The Three Stooges...

Well here are the horses we have at the moment...

Far left is Blaster aka "David"...he is Erics horse.

We havent owned him very long and are still getting to know him.

Eric has ridden him once or twice...hoping he works out well for Eric.

Next is Blue...which you have all met before, he is my horse.

He is only 4 but he is doing really good...Im having fun with him.

Rain is next and she is my mom's horse.

She started out as Eric's but proved to be too much for him.

Her and mom seem to get along really well

and Blue likes her really well:)

David and Rain are both Tennessee Walkers so they have a smoother gait.
Blue is a Quarter Horse so he just does walk, trot, canter...

although I havent been brave enough to get him into a canter yet!

We hope they like their new barn:)

Our New Barn!!!

We are SO excited about this new barn...

Mom and Dad are having this built for us and it should be done next weekend.

It will have 5 stalls....one of them will be our tack room.

3 of them will be for the 3 horses and we will have one

extra one for whoever may need it at the time.

Maybe goats having babies...sick goats...etc.

It is going to be so nice to have somewhere to put all the feed, saddles, etc!!

As you can see it is really close to the house also...nice and convenient!!

Another storm...

Well we had yet another storm.

This happened about a month ago.

It was a very short storm that blew through but VERY STRONG winds!

It probably only lasted about 5 minutes.

All of the sudden we looked outside and all of our trees were practically laying sideways.

We heard a loud thump and crash and looked out to find this...

Our goat shed had been totally uprooted, thrown against the fence and then up and over

the chicken yard fence and blew over into the end of the chicken yard.

It traveled quite the distance!!

I cant believe how crumpled and flattened it is!

Unfortunately it is still laying there...

hopefully we can get it cleaned up before it snows:)

The chickens think it is just a new little shelter for them to play in...

Here is a perfect example of an old toy becoming new again!

On the last day of summer before school was to start

we moved this playset from the playground and attached it to the willow

to make a "tree house"

It has become very popular again!!

There is ladder attaching it to the tree

and then a slide on the other side.

A regular swing and a double swing.

As you can see Taylor is demonstrating the "zip line"...

well not really but they pull this over to the top of the slide in the tree

and then as they slide down while holding it they are lifted off the slide

and swung around.

Here they are on the first morning of school....very excited!

Summer....

I wish I had tons of pics to put on here but I guess I wasnt real good at taking them this summer. We spent quite a bit of time at Big Surf Waterpark again...probably twice a week.
We also did some boating with my parents. They bought a wave runner this summer and that has been alot of fun too. Eric likes to take the boys out on it and be silly. Taylor thinks it is a little too fast and she is happier to just play on the shore and look for shells.
We had a lot of company over the summer....Grandpa Ronnie and Grandma Barbie came to visit twice and that is always a lot of fun. We also had my Aunt Margaret visit from Kentucky for a week although it wasnt a great reason (my uncle....my dads brother...had passed away) but it still was a lot of fun visiting with her and just hanging out.
While my aunt was visiting we had a baby deer get stuck in our chicken yard that we ended up having to catch....that is not easy if you have ever tried. We finally got her caught and put in the coop for the night and then the next day my mom had to come pick me up and help me take it down to the vet so my friend could take it (she does rescues). It is quite the experience to sit in the front seat of a car holding a deer and hoping it doesnt freak out...they have very strong legs!! It ended up doing great and being turned loose again.
I have a pic of the deer but its on my phone....oh well.
Hope you all had a great summer...ours was fun and relaxing.
The kids started school on August 16th...a little early this year. Taylor is in 4th and the boys are in 2nd. It is going well although it was a tough transition. The boys would come home saying "is every day going to be that long?!"

Some more birthday...

The kids always seem to end up celebrating their birthdays a few times. Once with friends, once with family, etc. Here are a couple pics of the birthday with grandpa, grandma, great aunt connie, my cousin angie and the rest of us. They were laughing so hard in this pic that they had trouble blowing out their candles!!

A couple of goofy boys!!!

How in the world could they be 8 already??

Taylor's Ponies...

Well, this is Taylor's 1st pony...Squirt.

We bought him in July but we sold him at the beginning of this month.

He turned out to not be a very good choice.

He did really well when we went to look at him but then when we got him home I could

tell he was going to be too much for Taylor.

She is very timid and he was too fast for her.

He didnt try to run off but he was a little jumpy.

He ended up bucking her off one day when I sat her up there with no saddle on...

which we had done before but this particular day he decided he wasnt going to stand for it!!

On top of being bucked off it also happened in front of her cousins and great aunt connie!!

Well, Squirt got quite the spanking for that and we went ahead and put the saddle

on and rode him anyway.

We had Taylor get back on him even though she didnt want to...she was brave and did it.

I dont have a pic of the new pony yet, but his name is Fritz and he is black/white paint.

He is about 17 yrs old and seems to care less what you do with him. So far so good and they are getting along really well.

I will post a pic of her riding when I get one.

Boys Birthday....in JUNE!

SO SORRY that it has taken me this long to start updating this blog again!!

The boys had their party at Miner Mikes...and indoor play place with a huge maze,

indoor train, video games, bumper cars etc.

They had a lot of fun.

Eric and Katie VS Mason and Brody

This little girl is so cute...she was the only girl they invited but she just loves playing with them.

She is very outgoing and thinks Mason and Brody are just the coolest:)

Also her mom just had twins and they are boys!!

Preston, Brody, Mason, Tyler, Eric, Katie, Rachel and Taylor

In case you were wondering....Mason had Power Rangers and Brody had Superman...