Complete!!! The house that is!! And a little bit of Bronc too!

The moving in process is complete! Back in May Tyler's sister and Mom came to help me unpack everything. We got most everything done. I still had to hang pictures on the wall and organize my guest bedroom/office and laundry room. So, my Mom came to visit for a few days last week and helped me finish the casa. Would you like a tour? It turned out really cute!

This is the front of the house with the awesome big front porch!

I luv this porch. All I lack now is some rocking chairs and maybe a table!
We finally have a mud room that is just the mud room!! Yeah!
Office/Bedroom
Office/Bedroom
Office/Bedroom
Laundry Room
Bronc Baby's Room

Bronc's Crib

My dining room

Kitchen

Kitchen

Front entrance to the casa

Living room

Corner in the living room, this old door was in our barn at Plainview, isn't it cool!

Living Room

Grandma Gillit luving on Bronc Baby

My sweet boy catching some zzz'z

Favorite time of the day, Bath time!!

Bronc's first day to hold his rattle, what a big Boy!!

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Life at the Tongue River

We have really been enjoying our time here at the Tongue River Ranch. It is so beautiful and there is a ton of wildlife. We see deer, hogs, turkeys, snakes (don't care for them to much), bobcats, coyotes, all different kinds of birds, and strange looking bugs. Living in the Panhandle flat lands for over 10 years, you come accustomed to hardly any bugs or snakes for that matter. Also, about the only wildlife you ever saw were coyotes, pheasants and rabbits. So I am adjusting to all of the new wildlife and also the awful humdity. I could sure do without that! We discovered that we have a fishing hole on one of the spreads that Tyler looks after. It is soo much fun. We have fished it several times already and have good fishing! There is bass, catfish, perch, scary black snakes that swim, minnows and snapping turtles in it. Isn't that pretty how the clouds reflected on the water! Here are some heifers that water at the fishing hole. They are nosey!
Mama and Bronc Baby fishing it up. I out fished Tyler this day, but haven't had much luck since. Tyler keeps catching the whoppers and I hardly get a bite. What in the world am I doing wrong???
Here is one of the whoppers I am talking about, I bet it weighed 8-9lbs.

Bronc luvs to fish. He is so pleasant and just hangs out for hours without getting upset. This turkey was walking across the front of the house the other morning and I was sneaky quiet and got a picture of him. Look at the perrty wildflowers in the background!!
Speaking of wildflowers, of course I had to plant me a wildflower garden. I dug up beds in front of the entire front porch. I have been trying to work in the yard some when Bronc is taking naps, which has been difficult. Somedays he naps 3 hours and then others it is 30 minutes to an hour. Here is a picture of the work in progress. The dogs were loving the cool dirt. Thank goodness I have a fenced front yard, I can keep them out of it when I'm not around. They were digging holes and such. I planted my seed about 4 days ago and the baby seedlings are sprouting like crazy. I should have flowers blooming in a month or better.
Prize boar hog. At least in our book. The other day when we were on our way home from fishing I said is that a heifer down in the wheat field. Tyler wasn't sure so we drove out there, well it was the big boar hog. We didn't have a gun that day so we chased him around in the pickup for a bit and tried to take a picture. Well, he got away. So a few days later we went fishing again and on our way back home, there was that pig again in the wheat field. And we had a gun this time. Tyler dropped him with one shot. He probably weighed 250-300lbs, just guessing. Tyler had heck getting him in the pickup, he just had to have a picture of him.

Look how big he is, massive.
Bronc enjoying a nap
Oh my little Ivy. She is such a funny little dog. This is Cory's boys, Chance and Brennan. We were loading the trailer up in Plainview and the boys and apparently Ivy thought it was break time. She is such a hoot. Love that little girl. She makes me laugh!!

Our New Journey

I am back!! This computer or new internet is giving me fits one. Not sure which it is. Trying to upload pictures on any website has been a chore. I finally got it to load just one. So, eventually maybe I can post a few more of my new pictures. We got moved to the Tongue River Ranch and are really loving it. It is soo beautiful here. The move was certainly a chore, don't get me wrong! It probaly would have taken me a month to unpack and get my house the way I wanted it. But thank goodness, Tyler's Mom and Sister came to spend several days with me. Everything is in order except I still have to hang all of my pictures and I need to better organize my office and laundry room!

Headquarters at the Ranch is awesome. Super beautiful and for sure my style! I went and spent the afternoon there with the office ladies to get out of the house since I had been in it for the last 6 days solid unpacking. I visited and then ate lunch with all of the cowboys at the cookhouse. It was nice and the food was great! I know we will really enjoy it here.

Bronc is doing super. He is growing like a weed!! He really is getting pretty pleasant to be around. He is starting to smile at you when you talk to him, which is super cute. Also, the other day he was napping and I had him half-way on his side and belly. Well the little booger rolled over onto his back and scared himself and woke up crying. I think he is a little ahead of himself. Although the day he was born he could already lift his head and turn it to the side. He is a big boy!!

Rachelle took some awesome family pictures of us in the wildflowers just outside of our new home. They turned out great, I would post more but the computer is giving me fits. More to come soon!!!

