Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan

Little Miss Hannah wanted concert tickets for Christmas and I was the lucky one she wanted to go with! I drove 7 hours to take her and her friend to their very first country concert! We had a blast! I even bought a new pair of boots! They are super cute.

I also got 6.5 + inches cutt off my hair, not sure if I like it, but it is growing on me. We stopped by Sheila's for a photo shoot before the concert after we all got our hair done. We definitely had a girlie day. Made a pit stop for sushi the mall and off to the concert.

I really thought I was going to be the oldest one there but I wasn't. The last several concerts me and Cody have been too it is usually elbow to elbow with a million 18 year olds and we always feel so old so I have gotten burned out on concerts. This concert was mostly older people with their kids! It was nice and well I had my kids with me too! :)

We had bleacher seats that were really good, but the last 2 songs we snuck down by the stage and we got really close. While we were down there this stupid idiot who apparantly had way to much bubbly got a little to close to Hannah and Victoria and mother goose came out of the woodwork and he almost got a shoe up his rear end!

All in all we had a great time, great concert and one great memory with my little cousin!

Intense week

This has been a super intense week. Monday afternoon we had to separate the doe fawns from the buck fawns so they won't breed this year (not likely to happen, but it has happened before) and we don't want a little yearling popping out a baby next year. We decided to run them through the chutes and switch out ear tags(so we won't have to do that in the Spring when we actually work them) on the first 10 that were born (when we moved here we didn't have the right ear tags and had to tag them with what we had at the time).

Since this is their first time being ran through the chutes we knew we were going to have our hands full. And we did. Cody's tame girl was not helping the situation, lol. When we're trying to herd them out of their pen to the alley way, Cody's girl stayed with us the whole time and all the other ones were looking at us like "what is going on, and why is that fawn hanging out with y'all!" We finally got all but 2 out and decided to just leave them in, they were doe and the doe were going back in that pen anyways. It took forever to actually get them all the way down by the chutes, they were going CRAZY! Cody went first to just see how far they would go down, they didn't go far before all 18 turned and started running straight towards me, I almost peed in my pants, I threw myself against the wall of the 10 ft gap they were running through and they all passed me. If these were adult deer, believe me, I would not have been standing there in the first place. Since they were just fawns, it was only a little scary.

Cody finally got his girl down there too and he had to push her to get her down there, it was funny and sad at the same time. They were hitting fences and trying to jump over with out any luck, luckily there were no broken bones yet. Cody ran the first one through, Luis dropped the floor, I covered the head, and Cody changed out the tag, Luis brought the floor back up and she ran back to her pen, success! 1 down 17 more to go! The next one was a male, changed out the ear tag, let him go, and after we let him go we realized, CRAP, that was a male and off he goes in the female pen, CRAP! We will get him later. The next one was Hannah's girl. She is still very tiny. Cody had to open the covered chute, get in with her and pick her up and place her in normal chute, poor girl, she never had an ear tag so Cody had to pierce her ear, poor little girl, she did good and we let her go. This has taken probably 30 minutes, it's fast paced, our adrenaline is pumping 90 to nothing. Cody pushed the next one through, Luis dropped the floor, I covered her head, and she was kicking 90 miles an hour! Luis had to lay on top of her so she wouldn't jump out. Cody tagged her ear, we let her out. When she ran out, her leg was broke. I looked in the chute and when Luis dropped the floor, the chute didn't go all the way down, so the last kick, she kicked a piece of metal. Luckily no bone was showing, so we didn't have to amputate it. There are a lot of things to do when working a deer and 3 people doing it is kind of stressful. We looked at the chute and realized the fawns weren't big enough to push that metal down on their own just yet, so we decided to just run the rest through to separate and not risk the chance of another leg break. We have to work them in the Spring and can change out their ear tags then, that way they will be bigger and not break a leg :( It took forever but we got them separated, except for that one. He was one of the last ones born so he won't be trying to breed :) When we got home, we were exhausted. We both felt like we had been run over by an 18- wheeler. Which deer temperament is about the same as an 18- wheeler!


Today Dr. Mauzzeral came out to draw more semen off our 2 biggest breeder bucks. They got one done successfully but the other one wasn't cooperating and wouldn't go down. Probably because the buck has done this before and didn't want to be violated again! They will be back out next Friday to try again. We also got her to look at the fawn with the broken leg. I felt SO much better about getting a second opinion and she agreed with Cody, leave it alone and it will heal, you can do more damage by interfering than you could by letting nature do its thing. Still, glad she looked at it though!

Here is bigboy before they gave him the reversal!

Farewell 2009

I am gonna miss 2009, just a little. A lot of things happened, good and bad, and it went by way to fast. Every year keeps moving faster and faster and it needs to slow down a bit. Here is our 2009 life changing events! ha



- I attended my last semester of college and studied more in that one semester than I did in all my other semesters' combined!



- We found out Cody got his dream job in a state I was not too thrilled about. It has turned out to be the greatest decision we have made and the best move yet!



-We both turned 27 and that number makes me feel old, but I still feel 23ish!



- I was able to work w/ Andy and Kevin for a little bit and do pretty much the best job ever and bought my dream vehicle....an H3 fully loaded!



- Graduated College



- Moved to Oklahoma



- Celebrated our 3rd wedding anniversary, being so busy with life on the ranch we couldn't do our usual weekend getaway at our honeymoon sweet, but opted to watch the most beautiful sunset ever while we were working and it was way better than our $600.oo honeymoon sweet, lol! And way more romantic! Anyone who has seen our sunset pic would have to agree!



- Have spent more at the Vet office this year than I have spent on myself at the Dr.'s office. Poor Duke got bit by a rattlesnake and I thought my heart was gonna fall out of my chest. That dog is special to both of us and it will be a sad, sad day in this house if anything ever happens to him. Poor Drake had a hard time adjusting to the dry weather here and had paw issues, lol!



- Had to adjust one more time to being away from family, but luckily we aren't 14 hrs away anymore.



- Have been hit twice with the word cancer. I had to hear the doctor tell my husband he has bladder cancer and realized I can be strong for the both of us when I need to be. I had to hear my stepmom tell me my dad had cancer on the phone and wishing it was me and not him.



- First time to witness 115 degree temperatures and then to witness -6 temperature all in the same year and place.



- Raising whitetail deer and bottle feeding some in our house that were to weak or sick to make it otherwise and watching them thrive because we took care of them.



-Being able to not only witness the most beautiful land ever created but also living on it and being reminded everyday how great our God is!



-Realized no matter how hard we try, somethings are just not meant to be.



- We had our first Christmas tree up and decorated.

- Loving/watching/teaching and enjoying every minute with 2 sweet babies that I actually look forward to seeing and can't speak a lick of English....yet!



-Walked across our first frozen lake and not being worried about falling through because it was soooo cold!

- Learning to enjoy the simple things in life.

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!