April 2 - April Fool's Day

To all you pranksters...I hope you are enjoying your April Fool's Day. This is also Connie & Jason's (sister and brother-in-law) wedding anniversary. I don't know how many years, but I think it's been 13. I still remember their wedding day when the pastor asked for anyone to who objects (sp?) to this couple getting married and all the groomsmen raised their hands. That sure got a chuckle from everyone attending the traditional Lutheran wedding!

It is hard to believe Ryan and I will be celebrating our 5th wedding anniversaryn this December. Where does the time go? My plans were to go back to the NFR for our 5 yr and get married by Elvis....hahahaha...not sure if Ryan would've went for that. Anyhow, we will have a newborn and I'm in a wedding on December 6th. So, maybe next year! :)

We were able to buy 2 more stalls from our friend, Eloy. Now we have 7 stalls. I always dreamed of having a barn full of stalls and horses growing up. Look at me now! Now, I'm trying to sell some of them. In fact, today, we take Blaze for a vet check. If all goes well he'll have a new home. If not, we will have wasted another 1/2 day of work and about $50 in diesel. So, I'm trying to be optomistic and know all will go well and Blaze will go to a REALLY good home. I am sad and excited all in one. I get very attached to my animals and I have had Blaze for almost 5 years now. He's been a good horse. We just don't need 5 horses.

I also just found out there is a barrel race in May that's giving away Circly Y saddles to each division winner. Man, I want a new circle Y saddle so bad I can taste it! Oh well...it's a good thing I have Ryan to tell me there is no where in H-E_ double hockey sticks I'm going to be running barrels. He tells me there is always next year...that is true. So, next year I'll just buy myself a saddle! HAAHAHA!!! I still will try to win one. There is nothing that feels better than a year's worth of work put into winning a saddle and being able to throw it on your horse and think "Yup, we won that!"

Well that's it for now. Hopefully I'll have good news and Blaze will have a new home. Then, I can start working on selling Mito. We'll be down to three of our own horses. Much more realistic for us and our pocket book!

God Bless!