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Sunday, February 6, 2011

Laundry, Livestock, and a Whole Lotta Prayin'

Hola!!  I know, once again I have slacked in the blogging department.  Here's to getting y'all up to speed on things.

LIVESTOCK
A few weeks ago, we had the Atascosa County Livestock Show.  It was a blast, as usual!  One of our good friends, Joey Van Hecke (AKA Lil Joey), won Grand Champion Steer!!  Our other good friend, (and Justin's Cousin) Theo Rogers, won Reserve.  Theo also won Steer Showmanship, with Lil Joey being Reserve.  These two are seniors, so they definitely went out with a bang!  Speaking of that, we have all had an inside joke with these guys...It seems they always show up at stock shows wearing verrrrrry similar shirts.  Usually blue long sleeve button downs.  We think they secretly plan their "twinkie" days, but don't tell them I said that!  Well, this year being their last, we thought it would be hilarious if the two went into showmanship as twinkies.  We also thought they might as well "go out in style" (the words of Lil Joey).  Here's a few pictures I so gladly took of the boys..."In STYLE!"
It's a lil' blurry, but the ARE wearing matching sweater vests!


LAUNDRY
The days following any stock show, as any ag teacher's wife, county agent's wife, stock show mom, etc. knows, are filled with LAUNDRY.  And lots of it.  I was doing my daily 432857349857 loads of laundry and was SO close to being caught up when....the knob broke off of the washing machine.  I couldn't even turn what was left of the knob with a pair of pliers!  It was done-sky.  Thankfully, our friends, The Saunders, just got a new washer and dryer and so graciously DONATED their old (to them), new (to us) washer!  YAY!  The best part about it is that I can even wash things in warm and HOT water!  The old washer was bought for me by my grandmother when Cayla Millican and I moved into our apartment in junior college.  Apparently, the hot water hook up on it didn't work.  At all. :(  I am so happy that I can now wash clothes in ANY temperature that I want!  Oh, the little things in life......

LOTTA PRAYIN'
Here it goes...
WE NEED PRAYERS!!  Why, you ask??  Cause this house just ain't cuttin' it anymore!  See, we originally planned on living here for a while, and then building a home at the back of Justin's parents' place.  Then, after getting advice from pretty much everyone who has bought/built/lived with or even near their parents/inlaws, we have decided to buy a house.  This will be for the well being of all parties involved!  We have looked at several properties in and around Atascosa and Medina Counties, and found several that we like.  There is one in Jourdanton, in particular, that we definitely would like to move forward with. 

All I have to say is PLEASE PRAY!  We were thinking that at least by the holidays, we would like to be out of this lil rent house...until Friday night.  Here's why:

At about 1:30am early Saturday morning, 3 sets of sirens flew by (We live right off of one of the main streets).  Not 5 minutes later, one gunshot was fired, followed by 4 right in a row. About 45 minutes later, after I loaded my pistol and put my rifle by the bed, an ambulance drove by (lights flashing, no siren & going the speed limit).  Justin just laughed at me the whole time, calling me CSI and asking why I wasn't in my car headed to check out the crime scene.  I, personally, think I'd be an awesome detective...I mean, I've seen like all of the CSI: Miamis! 

Well, that should catch you up on the Fab Life of the Ag Teacher's Wife for a little while, at least!!

Until we meet again............

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