Month: January 2010

Project – Work

I bet you thought we’d forgotten about the picture of the week. Well we hadn’t forgotten however just hadn’t taken the time to put them up. I had all of Prince Charming’s choices of photo but I wasn’t sure what he wanted to be “the one” and me…. well I never really decided either. Mine is rather boring I think but hey it’s all good :). So they are talking about a nasty storm getting ready to hit us, I’d be ok if it didn’t truthfully. I’m not such a big fan of cold weather, especially because it’s lambing season and they all seem to want to come during the coldest weather. My first set was born on Tbug’s birthday, I lost both lambs and then the next day lost the ewe. Then we hit all that freezing cold weather and every night I’d go out and ask the expecting mothers to keep their legs closed. I got lucky that time, I’m not so sure I can get that lucky this next cold spat. So I guess it’s time to show photos that you are really wanting to see 🙂

Nicole: This is my view pretty much everyday, except the time changes 😉

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Sunday Fun

Yesterday morning Prince Charming, Tbug & I got up and got ready for Church. Prince Charming and I have almost made it a weekly habit of having tator tots with sausage and cheese for breakfast, You talk about good!! Then as we were about ready to walk out the door to go to Church, the horses were out. He changed clothes real fast and I hadn’t put church clothes on yet so we ran outside in the cold to put the horses away. I went walking out in hot pink shorts, black socks almost to my knees, my boots, t-shirt, and my coat and Tbug goes, I have to find my coat, we’re leaving for church right. I walked back in and had to laugh. I told her I wasn’t about to go to church looking like that.

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Mud on the Farm

Yesterday Prince Charming got up and made me breakfast (yum! It was hashbrowns with sausage & cheese!!) and then we got dressed and went to Church. His dad is finally out of the hospital so we went to his church. We offered to take him and bring him home but he had a ride there just needed a ride home. He got to ride in the muddy truck. I promise Prince Charming didn’t go mudding but it sure looks like he did! After we dropped his dad off, Prince Charming ran me to Walmart so I could pick up my photos I placed in 1 hour and while I was getting them, he went and washed the truck. Now the beast is red again 🙂

So after we picked up my pictures then we came home to help my dad move my sheep around. I had baby lambs (twin-ewe & ram) born last week and it was time to get them out of the barn and outside, plus clean up their pen for the next round. I have the potential of 20 ewe’s lambing. So far I’ve had 2 (one had the twins we moved and I lost a ewe and her twins…) I have a small shed we’d made one time that was actually out in one of the horse pens (too short for them to use) so we moved it up into the yard in front of the barn and used some panels to create a fence around them. Now they have shelter and running room :).

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Project – Tbug’s Camera

This week we chose to do something off Tori’s camera as a way to judge how she is progressing with her usage. Needless to say, she had some interesting photos, we got to see Memaw’s butt, funky angles of Cowgirl, bottom shots of her friends while they were jumping at her birthday party at the flip shop, out of focus shots, in-focus shots, you name it, oddly enough I think we saw it, even shots of the tv shows that she or Memaw were watching. Out of roughly 50 photos or so, we each chose photos that we liked. So without further ado… Tori’s Camera Shots:

Nicole: I chose this because it looks like Tori is using a type of framing

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Crock-Pot Brats

So funny story, I love to cook. I got addicted to watching Foodnetwork until, well, we no longer have satellite tv. Now Prince Charming records shows for me and we watch Rachael Ray and Paula Deen while I’m at his house. He didn’t even know who they were when we started dating.

So on to the funny story. My dad gave me the recipe and said we should make it. He bought a 5 lb bag of potatoes. Well, I went to cut these potatoes up and the recipe calls for 1 lb potatoes cut in cubes. Well, I saw the bag and it said Net Wt. 5 lbs. Well, I saw it as Net Wt .5lb so I was thinking it was a half lb bag of potatoes.

So I go to chopping potatoes and the crockpot is getting extremely full and I still have to get onion and brats in there. Yeah turns out I misread the bag and it was a 5lb bag of potatoes I was cutting up. So I dished a bunch of them out, put them in a bowl and added water, and stuck it in the fridge. Sounds like we’ll be eating lots of Mashed Potatoes this weekend.

Anyway, this is excellent. I’m not always big on brats but this dinner was excellent.

