What Time is it?...Rodeo Time!!

Thats right! We have officially began our rodeo summer. Despite what most wives think of their husbands rodeoing...I LOVE IT! Crazy I know, but I love hitting the road with my man and doing what he loves to do. It is our little get away from the pressures of life. So far this year he has done well! Keep your fingers crossed that the big money will start rolling our way :) Dusty rode the full 8 seconds, but missed his mark out in Evanston, WY on Saturday night. I was way proud of him! Getting ready behind the chutes Jason and Dusty showing off their buckles and Finally...Dusty's ride...hope it works!

Fun, Fun week!

This week my in-laws came down from Canada. I drove down to roosevelt on Tuesday and stayed all week. I loved every minute of it. It was so fun to spend time with my cute nieces, that I had only met once...on our wedding day. Regardless to say, we didn't get to know each other very well in all the confusion. So it was nice to chill, and hang out with family all week.
Here are some pictures of my nieces and nephew...

Kahlie and Brinlee being silly monsters


McClain chilling in the car



And London being pacified by some gummy worms.



Thanks Dusty for bringing me into this awesome family! I couldn't ask for a better addition to my family! Love you guys!

Happy Birthday Tay!

I wanted to wish my little sister a happy birthday! We went to her fun party tonight and had good food and visited with family and friends. It seems so crazy that she is already 12! She is sooo excited to go to YW's on Sunday! Can you blame her? Young Women's was the high light of my teen age years. It is so influential and critical to your spiritual growth and builds a strong foundation for the rest of your life. I'm very proud of her and the young lady she is becoming and know she will have a great time during this period of her life! Happy Birthday Sis!

Educational Frustrations

Does it ever seem that they purposefully make college difficult to figure out...so you can NEVER finish? I'm having mega frustrations trying to figure out schools that have the courses I need and then the application processes. And financial aid! Does anybody really know who to transfer you to? Does anybody know anything about it? You'd think those getting paid to help you get credits and graduate, might know how to do their job. Sorry just blowing off a little steam. Deep breath, deep breath...

Money burning a hole in your pocket?

Well I'm addicted to making these cute bows! If anybody wants to buy one just let me know!

Lovin' the Loft

So We are officially moved into our little "love loft." I HATE moving and luckily Dustin just informed me that he is too. He said not at lest for seven or nine months...which I am perfectly fine with cause I love my job at the school and am looking ofrward to seeing these stinkers again next year! Anyway, I just started decorating the loft and it feels much more like home...we just need a couch :) oh well we have the most important piece of furniture--the book case :) My books have been too neglected these past six months. I will post pictures when i get it all spick and span!

Books

The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?

I highlighted the ones I have read. I'm happy to say that I have read 16 of them. Just a little bit better than the 6 they expected.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare m
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime-Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole )
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

How may have you read?