Devon's Green Thumb

Devon and I went to Walmart and he told me that he wanted to get some flowers. So I asked him to pick out the ones he wanted and he chose his favorites. We came home and he planted his flowers... what a great job!

All done! I hope my Ma-maw likes it!

Terrible Two's

Since I don't want anyone to feel left out, I thought I would share a typical Devon Trantrum. This particular one occured on his birthday 3-21-09. He started out tipping the yellow plastic chair over and then falling to the ground, kicking his feet and screaming his head off... We then proceeded to roll across the floor, banging our head on the ground...

... Still rolling and kicking, here you get the full view of his face, turning red...

...And now we've rolled all the way to the table. At this point I think he was really starting to get upset because mommy was laughing and taking pictures.

Amazingly enough though, Devon's vocabulary has begun to grow by leaps and bounds, it seems that every day that I come home from work he's saying more words. Today, we had a good day and he only had about two trantrums, both of them only lasting a minute or two and mommy didn't end up with fat lip from him convulsing his body and throwing his head back at me.... Ahhh... I love this age!

Baseball to Hockey

Greg and I decided to have a "Sports day" on Saturday. We started out the morning with a Oakland A's vs San Francisco Giants Spring Training baseball game. Greg used to go to baseball games with his Uncle and family when he lived in California, and he is a huge A's fan. This was my second baseball game and I had just as much fun watching the game as I did people watching.

Greg is 6'3" and I am 5'3"...

Here is Greg finding out how fast he throws a ball... I think it was around 51 mph. I'm sure mine would have been around 3 mph.

Oakland A's Won!!

We finished the Baseball game around 4pm, and drove home to give Devon dinner and meet up with the baby sitter for the hockey game. Greg and I had to change our shirts.

We had seats up pretty high, but it was neat because you could see everything. Our seats had 'All you can eat' bracelets and we munched on Nachos, popcorn, hot dogs, and soda. Aubrey and David bought tickets for Mom and Dad for dad's birthday, so Mom, Dad, Aubrey, David, Alanna, Kris, Greg and I went to the game.

At the 3rd period of the game, my friend Leslie and her husband, who has season tickets, invited us to sit down with them on the lower level. We were about 10 rows up from the ice. They had this huge monitor and halfway through the game they show a 'kiss cam'. Leslie and her husband were shown on the moniter, it was too cute!

So, after our sports weekend, I'm exhausted and my cold is turning into something a little more serious... probably strept throat again. Regardless, I had the best time and I'm hoping to be able to attend a sports game at least once a month. Greg and I are talking about possible Nascar for next month.

So, it's been a little while since I've updated this blog, and seriously, I have really good intentions to get caught up. The next couple posts might be out of order so bear with me.

I bought a horse trailer with my tax refund for $900. Dad and I drove out to Lake Havasu city (which is about a 3 hour drive) on Superbowl Sunday, we made it home just in time for the last quarter. Anyhow, I've been using the trailer a couple times a week. On Friday, my friend Leslie (who is doing a half-lease on Charlie) and I drove out to find a cool trail ride, and we came upon this neat trail on the riverbottom. I took Alanna out there today to show her what we saw

This is my Horse Scooter. I beleive that he is a Morgan Mix, and I've had him for about 3 years now. He was abused before I got him and has a lot of trust issues, but once you get past them, he's an outsanding animal.

This is my brand new saddle. I got this for myself for Christmas and payed $500. It's the first leather saddle that I've owned. It's actually a roping saddle and I'm hoping to attempt some team roping at our stable.

On our trail ride, we came across two wild horses. They let us get fairly close, but Alanna and I wanted to get closer, so we chased them across a mountain. Our two horses were so excited they wanted to keep chasing them.

This is a cactus skeleton

Here is Alanna riding Charlie Horse, you can see the truck and trailer in the background. There is water that runs in the river bottom and Alanna and I rode our horses into the water. Charlie was walking and suddenly he hit a deep spot and was up to his belly in water. Alanna freaked out and made him climb the little cliff to get out of the water.

Here is the 'after' shot of Scooter. You can see how sweaty his back is from the saddle.

Here is Charlie's 'after shot'. You can see how dark his legs are from the water.