Bryon, Tiffini, Madisyn & Eastyn: Madi's new BFF

Monday, August 25, 2008

Madi's new BFF

This past weekend we had our Region horse show up in Logan for our riding club association. Bryon, Madi and I packed up our car and headed up to Logan about 9:30'ish on Friday morning. We were a little bit apprehensive about taking Madi up there to camp in a tent all night but we went anyway. We got up there about 11:30 and had just enough time to change our clothes and had to be in the arena to show. My team did alright, no complaints, we just weren't fast enough to move on to state. Anyway, that was my only event up there so we had the whole rest of the weekend to hang out and support our other club members in all of their events. Madi has recently decided that she LOVES to ride the horses! My friend JoDee's little brother Andy puts her up on the horses just about everytime he holds her, hence, Madi has a new best friend! We would be sitting in the bleachers and if JoDee or Andy rode by Madi would start whining and reaching for them! Luckily for Madi, Andy didn't have too many events and he was able to take her around a lot. Here are some of their precious moments this weekend.

Here Madi is just checking everything out from the back of a horse.

Here, Madi and Andy are out riding in the arena during the cow cutting

Ta Da!!! Madi is doing her best impression of a Queen wave

And here is our little future Maverick, taking the reins and ready to join!

After a full day of riding, Andy and Madi were pretty tired, they were perfectly content to take a nap under a tree in the cool breeze.

Jake & Tana were nice enough to let Madi use their tub in their trailer after an unfortunate diaper incident that ended up needing 3 people to take down. Wow, what a mess! Here is Madi after her tub chilling on the blanket like nothin' happened.....

During the Cow Cutting, we sat in the bleachers and watched and tried to keep Madi occupied while Jodee and Andy were busy. She decided it would be fun to play with Dad's sunglasses. How cute is she?

The weekend turned out better than we planned. Madi was really good for the most part and most of our club members moved on in everything they did. Some even placed 1st in their events. Way to go Mavericks!!!!

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5 New things you may not know about Madi

- She knows how to spell her name and has for a while now.
- She is incredibly smart! She picks up everything like a sponge! We have to watch what we say around her, she already has 2 swears in her vocab and knows how to use them.... Oops!
- She REFUSES to be potty trained! She knows what she is supposed to do, she just doesn't want to. She can be SO stubborn... definitely her momma's child!
- She loves to play with trains. Who woulda thought?
- She never really out-grew the security spoon thing. Her spoons have just grown in size along with her. She now plays AND sleeps with my big wooden cooking spoons.

5 ThInGs you may NoT KnOw about BrYoN

* Bryon is a movie junkie! He has a massive collection and loves to go see any and all movies in the theater
* Bryon doesn't like to watch sports on TV. He LoVeS to play baseball and football and even watch them in person, but he can't sit through a game to save his life. One of the reasons I love him so much! Ü
* Bryon's jaw PoPs! I mean, it POPS! He had broken his jaw years back and it now makes a really loud PoPiNg noise. Just listen......
* Bryon is a CoWbOy! He is a true, blue, RoPiN', RiDiN' CoWbOy! Who would have thought!?
* Bryon is an AmAzInG father and husband! He treats us both better than we deserve and works day in and day out to make sure we have everything we could ever want! WE LOVE YOU HONEY!

....But Oxygen is good for you.

....But Oxygen is good for you.

Not long after Madi was born we noticed that she would gasp for air when she slept. We asked her Doctor about it and at first he checked her throat and didn't find anything, so he told us that all babies do that and not to worry. The problem was, she never stopped and I couldn't stop worrying. At her next appointment I again asked him about it and he said that as a precaution we would have her hooked up to a monitor for a couple of days and test her to see where her levels were. He said that the alarm might go off but not to worry. Well the alarm NEVER quit! Now we have an appointment with a specialist on October 1st. Wish us luck that everything is ok and that she will be better soon!

Georgie was SO sick!

Georgie was SO sick!

Not long after we bought George he got really sick. We were really worried about him and didn't know what we were going to do. After about a week with the vet it was discovered that he had very severe ulcers (apparently his cushy life was just too much to handle!) When he came home he had an IV line sewn into his neck and we had to give him lots of meds! He laid in his stall all day and it was so sad to watch! But he pulled through like a champ and he is back to rockin and rollin! We love this guy!

Buddy Boy

Buddy Boy

This is Buddy. Bryon bought buddy when we started dating. He was looking for a dog and I found him on the internet. Bryon just had to have him! He was such a cute puppy. It took some adjusting to get used to being at our house. When he was about 6 months old he was trampled by one of our horses. We had to take him to the vet to get all fixed up. Buddy hasn't quite learned his lesson yet though. He is always having close calls. I guess we'll just wait for his next emergency. In the mean time he has become an excellent bird dog and Bryon LOVES to take him duck hunting!

Sparky Park

Sparky Park

This is Sparky. He started out as a barn cat but has since turned into one of the dogs! Sparky was born in a storage box at the feed store, Saddle Up. When he and his litter mates were old enough to leave mom he didn't know how to walk. Because he was raised in a box he never had to walk. I took him home and kept him in a crate in the barn and I had to bottle feed him milk. It just so happened that at the same time, Molly was going through a false pregnancy and had milk but no babies. She felt that it was her duty to raise Sparky. She took him in an nursed him and cared for him. To this day they still love each other and Sparky eats and sleeps with the dogs. Now if he could just figure out that he is a cat and start eating the mice in the hay we would be in business!

Stormy the half faced wonder!