Playing Catch Up on My Blog!

I haven't really blogged in quite sometime.  As most of you know we have been in the process of packing and moving again.  We moved back to our place near Plainview the last week in January, so I haven't had much time to blog.  Packing and unpacking is a chore with a child and also since I did most of it by myself this time.  I finally got our house back to normal last week, and man does it feel good!! Now I can focus on getting the yard whipped back in shape for spring plantings!! Flowers are in my near future!!  So I think I left off around Christmas time on my blog.  We had 4 different Christmas celebrations for 2010 and that was enough!!  Grandpa Doug came to visit us at Tongue River, what a treat!!  Santa stocked up his pickup full of great presents for Bronc!! Bronc had fun opening presents, he was mainly fascinated with the bows and of course the toys!!

My Mom came to have Christmas with us at the ranch as well.  She actually came during Christmas.  I ended up with an awful stomach bug and was sick the entire Christmas weekend.  I didn't really get to enjoy the festivities due to me and the toilet having an awful close relationship.  Yuck!! No fun.  Other than that it was nice to have Mom there to celebrate Bronc's first Christmas. 

 

This slideshow design personalized with Smilebox Our next festivity was Christmas at Tyler's mothers house.  Wes and Rachelle came down from Colorado and we had a fun time there.  I was well from the bug but then poor Bronc Baby got the same crud that I had during that Christmas celebration.  So that wasn't fun, I don't wish that upon any little child.  Bronc loves the bows and tries to eat them!!   Organic Lollipops....Tyler and Bronc got two packages of these.. They have this lollipop thing thangy thang!!  I told Tyler I don't want Bronc to be a Sugar Addict like we are, but I think it is hopeless with us around.  Organic makes me feel a little better, but still its sugar, organic that is.. Anyhoo, they have enjoyed the lollipops thus far!! Tyler got another pair of Sketchers for Christmas.  This has become an annual gift from me, he wears those shoes out just as bad as his boots.  Here is cute little Abbie and her preggo belly around Christmas time.  She is due anytime now, we are soo excited to meet Flint Wesley Good!!       So on to our last Christmas paaarrtttaaayyy.. We went to Aunt Anna's for Christmas/New Years Day on New years day!!  For Christmas we gave Aunt Joan some goodies wrapped up in multiple boxes if ya know what I mean.  Several boxes wrapped with smaller boxes inside each.  She was quite confused, it was funny. She would open one box and get a goodie and then another wrapped package... Onto the next box she opens....  And the next....  Aunt Joan was like..Oh cuticle cream!!  Then Anna replied back, I think there is something else in the box rather than cuticle cream... Aunt Joan was like OOOhhh???!!!  If you know her she likes to say O alot!! It's cute.  And finally the grand finale... Merry Christmas Aunt Joan, THE RICE'S ARE MOVING BACK TO PLAINVIEW..  It was really funny!!  She was so excited.  We had told most of the family, but kept it a secret so we could suprise her for Christmas.  Pretty darn cute she was!!  Bronc chilling with Aunt Rhonda

Hola, long lost friends!!!!

You probably thought I would never blog again!! Guess again!! We have been busy PACKING AGAIN... I am becoming a pro at it and don't even get paid for it. Yes I said packing, we are moving again for the 3rd time since May of 2010. Wow, every 4 months. I told Tyler we are NOT doing this again ever! We are moving back to Plainview, the old rancho at Tongue River just wasn't for us. Thank goodness we still have our home to go back to. I guess it doesn't hurt to try new adventures. Here is a recent picture of Bronc Baby and I at the Ft. Worth Ranch Rodeo. I will post more after while!! Hope all is well with you guys!

Drifting along with the tumbling TUMBLEWEED!!!

The other day we were checking hog traps and there were quite a few tumbleweeds in the bar ditch. I got to thinking and told Tyler I want to pick me one up on our way back so I can decorate me one. Tyler was like only you would want to put a weed on the front porch and decorate it. Well, I was like YUP... I think I saw this on a Charlie Brown cartoon the other day.. Tyler said it was on TV and I had it on but wasn't really watching it much. But I had decorated it before this cartoon was even on...Tunnel vision, selective hearing whatever you want to call it :) Well, we didn't pick it up that day but I went with Tell the next day to check traps again and we got us a BIG OL' TUMBLEWEED!! This one wasn't very friendly, it was the stickery kind, so we had to tackle it with gloves! We found the biggest one possible and tied it to the headache rack on the back of the pickup.. I bet everyone was wondering why we were hauling a tumbleweed around!! HA!!

So here it is, the finished product!! And guess what???? Tyler thought it looked pretty darn cool after all!! I had to tie it to the wall because that silly thing wants to leave the country on a really windy day, guess I can't blame it, after all it is a tumbleweed.
It looks great with my rocking chairs, although I am minus one now.. I'm really sad about it.. We did a photo shoot the other day for some family pictures and we were hauling one around in the back of the pickup and that silly thing blew out of the pickup and smashed into a bazillion pieces.. We picked them up and Tyler was like, well we got us a whooping paddle out of the deal anyways...the arm of the rocking chair is pretty solid and Tyler says that will be Bronc's whooping paddle...OUCH is all I can say, hope he doesn't use it to much, I might have to get after him with it!!

Lollipop, lollipop o lolli lollipop..

This one is for Great Grandma McCoy!! Here is Bronc's unionsuit that she got him. Isn't it cute!! Bronc and Daddy will be sporting their unionsuits together, they both have them!! Gotta keep my boys warm. Shake your booty!!
Tyler and Bronc have this lollipop so called tradition already started. I wasn't really liking the sugar aspect of it, but it is quite cute....mainly because we have two sugar addicts in this family and I really don't want another one....So maybe an exception every now and then. Bronc lets Daddy have the sucker for a bit....

Pass it on to the next sugar addict....

Bronc's turn!! I got a really funny video of it but I can't get it to load!! So use your imagination.

Which Reindeer am I?

I found these cute reindeer Christmas jammies and antlers the other day for Bronc Baby!! Isn't he a cute reindeer! I think so.! Hello!!

Not sure which reindeer Bronc would be but he's a cutie!!

Giving Thanks!!

Let me tell ya, I was tired of eating Turkey this year!! We had two huge feasts and oinked out as usual! Oink, oink.. We went to my Mom's house for Thanksgiving and then had another one at Plainview with Tyler's family! Whew!! I didn't snap a single picture at my Mom's, bad Momma... and it was Bronc's first Turkey Day. Oops! Mom took a few and made a smilebox, we both were bad about taking pictures for some reason. Oh well

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I told myself I would take pictures at Plainview, since I was bad about it at my Mom's! Here is Aunt Joan's cute table!!

Family These folks are serious about their 42 game. I really don't even enjoy that particular game, so I do not partake in the seriousness....

Chelsey and Bronc!
Now I like doing puzzles, so this is usually where you will find me when 42 is going on!

The bun heads!! Really no harm done, aren't they cute!!

Great Aunt Rhonda and Bronc Baby!

Thankful for family, friends and food!!