New Friends

My Jess has a new friend, Emma. We had so much fun this weekend. She came and stayed the night on Friday, they stayed up till 1 a.m. Saturday morning, I went for a run with Beth while Jason and the girls were asleep and when I came home, the 3 of them were ready to roll. We went and rode the horses that afternoon and decided we wanted her to stay the night again. We went to church, Nonna's and had to take her home. She was a joy. I love seeing my girls play and be happy. I can't express how much my girls mean to me. I can't imagine them actually leaving home one day. Jason hates for them to be gone when he is home now so I know he feels the same. Jason and I both love to go on "dates" but we also come home early most of the time. Try sitting with your husband and NOT talking about your kids, impossible. Tried it, ended up laughing about how funny they were. Here are a few things that make my girls special to me.
Jessie-she looks just like her daddy(good thing I adore him) I will never forget when I first saw her and her eyes opened and even the nurse said "she is her daddy made over" I was not even out of recovery from the C-section, she loves to read(she actually got that from me), she is helpful when she needs to be and she is very passionate about the things she believes in, she wants to do her best. I see this with her school work. She loves to be outside and ride horses. She is her daddy's closest thing to a boy (besides Alex) and I am happy for that. She killed a ten point last season. Boy, he was proud!!

Lanee-she has always been her own person and knew what she wanted since the day she was born, she has my love for children(I often think she should have had a younger sibling, she loves to see little ones), she is a Momma's girl. She likes to help me with anything she can and she likes to ride with me to work out of town when it is something she can attend so she can keep me company. Jessie likes to stay with her daddy to go hunt, ride, anything but being cooped up in a car. Lanee will talk to me the whole way. She loves to flip everywhere. Her nickname is "Monkey" she had so much hair when she was little, it was too cute! When she was able to move around, she climbed, flipped, got in to everything. She is resilient, she has overcome so many setbacks with her hearing, mouth reconstruction and most people cannot even tell. She looks like me, so I hear,lol! It was nice to get some credit from one of them.

I can't talk about my girls without saying what a wonderful father they have. He spends lots of time with us and he loves them and has no problem letting them know this. He is always thinking of fun things for us to do. He makes sure they have cute clothes since I do not like to shop,(how many dads know their kids clothes and shoe sizes, he knows mine too) he bought them horses and all the things that go with them just because they love to ride. They will never know how much he does for them.

GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN

A Camping we will go, we sure did. Darcy, Krista and I took 18 girls camping at Yale Camp last weekend. I completed the Outdoor Training for Darcy and Krista, that is part of my job. I love camping! Let me tell you, they knew how to camp before now. This is not the first campout that Darcy and I have done for the girls. We did all sorts of things like roasting hotdogs and marshmallows, making candy necklaces, carving candles, decorating cookies and tye dying T-Shirts (Darcy saw this in the Family Fun magazine, too cute) and lots more. I also showed the girls how to make a carboard oven and bake brownies with a box, foil and charcoal. They actually got to eat one. Darcy, Krista and I went to Wal-Mart on Friday to buy the supplies, we were in there for way too long! Darcy had our list made out thank goodness. It was all worth it. The girls layed down after 3, and woke up by 7. I know they were tired little girls when they got home. They got pancakes and bacon for breakfast. Camping is something we will all remember!

I'm a big girl now!

Well, my girls are participating in the Buckle Series every Saturday for several weeks in a row. As most of you know, Jason works shift work. It just so happened that the day I had my program at the camp, the girls had a barrel run. They actual are entered in 4 events. I had only pulled the trailer once myself but I had never taken the girls to a run without Jason. I depend on him way too much sometimes. I did it all from loading up, to driving to LA, to grooming and saddeling and guiding the girls and back home. We did not finish the last event until 1:00 am and home we went. I took them back to the truck and let them sleep between events, it got chily that night. Boy, after that, I really felt like I had done something but it was good to know that I could do it on my own. My girls did really good. I am so proud of them.

Exploding Diet Coke

I did another Science program at Yale Camp in Crossett. I have a good picture of me about to put the Mentos in the Diet Coke and the one of the actual explosion. It was so much fun! I love this type of fun, the messy kind.

Fair Fun

A week or so ago, Jason took the girl to the ArklaMiss Fair in Monroe. We had lots of fun. We did take them on a weekday but that was the only day Jason could go so after school, off to the fair we went. They had the good rides. I cannot ride the rides but they had so much fun and I had a blast watching them. I also got to try the amazing FRIED SNICKER, how crazy is that. It was wonderful. All in all, we did not leave there until late and then went to the IHOP, yep, on a school night. Jason had been working graveyards and I had traveled at night several days in a row so we took turns taking care of the girls but needed some "family" time and Jason had heard about the fair. What better way to have fun!!