Welcome Sally!

Sally Girl!

Milroy & Hoss saying hello!

Austin loves his dogs!

Living in the country provides us with the opportunity to help those less fortunate 4 legged creatures. Our friend Sally arrived at our house in October '08 and we cleaned her up and tried to find her owners. We are not sure they miss her so we continued to take care of her. She is so sweet. Gets along with all the other dogs and just wants to be loved. Welcome Sally to our part of the world!

Go Gorillas - Oct 2008

Go Gorillas! We love spending Saturdays at the PSU football games and seeing our friends from Pre-school like Braden and Joey. Go Pitt State!

Building at the BARN - October 2008

Boys helping Daddy load up some hay for Mommy at the horse barn!

Mr Bright Eyes barn that Rick is building. Jack says it is not done yet!

Austin do you think I can walk across this home made bridge???

This is the bet pile of rock ever. Can we keep it?

Playing in our rock quarry with our diggers. We love the dirt. Thank you God for all the dirt!

October weather still brings us incredibly warm days with little barefeet playing in the sand and dirt at the barn. Our barn time is the best time of the day most days. Austin and Jackson have a quarry they have built in one of the pastures that they work on daily. Good work boys.

You Shoud Be Dancin....yeah-- Dancin...yeah "Sept. 2008"

The boys have their own form of dress-up. Spiderman, or whatever costume they can find in the house. It is so much fun to see what they will put together!

Jack with full uniform

AJ with Hoss

Patrolling the yard

Austin is giving John Travolta a run for his money in this newest video clip. While it is true, Mommy loves to dance, I don't think I have demonstrated any of these moves to my son just yet. He does have the rhythm and the moves. Jive Talkin!

Riding & Reining

Jack on Honey - CHEESE

Austin on Dusty

One little 5 year old loves his pony!

The boys keep getting better at riding so we asked them to ride their ponies from the house to the barn so we could practice some horsemanship skills in the arena. Yeehaw!

Watco Company Picnic -- Sept 2008

Maggie Snow sat with Austin and Jack and I sat in front of them. The boys had fun, but thought it was a little rough!

Jack coming down the slide....weeeee

Austin coming down the slide - so much fun!

The Watco Company picnic is always a lot of fun and held at Lincoln Park in Pittsburg. There are all kinds of rides for the boys at Kiddieland and then Watco brings in a bunch of bouncy slides and things that little boys and girls will enjoy. It was a beautiful Saturday in September that we enjoyed good company and food....and rollercoaster rides!

Our Last Horse Show of the Season -- Sept 21, 2008

We have had a rainy 2008 and a bumper hay crop. Yahoo. However, so much rain has kept us several times from holding our horse shows at the Hepler Arena. Our last show was held indoors to make sure we could finish out the season. We met at Bridwell Arena at Frontenac Kansas. There was a special costume class that the boys had prepared for over the last few months. Austin and Mommy were Native Americans with their buckskin pony, Dusty Dakota. Jackson and Daddy were Union Officers on their palomino US Cavalry pony, Honey! We had a great time and were blessed to have our Nana and Papa at the show besides Nana Jane from Kansas City. Austin is really becoming quite the rider and Jackson loves dressing up and showing everyone what he can do. In the costume class, Jackson took 2nd and Austin came in 3rd out of 7. Our friend Bailee Heenan took first as a prairie school girl. We were proud of Bailee and she looked so pretty. The boys wore Papa Art's neck ties in the Lead Line class and looked real nice. Papa Art would have been proud of the boys! Everyone fell asleep on the way home from the show except Mommy!