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Marlin’s 61st birthday

Prince Charming’s dad Marlin had his 61st birthday on Saturday. The sad part about it is, he got to spend it in the hospital. His appendix ruptured on Wednesday or Thursday. He went into the hospital on Wednesday night but Prince Charming and I didn’t find out until Thursday morning. After work, I went to the hospital and sat with Prince Charming and Liss (Mark’s sister) while Marlin went into surgery. Prince Charming’s cousin and his daughter showed up as well. They thought it was one of two things, a Perforated Bowel or appendicitis. I didn’t know about the appendix until I got to the hospital Thursday night. In fact, if Marlin saw I put some of these photos up, he might disown me… LOL so please don’t tell :). So yesterday (Saturday the 9th) was his 61st birthday. Prince Charming, Liss & I decided we should do something for him on his birthday, especially since he had to sit in the hospital so Prince Charming & Liss called some family members together, Liss got party plates & napkins and I made a cake and we went in to surprise him on his birthday. It worked out great. Marlin was up in the bathroom when Prince Charming and I got there around 4:45 so we put the cake and presents in an empty cabinet and sat there and talked as if nothing was going on. Everyone else gathered in the waiting room and waited for Liss & Jason to show up. Marlin saw my camera sitting on the counter and asked what I was up to and I claimed I didn’t want to leave it in the frigid temperatures sitting in Prince Charming’s truck and he believed me. whew, thanks for quick thinking there! So Prince Charming walked out of the room on the phone and when he walked back in everyone came in with him. Under the circumstances, I think this was a great birthday! Here are a few photos and here’s where Marlin might disown me… 🙁 sorry, Marlin.

Marlin’s Birthday cake (unfortunately he didn’t get to take any… I’ll make him a cake when he gets better!!)

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Project – Snow

This week’s word was Snow. Boy did we have lots of photo ops for this!! I personally am sick of snow and I heard that February is supposed to be worse. Yuck! When you drive a Mustang, it doesn’t go so well with this type of weather. Note to self, next vehicle, get front-wheel drive or 4×4. So I’ve made 3 posts today so I will just get to business and reveal the photos 🙂
Nicole: I was driving down Co Rd 130 and thought this was beautiful. I wish the cows up on the ridgeline showed up better!

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Tbug’s Birthday

Oh My goodness gracious… I almost forgot to even write/post about Tbug’s birthday. My oh my I’m falling down on the job. Work has been extremely busy this last week and so I come home and am just ready to unwind! Although I’d much rather extremely busy than I would nothing to do. Makes the time go faster.

Unfortunately for Tbug, her birthday is only a week after Christmas. She gets Christmas and birthday presents in 1 week and then she’s done for the year really. I tell Prince Charming they didn’t plan that out so well… but oh well it happened that way so what can you do… Nothing.

Anyway we took her out for dinner for her birthday and my mom asked her where she wanted to go, her first response, Aunt Lissa’s. My mom looked at Prince Charming like is she serious??? Anyway, we explained we were taking her out to dinner at a restaurant, so we wanted to know which one. Her next comment was the Joplin Steakhouse. Again that caused a puzzled look from all of us.

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2009 in Review

Welcome to 2010 and the beginning of ….. Global Warming, or so they say… I’m not convinced…. um… last I knew it was freezing temps outside, actually below. Bring on Summer!!!

January

–New Years Day- well New Year’s Eve was spent at Twisters so you can imagine that right after midnight, I was in Kansas at Twisters but headed home. Yey 🙂
January also started a dinner club

  • January: Bijans in Springfield
  • February: Red Oak Steakhouse at Downstream Casino
  • March: Kinnaree in Joplin
  • April: Avanzare in Springfield
  • May: Bayou in Monet
  • June: Wilders Steakhouse in Joplin
  • July: Touche’ in Springfield
  • August: Roswitha’s Schnitzelbank in Webb City
  • September: Haruno’s in Springfield
  • October: Mytho’s Euro Greek Cusine in Joplin
  • November: D’Arpino’s Italian Cafe in Springfield
  • December was back at Kinnaree but I was in Ft. Worth so I missed the last dinner club of the year 🙁

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Project – New Beginnings

It’s 2010…. that alone is a new beginning! So Hope everyone had a safe and happy New Year. I did. I got to spend it with my sweetheart (yes I got midnight kiss!!) and his little girl and then his sister, brother in law and nephew (who fell asleep around 10 bless his heart!) Tbug has had her birthday for the year. She was born on 1-2-3. I feel bad for her, getting Christmas and her birthday all within a week of each other. Next time they should plan it out a little better, oh wait next time… yeah that kid better not have the exact same parents or else we’ll have some problems. (I love you honey, it was a joke b/c I know better). So on with the picture unveiling.

Nicole: Tbug got her first camera. We got her a Kodak for her Birthday. This is the new beginning to a lot more photos… LOL

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