little as she is, and timid, she handles them very well!!! now i know i'm a bit biased......but she seems to have those natural showmanship skills! throughout the month of june, she showed at greenfield, richmond, connersville, and rushville, open shows for the circuit. she did very well, and we had several people comment on how they think she "has it". meaning, that natural showing ability. this was her first year, and in one of the shows, she made the top 5 cut for showmanship. this is a huge accomplishment not only for being her first year, but her age as well! drew and i had soooooo much fun watching her and are very proud of her!!!
alexis and cole both did very well also! alexis won champion showman at a couple different shows, and cole got reserve champion! good job kids!
another exitement for this whole sheep thing, was in the actual 4H show, alexis's sheep won Grand Champion in the rush county fair!!!!! how exciting!! congratulations guys! the carmony's showed olivia's sheep in the 4H show, and it got reserve champion in it's class! so what a fun and exciting sheep year!!!!
so some how, they roped us into buying a sheep for olivia to show in a few of the open shows! :) (it's all their fault) there is this circuit called the indiana club lamb circuit (or i think that's the right name) but there are shows ALL over the state of indiana, and there is a point system that allows kids to win all sorts of different awards. we aren't involved in the point system just yet.....we are just getting are "feet wet" for a little while!!!
but anyway, olivia has taken to the sheep amazingly well! for as little as she is, and timid, she handles them very well!!! now i know i'm a bit biased......but she seems to have those natural showmanship skills! throughout the month of june, she showed at greenfield, richmond, connersville, and rushville, open shows for the circuit. she did very well, and we had several people comment on how they think she "has it". meaning, that natural showing ability. this was her first year, and in one of the shows, she made the top 5 cut for showmanship. this is a huge accomplishment not only for being her first year, but her age as well! drew and i had soooooo much fun watching her and are very proud of her!!!
alexis and cole both did very well also! alexis won champion showman at a couple different shows, and cole got reserve champion! good job kids!
another exitement for this whole sheep thing, was in the actual 4H show, alexis's sheep won Grand Champion in the rush county fair!!!!! how exciting!! congratulations guys! the carmony's showed olivia's sheep in the 4H show, and it got reserve champion in it's class! so what a fun and exciting sheep year!!!!
horse'in around.......
nothing cuter than a little butt w/ "wrangler" written on it!!! hee hee
well we started the adventure of "4H" this year! well, not "real" 4H, but mini-4H, or "cloverbuds". the kids are allowed to choose 1 project, and as you can tell by the pics, horses were olivia's 1st choice! not sure we have a future in showing horses, but in this particular horse project, the kids didn't have to own a horse. they pair you up w/ another family who kinda "mentors" you. basically they let the kids borrow the horse for free and help teach a few little things. we had the Stone family and they were always willing let olivia have fun on "becky" the horse. olivia says she loves horses MORE than her sheep! oh yeah....as i'm sure most of you know, olivia got her very own sheep to show this year. i'll post more about that later. anyway, i doubt we will be pursuing a 4H horse, but just letting her ride a horse 1 x week for about a month straight, plus "show" a horse, was worth just seeing the joy it brought to olivia's face! life couldn't have gotten any better! unless we bought her own of course! ha! the girl w/ olivia is one of her good friends devan draper! you've seen her before on my blog; she showed in the horse and pony show also; and she too has found a new love in her life!!!!!! she is getting the privilege of taking horse riding lessons! she does a wonderful job, and she is definitely an animal lover!!!
her beautiful bun and butterfly was compliments of aunt pam and cousin jenny!!! they graciously came over and did her hair for the horse show! jenny and pam know just TINY bit about showing horses!!!! lol they both were very very good showman and won many many awards and trophies throughout the years!! thank you pam and jenny!!!
well we started the adventure of "4H" this year! well, not "real" 4H, but mini-4H, or "cloverbuds". the kids are allowed to choose 1 project, and as you can tell by the pics, horses were olivia's 1st choice! not sure we have a future in showing horses, but in this particular horse project, the kids didn't have to own a horse. they pair you up w/ another family who kinda "mentors" you. basically they let the kids borrow the horse for free and help teach a few little things. we had the Stone family and they were always willing let olivia have fun on "becky" the horse. olivia says she loves horses MORE than her sheep! oh yeah....as i'm sure most of you know, olivia got her very own sheep to show this year. i'll post more about that later. anyway, i doubt we will be pursuing a 4H horse, but just letting her ride a horse 1 x week for about a month straight, plus "show" a horse, was worth just seeing the joy it brought to olivia's face! life couldn't have gotten any better! unless we bought her own of course! ha! the girl w/ olivia is one of her good friends devan draper! you've seen her before on my blog; she showed in the horse and pony show also; and she too has found a new love in her life!!!!!! she is getting the privilege of taking horse riding lessons! she does a wonderful job, and she is definitely an animal lover!!!
her beautiful bun and butterfly was compliments of aunt pam and cousin jenny!!! they graciously came over and did her hair for the horse show! jenny and pam know just TINY bit about showing horses!!!! lol they both were very very good showman and won many many awards and trophies throughout the years!! thank you pam and jenny!!!
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Gymnastics!!!
well....i was sitting at gymnastics w/ the girls tonight, fooling around with my camera. (as always, i was trying to figure out some settings :) so i just needed to snap a few pics, and i caught sophia, on the trampoline, (where she bounces non-stop while olivia takes her class) and this is what i snapped :) makes me smile! she is always bouncing off the walls at this place, but such a great way to burn all that extra energy!!! as most people know, she is the most flexible little thing, and i think this pic is a great example! ha! i added a "70's/vintage" look to this pic for fun; since her suit is kinda 70'sish? i didn't make it over to snap some of olivia; she was clear across the room on the beam, so we will get her next time!
Monday, May 11, 2009
tempers....
as i'm sure you can tell from this picture, nathan was ALL KINDS of honked off! on the way back to the truck he got into those nasty nettles!
Happy Mother's Day....
fishing.......the kids have been wanting to go fishin' since easter.....(easter bunny thought fishin' poles were a great idea :) ) anyway, i decided on mother's day, i just wanted to get up, get my run in, take the kids fishin', and just hangout w/out HAVING to be anywhere at any specific time! 
so a fishin' we went! one of my mother's day wishes was for DREW to actually be IN these pictures! as you can see, he still wasn't all that cooperative....but at least now my kids have SOME proof that daddy participated in our outings!!! oh...and in case you are wondering...NO we didn't catch any fish. just had 1 toy w/ us! and all the kids caught were those painful and burning little weeds called "bull nettles"? or i think that's what they are called? you'll see 1 or more pics where sophia is scratching and not happy! she got in them the most. these first couple pics of her, she was having fun.....and then she was OVER IT!
so a fishin' we went! one of my mother's day wishes was for DREW to actually be IN these pictures! as you can see, he still wasn't all that cooperative....but at least now my kids have SOME proof that daddy participated in our outings!!! oh...and in case you are wondering...NO we didn't catch any fish. just had 1 toy w/ us! and all the kids caught were those painful and burning little weeds called "bull nettles"? or i think that's what they are called? you'll see 1 or more pics where sophia is scratching and not happy! she got in them the most. these first couple pics of her, she was having fun.....and then she was OVER IT!
All I want for Christmas....
i'm a little late posting this....but olivia finally lost that other tooth! no more snaggle tooth! ha! this is a smile only a mother could find beautiful!!!!
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