finally

Finally a blog post - well not really, I'm just redirecting you to my photography blog, since I update that one a whole lot more than this one.

www.pattinelsonphotography.blogspot.com

 Just some pictures of my gracie.

One of these days I WILL start blogging on here again!

cattle drive

I know I've been pretty pathetic in the blogging department.

And I'm pretty sure no one reads this anymore.

Life with 5 kids and pinterest has proven to be somewhat busy :)

Anyways, so during Christmas holidays, we had to move some cattle closer to home to get ready for calving season.

The hubs likes to do that when the kids are off school-

it's like having 3 hired men in his own house :)

And the kids (and me) LOVE it!

I can hardly believe that these pictures were taken in January.

The weather has been down right freaky this year.

But I'm not complaining one single bit.

the hubs in action.

There's something about a man on a horse.

Mmmmmm.

Love it.

rodeo

Ok, so this post is like 2 months overdue but I'm doing it anyways.

Maybe someday I'll actually be caught up on my blogging.

But probably not.

So anyways, the 3 older kids have been doing a mini rodeo circuit

the past couple of years,

and they love it.

Other than the fact that our horses are young and inexperienced in the patterns, 

they do pretty good.

This little girlie will start rodeoing next year.

And she CAN'T wait!

They do events such as barrel racing, pole bending, flag picking, goat tying/untying, and cattle sorting. 

I can't tell you they're the most exciting rodeos I've ever seen.

Because they're not.

It's definately NOT the NFR.

But the kids enjoy it and are getting pretty good.

And yes, we have since bought Gracie longer wranglers.

I swear this kid grows out of jeans every 5 minutes.

At this rate she's gonna be 7 feet tall!

And I can't end a post without a picture of my little 

heart Breaker. :)

where to start...

I was trying to think of what I should start blogging about, now that I'm a blogger and all. Since I took close to 1500 pictures this summer (that's no joke, in fact I probably took more than that) I thought I'd better blog a bit about the summer.

So summer. We did a lot of alot. Summers are always so busy for us. But I have to say, some of my greatest moments of the summer were the horse rides up on the ridge. And they aren't just leisure horse rides, they are chasing and moving cows horse rides. I have to say that has to be one of my most favorite things to do in the whole world. I always tell jimmy that I don't need fancy vacations, just take me up to the ridge on the horses. Heaven!! I for sure married the right man for that because he is always more than happy to take me (and the kids). It's so nice now that our kids are older and can ride their own horse (well, maysa is almost old enough). They think it is the greatest thing. And jimmy's happy he doesn't have to find hired men to help him. So yah, here are some pics (by some I mean a lot) of our ridge days. 

ryder  went through a water hole on his horse and got butt-deep in the water. what a little tough nut.

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I think Trigger is the best lookin' horse I've ever met (and yes I have addressed the fact that gracie needs new wranglers)

How about that view

this picture pretty much describes jimmy to a tee. On a horse, up at the ridge, talking on his phone.

for some reason jimmy always thinks he needs to take the camera and snap a few of me

my four babies

gracie the horse whisperer

thanks for cutting off my head honey

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