Fun At The Stockyards

One of my best friends, Deena, had told us about Family Day at the Stockyards in celebration of St. Patrick's Day on Saturday. The weather was questionable most of the day, but by 2:30 we decided to start getting ready to go. Peyton was over for a few hours while her parents worked so we brought her with us. It was kind of a dreary day but it warmed up enough to go. We got there right about 4:00, when the free pony rides were supposed to end. Luckily for us they were still doing them by the time we walked over there. The Girls were so excited driving there and talking about riding the ponies, so I was VERY relieved they had the chance! However, once we got there Peyton decided she didn't want to ride one. She said "those aren't ponies, those are horses". LMAO! I explained to her that a pony was a baby horse but then she said "they're going too fast". Okay, now it's clear to me she is just scared and doesn't want to ride because these ponies were going 0.0002 mph! Even Addy rode one! I even bribed her with candy and she still refused! I was disappointed, but I'll get over it. I just wanted her to experience it. Peyton is usually fearless so I'm not sure what was going on. Ashleigh on the other hand ran right up and was ready to hop up! Here are some pics from the fun:

Addy being escorted by her Daddy:



Ashleigh loving it:



Such a Cutie CowGirl:



Our beautiful CowGirl Ashleigh:




At least Peyton stood in front of the ponies:

The Petting Area they had next to the horses:

Lovely Cousins - Peyton got a little dirty at the Petting Area:

Can you guess what her balloon animal is? Butterfly:

Two butterfly Girls:

Awww, I can't get enough of that smile! Am I biased? Seriously, how cute is she?

Three little cutie patooties:

So that's what we did yesterday (Saturday). Today the Rogers were nice enough to invite us over for lunchner because they were cooking skirt (sp?) steak that Brian loves so much. So it was a great meal with great company! Thanks Rogers, it was great and we had a great time! I hope you liked the mashed potatoes, I couldn't get a good read. I am the potato queen...if it's a potato, I can cook it. It's the one thing I cook well...everything else is rather questionable. And my mashed potatoes are the one thing that BOTH my children will actually eat. Addy really seems to love them. But my best potato dishes are mashed, cheesy potatoes, and potato salad. We have NEVER had boxed potato buds in this house, I always make them from scratch. One of the VERY few things. One of my goals this year is to learn how to cook a few more things.

Speaking of food, Brian's Mom came over Friday evening with some homemade alfredo sauce. We cooked some fettuccine and we had ANOTHER great meal! I usually only eat Olive Garden's alfredo sauce but her alfredo sauce "from scratch" was to die for! OMG, I probably need to work out every day this week to work off all this great food!

Oh, at the Rogers today, Addy did quite a bit of walking. She even took like 4 steps at one time, several times. I actually think it was good for her to be around Jessica's kids because she was following them all around. Progress. YEA!

Our lawn guy emailed me last week to see if we wanted his services again this year. Brian and I talked about it since business has been so bad and the economy, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, hopefully business will pick up with the warmer weather, and we felt bad about him losing business (apparently he's lost 60% of his clients since last season due to the economy), PLUS we really don't think we'll have time to keep up with it. Brian will probably be working at least Saturdays over the weekend and probably the occasional Sunday. I like mowing but me and the weed eater don't get a long. Anyway, we're going to give it a go and hopefully we'll be able to afford it through the season. If not, we'll just have to cancel later on down the road. But I REFUSE to cancel the Cleaning Lady in order to afford it! LOL!

I took this picture this evening. A typical pre-bedtime scene in our house. I wanted to finally capture it.

Brian still hasn't hung the darned memo boards. He said he'll do it tomorrow (like I haven't heard that before, LOL) so hopefully I'll have a picture for you next time. :-) I hope you all have a GREAT week! Ashleigh is on Spring Break this coming week and I'm hoping MAYBE Brian and I will be able to take just 1 day off to take the kids to the zoo or something. We'll see how the week plays out. Sleep Tight!