Now that's my kind of friends!!!

So last Saturday, I had a visit from two of the best people you would ever meet in your life!

You Betcha! It was the Rookie and Alice.

I didn't get any pics of Rookie :( because she was the one taking pictures. The reason I love these girls, is because I don't have to entertain them or play good hostess, they are so easy going and so am I. If you ever come to my home, please don't expect me to play hostess, for one, I am not very good, and for two I quite frankly don't like to serve everyone. What's mine is yours and make yourself at home here.

This my friends is why I love these ladies! They are ideal, if one needs to use the ladies room, she doesn't need to be escorted, she will get up and come back a few minutes later, and I never had to play the part of the polite hostess.

Again, if one needs a drink she will get up and go through my cupboards and find a glass and then look in the fridge and our herself a drink.

Yet again, if one needs a piece of my scrumptious birthday cake, she will get up and slice herself a sliver of heaven, then she will die on my couch because it was so yummy!

These ladies will find them selves comfortable enough in my home that they can kick off their shoes, make a selection from my stockpile of tabloid magazines, and relax and unwind! I loved having them in my home and not having to entertain them.

My life was easy. I loved just talking till we talked ourselves tired. I loved kicking back and not having to meet anyones expectations. I could simple just be me, my burping farting self. I don't even need to say "excuse me." Life was never better.

Now that's my kind of friends. If you are anything remotely like Alice or Rookie, you are welcome to come to my home any day.

P.S. don't have expectations for me and I promise I will not let you down!

My First MeMe!

Me A-Z
Tagged by: I can’t remember, but I know I was tagged
A- Attached or Single? Attached, very happily attached
B- Best Friend? Cowboy, my mom and all of my sisters are my very close second.
C- Cake or Pie? Both, I love sweets of every kind, really if I had to chose I would be sad, I’d take a sliver of each
D- Day of Choice? Friday. Around these parts most of my days are the same. Mondays are damn near torture, that’s when Cowboy comes home from business, and he also leaves on Mondays as well. Torture I tell you Torture!
E- Essential Item? Lotion
F- Favorite Color? Neutrals, it probably bores my mom and sisters to death but I am really a beige and brown kind of girl.
G- Gummy Bears or Worms? Bears, they are easier to hide in your scripture case for a sweet treat during sacrament meeting.
H- Hometown? Nope. Sorry, those of you who know me know the answer to this. Those of you who don’t will just have to wonder where this Indians roots are.
I- Favorite Indulgence? Starbucks baby! Anything from that sinfully delicious drive-up will do!
J- January or July? January, I love the cold, I have an anniversary, I get to start a new year, It’s very refreshing
K- Kids? Yeah, I have my Lil’ Buckaroo, someday I will have more of Cowboys babies! Hopefully lots more of Cowboys babies, but were just aquiring them one at a time.
L- Life isn't complete without? friends, family, and reasons to get together.
M- Marriage date? Yeah I will keep this private, but I have one:)
N- Number of brothers and sisters? Two sisters whom I adore, and a kid brother who inspires me
O--Oranges or Apples? Oranges
P- Phobias and Fears? Having something happen to Cowboy or Lil’ Buckaroo. I want all of my loved ones to stay invincible forever.
Q- Quote? I try to live by this: “life’s a trip” It’s mine, and my adventure is one day at a time.
R- Reason to smile? Children, loved ones, Cowboy’s muscles...Mmmm
S- Season of choice? Spring. I love living in the country in the spring
T- Tag three people? Pretty much everyone has been tagged. If you haven’t been tagged consider yourself tagged.
U- Unknown fact about me? I hate shoes. If I could live in slippers and it was socially acceptable, I would adorn slippers on my toes everywhere.
V- Vegetable? green beans, broccoli, and artichokes.
W- Worst Habit? How about habitS? Swearing, road rage, eating out, starbucks, staying up way to late.
Y- Your favorite food? Comfort food, anything my mom cooks or any kind of beef that Cowboy grills or smokes
Z- Zoo animal? I can’t go to the zoo, it puts me into a very sever depression. It saddens me to see those animals out of their environment and in half-assed cages. Good hell I’ve shot a damn antelope, but I can’t look at those poor zoo animals.

Thankful for good friends and family

I am so lucky to have good friends and family!! Yesterday was my birthday, and BlackeyedSue made the nicest tribute to me for my birthday. Thanks BlackeyedSue. It made me cry. Oh, everything makes me cry my hormones are going wild. However, it was really touching. She also took me and lil' buckaroo into her home and her heart. She had me come over to her house and spend the day. She made me a chocolate cake, the quickest way straight to my heart, and my gut. It's my birthday, good thing I don't have to watch what I eat on my birthday! It was beautiful and it tasted divine. If only I could get her to make me a birthday cake more often. To bad I only have one birthday a year.

