So I really thought about calling it Then There were 5 and I could have, no one was holding a gun to my head saying I had to call it DWTS – Week 7 but I figured since that’s what I called all the rest I should keep at it… I might change next week who knows or even cares….
so this weeks episode saw a lot of mix up in the leaders/scores. In the individual dances we had our first perfect 30, that was Evan & Anna and it was fabulous! Nicole & Derek stayed in second with a 27. But one of my faves moved forward, that’s Erin & Maks. She got a 27 right along side Nicole. I think she had a break through! Then they did the group dances. This was 2 teams vs each other. Team GaGa (danced to a Lady GaGa song) and Team Madonna (danced to a Madonna song… haha get it) My opinion, Team GaGa did the better job and the scores proved it. It was phenomenal!! Team GaGa consisted of Pamela & Damian, Nicole & Derek, & Chad & Cheryl. by the way Cheryl keeps sporting jewelry that really a girlfriend/fiance/wife should wear, not a dancing instructor but they claim it’s nothing.
Then Team Madonna consisted of Niecy & Louis, Erin & Maks, and Evan & Anna. It wasn’t bad but I just didn’t think their Cha Cha had the same WOW affect that the other one did. But hey that’s my opinion but I think by the judges scores that showed.
When those scores were all totaled it really shook up the leader board. Erin & Pamela were in the bottom 2 but Pamela wound up going home. It was sad!!!
So there you have it, if you want to see my ramblings about the other weeks click here now.
Our paths crossed long before we knew. Starting in kindergarten and first grade of course we were in different classes but we were at the same school. Then a few years went by and our paths cross again. In our home town there were 6 grade schools and they all shared the same band teacher Mr. Macafee, once a year the 5th and 6th grade band classes from all 6 schools would come together for a few practices and 1 performance.
Again we still did not know each other but we were in the same place at the same time. There was only one Jr High school so when we hit the 7th grade we finally had a class together… (can ya guess what it was?)….. that’s right it was Band. so we talked a few times in 7th grade I think and in 8th grade, then in the 9th grade we had a second class together. Animal science and boy was it interesting, I probably would not have passed that class had it not been for Nicole. We would even annoy the teacher together.
Then in the 10th grade in High School we had 2 classes together again band and English. Again in English she kept me awake and helped me pass the class. (Now is where the good stuff begins.)
During band that year we got the opportunity to go to Florida to Disney World, that place is where the beginning of the magic happened. We spent a lot of time together in that magical place and crushes developed. However it wasn’t until a few weeks later I believe that either one of us admitted that. (Here is where i go dumb for about 9 years!)
I finally asked her out on a date and was told that she needed to ask her parents. So… what did I do duhhhhh I went out and found a girl who would go out with me!! 😉 (I love you hunny!!!) And I broke her heart!! 🙁
So 9 years of Dumb and I have just returned from a tour in Afghanistan and I am sitting on my friends back porch one night when I get a push notification on my iPhone. It said that I had a facebook friend request. So I opened Facebook and was sooooo excited to see her name that I couldn’t wait to send her a message and see what she was up to.
**Warning** These are not my best photos. I was using my Point & Shoot in low light conditions and I kept moving…. Please don’t judge me! I left my dSLR at home :(.*********
So Sunday Tbug was in a Church performance for Fairview Christian Church. It was called:
King of the Jungle
The cool thing about Fairview Christian Church is it is very child/Youth oriented. Our church doesn’t seem to be so Children oriented. Our Youth group is much smaller. (in both Churches Prince Charming & I attend, mine & his) (more…)
**We are embarking on a small project so bare with us, I thought it would be cute for you (and us) to see our story from both points of view… mine & his…**
Freshman year of high school I signed up for Animal Science I. Finally I was going to get the chance to be a FFA member and wear the blue corduroy jackets! They wound up offering Animal Science I in 2 different sessions. Prince Charming and I wound up in the same session, 1st Hour. I sat on the back row and he slept on the 1st row (there were only 2 rows and only 6 of us). Well the girl that sat next to him wouldn’t shut up and so the teacher swapped us places so then I sat next to P.C. Well that year the teacher would upset me so much because she’d tell me I was wrong when in fact she was wrong and would try to dock me points because of it and so I started acting out. Now I was actually the quiet kid who only really spoke when spoken to or necessary but that teacher hit some nerves and one day I started singing Garth Brooks “Two Pina Colada’s” song at the top of my lungs and P.C. joined in with me. Anytime that year the teacher upset me I would sing at the top of my lungs and P.C. would join in. The funniest part is I did some of his work in that class because I was tired of seeing him get bad grades.
So summer hit and we went our separate ways. When Sophomore year hit we had 3 classes together again, Band, Animal Science 2, and English. Because Band was first hour and then A.S. 2 was second hour, P.C., my friend T and I would ride the bus from the band field to the VoTech center together for classes and P.C. and I became very good friends. In band he would always guilt trip me into carrying his Sousaphone to and from the parade starts/finishes to the bus or from the buses to the marching field because I “Only had to carry that little clarinet and look at what he had to carry”. LOL. Yeah I was a sucker. That and he couldn’t bend over to tie his shoes so could I possibly do it?? haha! Me being the ornery person I was would put my knee down on his toes and tighten as tight as I could. He’d lose feeling for a while but it would eventually loosen up. Me I thought I wouldn’t be asked again but he (and everyone else I did that to) loved that they didn’t have to worry about them coming untied so I got the pleasure of tying lots of shoes.
Every 3 years out school goes on a huge Band trip and Sophomore year was actually our year to go. We went to Walt Disney World that year. While down there sparks just kind of happened. It was very obvious that he liked me and I liked him but I tried to play dumb because I truthfully never could see him liking me. That and T really liked him too or so she told me a couple times. Well she got upset with me that he liked me but I couldn’t help it. That’s when I fell in love with the song by Tonic, “If You Could Only See”. He sang that one of the nights sitting outside at the hotel and I went home and bought the cd but never fessed up to him about that until many years later.
After we got back from Florida like I said we had English together and he and I would talk (we sat at the same table) and there was a note started between me and him (that oddly enough I found all these years later) where he asked me out on a date. I was only 15 at the time and I had to go home and ask my parents. This was all late in the week so by the time I made it home to ask and get back to him with an answer, he came back the next Monday with a girlfriend. That was a slap in the face but I got over it. Figured it wasn’t meant to be.
Through the rest of the years in high school I’m sure we both dated many other people (well me I had 2 boyfriends and that’s it but still that’s other people right) but our paths really never crossed. We had open campus lunch and I would see him in the parking lot but that’s about it. After graduation I went on to college and got caught up in a whole nother world.
I swear all animals on our farm have their own personality. It also seems like if they come and don’t have one, they develop one extremely quick!
Squirty is the Dunmare on the left, Blondie is the Palomino on the right.
Squirty was raised on our place. Her momma is Cricket and her daddy is Munchkin. Munchkin was raised on our place also. He is our stud. Cricket was given to us by some friends who really wanted to see a colt out of the 2. They tried once and Cricket had a miscarriage and then they gave her to us. At first we thought about Squirty’s registered name as Munchin Crickets but decided had she been a stud colt maybe not not for a filly.
My mom and I went together to buy Blondie last summer. She was just a 2 year old at the time (now 3). She was bought by some lady out in Kansas from a horse sale in Shawnee, Oklahoma, but the lady didn’t have time to mess with her and break her so she traded her to a guy here in Missouri for a gelding that he had that was already broke and didn’t require as much attention. He placed the add on Craig’s List for her and we bought her.
