Veterans Day

Gavin's school had a Veteran's Day parade. It was so nice to be able to honor some of our wonderful service men and women who have sacrificed sooo very much for all of us and for our freedoms and our country. How do you ever begin to repay that?

Puppies, puppies, puppies!

We just had a litter of puppies 5 weeks ago, and they are really getting cute. We are super excited about them because they are out of two amazing cow/hog dogs and have a lot of potential. They are mostly black mouth cur, but they obviously have a little catahoula leopard in them(hence the blue eye and the spots). This is one we are thinking about keeping, we call him Camo.

This was the picture we put on the fliers.
The kiddos absolutely love them to death, so they are not so excited about selling the rest of them. I have explained that we just can't keep them all.

Halloween '10

We went to trunk or treat at our church last night, and the kids had so much fun!
Cade as Bob the Builder with his hard hat on backwards.
Austin, was a dark night
Quinn handing out candy
snow white
Our good friends Josh, Lincoln and Lacey. They always have the best costumes. I love that Josh dressed up as one of the rescued Chile miners.


This is the pumpkin cake I made for the party. It turned out pretty good for my first pumpkin.

Roping

We finanlly got more roping cattle! The last time we had roping steers was back in March, so we have really missed roping at the house.
The weather was perfect and the arena was still damp, just right for roping.

Cade was a big help running the chute.

Breaking in new steers was lots of fun!

It was really cool to see Gavin and Grey tracking steers and trying to rope, they did a great job!

Chute help :) I think everyone was a little nervous when Cade had the hot shot. I know I didn't ever turn my back on him.

Blanco County Fair and Rodeo 2010

Gavin was asked to hold the flag for the National Anthem beginning the youth rodeo.
Gavin and Grey warming their horses up.
Cade watching his brother and sister in the rodeo.



Baw-poo and Cade on Blueberry.
Saturday morning we all rode in the parade, just like we have always done for years and years.
Gavin and Mike
Quinn and Gavin
Cade
Jess and Emily

The boys

These are two new additions to the ranch. They are both yearlings that will be ready to start this coming spring along with Cocoa, Baw-poo's yearling filly. Looks like we are going to be very busy this next year. We are really excited!

This is Baw-poo's buckskin 'Biscuit'. He is toying with the idea of leaving him a stud. I have to agree that he would make pretty babies.

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This is a recent purchase Quinn and I made. He is a blue roan yearling gelding. We are still trying to think of a good name for him.

Family, food, and dancing!

We were able to attend a wedding reception of an old friend last week, and we had a blast. The food was great, we got to see lots of old friends, and the music and dancing was tons of fun.


Jess and baby Gus
The kids had so much fun dancing, they stayed out on the dance floor the entire night.
Cade showing us some fancy footwork.
We even got to dance a little.