My sister-in-law in CA sent me a book and some slippers. They were a great surprise too! I thought the book was hilarious, my Gramma gave me a card with some birthday $, I got a card from my aunt J with a gift certificate and another card from my Mom and Dad. We all (parents, BlackeyedSue, brother, sister, sisters husband and monkey, gramma, and grampa, and aunt J) went out to eat to my favorite little Italian restaurant downtown. I had a really good time. I know Cowboy was super happy that they stepped up and treated me so good, because he really couldn't(Yeah, he is away on business).

This cake was so tasty, the pictures don't do it justice. The lighting in my kitchen sucks!

I had a piece right before bed. MMMmmm!!!

That chocolate filling in the middle....Almost as good as an orgasm! Hey I just had a baby, in all honesty it'll be a while, but this will hold me over.

My Gramma brought this blanky she made for lil' buckaroo to dinner, it is so beautiful, and whatever she washed it in smells so good. The yarn is really soft too. I just wanted to show it off, things that are made with love should be shared.

This is just a picture of lil' buckaroo just for the heck of it. He has one big baby zit!! Just look close. Isn't it a cute baby zit? Whatever.

I just want to thank you all for your sweet comments, and I want to thank all of my good friends and family for being so good to me. I hope I get the opportunity to repay all of your goodness and kindness someday! I love you all so much, and you know who you all are.

I really do know how to spell Grandma & Grandpa, I prefer to spell them how I say their names though. That, and I'm not really formal.

Another Baby Update

So, I promised Cowboy I would try to post as often as I can (about lil' buckaroo...he wants to see as much of him as he can, and quite frankly so do I)), because you know, I have a boatload of free time on my hands. So when I was done feeding the goats, and the dogs, and the stray cats, and myself, and buckaroo I found the time to put up a post.

I spy with my little eye...Something missing....


That's right, no umbilical cord!! It fell of when lil' buckaroo was 11 days old. Good thing, it really creeped me out. If you look close he has a super deep belly button, just like me, and all of my sisters! Really it like a cavernous pit, your lucky to ever be able to see the back side. (think energizer bunny, it keeps going, and going)

now you know all about my belly button, as well as my sisters...hhmmm

I stressed him out enough he found his thumb. What a comforting thumb it is too.

We are working on the whole binky thing. Heaven help us, and let this work. He really was only posing for this picture, so I can't black mail him later when he brings home a girl to have his children and be his wife and I talk her out of having his children, because who wants children who don't take binkies. Don't be fooled, he is simply not interested.

The thumb is so much better/cuter, anyways.

Finding our normal

Today, Cowboy went away on business again. I cried, I always cry when he leaves to go on business. This time it was different, I cried knowing that he wouldn't be able to see lil' buckaroo for seven days. I cried knowing I am going to be alone and solely responsible for this little guy. I cried because I am scared, I feel very overwhelmed. I love our life and the time we get to spend together and I survive the time we are apart. Who said life was easy? Today, i feel like its not.

However I did get a pleasant surprise that helped!

My friend Heather showed up in the afternoon, with all of these groceries, and said she was going to make me a late lunch. I was so happy for the company. It was like she knew I needed a little pick-me-up. She made chicken fajitas, and they were scrumptious.

She did all the work, clean up and all!!

Sizzlin'

Isn't she cute, she was a sport to let me take her picture. (She declined but I persisted and she is darling! It also helps that I was the one holding the camera and there was really no where for her to run and hide.)

Let me tell you, theses were tasty. Heck! Anything that I don't have to cook myself is tasty!

Thanks Heather!! Lunch was great, and You are welcome to make me lunch anytime. It was the perfect distraction.

Valentine's Day Part Two

Did I mention I love sugar cookies

The finished product, Cowboy and I did a good job, didn't we?

Cowboy made this manly cookie thinking it looks like the perfect target/bullseye. I think I shattered all of his creativity when I walked up behind him and said, "Is that one supposed to be one of my sore, bruised, nursing boobs?

Poor Cowboy

This is one of my finer creations of the night.

We hope all of you had a great V-day. Sorry I continue to be behind. Being late is the story of my life.

Valentines Day Part Uno

We couldn't really go out for a Valentine's date this year (I currently have a living breathing creature who thinks he need to remain attached to one of my two boobs every other hour, not conducive to going out), since we didn't want to give up a chance to bond, we made sugar cookies, got a RedBox dvd, and stayed home.

Look at how manly Cowboy looks!! Oooh those mucsles...

Lil' Buckaroo gets to be involved, because really why even post if I'm not going to include him. More of those muscles!! Mmmm...

