Outlaw Days

The Richfield Outlaw Days was held on Saturday and it was definitely a very wet and interesting day!! I have never in all of my life seen it so wet at Outlaw Days! Usually we are dying of heat stroke!! We actually cancelled most of the arena events because it was raining too hard and the arena was just too muddy! Although the events that we did do were quite comical because of all of the mud! The kids had a blast during the calf riding falling of into the mud.

Mason decided that morning that he wanted to run the barrels, something that he has never done before! My mom and showed him the pattern on a piece of paper and then had him show us a couple of times how he would run it and then that afternoon for the first time Mason ran the barrels on my brother's horse! He had an absolute blast and can't wait to do it again! It was raining so hard while he was running them, but he didn't care he was having fun! I was so proud of him, he handle the horse so well and acted like he had done it a million times instead of it being his first time ever!!

Jose and I stayed busy helping make sure that everything ran smoothly. Jose helped time the events and I helped take entries, plus then we both went out into the muddy arena to run the kids events. Jose and I didn't even go out for the night festivites though. We were way too tired both Friday night and Saturday night.

Saturday was also my 30th birthday. I can't believe that I have turned 30!! It doesn't seem like it should be real, but yet I don't think that I should have a son that is going to be 7 and going into 1st grade either!!! I am getting really old and I don't like it!!!

Mason heading for the first barrel!

Rounding the first barrel

Rounding the second barrel

Rounding the third barrel and heading home!

Crossing the finish line!!!

My brother Brandon throwing his heel loop

My friend's son Nathaniel riding his calf!

I didn't realize just how close I was until I almost got ran over!!

Random Pictures

I have been into taking pictures lately with a variety of subjects. Jose bought me a really nice camera for Christmas two years ago and I have really been into playing around with it lately. I have been getting some pretty neat pictures and I thought that I would share them.

Jose, Mason & my dad leaving on a ride.
My dad and the team of mules

Our palomino mare, Sunrise

Our black lab, Bruiser

The rose bush in my backyard

HE FINALLY DID IT!!!!!!

After 4 years, Jose finally cut his hair!!! I never thought that it would happen and I have been bugging him for so long to cut it, but he finally decided that it was time. With him out of work and trying to find a job he decided that it was time to get rid of the long hair. He has had it long for so many years that Mason can't remember him ever having short hair!!! There are a lot of people that Jose is friends with in Richfield now that have never know him without the long hair. After he got it cut Mason had a t-ball game and so many people were surprised that it was actually him!! I think that he looks so handsome and I am so happy that he cut it.

Of course we had to take pictures of him with his long hair before we cut it so that he could have them for memories! Jose's mom was so happy when we stopped by her work after he cut it that she almost started crying! I am actually very proud of Jose because he has donated his hair to Locks of Love to be made into a wig for someone with cancer. This will actually be the 3rd time that Jose has donated to Locks of Love.

His hair straight
Up in a ponytail

In a braid

Off it goes!! Look at his face!

The ponytail going to Locks of Love!

He's still not sure this was a good idea!

My handsome husband!!

T-Ball

Mason is half-way through his T-Ball season and is doing quite well. He is actually a pretty good player and really loves the sport. Every day he asks if he has a game that day, that is how much he loves to play!! I don't know if I could handle that much t-ball, but I know that he could!! When he isn't playing then he is out in the yard practicing with our neighbor boy, Cody.

Cody is so good with Mason, I don't know what we would do without him! Cody is 15, but doesn't mind playing with Mason whenever he asks. He climbs over the fence pretty much everyday and will spend hours with him! He is such a lifesaver during the summers. Mason is really missing Cody this week because Cody made it to the State High School Rodeo Finals in Pocatello so he is gone all week, but we are definitely wishing him the best of luck!

We are hoping that Mason will keep his interest in baseball throughout his teenage years because it is really good for him and he is actually a pretty good athlete. They have a traveling baseball league in Shoshone that he could play on when he gets older that I think would be really good for him. Hopefully he will continue to play!

Mason had to pose for the camera while playing catcher!

Mason making a nice catch at 1st base!

Getting ready to bat!

Concentrating real hard on his job as pitcher!

Happenings

It has been so long since I have posted anything I thought that I had better put something on here!! We have been staying so busy with High School Rodeo Season every weekend that it seems like we don't have time to do anything else, but we wouldn't trade it for anything.

My mom is the District Secretary for our local high school rodeo district so Jose and I have been helping her every weekend at the rodeos and Mason gets to go and watch. He loves being at the rodeos and being with my parents.

Mason & Jose wrestling in Carey before the rodeo started!


School is winding down here. We officially have 2 days left. Mason was done last Friday, but gets to go back to school tomorrow for the Elementary Field Day. He is so excited to be out of school for the summer, but I know that his excitement isn't going to last long because he will be bored within a few days and want to go back to school. He absolutely loves school. He has learned so much this year. I can't believe that he is going to be in First Grade next year!! He is growing up way too fast!!!! I am not ready for school to be out because that means that I am unemployed for the summer! I am trying to find summer work, but there just isn't any jobs out there right now. Hopefully I will find something soon!!

