Outlaw Day 2010

Outlaw Days this year was very eventful!!!

Mason & I entered a 5k walk that morning that ended up being more of a 10k! It was a lot of fun...Mason rode his bike & I walked. I was able to walk 6.5 miles in 1 hour & 17 minutes!!! I was really proud of myself, but I was hurting & barely able to walk for almost a week!!!

Mason then rode in the parade with my dad on the wagon while I took pictures of everyone! Jose was able to watch the parade with me, but spent most of the day hauling water to the arena for the mud bog pits. We were both not very happy because he didn't get to enjoy any of the festivities! Down at the arena Mason rode a calf & entered the Barrel Racing. I ended up having to run in front of him & his horse because Ridge didn't want to go! He would chase me if I was running in front but if I stopped then he wouldn't move!!! I told Mason that I didn't know that I was entering the Barrels too! Mason had a lot of fun because he was able to spend most of the day in the arena with his Papa on his horse!

My birthday was the day after Outlaw Day and so Outlaw Day night Jose took me out to dinner at Jaker's in Twin. Mason stayed at with my mom & dad for the night.

On the day of my birthday we had a family bbq at my mom & dad's. My brother smoked a couple of roasts in his big smoker, plus we had a ton of other food! It was great to be able to spend time with my family!!

Here are some pictures from Mason's Outlaw Day adventures!! :-)

Long time no post!

A lot has happened in the last year, but I am glad to be back with my family and enjoying life again!! I will try to get caught up on the happenings of my family!

Mason just finished tball last week and he is really bummed out. He really loves to play and now he doesn't know what to do with the rest of his summer!! Thank goodness he starts swim lessons on the 12th!!

Here are some of his tball pictures from this year :)

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!

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!!