New Adventures

We have had alot of visitors in the past few weeks. Thought I would share a few pictures of a them. Super proud Great Grandparents!! They are so cute and what a great picture. Great Great Aunt Joan and Baby Bronc!!
Tyler left last Thursday evening to go daywork and then off to Lovington for a Ranch Rodeo. So Grandma Linda came to spend the weekend with me. It was so nice to have her help out. She fed Bronc for me through the early morning feedings so I could catch up on some much needed rest. Sunday morning Tyler came in and said come look at this. And how sweet is that!! Had to sneak in a picture!!

Daddy and Bronc catching some zzz'zzz

Kail came to visit and just had to hold Bronc! Notice the green mouth on Kail, it is a tradition to hit the Rice Candy bowl when we come to visit!

Attack of the the calve's.... We have been bottle feeding these to cuties and they are like pet dog's now. They follow you everywhere....

So the new adventure, you guy's don't tell Aunt Joan yet, we haven't told her. Tyler was offered a job at the Tongue River Ranch in Dumont, Texas. He has wanted a ranch job for years and was finally offered one at a really awesome ranch. So we talked about it and decided we would just do it. We are young and you only live once, so live it up! I would hate for him to have any regrets down the road, which I know he would. Here are a few pictures of where we are headed in the next few weeks. I will be able to keep my MRI job!! We service alot of small towns nearby so it is perfect.

We will be living at the South Camp, it is called Scott Camp. Tyler will take care of the yearlings and cows/calfs on that camp. He will have wheat in the winter as well as grass land year round. I'm not sure how much land he is in charge of, but it is gigantic! We drove around his camp and it is endless, it seemed. That ranch does have 89,000 acres and is divided into 3 camps, so that might give you an idea of the territory Tyler will cover. I am sad to leave our place, but we will have it to come back to if it doesn't work out.

This is the entrance to our camp and home. It is a mile to the casa.

This is the house, it is really rustic. I love the fence and the huge front porch!!

This is looking off the front porch.
This is to the south of the house, horse pens, barn, etc. Tyler will also have a string of horses to start and ride. He gets to help sell them in the horse sales and make a little dough off of them. We will get to go to fun Ranch Rodeos, ranch horse competitions and horse sales.
This is the East side of the house, there is a covered carport. Yeah, haven't had cover for my car ever!

And of course a funny Bronc picture. We had a picnic on the front porch yesterday and it was such a beautiful day. It was a little breezy, so I had Bronc covered up. Funny little fella!!

Our 1st Few Days at Home

Bronc has done really well adjusting to our home. He eats great, sleeps anywhere from 2-6 hours and has the best tempermant. He is easy to read, which has been helpful for us so far. He only cries if he needs a diaper change or to nurse. He is such a sweetie. Here are some pictures of Bronc at our home!! Enjoy!

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Baby Bronc Has Finally Arrived!!!!

Special Delivery.... Bronc Riggin Rice finally arrived on April 2nd, 2010 at 3:49 am. He was a whopping 9.6lbs and 20.5 inches long. After a long 26 hour process we finally got it done. O.k. by the way, birth plans are bad karma. Mine flew out the window completely. I wanted a natural birth and ended up with a c-section. I'll give ya a few details. My water broke at 1:30 a.m. on April 1st. Tyler and I headed to Lubbock and got there about 2:30. I labored with back labor, horrible back labor for 8 hours, due to Bronc facing posterior, he was head down though, which was good. It is just harder to deliver with them posterior. I decided I had been macho woman for long enough and decided to have an epidural. EPIDURAL HEAVEN HERE I COME!! And was it ever. I labored without pain, could feel the pressure of contractions but that was it. Had a ton of visitors and I felt great. Visted too much and only got about an hour of rest in that 26 hours. So, then I finally dilated to 10cm and pushed for 2 hours. My big boy wasn't coming down. So C-section it was. They even had trouble getting him out via c-section. Finally they were able to deliver him!! So then I get to have him in my room for 1.5 days, then he spiked a fever. So off to NICU he went. Boo hoo.... They have run extensive tests on him and all are negative. He got sick from me being ruptured for soo long and my placenta ended up being infected, which in turn made him sick. Bronc is doing great now, he could've come home several days ago, but he has to have 14 rounds of antibiotics. Can't wait to bring him home.!! Oh, by the way, Mom, Ronnie, Clay and Carrie thanks for the great flowers!!!Bronc's cute sign on his crib.
Proud Daddy!!

Big Yawn!
So Sweet!!

This is my all time favorite picture. Funny thing, when Bronc was in my womb, this is how he would be on the Ultrasound pictures! This is how he always sleeps, how cute is that!!

My two Loves!!

It doesn't get much better than that... dang Tylers hat looks huge. I guess it is, just used to it on his little head!

Proud Mama!! I luv this big boy!!

He is such a sweetheart!

Check out his awesome blanket!! How fitting!!

Mama giving Bronc Baby his 3rd bath. Tyler gave him his first, it was too cute.

Look at that cutie!!

Feeding this big oinker!!

Proud Grandma Rice, My Mom got sick and was there for everything but she had to go home the day that Bronc was born.. Hurry up Sunday so she can come hang with us at the casa!!

Bronc is almost a week old in this picture!!

Stay tuned, more to come!!! Thanks to all of our friends and families for the prayers, great visits and wonderful gifts.!!! Thinking of you all and we luv you all!!