Mi Familia

Mi Familia...I love my three Cowboy's.  I just can't get enough of them.  They bring a smile to my heart.  I feel blessed to have these Cowboy's in my life.

 

I knew when I married Tyler almost 12 years ago that he would be a wonderful Daddy.  Kids have always been so drawn to him, like a magnet.  It was natural for him and is now.  These boy's are his number one top priority when he gets home.  It doesn't matter that he has been working 16 hours days non-stop since November.  He prevails and plays with our boy's for hours every evening. 

I just love pictures of my man doing what he does best...whether it be horse showing, roping, riding a bronc, ranch rodeoing or just plain ol' cowboying.  It makes me just love him over and over again.  He truly does what he loves and I love him for that.  Doing what makes him the happiest. 

 

Bronc is already filling Daddy's hat..Tyler does have an abnormally small head for an adult man... 6 7/8...lol...Bronc has a bit to go on the boots!!



 

The other day my friend said, Bronc looks just like you and Tucker looks like a Native American Indian.  I just laughed at her..I do have some Indian in me on down the line..lol

These boys still love their milk

I am still working on house projects.  Slowly but surely.  Counter tops is what I have been tackling.  I found this counter top paint and decided to give it a try.  I am amazed!! I love it and it saved me a ton of money. We will see how it holds up.

Before Picture

Primer

Tadah!!  This is before the top coat was applied.  But doesn't it look so good!!

I still have to do the other side of the kitchen now.  Then I will have my back splashes put up!!  New carpet is in my near future!! I can't wait for new carpet!!

 

The Blizzard of 2013

So yes, we had a Blizzard in the Texas Panhandle the end of February 2013.  I was supposed to work that Monday, but I work on a Semi-Mobile MRI Rig.  We don't usually travel in bad weather with that rig.  So I was pretty sure if the weather man got it right that I wouldn't be working.... I was right, we had two snow days off in fact!! So the night before the blizzard, I whipped up some sweet roll dough to make Tyler his favorite rolls.  I went ahead and got up early like I was going to work.  But I got the call, so I got the Orange Rolls ready for breakfast.  They were delish.

The morning of the blizzard...it was cray cray...crazy is what I mean!!

Wouldn't ya know it, we are watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse!

Pepto jumping the drifts in the front yard

Snow White Beauty

Tyler actually took the day off during the blizzard.  He thought he was good to go.  All of his wheat pasture cattle were on barb wire pastures.  Ahem.....NOT...those cattle of course traveled south as far as they could go and then pushed on one another and it busted the gate open.  So he had 1200 head out all over the country.  Thank goodness the other 1800 didn't get out.  The last 3 weeks have been busy, they found all of the cattle and only had 5 deads out of those set of cattle. 

Bronc and I went out and played after the snow quit blowing.  He loved it.  I laughed and laughed at him.  He was so funny.  He would jump up in the air and land face first in the snow and make reverse snow angels.  Crazy boy. 

The drifts through out our wind break of trees was so cool.  It blew in mounds, up and down.  That was fun playing in.  Tyler said when he was little he used to dig tunnels through them.  We will have to try that next time we get a major snow. 

The snow drifted in our arena.  It made the coolest shapes and forms.  Kinda cave like on some of the drifts. 

5 foot drifts.  The pipe here is 5 ft tall. 

The snow was the perfect snowman buidling type of snow.  So we
built a snowman...I mean snow-Grandma!! LOL!!

See the hair do.  I tried to make Tyler's Mom into a snow-Grandma!

Of course Bronc wanted to ride her.  He said Momma, I want to ride it.  So this is what we got done!

This is in Amarillo.  I can't figure out how all these people were dumb enough to drive in the snow.  Its like all of a sudden it was to late and they all got stuck. 

Bronc cooking up some grub..pretend grub that is

 

We got 8 inches, while other places got close to 2 feet of snow!! Blessed for the moisture.  My grass is greening up!!

Life's Happenings

Here is another recipe that is really delicious!!  The carrot and potatoe mash is so good.  My baby Tuck loved it!

 

Excuse the dirty oven

 

Cattle in the Fog

Playing blocks with Daddy

 

Beer Bread.  So simple and so delicious. 

3 Cups Self-rising Flour (I never have this so I make my own)
1/2 cup Sugar
12oz of Beer (your choice) I used Bud Light

Mix ingredients and let sit for 10 minutes.
Melt 1/2 stick butter and put half in the bottom of a loaf pan.
Pour in batter and pour remaining butter on top.
Bake at 350 for 50-60 minutes.  Thats it!!  You dont knead this bread just dump it in the pan.

 

Roar!! Playing with the Lion

Amen to this sunset on my way home.  It made me wanna talk to God!! 

The Usual...Our Kids

Sorry I haven't gotten to my blog in a while. As usual I am playing catch up and my life is busy with raising a family, working and much more. I was successful in my juice cleanse...ahem...for three days instead of seven. I think that was a feat in itself. Not getting to chew food was really my craving during my cleanse. Isn't that a funny craving??!!

I continue to juice and have incorporated it into part of my life. It is so healthy and good for you. I do struggle with my sweets but I am working on that!! I am also making better eating choices.

Not much new is happening in our lives.  Just the usual that goes on with raising a family.  HOUSE UPDATE.  They are saying they may be done with Tyler's Moms house by the end of April.  They haven't really made it a priority to finish it.  The builder is trying to finish his bigger projects.  I sure hope that their time frame is accurate.  I'm ready to be moved, have our space and privacy and be settled.

The Boys napping. 

Bronc giving Woody a haircut

Just wanted to share a recipe that I found on a fellow bloggers site. It it is so delicious and healthy.

I am considering making my blog private. I was looking at the traffic and have had some strange sites visiting. So if I do please continue to follow. I just will have to grant access to you. My blog is for friends and family. I am not a professional blogger. So I am thinking I don't want the random Joe just looking at my family and our happenings!!