Birthday and Blizzards!

Happy Birthday Cody!!!!!

Cody turned 28 today! Today is not only the first day of spring but the first blizzard of Spring 2010! That is kind of funny! Although we worked all day he had a great day! He got to talk about what he loves and meet Ted Nugent! I will write about that after the expo is over! I usually get Cody a super cool cake from Chez Bazan or another cute little bakery in Tyler, but since we are in Woodward I had to stick with walmart. The selection was slim but I found a somewhat descent chocolate cake.


While we were at the expo today our neighbor booth lady told us someone called her and told her there was a wall of snow on our road and that we probably wouldn't be able to get through it and I just couldn't imagine a wall of snow in one spot. Well since we did have a blizzard pretty much, the winds were blowing hard all day and after it snowed it just blew all the snow in this one spot!

By the time I get home I can tell someone has gone through it and looks like someone has played in it too! Turns out Luis and Fransisco tried to barge through it and got stuck and then had to get the tractor to unstuck them and they smoothed it out a bit so it would be drivable. It was the coolest thing. The top pic is a picture of all the snow about knee level and you can tell on the right how deep it was! It was probably 5 ft tall before they made a path through it. Where they went through it, it's still about 2 ft but the ole' hummer made it through real nice and I even played in it a bit! :) It was fun! So neat to see that much snow blown in one spot, the snow built up from the stop sign all the way to Jeff's house

Cody and Richard had to be at the booth by 9 and I wasn't gonna go till about 11. I had to drive that 12 mile stretch to town (by myself) going 30 and it took FOREVER!!!! I thought I would have been more nervous since I freak out driving in the rain, but I'm getting to be a pro driving in snow/sleet and ice! I get halfway to town, the roads were pretty bad but drivable, and I see a snow plow truck heading my way so I just pull over. After he passes I get back on the road and he didn't do anything but pick up the snow and all that was left was pure ICE and I was sliding all over the place. I wanted to call that plow truck and tell him to STOP because he was making it worst! I did make it to town in one piece!

All in all it was a pretty great day! Snow or shine Cody had a pretty great birthday!

Spring Break for ME!

Since Gisella is on spring break this week.......that means I am on SP too! I definitely miss the kiddos but it has been so nice sleeping in and doing "me" things! The Northwestern Oklahoma Wildlife Expo is this weekend too so I have been getting stuff ready for that because we have a booth! We went today to set up and it looks really GREAT! I will have to take a picture of it and post it! I am looking forward to the expo! It should be a lot of fun and Ted Nugent will be there too.

Richard came down to help out with the booth and brought Fransisco down to build a new shelter/barn for our new fawns this summer. This year instead of just bottle feeding the fawns that need to be bottle fed, we are bottle feeding all the fawns we "AI" and there will be about 27 of them. Well ....we had 5 in our HOUSE last year and well.....27 this year just won't work in the house! LOL So they get a new house just for them! They are gonna build it outside our back door so it will be easy for us to make bottles in the house and then just go 15 feet and feed. Since we have 2 extra people here this weekend, Cody decided to go ahead and work the deer and give them their shots and I am SOOOOO glad help is here so I don't have to help. My heart just can't take it! It was pure relief tonight not being down there while they ran them through the chutes! When Cody came home he told me about a couple Bucks that were acting a fool and running into fences, poor babies! I am glad I didn't have to see that! I stayed home and cooked fajitas for everybody, I am sure they enjoyed that more than me down there looking like I am about to cry!

Richard made a comment about bringing Cody's little girl with us to the expo since she is so tamed and pretty much follows Cody EVERYWHERE! That would be the cutest thing, putting a collar and leash on her. All those people would scare her to death! The thought of it was super cute though! Maybe if she was still this small :)!

We will let you know how the expo goes. Maybe we will sale a bunch of hunts for next year!

Austin Trip

This year might have been the best Austin Trip yet! My Mother-in-Law bought me Taylor Swift tickets for Christmas and the concert was awesome. We ended up getting front row seats because my Brother-in-law is a rockstar! We also met Gloriana because the BIL is a rockstar!

Taylor is way better in concert than she is on TV and she didn't lip sync! She put on a great show!

She even gave Josh a 10 second stare down in this picture because he is a ROCKSTAR! :)

Kellie Pickler put on a good show too!

After a great concert, 18 basketball games, country dancing, shopping, pedicures, sleeping late, and hanging out with family we had to head back home. Every year at state games Cody and Mark tell us stories (the SAME stories) about all the fun they had when they were younger and always a story involves a guy named Stanley. Me and Sheila pretty much know everything about this guy and the boys love him. We ran into him one night a Shultz's and they were star struck and continued to tell us the same story :) and they were so nervous they wouldn't go talk to the guy. Well me, Christen and Sheila went to Shultz's one night to meet the boys and guess who was there again.....Stanley Bonewitz! We decided to go talk to him and maybe persuade him to be sitting at our table when our boys walked in, but he was busy talking so we just decided to get a picture with him and send to the boys! We figured they would have been more happy about this picture because we actually held a conversation with him and they were too star struck to, but I think they were more jealous because they were to chicken to talk to him and we weren't! :)

We had a great trip but we were ready to be home again! The best part of the trip was getting to hang out with cousins who aren't just family but really great friends!

Today, was the BEST day!

It finally warmed up enough for mom and dad to take us out on the ranch with them! When it's below freezing we aren't allowed to go because we shoot straight for the lakes and then we freeze our behinds off! Today was in the 50's with a nice cool breeze and mom and dad let us walk the canyons with them, while they looked for sheds. We only came across 1 little Axis shed, but it was totally worth the 3 hour hike! We also got to take the camo truck!! We have never ridden' in that one before. Let me tell you what dad did last week, ruff ruff! He was going in and out of the canyons' in the dodge and one day the breaks just didn't feel right. So he decided to call the dodge dealership to bring it in for repair and in the meantime not to drive down a canyon. Well 2 days before he was suppose to take it in, the breaks completely stopped working! So he had to start driving the camo truck with the high rack. Well it's not fun driving that truck so he decided to take the high rack off and it's hanging in the barn. Dad will put it back on when we have hunters and they want to go on a safari ride! So back to goofy dad, he had to drive that truck 12 miles to town with NO breaks! He just down shifted when he had to stop and went around town, instead of through town. He made it in one piece, thank goodness! So we got to test drive the camo truck, woo-hoo! Mom was being annoying and wouldn't stop taking pictures! She didn't even get my good side, ugh!

We got to go in and out of canyons for 3 hours! Mom and dad even took us to the natural spring lake and let us swim and the water was crystal clear. We saw some ducks, man they looked good. We had such a fun day and glad it has started to warm up so we can have more fun days with mom and dad. We saw the coolest canyons with the coolest erosion's and silly mom didn't bring her camera for the hike. She missed out on some great pics! When we got home we were wore out! I was ready to go home and sprawl out in my warm hay and dry off from the lakes, but Drake was to tired to even jump out of the truck. Mom had to jump in the back and give him a little push and a little butt whippin' for tearing up the corn sacks.

All in all, today was the best day we have had out on the ranch!

Love, Duke