So Proud!

So I spend many days (and long nights) at rodeos. I would not trade it for the world. I am so proud of Rylan and all that he has accomplished. He is so humble about bull riding. He is such a star and I enjoy watching him and supporting him. I just wanted to share with everyone how great he is! Check out the video!

What My Summer Consisted Of....

With the end of summer around the corner, I have to admit that I am getting excited to get back to work. We have been on the road a lot going to rodeos and PBRs. We have been to many different states and have seen a lot of great things. I have become a really excellent driver, but better passenger!

When I am home, I never thought in my whole life I would be obsessed with a clean house. I wake up, clean, and then I find myself filling my time with workouts at the gym, eating out A LOT, riding my horse and having a sick obsession with making brownies pretty much everyday. Oh yeah, and don't forget... working on my tan! I have become addicted to summer TV, thanks to TiVo I get to watch my shows in between rodeos and bull ridings. My summer line-up has included, The Bachelorette, (now the Bachelor Pad) Teen Mom, (love it!) Jersey Shore, (I find myself talking like them sometimes) The Real Housewives of New Jersey, (can't stand Danielle) and of course, Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami. I know you are probably thinking I am so lame, but TV shows make me happy for some reason. I am becoming anxious for my favorite fall line-ups to start in the next month.

I am excited to start the new school year and I hope that it is as successful as can be. I will be sad to see my tan go, but all good things must come to an end, right?

Boston

I just got back from Boston and I had a blast. The most memorable thing for me was the food. We had really good dinners everynight. I also ate a whole lobster! Ok, not the whole lobster, but it still had it's eyes on it when I ate it! It was YUMMY. We were there for almost a week and we had a great time. I stayed in a room with Rachel and Lorie which was really fun!
We learned so many things about history. We visited the Minute Man Museum, Plymouth Rock, saw an exact replica of the Mayflower, learned about Paul Revere and his "alarm" that the British were coming. We also road the subway, visited Harvard in Cambridge, and watched the Blue Man Group. We did lots of shopping, TONS of eating, and learned some great ideas about assessment at the conference. But most of all, we enjoyed each other! We had a great group and a good time! I feel very lucky to be able to have so much fun through work... It is the best!

Allergies and Eclipse

So this post is going to be a two-in-one. You ask if it goes hand in hand? Yes! It does. I realized how bad my allergies were when I had to start searching through my purse (as most of you know, my purse is not something fun to search through) to find my allergy medicine. As I had a congested nose, I would tend to get distracted from "Eclipse" and annoy people around me (sorry Jennifer) because of my stupid allergies! I finally said "this is it!" and went to the doctor today. After 87$ in medication (thanks PEHP for not making pay all of it) I have to take five different forms of medicine every 6 hours and try to stay inside the house. Yeah right! How am I supposed to work on my tan when I am stuck inside all day? I can see this not really working out.

Just so you understand how bad my allergies are, please observe the pictures above. This was after I thought I would offer to help haul hay with the family. My services did not pay off. I suffered for the last entire week because of that darn hay! Never again will I try to haul hay. My horses are blessed to have a good family who will pick up my load so I don't feel like I want to die after ever crop!

Allergies aside, Eclipse was amazing! I think I had just as fun hanging out with the "fab 5" as I did watching the movie. It was so great to catch up on all of our teaching stories and laugh and have a good time. It made me miss the days when we were in college and hung out EVERYDAY. Those girls were my life for 2 + years and it is so awesome to me that we have remained so close. We are definitely best friends for life! Thanks girls! Oh yeah, for some reason I thought the best part of the movie was when Jacob and Bella kissed on the mountain top, holy ROMANTIC! I am still in the middle though when it comes to "teams". I am neither team Edward or Jacob, but that was probably my favorite part of the movie.

Mustache May is Finally Over!!