Jose is still laid off right now and he is currently looking too. We are hoping that he finds something soon. He has been getting a lot done around the house, but he is ready to go back to work. He is tired of being at home. He has accomplished a lot this winter by being at home and he has almost completed his high school diploma online. I am very proud of him, he just has a few courses left.

Mason has also started T-ball again this year so that should keep us pretty busy for the next month or so. He loves playing any sport and is actually a really good athlete.

That is what has been happening around here lately. Hopefully it won't be so long before I write next time!!

Black Eye

It's official!!

Mason has received his first black eye. Yesterday afternoon he was playing outside with our dog, Bruiser, and he slipped on the ice and fell down and landed on the side of his head and now he has a nice shiner!

He was pretty upset about it last night when we told him that he was going to have a black eye because he thought that his whole eye was going to turn black even the whites of his eye! He was pretty upset about what the kids at school were going to say to him, but we told him to just tell them that if they thought he looked bad that they should see the other guy and he thought that that was pretty funny. It doesn't look to bad today, but it is pretty tender to the touch. He landed pretty hard!! Poor Kid!!

Mason with his Shiner!

Serena-Bo-Bena

Yesterday while I was at work at the school a little girl named Serena in Mason's Kindergarten class came up to me and told me that Mason had been calling her "Serena-Bo-Bena." I had to try really hard not to laugh as I explained to her that he was teasing her and calling her that because he liked her!! Well Serena's face got really red because she was extremely embarassed, so I went and told Mason to quit teasing her!

I can't believe that Mason is already at that age where he has crushes on the girls in his class! However, if he is going to have a crush on one of the little girls I am glad that he chose Serena because she is so sweet and just absolutely adorable!!

He also came home the other day and told me that Hannah was his girlfriend. Hannah is a girl in the fifth grade!!!!! I asked him why he thought that Hannah was his girlfriend and he said because she is nice to me and everytime I say hi to her she says hi back.

I think that I am definitely in trouble as Mason gets older!!

Happy Birthday Jose!!

Today is Jose's 26th birthday so I just wanted to take a minute and wish him a happy birthday! We were planning on going out to dinner tonight, but it started snowing and the wind has come up so its drifting pretty good so I think that we are going to stay home and just enjoy each others company. We might go down to the Stockade and have dinner and maybe rent a couple of movies and pop some popcorn.

Happy Birthday Jose!! I love you very much!

Lost Tooth

It's official! Mason has lost his first tooth!! He has became such a big boy, I can't believe how fast he is growing up. I wish that I could turn back time, but I guess that I just need to let him grow up.

Mason with the space between his teeth! It looks like he has lost two teeth, but the tooth in the middle is leaning in because it is ready to come out as well. It may actually come out today if we work at it a bit.

Christmas Pictures

I finally got around to getting the Christmas pictures off of my camera. Here are some pictures of Mason and the rest of my family on Christmas day.

Mason and his awesome Santa gift! Santa was pretty good to Mason this year. Mason received this awesome new saddle which fits him perfectly and he should be able to use for quite a few years. He was so excited!!


Jose and his Jiffy Jack! This is his Christmas present from me. This will allow him to change a flat tire on our horse trailer or camper a lot easier. He won't have to use a standard jack at all. He was really excited about this gift! The things men get excited about!!!


This is my Christmas gift from Jose. I have been wanting a bike so that Mason and I can ride bikes together during the summer so Jose surprised me this year. I really like it and can't wait for the snow to melt so that I can use it!!


Mason's electric guitar!


Mason rocking out on the new electric guitar that my parents bought for him. It will teach him how to play the guitar plus he can do karoke on it. He absolutely loves it! Mason is totally into music so this was a perfect gift for him.

Whitney caught trying to drink her pop. I couldn't resist snapping a picture of her.


Brandon & Mason fighting over Mason's new Boise State Broncos hat. Brandon loves to tease Mason!



My brother, Brandon, with his new freeze brand that my parents had made for him.

Biopsy Results

I finally received the results of my biopsy on Friday morning. My doctor had been out of his office on vacation since the 24th and he finally came back on the 2nd. I called him first thing on the Friday morning because I couldn't stand the waiting anymore. He was swamped with people calling him and paperwork, but he gave the receptionist the okay to give me the results.

It said that it was a breast tissue mass which was NON-CANCEROUS!!!!! I am going to talk to him on Monday because I still want to know whether it was just a blocked duct or whether it was actually a tumor and how I need to procede in the future, but at least for now I know that its not cancer which means no chemo or radiation.

I am glad that for now this is over and done with. I am feeling good except for a little soreness and bruising. I am ready to go back to work after having two weeks off. I think that Jose and I got on each others nerves a bit and it will be nice for me to back to work. I really missed the kids that I work with and it will be nice to see them again.

I hope that everyone had a nice Christmas and a safe New Years.