This past weekend Jason and my family made a trip up to Stamford Tx to see my brother participate in the rodeo. This is Kyle's first big rodeo and so I think we were all a little nervous! He had registered himself in Double Mugging. For all of you who are like "What is Double Mugging?" Well there are two cowboys, one ropes the steer and then they basically have to go and tackle the steer, get him down, tie his feet, and the steer has to stay down for 6 seconds or so.
So here are Kyle and his partner Josh ready to do their event. The steer comes out and Kyle ropes the steer but catches his leg so they get a "No Time" rules say that they have to rope the steer's head. We are still proud of him and he did a great job!
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Stamford Rodeo
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Trip to Colorado.
Well I am finally back in Amarillo and ready to start blogging again! We had a wonderful time in Colorado and were sad to come home but here is some of the fun stuff that we did!
The first day we got there we went to a place called Piney River Adventures. It was so beautiful there and there were so many things that you could do. For example hiking, fishing, canoeing, jeep tours, and horse back riding. I would highly recommend going there for a nice relaxing vacation!
While we were there we also took a tour of the Betty Ford Botanical Gardens! The flowers and the scenery in the gardens was beautiful. Their flowers look so much better in Colorado than they do in Texas!
The second day we decided we would go shopping down in the village. Well the shopping was good but the weather was not! It rained almost the entire day! At 4:00 they have free gondola rides up to the top of the mountain and the sun had just come out so we were just standing around waiting for 4:00 to roll around. While we were waiting the funniest thing happened. A man in a picture frame pretending to be Mona Lisa walked up to us and started talking to us. Poor Jason was mortified because he happened to be the one standing next to him, so he was the one that got picked on! He was a great sport about it and we all thought the guy was hilarious!
After the Mona Lisa man left poor Jason alone we went to the top of the mountain on the gondola. It was really pretty up top and a great spot for picture taking! :)T
The next day was probably the most exciting and adventurous! We got up that morning and all the kids went mountain biking, (well kinda) then at 2:00 we went white water rafting, and after we got back to the house Terry and Jason went rock climbing while the rest of us watched down below. :)Your probably thinking "This is adventurous" but trust me this was the easy part! White water rafting is so much fun though if you haven't ever been you should definitely make it a point to!
This trip was awesome we had so much fun hanging out together and relaxing! I feel so blessed to have two families that are so loving and caring! I cant wait to go back!
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Monday, June 22, 2009
Leaving on a jet plane...
Well this afternoon I am flying out to Fort Worth for my interview tomorrow. After that I am leaving to go to Colorado the next day! Talking about busy. So I wont be on here till next Monday or Tuesday. Hope everyone has a wonderful week and weekend!
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Friday, June 19, 2009
Rude Awakening!
Well a couple of days ago I had two calls for interviews in the Fort Worth area. Before this I had pretty much given up hope that I would find anything, so you can bet that I was super excited. Well this morning one of the schools that had called to set up the interview called me back and canceled! Apparently they had a bunch of interviews yesterday and they went ahead and chose one of them instead! I cant believe how rude some people are! If that was their intentions all along than they should not have called me in the first place or they should have waited 3 more days and let me have the interview like they said they would! Well I guess it just was not meant to be!
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
What a Day!
Wow what a day is right! I think I have been through about every emotion there is today! Started the day off relaxed and calm. Then about noon the chaos hit! Found out that our dog (Hank) that we have had forever died today. He has been sick for a while now so I know that he is in Heaven because all Dogs go to Heaven! So I kept myself busy cleaning and doing other chores around the house. Then I got a call from Joshua ISD, and I have an interview on Tuesday for a 4th grade math teacher. So I am super excited about that. Talking about a busy lady! I feel like I have less time now then when I was working a full day! Lol! So needless to say its been a roller coaster of a day!
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The Concert!
This past week was so busy that it seemed like a blur we started off by going to the George Strait, Reba Mcentire, Blake Shelton, and Julianne Hough concert. Right before we went to the concert we found out that Julianne was sick and that LeeAnn Womack was going to be taking her place. Needless to say it was a great concert. Here are a few pictures.
Here is a video of George Strait seeing Amarillo by morning!
Besides the concert being amazing we were the first group to see the new Texas Stadium. Let me tell you that place was huge! The stadium is all enclosed but has a retractable roof that takes 12 minutes to open! George Strait got everyone to chant "Jerry open the roof" so our wish was granted and Jerry opened the roof! It was so cool! Here is a picture.
Here is a picture of us waiting for the concert to start.
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Entering the World of Blogging!
Well summer has officially began. Well it started about a week ago but I have been so busy that I haven't really noticed! So since this is the first time that I haven't really had a job I am going to have to come up with a more creative way to keep myself busy so I thought blogging would be perfect! Well that's all for now but I am sure I will be back tomorrow!
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