Photo Friday.

So I know it has been a long time since I posted. I love seeing everyone else's posts and what y'all are doing, but never take the time to share my life. It's just natural! I guess I feel like I don't have much to share or that anyone would even care, but here is goes anyways! I'm going to try and sum up August... it flew by so fast!


#1:
Boots the Bull.
On August 3rd we found our bull that had been hurt. We couldn't find him for a while since he was brushed up hiding from the other bull. Thankfully when we found him he was up by an old set of pens so we got him in really easily. So we got him to the pens at the house and started doctoring him. We called up my sister, who is a vet tech, and asked her advice. I sent her some pics and we went to work.
Now you see ole {formerly Buddy, but now Bobby has officially named him Boots!} Boots was not to happy with us, plus his foot hurt, so he was very angry with us. We had some struggles getting him to go into the chute. He ran Bobby up the fence a handful of times.

I've tried to document with pictures his progress. That way we can look back and compare how he's doing.  Sorry if this grosses you out. Just scroll on past.

Day 5

 

 #2:
Emily Charlotte Horn.
On August 28, 2013 @ 9:48a.m. Miss Charlotte was born. Weighing 6 pounds and 13 ounces and 19 1/2 inches long... or you could just check this out!!

We were so thrilled to meet Miss Charlotte. She is precious! Our friends waited to find out what they were having till she was born! So I won cause I guessed a girl. Bobby was totally rooted for team boy!

#3:
Jynsen's Birthday.
A friend of mine out here in the cotton patch has a daughter that just turned two. Bobby had been in Oklahoma farming for a week, so I got to spend some time with that sweet family. On the 3rd day in a row of me being over there, I told Layne {the dad} that I was moving in!! Ha! But I got to help J'Layne with some of the decorations for the party. She has an ice cream party. It turned out so cute I wanted to share some pics!

Chalkboard I made for 2 year Pics!

Cake Pops!

#4.
 Okra.
 We have had more okra then I could have ever imagined. I've been picking okra all month long. For weeks before Bobby would keep saying, "the okra is about to put on." Even though it took longer then we thought, when it put on, it PUT ON! Oh my lanta! I have put so much okra up, we've eaten it, thrown out a bunch that was too big by the time we've gotten to it and we've even given bunches away, too! My plants are about as tall as I am, too! I have thoroughly enjoyed having a garden, but next year I'm going to try and have something a bit more manageable!
These are just a small fraction of what we've picked, but this was my first BIG pick! I was blown away!

 I should have taken pics, but we've got about 18 jars of pickled okra, too!

#5:
Garage Saling.
A friend that I work with goes garage saling in Midland almost every weekend. It is kinda something they do as a family. Well, I had her show me the ropes a few Saturdays ago. I got up at 6 and left the house at 7 AM on a Saturday morning to make it to the sales before the good stuff was gone!I had a blast and will be going again soon!

So this is my loot. I got an old chair to redo, owl, 2 vases, 2 pillows (for forms), 6 old blocks, 4 gallon mason jars, 10 quart canning jars (with the unused lids!!) and a baby carriage.
Now I got good deals on everything except the baby carriage. I think if I ever wanted to sell it I could make money, but it was my splurge. But how do you pass that up? I had several ask if this meant I was expecting, but no it does not. I just love it. I'm not sure my plans for it, but think that it would be cool in baby pictures and maybe displaying blankets and such at our booth in Oct. We shall see!

#6:
Lake Amistad.
Bobby's boss' dad (that's not confusing) has a lake house at box canyon. Well, it's a trailer house and it's old. So, he finally broke down (plus now he has some oil money) and bought a new trailer house. So,  Bobby was wrangled to go help with taking the shed off the top since the new house is bigger then the old house. This turned into a half, but free, vacation for us. Dennis (Bobby's boss) has one of those fancy boats (he also has some oil money) that makes waves, so his girls love to go surfing. Well, this was a new thing for us poor country folks, but we had such a fun time. We worked in the morning, then when it got hot, went our and played in the water!

first night there we took a walk down to the water.

This shows you how much the lake is down. Is should be where the white is

I've never added a video, so let me know if it doesn't work. I couldn't resist taking some video of Bobby surfing. He did get the hang of it pretty quick and started showing off, but i can't help but giggle at the video.

It was fun getting away and seeing country we hadn't seen before! And the lake was beautiful!

#7:
Random Pictures.
Here is just a couple random pics throughout the month!

Our fat and happy, mesquite bean eating cows!

Enjoying Watermelon from Coyonosa!

This sweet little thing is almost ONE!!

We are going to celebrate Miss G's birthday this weekend. I will add pics from the party next week. I promise!!

Hope y'all have a safe and enjoyable Labor Day weekend!!

Mandie

Foto Friday

I know I have been slacking lately with no posts. I haven't had anything to post lately and when I do, I forget my camera. Oh course!

Well, here is what has been going on lately!

