Sista, Sista

Kristen, Terre and Jeff came to visit this weekend and we had a lot of fun. New Year's day was perfect, kind of..... It was 40 degrees, no wind and we were just gonna show them around in the truck since it was still a little chilly, but they wanted to ride 4-wheelers and it was super cold but a lot of fun. We took them to Patsy's Island so we could dig around for Indian people and found a lot of bones which we pretended were human bones, but they were probably cow bones, lol. We made it to the back of the ranch and saw a pretty sunset and even walked down the HUGE canyon in the very back! I am not sure how we made it down but we did. We all walked around it and after we got to the other side I don't think they wanted to walk all the way back around it so we had the bright idea of walking through it, Kristen chickened out and started walking back from the top. We all made our way down, very scary, and some how made our way back up the other side. This canyon is huge and very deep and we were all out of breath when we finally climbed out, but it was a lot of fun. We were all pooped when we got home, but luckily I put a pot of chili on before we left, so I didn't have to cook. After a long day outside in the cold, chili was perfect!

Today we woke up to freezing temperatures! It didn't snow, but it was really foggy and all the fog I guess froze and fell and every tree was icy, it was really cool looking but super miserable feeding the deer this morning. Then Terre had the bright idea of digging up bones again in 10 degree temperature. We ditched the 4-wheelers and just drove as far as we could and walked the rest of the way. Luckily, Cody had enough face mask's and coveralls for us all!


Terre and I had so many layers on we were looking fluffy! Kristen decided to stay home and sleep and missed a fun time! I think today was the coldest yet! We dug for a couple of hours till we were to cold to move. I think they were really excited about this Indian place and thought they would find something, but I think the OU department already dug up the goods! We did find a huge piece of flint that looked like it had been shaved down, it was super sharp.

We ventured over to the other side of Patsy's Island and the water was frozen 5 inches thick so we had fun sliding on it for a bit. Cody tried to do a snow angel but it didn't come out to good.

Don't worry, Kim, it wasn't deep, so if we fell through we wouldn't go under :)

After playing on the ice for awhile we were frozen solid and headed home .

We had a great weekend and we were so glad my sister's came to visit! Terre and Jeff brought their dogs, a chihuaha and a cocker spaniel and Kristen brought her pug and Duke and Drake loved them! So glad our dogs play well together!

Merry Christmas!

We had a fabulous Christmas even our doggies had a wonderful Christmas! My mom had 4 stockings hanging on her fireplace, we just figured they were for me, Kristen, Terre and Cody......wrong.....They were for our dogs! Even they had a fabulous Christmas! Since we have 2 massive labs, of course their bones were massive too. She got them each a massive candy cane bone that they will be chewing on till next Christmas! We got to see everybody and even visited with some friends. We had a pretty big Christmas. Jed got Kim a snuggie (which she did NOT want) but it was super cute and came with a little extra something to play with! LOL! Josh, Cody and I had a book made for them. It is full of pictures about all of our adventures this year!Lucky for me.......Jedro picked out a pair of insulated coveralls for me! We need everything warm we can get because when we got back to Oklahoma......................

IT SNOWED!!!!!!! It is so pretty outside!

Hope everyone had a great Christmas!

Ice Skating anyone?

Since it has been below freezing for the past 2 weeks, all the lakes are frozen over really good! Cody was nice and broke a hole in a lot of them so the animals would have something to drink. It would freeze back over fast but you could tell where the animals would break it too.
We really need to invest in some ice-skates! The ice was about 5 inches thick!

He wouldn't let me go out as far as he went out :(

The last few days has been in the 40's and 50's and all the ice is melting away :(

Karen's Happy

I have been listening to my Ipod a lot lately. I don't know if it's because I have been going to town more and I need something to listen to on the 20 minute drive to town and the 20 minutes back out or that it's been -15 all week and I have taken 3 long hot baths everyday for the past week and need something to listen to, or I am just missing something that me and Cody used to share a lot and haven't in awhile.

The play list on my Ipod, that is the BEST EVER, is Karen's Happy. I bet I have listened to all 25 or more songs on that play list everyday, 3 times a day for the past week. Of course seeing family everyday would be #1 in the missing department, but coming in a close second would be dancing the night away with Cody. Every song on Karen's Happy is a song that is sentimental to us. To our favorite dancing songs or songs that tell our story better than we could or random songs that Cody has heard on the radio and then runs home to find on Itunes so I can hear it, because it reminds him of us :) We have spent nights dancing our hearts out over the last 7 years and there isn't any place around here to go. Sure we have our living room but it's just not the same. The smell of an old dance floor, the slippery powder in the corner that helps with the spins, visiting with friends, people watching, listening to one good country song after the other and loving everyone of them and saying, "man, I haven't heard this song in forever," or "I love love love this song!"

I am not sure why I love old dance halls so much. Every time we find one or go dancing it just brings a flood of memories to us. Our first date was dancing, well kind of. It wasn't really a date, it was more like, "hey, I think you two would hit it off, you bring your friends, I will bring her and her friends and ya'll could meet." So we did. Cody was so shy that he didn't say one word to me all night, but we would all be on the dance floor shaking it and a slow song would come on and somehow our eyes always found each other and we would just smile, that's all it took. Then we would fight the crowd and eventually make our way to each other and dance the whole 3-4 minutes of a song and not say a word....hahaha, but still feeling a connection with him. We still laugh about that! We even found a little dance place on our honeymoon in the Dominican Republic, although it was not my cup of tea in the music department......we had a great time!

Maybe that is why I love to go dancing so much with Cody. That is how we connected and how we became us and how we came out of our shyness with each other. Dancing in the living room on carpet just isn't the same.........I need a dance hall :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkXQnJZiph0

There's a place I like to go
Where the fast songs meet the slow,
And people come from miles around
Just to hear an old guitar sound.
Call your friends and I'll call mine.
We'll have ourselves a country time.
Get there early and have a few drinks
Loosen up step out on the dance floor
Now what do you think?

Yeah, It's a good night for dancing.
It's a good night for you.

A nice two-step might start out the night
Pretty soon we're half steppin' and the rythym's right.
A line dance and the cotton eye Joe,
I spin you around and here we go.

Yeah, It's a good night for dancing.
It's a good night for you.

Well it's last call and the lights begin to come on
And they announce it's the very last song,
I grab your hand and lead you on the floor,
Hold you in my arms and dance till we can't dance anymore.

Yeah, It's a good night for dancing.
It's a good night for you.