Valentines Day

We had a nice little Valentines Day and weekend...nothing extravagant, just family time together! Saturday morning I cleaned house while the boys played. Saturday afternoon the boys stayed with Nana while Neal and I went to Jenny's ballgame. I knew that it was going to be a packed house, so it was a BIG relief for them to stay with Nana. It was a great game and we won!! Saturday night, Nana had pizza for us when we went to pick the boys up.


Sunday was a busy day. Here the boys had already started working on their sugar high!!


After Neal came in and we were ready for church, I gave them their Valentine gifts.

Judd was excited about all of the candy!!


Blaine got a new DS game that he had been wanting along with candy and a few other happies.



Judd got this horse, candy, and a few other things. Blaine has a horse the same size and Judd loves to try to ride it.


Trying out his new game.

Trying out his new horse!!

After church, we took lunch to Papa Z and Gran. Papa Z's birthday was last week, so we had to celebrate! We watched most of the race and the boys watched a movie. Next, was our Valentine Banquet at church. We got there early to help get everything ready. It was so nice and the food was so good! A good time was had by all!


Nana and the boys at the banquet.
Our little family.

After the banquet we went to see Grandaddy, Jean Jean, and Uncle Jamey. They hadn't seen the boys since the weekend, so they were dying to see them! Judd didn't get his nap Sunday afternoon, so he was asleep before we got there. We had a nice day even if it was busy!

Snow, Snow, Snow!

As you all know we were blessed with snow Thursday night and Friday. It was a nice Valentine's treat!

The view from our house

The view from the top of our driveway.

At the end of our road. Neal and the boys took me to work, because we didn't know how the road conditions would be.

Neal and the boys got out and played for a little while. Nana came over and played with them and took some pictures for me. (Thanks!)

I guess this is the redneck way of playing in the snow!! Oh well, at least they had fun!

I wish I could have been there to watch them and throw my share of the snow balls!!

Happy Valentine's Day!!

In Memory of Magnum

Magnum a/k/a Rocket as Blaine calls him died last week at the age of 22. I grew up trail riding and penning cows on Magnum.


Blaine learned to ride on Magnum. They rode many miles together.

I love this picture of the 2 of them.

Judd had already started learning to ride on Magnum. This was Magnum's last trail ride (last October) and his last time to be ridden.

Grandaddy told Blaine a couple of weeks ago that Magnum was sick, and Blaine said, "Well, Grandaddy, are you taking care of him?" Thankfully, Blaine had already moved on to Clyde, and Judd was not yet attached to him. He will sure be missed by all of us!

I did something I said I would never do...

...we trail rode on the Dixie National Trial Ride for 2 days around 35 miles in 38 degree weather. On Saturday the wind was blowing and the wind chill was MUCH cooler! We had a good time, but we thought the weather was going to be in the 50's and sunny. Boy, were we wrong!! Thankfully, I took plenty of clothes.


The boys had a ball...they didn't care how cold it was.

Blaine had fun talking with all the out riders on the walkie talkie.
Blaine and Uncle Jamey. Jamey had to work in Memphis for a couple days this week and woke up to 8 inches of snow this morning. He is coming back tomorrow night to finish the ride.

This was our best friend over the weekend. It made the 38 degree weather tolerable.

Blaine and Mermaid

Everytime we made Judd get off the mule and get in the wagon he just cried and cried. He thought he was just as big as everyone else!!

They both wore their chaps all weekend long. They looked so cute in them.

My sweet boys. They were so good this weekend. They enjoyed every minute of it!!

Blaine on Clyde and Jean Jean on Kate

This was our ride for the weekend.

Judd and Grandaddy

Blaine was over pictures by this point, but Judd was lovin' it!

Not a worry in the world..sitting on a horse with a saddle horn in one hand and a monster truck in the other. It just doesn't get much better than that in the eyes of a 2 year old!!

Another Busy Week

Well, it has been another busy week for us. They seem to all be that way. I've had a bad sinus infection with terrible headaches. I'm finally feeling better today though! We are gearing up for the Dixie National Trail Ride that starts tomorrow. Judd and I had the task of cleaning the camper last night. It.was.nasty. It hadn't been cleaned since the crew got back from Talladega back in November...yes, it's very embarrassing. I was hoping Neal would do it, but he hasn't had time!! Neal and Blaine were gone, so Judd and I got soaking wet, but we got it done. All of the sheets and blankets had to be brought in to wash. I've still got to get everything together this afternoon when I get home. The boys are excited. I hope we will have good weather even though it's going to be very muddy. I just hope and pray that everyone stays safe this year and we won't have to relive last year's ride.

I wanted to show you the shirts I made for Anna Claire for her birthday. I also made one with her name on it, but didn't get finished with it. I hope to finish it before long. I've also made Blaine some, but haven't taken pictures yet.



Have a good weekend!!

Blaine's BUSY Weekend

Blaine went to his first lock-in Friday night at our church. It was for the RA group. I think Blaine had a blast.

They played video games and watched movies. We went by for a little while and helped get supper ready and served. I think they all finally went to bed after midnight. Blaine surprised me and stayed all night!

The group. They DID NOT want to line up for a picture, but I managed to talk them into it. We've got to have some pictures to fill up that bulletin board behind them!

A few minutes after Blaine got home Saturday morning, Brewer's Moma called and invited Blaine to go to the movies with them. Since he seemed to be in a pretty good mood, I let him go. Well, he ended up spending the night with them, too! I knew that he would be so tired Sunday, but he did pretty good. When I got there around 8:30 Sunday morning, he was still asleep. I got him up and we went home and got ready for church. After church we had a birthday party. Last night he didn't want to go to sleep. Needless to say, I had to drag him out of bed this morning. I think all of the fun has caught up with him. I'm going to try to get him in bed super early tonight!!

Judd and I spent the day Saturday playing, reading books, and just being together. He loves to line his toys up. You can see that he even had balls lined up. He put anything he could find! At the beginning of his train, he had books lined up.

Judd missed his Bubba so much. He just couldn't understand where Bubba was. The first thing he asked both Saturday and Sunday mornings was "Where's Bubba?"

Saturday night, he wanted us to go get Blaine, but I promised him that we would the next morning.

My little sweatheart! I could just eat 'em up!!