Garden:
The garden loved the rain we had. We totaled 3.4 inches. It was wonderful. I can definitely handle not seeing the sun for 4 days during the summer. Now that we've had a week of sunshine since, the weeds are getting even more out of control! And I haven't had time to get to pulling them!
Our tomato plant is doing extraordinarily well! We have more then one, but this has been the only one to thrive! He has a buddy right next to him, but he hasn't done a whole lot of producing, but we have gotten a couple!
Here is the money maker!

 This is the bounty from this past Friday's pick!

We also have some melons!

This baby I have watched grow from the very beginning!

Birthday Weekend:

Tuesday was my birthday! So last weekend Bobby took me to Canyon Texas to get away a bit! We stayed with some good friends there and they took us skeet shooting, to eat at a dive called Coyote Bluff and then to the Texas Musical Play in Palo Duro Canyon. It was a fabulous evening! We will be going back to the canyon to get in some camping and hiking! It is a beautiful spot!

Isn't he a hunk!?!?!

This is Billy! My sweet friends sweet husband. Love them!

 I don't have any picture of the play of the canyon. We were running a bit late and so I didn't think about it, plus they ask you not to take picture at the play.

Bobby got me some more Fiestaware. I love getting new colors. I got lots of turquoise (love it!), the new blue, Lapis, Flamingo, Paprika and plum! I got a plum plate and the plum gusto bowl from my in-laws and also turquoise salt and pepper shakers from Bobby that aren't pictured!

Bobby also got me a turquoise seed bead necklace! It is gorgeous! He is a doll!

We also went out to eat on Tuesday at Hotel Settles. I'm loving that place. It's kinda romantic! They have their pool open now. You have to be a guest to swim, but we took a peek! I would love to go stay there, but it seems weird to get a hotel room 40 miles from home!

Randomness:

These are a couple old pictures that I ran across! 

Sorry for the blurriness, but I thought it was kinda a cool pic!

Today:

I took a couple hours off work this morning to get caught up on things around the house. I was anticipating a really slow day at work and the boss said it was cool if I came in late! Love my job!

So I took a big walk this morning! I love early morning walks. Normally would say peaceful and quiet walks, but the rigs around us are quite noisy right now!

I snapped a couple pics with my phone! The beauty of a morning cannot be captured in a photo, but I can at least try!

Photo doesn't do justice to the green cotton!

Water storage for "Frac"-ing. It's like a mini lake!

Hope everybody has a wonderful weekend!

Mandie

Foto Friday. Crazy Nephew!

I was going through my camera and stumbled across these fellas. I thought that they were too cute not to share!

My nephew loves our dogs... so much he wanted to play with them in the trailer. Both dogs love him, too! How could you resist those sweet cuddles?!?!

Trying to sneak up and catch a baby guinea.

This was taken over the Independence Day weekend.
I guess he knew we were snapping pics!

Have a great weekend!

M

Friday Photo.

Just a quick pic. Will update soon, but wanted to share this cutie!! Have a great weekend!

Friday Photos.

So this is really late, but technically still Friday. It's been a real crazy week, but I still managed to get some pics taken. Monday set the tone for how crazy a week can be. A good friend of mine(s) husband died of a heart attack. So that makes prep for funeral, prep for Shattered Dreams, bible study at my house {which means i have to clean and have something cooked} and then just work and life it's self makes for a crazy week. All that aside, I made it to Friday and praise God it's a long weekend. 

Also, praise him for the wonderful rain we got last night. 2.4 inches!!! 

I'm just going to post a couple pics of projects I did and things I saw. 

Hope everyone has a wonderful Memorial Day weekend!

M

Photo Friday!

A sweet blog friend of mine did a Photo Friday a while back. Since I have been really lame about keeping posts up, I decided this would be a good way for me to get a post, and not have to write much. Plus... I would love to share my life through pictures, then you can draw your own conclusion.

With that being said, I haven't taken very many pictures lately, so this will also be a very boring post! I failed to get any pictures from our trip last weekend. I was having too much fun I guess! We went to the Western Heritage Classic in Abilene on Friday. It was so much fun and we shopped til we dropped. This had a fabulous time at the Ranch Rodeo that night.

There was an excellent performance from a horse trainer, Bobby Kerr, and one of his mustang makeover horses. This video will show you pretty much what we got to see. He had Pancho with him. The video shows 2 of his mustangs, though. And since I have now idea how to just put the video on here, I will give you the link. Take time to watch it.

We also got to see the Budweiser Clydesdales. One of my favorite things in life. I will own a Clydesdale one day!




Then on Saturday, we made our way to Stephenville to watch my youngest sibling graduate from college. I stole a couple pictures my mom took from Saturday!

Mollie, the graduate, and I!

The whole family.

I just have a couple other pictures. I made some coasters for our living room. I love how they turned out!

And last but not least... Bobby and Sage. She had some parsley stuck in her teeth!!

Have a blessed weekend!!
Mandie