Lot's of Good~!!

My time lately has been comprised with LOTS of pictures!! I am absolutely having a blast doing them and am so ready to get busier!! Of course this cold season coming could hinder that a little...Hmm...

So last Thursday night J's team played their biggest arch rival in their football history and I am SO very pleased to say that they WON!! So not only are we celebrating an awesome win over these guys and gloating a little because they do a lot of trash talking to our kids but they have also made it into the State Playoff's!! WOW what a year for these guys!! They have gone from having a 2-7 record to a 7-2 record! This will be the first time in 8 years that J's high school has made it to the playoff's! Not only did they achieve that they have also been shattering school records like CRAZY!!! Wish I had all of the numbers but I don't yet...Maybe soon...So Tuesday night marks their first playoff game and while we are stoked to be there and playing we've got a little hitch in our giddy-up. You see we had a couple of *good* players make a bad decision over the weekend and got caught with some chewing tobacco in their mouths so per contracts they signed to play football they will not be allowed to play :( They are very upset with themselves but they must deal with the consequences. The coach has changed game play a bit so we'll see how it goes!

Breaking up a pass!!

Catch is good for a run!!

State Playoff's BABY~!!

Does that smile not say it all?!

J and his beautiful Girlfriend!!

This past weekend I had the pleasure of shooting Senior pics for J's Best Friend Russ, it was such a blast! We were out for hours and took a ton of pictures and I am SO very thrilled with the results!!

Yes...Yes this is ALOT of pictures...I just can't pick a few favorites!! Literally I have 176 good ones LOL!!!!

The Great Pig Escape!!

OK so I've linked this up for TST!! Cause Rach's making me....:)

After our county fair back in August the kids' pigs returned home with us until they go to the butcher. Unfortunately it's looking like we can't get them in until November 8th or something like that! So their eventful lives here on the ranch just keep getting funner!

With daily escapes from their pen we are constantly herding them back and telling them NO-NO PIGGIES~!!! So Wednesday afternoon DD and I were leaving the house to head to a meeting and as we drove down the back drive she yells "OH NO pig in the water tank"!!! WHAT?!?! I slammed on the brakes and looked over to find this...

I was on the phone with the Hubby and nearly burst out laughing and said "let me call you right back", he's like "HUH why?! What's going on"?! I said just let me call you back! I wanted to snap that picture and send it to him right away! So I did then my phone promptly rings and he says WHAT THE HECK?! I'm like "yep, he's in the tank..." Hubby says "is he going to drown"?! I told him it appeared he'd been in there for at least a couple of hours because he was a bit sunburned on his back *the part of his body that wasn't underwater*...So I left for my meeting and when we got back the Hubby was almost home so DD and I thought it would be awesomely hilarious to see J's face when he seen this (he'd just gotten home also) so I have DD ask him if he's checked on his pig today and he says "no".. So she says well you might wanna do that! So we head out all giggles waiting for him to burst out laughing! BUT he didn't laugh! He didn't think it was one bit funny! In fact he was kind of annoyed with us for laughing as he thought "his pig was going to die"!!

So we talked about how in the heck he could have gotten in there! This is the horses tank that stands at least 3 1/2 - 4 ft from ground level! This pig weighs somewhere around 300 lbs so it couldn't have been an easy task for him to get in there! SO finally the Hubby gets home and he and J had to get in the tank with a tow strap around the pig to hoist the front half of his body up on the ledge then shove him out onto the ground! I thought he was going to end up breaking a leg or something!

All kidding aside it was a good thing we got him out when we did because he was tired! He kept going underwater trying to lay down and then popping back up shaking his head trying to figure out why the heck he couldn't lay down LOL!!!

And just a note in case you wonder~ Yes the tank has been blocked off until we can drain it. We put out another temporary water tank for the horses until this one is cleaned as it could be dangerous for them to ingest this water that has now been soiled....EWW...

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

Aren't my new babies pretty!!!!!!!!!!

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

I'm being attacked BY......Armadillo's?!?!

So last week I was left to take care of everything here at the ranch as the Hubby had to go out of town for work...No that's not an unusual part of his job but it is a very frustrating part!! With the work that needs to be done here on a daily basis and the kids' schedules it gets to be a bit much when I am handling everything alone! The Hubby does his very best to always try and schedule around the kids' sports etc... which is great because the kids HATE when he's not there!!

So one day last week while I was watching out my kitchen window, looking at all of the pretty birds flying around (we have had an over abundance of Red Robins lately), I see it....An Armadillo!!! Just back there digging away in the ground! UGHH!! I call the Hubby and tell him there are critters invading, and he said I had to shoot them or they will keep coming back. Now Armadillo's are not my favorite things to shoot at, I do not like the fact that they jump straight up in the air when you hit them and run around in circles!! So I take the 22 out and shoot the nasty critter but he had armor of gold! It was only chipping his shell! I hit him 4 times and nothing!! So I had to go reload and when I came back....Yeah....he was gone...

So that night we were gone somewhere late into the evening and when we got home the kids were out letting the dogs out they find another Armadillo in the front yard. So J comes in and asks what gun I'm shooting them with and I told him the 22, so he says well will you open the gun safe so I can go shoot him. I go over and open the safe, get the gun, walk outside, and shoot the Armadillo, it jumps straight into the air then runs off into the dark!! So J was a little mad at me because I didn't let him shoot it well we were in a bit of a bicker at the moment so I choose to do it myself as a "small punishment" :)

So then Friday afternoon I was on the phone with my girlfriend and I am looking out that kitchen window again and lo and behold there's ANOTHER freakin Armadillo LOL!! So we weren't exactly done talking and I didn't want the Armadillo to get out of my view so I decide well I will take my cell with me while I go out to shoot it!! My friend could not believe that I hit it while I was talking to her on the phone LOL!! She asked if I felt bad about killing the nasty thing and I said to her NO way!! These things tear up my yard and they are just vicious looking!! Now I won't just shoot anything but opossums and armadillos are fair game! So then she proceeds to ask me if it is therapeutic to shoot the gun when I am frustrated and I said "sure it is"! So now she's ready to come down and get some shooting lessons LOL!!!!

Friday's kill...Look at those claws!!!



Thing was trying to dig along the concrete of my house!!



Does anybody else have nasty critters that try to make your home their home?! And if so what do you do about it?!