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Location: San Angelo, Texas

I'm a wife and a mom to 2 daughters and 1 son. I like to read, golf, and support my kids in all their activities.

Friday, February 27, 2009

Tough Enough to Wear Pink

Last night at the Rodeo here is SA was a night dedicated to raising awareness and money for the fight against breast cancer. If you know anything about my family you know that is a cause close to my heart. My MawMaw was a 30 year survivor and my mom is a 5 year survivor. So when our Relay for Life got the chance to take part in the Rodeo last night several of us were glad to help out.

We sold-out of our pink ribbon bandanas at our booth in front of the coliseum. Here's a picture of a few of our team members wearin' pink.
During the rodeo performance we passed buckets for donations to the American Cancer Society here in SA. Let me tell you San Angelo came through. I noticed a $100 bill, a couple of $50s and a bunch of $20s, $10s, $5s & $1s in my bucket. There was a little boy about 4 years old that stood at the end of the isle I was walking down with a hand-full of dollar bills bunched in his hands. Thanks San Angelo for your generosity!! All the money collected will stay in the Concho Valley to help cancer patients.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

San Antonio Stock Show

Sorry it's taken me so long to post about our trip to the San Antonio Stock Show. Both the kids showed on Tuesday. Which meant that Sunday was busy with all the preparations of the lambs. The lambs have to be washed (twice to get all the dirt out of their wool), blow dried, sheared, then since we have washed all the natural moisturizers off their wool/skin they need to have moisturizers put on. Then when all that is done we put blanket/covers on them and lock them in the trailer and tell them if they get dirty they'll be lambchops. ha ha

We left San Angelo at 5:59 am on Monday morning for the drive down to SA. We got there in time to "sit" in line to unload. We were finally able to unload at the barn around 11 am. We weighed the lambs and turned in their weights to the officials so they could be put in the correct weight class.
Here Nolan is Tuesday morning waiting to show. His southdown suprised us by not getting a second look from the judge. Nolan showed GREAT, but in the end....he was sent to the truck. We were disappointed.

As you can see, Nolan showed his heart out. He had his lamb set up perfectly. That's the life in the show ring. Some days you get a pull and some days you don't.
Karli's cross was up later in the day. We were a little worried because this cross had a really dark face and might be "classed out" as being too much of a medium wool. So when the judge motioned for Karli to move on to the next round Ron and I held our breath. This was Karli's first "pull" in a major stock show. The excitement showed on her face as she walked her lamb over to the classifiers.
Here she is being classified. The lamb classed as a cross, so she got to show her lamb in next round. She finished 10th in her class, 2 places out of the money. We were all happy with her success.
We now have San Angelo Stock Show next.

Monday, February 9, 2009

Nolan is 12 years old!!!

The baby in our house is 12 years old today. He's the mistreated boy after 2 girls. According to him he has the BAD spot in the family. Not only does he have me for a mother, he has 2 other mothers who continually tell him how to behave. Nolan is the long awaited boy of the family. Ron BEGGED for another baby and I wasn't sure we needed another. I'm glad I had a change of heart. Nolan has definately been worth the wait. He's mommy's "Noly-Boy."


Whitni's "buddy".


Karli's "pain in the neck." (ha ha ha )

BUT the most important title he wears is that of Ron's "Hunting Buddy/Shadow". Happy Birthday, Nolan!!! Our family wouldn't be complete without you!!!

Sunday, February 8, 2009

Aunts!!

Everyone knows that an aunt is either their father's or mother's sister. But to me my aunts are much more than my mother's sisters. They are MY sisters. My mom is the oldest of 5 (4 girls and 1 boy) and I'm an only child. My family tells the story of when I went to school and my teacher asked if I had any siblings that I explained that I had sisters. These are my mother (2nd from left) and my aunts, Shirla, Sylvia & Patti. They are so much more than aunts!!