So, for some odd reason somebody somewhere ivented "mustache May." I personally would like to meet that person and ask why they think it is necessary for every cowboy (and some non-cowboys) to grow a mustache? Really? Any ways, May has been a really fun month. I have been super-busy (reason for not updating the blog)wrapping up the end of the school year, and hitting rodeos and bull ridings along the way. We had a field trip to This is the Place Monument, Field Day (please excuse the no-make-up or hair done, I was sweating like a pig the entire day) and we also did a lot of fun activities. Field day was awesome because the teachers played the fourth graders in kick ball. I have to say I did pretty well. My students were cheering MVP, MVP, as I walked back to them after the game. I scored 3 out of the 5 runs. I am not super-athletic so I was excited that I did so well. I accidentally took out a kid on third base and knocked the wind out of him, but other than that it was an outstanding game!
It is tradition that every Memorial Day our family goes to seven peaks. Luckily the weather was nice. It was Trey's first time there, and he had a blast! The weather has been so crappy on and off, that I was way excited to go lay in the sun that day. My summer will consist lots of sun, rodeos, vacations, and being absolutely LAZY! I can't wait. It officially started last Thursday and I am way excited! I still can't believe that you can lay around for three months and get paid the same that you do all year! It is crazy, but I wouldn't change it for the world!

The End of Spring Break..and so much more!!

The end of Spring Break was pretty crazy! My mom had this brilliant idea (ok, with the help of me) to attend a sale at Old Navy. 50% off of everything for the first 50 customers. That sounds great, right? WRONG! First of all, we woke up at 7:00 AM on a Friday morning (I don't even have to wake up that early for work!) and we had to stand in line at Old Navy. Luckily we got there right in time and we were the 45th customer. So, going in to old navy, we were pretty stoked! We started grabbing everything we could think of, trying stuff on, and getting excited that we were saving so much money! Then the terrible part came....We stood in line for over 2 hours at the checkout! (check the picture above to see Hadly and I as we are asleep in the check-out line) There were only probably four customers ahead of us, but each customer averaged about a half-hour. Their system was slow because of all of the cards being processed at the same time all over the country. Well...DUH!! I was so grumpy, hungry, and tired that I am still not sure if it was worth it. But at least I can look back and laugh a little. Oh, and I also went to the thrift store for the very first time with Jena!

The college rodeo was also in town at the end of the week. That was fun to see some of my old friends. I really don't miss college rodeo though. It is interesting to me how I now realize that there is so much more to life than college rodeo. I spent five years practicing, stressing, competing, and I feel like I am in a good place right now. I just enjoy riding my horses stress-free (P.S. there was ONE day it didn't snow and I was able to ride my horse) The rodeo was fun. However, Rylan really hates taking pictures, as you can see in the picture above. I get that dramatic reaction when he closes his eyes and puts his hands over his face every single time I try and take a picture! He is impossible to get to take pictures!

The next week we headed to Mesquite for a bull riding! Talk about HOTTTT! I wasn't complaining though! I had a blast. We swam, gambled, and hung out with friends. We were browsing the gift shop and came across a fake snake. We are both soooo scared of snakes. We picked one up and pretended like it was going to get us. We had a great time!

Spring Break Day 3

Day 3 of Spring Break was a blast! I didn't do much, but I had a lot of fun! I went and got my nails done (Thanks Brianne, you're the best!) Ate Taco Time, went to Zumba, and got some cleaning done. I have decided that I love having breaks from work, but at the same time, I get bored easily. I am hoping I can ride my horse sometime during the break...oh wait! That means it would have to quit snowing!

Spring Break Day 1 and 2

So, my first day of Spring Break was really fun! We took my nephews to the zoo and we had so much fun! I climbed on the back of a gorilla statue. Everyone looked at me like I was crazy, but I didn't care! My favorite thing was riding the train. I love to ride the train at the zoo. My nephews are so cute and they were soooo good. My second day of Spring Break, (well technically the third)I went shopping with Rachel. We had a blast. We had lunch at Chilli's and did lots of shopping! I can't see what tomorrow entails...haha...I will admit, I am a little bored. And I think I miss my class...

Easter in the Snow

This year, we woke up to tons of snow on Easter. Yuck! How are we supposed to wear our cute spring clothes when there is snow on the ground? We tried to make it as fun as possible. The Easter Bunny hid eggs outside my house. Little did he know, it would snow the next day and burry almost all of them. When you have five kids ranging from 14-25 at my mom's on Easter Sunday, you know it has got to be for a good cause. And boy it was! There was 60$ worth of money in Easter eggs. It was hilarious how we got out the shovels, rakes, and anything else we could find to dig through the snow. We also had the "bunny trail" at grandma's. That was really fun. There was tons of candy and presents all around! It was a great Easter!