Sugar cookie dough, I love sugar cookies

These are oven ready baby!!

Lil' Buckaroo

I have been M.I.A. Sorry. I really, really am. I have a very good excuse though...I do.

Wasn't it nice of Cowboy to post our baby update, and even nicer of BlackeyedSue to come up with the perfect bloggy name for our baby!! Thanks!! We thought it was just perfect so it stuck.

Lil' buckaroo is really bruised, he has two black eyes, and he looks like he was punched in the nose. I feel guilty about how beat up he looks, its a good thing their were plenty of witnesses to back us up in case social services came knocking down our door!

I am doing really well, however when everyone shares their baby-birthing stories they all forget to include the part where it feels like a hand grenade went off in your hind end. I can't imagine that I am the only one who feels like this. I hope its normal. Other than that all is well with me. Cowboy is doing great too, he is already sleeping thrugh the night. Lucky.

Lil'buckaroo is doing really well to, he isn't lucky like Cowboy though, no sleeping throught the night...hhmmmm.. Maybe later in life. He's gone and got himself a case of the jaundice. His levels are high, and he is attached to a billiblanket. He looks like a little glow worm all the time, he needs to be on the blanket for eighteen hours a day. Things are looking up for him. We might be rid of the blanket by the weekend if he improves. We should know tomorrow. For now we are just enjoying him, yellow skin and all!!!

Howdy Little Buckaroo

We've been absent because our little buckaroo decided to rodeo into town about 5 weeks ahead of schedule. Weighing in at a healthy 6 lbs. 4 oz. and 19 inches long he is healthy and happy and we are so glad that he arrived safe and sound.

In Living Color!!

Today when Cowboy and I were outside, the only thing with more color than my red coat was the rich blue sky. It got me pondering about how there is this constant lack of color during these cold, white, bland months.

I have some pictures from last Spring, they were of some flowers in my garden. I dabble with taking pictures, not the human kind, mostly objects that don't move, say cheese or make faces. To be totally honest live, in-person, actual posing people terrify me. I prefer scenery, flowers, trees in the fog, sunsets, frost covered branches, and other easy posers. I am very much an amateur and I don't often show them. I am going to take a risk and put them up just to see a spark of color. I hope you enjoy!

p.s. if I get positive feedback I might show you some more.

Reasons I Might Be Scarce This Week

I know that excuses are a pitiful way of getting out of things. I will make my three posts this week though (Bloggy War folks don't start teasing me just yet.) I have some very valid excuses:

-Cowboy comes home from business today!!!! Enough said. (most important excuse) I can pretty much just stop now, but I will keep going so everyone who reads this blog won't think I am a love-sick, mushy, sappy kind of girl.

-I have to have a bedroom plastered, primered and painted before Wednesday (with his help of course)

-Plan a YW lesson for Sunday so I'm not up late Saturday night doing it

-Register at the Wal-mart for a baby shower being thrown for me on Saturday. (that's scheduled for tomorrow morning.)

-Those crafts I posted about, they are all a bit further than they were, one is done, they continue to haunt me.

-My car needs to go to the shop

-I have social needs that must be met, I do have to leave this house in the boonies sometimes. Tog go anywhere and back you can plan on at least the volume of one hour, usually more. *In fact I've never been away for less than one hour.

-Filing, Filing, and more FILING!! it's tax time silly. Who keeps current on that stuff anyways?

-cook, laundry, clean, vacuum, dust, dishes, blog, take dogs to the groomers, feed the goats everyday, feed the mutts, get Cowboy a Valentine's gift (I wonder what to get for a rough rugged Cowboy this year....Any ideas?), file my fingernails and beautify my toenails, cross things off my much more detailed list than this one.

-go nursing bra shopping, something I have no clue how to do...hmmmm. Not sure where to start.

- I got a harebrained idea that I'm going to make sure all of Cowboy's sisters get birthday gift this year, good hell he has seven of them, and I am two behind already. It's only February. I need to get those two out of my way. will the crafting ever end? I'm an idiot.

-I usually meet with my aunt J to do something during the week. Never anything important or planned she will call me as she is coming down the canyon, and we run her errands, or I tell her what time of day I need to go to the Wal-Mart and she sill meet me there. We really wouldn't even have a relationship if it wasn't for the Wal-Mart. so I can't leave her off the list.

-My cute Cowboy would really like to see his nieces this week, so We've got to coordinate this with their moms. I love that he loves them.... I'm pretty sure they love him to..He's not sure why, he only teases them.

That's my list, let's all be a little religious and take a minute.....Say a very nice prayer for me.......Thank You! That was very nice.

Now I'm signing off, and getting to work!

I'll be back (imagine the terminator voice) Ugghh!