Miss Sage

Sage had quite the eventful day yesterday! She FINALLY lost her other front tooth! They were in bed and evidently Chantz didn't want to sleep by himself so he went to get in bed with Sage and when he was pulling up the covers accidentally hit her in the mouth. No tears- no crying she just came down the stairs saying Chantz just knocked my tooth out. There wasn't even any blood...it has been so loose for so long I am surprised she didn't swallow it in her sleep.

Sage was awarded Star Student of the Month for April. Her school just started this program and she was so happy to get the award. She got her picture taken for the newspaper and got to have cupcakes and punch with the principal. Her teacher had great things to say about her.

Yesterday was also her music program. If I can figure out how to get the video off my camera and onto the computer I will post a little bit from the program later. They sang this pirate song and I thought I was going to pee my pants laughing at her actions to the song.

We are so proud of our precious little girl!

She is going to be competing in "Modoc Idol" (Modoc county version of American Idol) next weekend so we will let you know how she does. She is singing Our Song by Taylor Swift.

Busy/Fun Weekend

We had quite the eventful weekend-
1. Weston and I celebrated our 11th anniversary on Saturday the 4th! Holy Cow I can't believe it has been 11 years! We didn't do anything real exciting we just went to dinner which was nice. I am so grateful to have such a great husband who is so good to me!

2. Sunday the 5th the kids had the their Awana Grand Prix Race. They had a lot of fun racing their cars. Gramps and Grams even made their own cars to race in the open division. Chantz won the award for most unique in his division and Gramps won the award for most unique in the open division. I forgot to take a picture of Gramps and Grams cars so I will have to post that later.

3. I turned the big 33 on Monday. Weston and the kids got me cheesecake on Sunday night since Weston wasn't going to be home on Monday. The kids got me a pink bag of my own tools...so cute! My dad called and took me to lunch on my birthday which was the highlight of my day! I can't remember that last time we did that.

Off & Running

Well it's that time of year again when it seems that we never have enough time in the day! Here is a few things we have going on right now: Wrestling (practice 2 or 3 times a week plus touraments on the weekends), 4-H (Chantz is showing pigs this year), Awana's(every week), helping gramps with the colts, roping (Californio's is the end of April), baseball starting in April, helping with 2 of Gramps clinics coming up. All of this and Weston is now working out of town again so he is only home on the weekends and I am crazy busy at work! Here are a few pictures of Chantz wrestling the last 2 weekends. He has been doing pretty good...second and third place is his divisions. This last weekend he had to bump up a weight because he gained a pound (which he needs to gain weight he is such a skinny little thing) weighing 66 so he had to be in the 70 and under instead of 65 and under so that put him in a lot tougher group. He wrestled really well and learned alot!

Where did February Go?

I can't believe that February is almost over.....we have been very busy this month with roping, Chantz birthday, new pigs, Sage's Play, and to top it all off wrestling just started today. Anyway here is a little overview of our month.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHANTZ

I can't believe my boy is 10 (double digits...unbelievable). He begged and begged to have a sleepover party. We (mostly Weston) finally gave in. Six 10 year olds.....can you say HEADACHE!!

Opening presents!

Happy Birthday Pard! We love you.

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4H Pigs!

Chantz got his pigs for 4H this year. He is pretty excited about finally being old enough to show something at the stock show. I think pigs are so cute when they are little, but I am sure about the time it starts to warm up and they start stinking I will change my mind. I want him to name them Shrek & Fiona, but he is disagreeing. He has yet to name them....so any suggestions?

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Sage's First Play

Sage wanted to try out for the play Rumpelstiltskin this year. This company called the Missoula's Children's Theatre comes to town every year and puts on a different play. We missed it last year because we were out of town. She got a part as a villager and had a solo singing part. She loved it! She had practice everyday last week from 3:00-8:00 and never once complained.
Her performance was on Saturday and she did a great job. If I ever figure out how to download videos from my video camera onto the computer I will post it on the blog.

Ready to go to the performance!

Flowers from brother!

The little villager!

And The Winner Is.......

Chantz WON his first Big Loop Roping! Chantz, Weston, and my dad competed in Klamath Falls on Thursday at the Big Loop Roping and won the novice class. Chantz has always done well roping and placed a few times, but this is his first win. Chantz also won the award (custom headstall) for fanciest head shot!!!! He did so good and of course we are so proud of him. He was the only kid competing, so he beat all the adults! He was so excited. When it was over I went to congratulate him and he said, "My legs won't quit shaking." Sure enough his skinny little legs were just a shaking in his stirrups!

My pictures are really bad...but I had to post them anyway. A photographer friend of ours was there and she took tons of pictures so I'll post a link to her website when she gets them posted.

The winners getting their awards -$200 each and a saddle pad!

Chantz taking a heal shot.

Another heal shot.

Chantz doing ground work.

Chantz & Gramps

Kitchen Remodel

I said I would post pics of the kitchen when we got it finished and I am just now getting around to it. Anyone who seen my kitchen before the remodel will understand why I am so excited about this. When we bought the house 2 years ago the first thing we were going to do is remodel the kitchen and finally it is done. I love it!

Before & During....

Chantz couldn't wait to sledge hammer this "half" wall...or in his works "TEAR DOWN"

I think the kids enjoyed the TEAR DOWN more than anything. They were really good helpers. They packed up the whole kitchen my themselves....I was at work and Weston was so sick sleeping on the couch while they did it.

I wasn't quite fast enough getting the before pictures before they started demo...there were cabinets next to the fridge. The exterior door is right on the other side of the fridge.
1970's Oven that didn't work work a crap!

Most disgusting tile counter tops you have ever seen!

New Kitchen

After....

Notice the dishwasher!!! I didn't have one before so it is extra exciting!