Playdate with Camille

Here is Brianna with her friend Camille.....Brianna is so much more contemplative and less active than Camille, who is only 2 days older. It's really interesting to see their different personalities developing..... They are both really cute together! ( I'm not biased am I? ; )

Yosemite!! Fun times with the Beckers!

WE were fortnunate enough to be invited to visit the Beckers at their cabin in Yosemite for MLK day weekend. We had such a blast.... the kids enjoyed the snow, even though we missed the innertubing at Badger Pass-- ( that trip will be know as "the most inconvenient lunch we could ever have had with kids"! And will go down in our memories! Rock Band was played by all---- a few new stars were born with the Yose Mites. There were many fans of them under 3 years of age! After the kids went to bed , the adults got to play games! We played Pictionary and the women beat the men.... and the CoitKirkSOns whomped the FItzBeckOises...... We do apologize for that landslide of a victory-- NOT REALLY! ; ) Many memories were created.... we hope to be invited back again! And as an aside... that was Rob's FIRST trip to Yosemite, as well as Brianna's ( although that's not as surprising! ; )

First trip to the snow!

Betsy, Justin, Sydney and the Hodgson clan ventured out to find snow the other day ..... we ended up stopping along the side of the road on the way to the snow park to build our snowman. Brianna may not even have realized that we were at the snow, but she enjoyed the time with her parents anyways...... Betsy and Sydney created a great snowman which Brianna was fascinated by! Oh, the joys of childhood!

How cute am I?

Here is Brianna trying on her new hat and boots for the snow!! ;)

First Christmas tree

Here's Brianna's first Christmas tree! Now it's planted on our property! How's that for recycling!?

I love my new sweater!

Mimi made a beautiful sweater for Brianna for Christmas....although it's a little big still, it's so adorable.... and it makes her look all grown up!

Goat and Me!

Goat loves his little girl.... he often times just sleeps next to her, or strokes up against her. And when Brianna sees her Goat she smiles a HUGE smile-- she loves him!! One day Brianna will be confused about what a "GOAT" is! ; )

Very behind......in Blogs. A Few pictures

OUR LITTLE GIRL!! Her happy smile, reading with dad, and her new highchair!

SOLD!!!

And noone believed that I could do it! I had my first sale of a product of my breeding program. Cloud, Telli's second colt, who is three years old, sold to a woman named Lesla who absolutely loves him! She can't believe how well behaved he is as a young horse! She was even able to dress him up as her princess mount this Halloween! I'm very excited that I sold him on many levels.... He sold for $7,500 so I actually made a profit on him. ( I still am in the red for my whole horse operation though...... good thing I can write it off on my taxes!) It's great to have money coming in to pay for my HAY!!! and the rest of my horse addiction! I did it!! and I will do it again!

Rags is Reserve Champion Colt of Inspection!

This year I took my two foals to the ISR/Oldenburg inspection in August. Brianna was only about 5 weeks old and she went too! Luckily a friend of mine took care of her all day since I was totally involved with the horses and stressed to boot! I never would have survived this day without the help of my friends, especially Kris, Wendy, and Rachel. Well, I'm very happy to say that my breeding program this year excelled!! I had two colts, Rags, and Lightning. Lightning is Telli's foal and he is full of spunk. He is bred more for dressage while Rags is bred for the hunter world. Lightning got an amazing score for his movement..... an 8.5 out of a possible 9.0! His overall score was 8.1 which is awesome! Telli's last baby got an overall 7.9 2 years ago. Then there was Rags.... he scored an overall 8.3 which was high enough to earn him the second best of the foal crop that showed up-- about 12 foals. I'm so proud! I've always loved the breeding.. and the thought of putting two different genomes together.... it's like what Ali and I used to pretend with model horses- now I get to do it in REAL life! YEA!!! I have high hopes for these two foals.... Rags had someone fly up from LA to come see him.... I haven't heard anything from her since, so say a prayer that I sell him! (The foal in the last photo is Lightning.. you can see that he has very different movement than Rags, better for dressage.)

This is my friend Camille... She's my first friend. She's two days older than me and she lives only a few miles away. Her mom's name is Colleen and she does Stroller Strides, an exercise group that Camille and I get to go to, with my mom. We are going to go to Camille's house for Halloween. I'm going to be Tigger and Camille is dressing up like a pumpkin. Maybe mom will post some pictures of how cute we are later..... I'm off to sleep now..... eat, play, sleep. Such is the life!

Mom's breast buddies!

Here are some of my friends from my breastfeeding success group! Rob calls it my gab session..... he's really right. It's a time for moms with babies to gather, nurse together, and TALK!!! Like every woman needs! But it is kind of cool because we get to weigh the babies weekly to make sure that they are growing, etc. Brianna seems to be doing OK. These pictures were taken on the Breastfeeding Awareness walk! Did you know that BREAST IS BEST!? ; )

The Pumpkin Patch

Last weekend we went to Susanville to visit with the Hodgson side of the family. It was a great little get together. Brianna met her cousins and Uncle for the first time! The weather was wonderful and a fun time was had by all! Carol works at the pumpkin patch every year..... Zech and Grace both picked out a pumpkin for Brianna's first Halloween--- Uncle Rob wanted the pumpkins to be small "like a baseball or smaller"! I don't think he wants to have a big pumpkin around to rot on the doorstep this year!

Genelle's wedding

Brianna had fun at her third wedding in her three month life! She was a very good little girl as we enjoyed ourselves at my friend Genelle's wedding in San Jose. We went down for the event and drove home the same night... on the way home, both of us wished that we could get in the car seat with Brianna and just sleep!

Goofing around

Do you think Rob is having fun with his daughter? He goes off to change her diaper and comes back like this! ; ) Poor little Brianna..... she will get him back one day!

Last week, Brianna and I ventured to Lodi to see Betsy's new place. It is huge and looks beautiful already! Although they've only been there for 3 weeks, they already have painted the whole outside and have appointments to put in hardwood floors and redo the carpet! WOW!! I've been here 4 years and have done nothing to my house! Maybe I should consider doing something soon to keep up with the Jones's, I mean Meyer's!
It was fun to see Sydney... one day she and Brianna can be playmates!

Sip and See

I was in Fresno this weekend for my mom's famous SIP and SEE for her grandchildren. This one was for my little Brianna! We had an extended party, starting at 10 am when we were stillin our PJ's, and ending at 5pm! And the party was supposed to be from 1-3pm! My mom had accidentally sent out a few invites with the wrong time on them-- they said from 10-12pm! So, we had two attendees Joanna Stilson, and Karen Spencer-- obviously the "S" names were affected--- who came before the party was ready... This was a little stressful to my mom but she did a superb job of pulling it off in spite of this!! Noone else would have know except that we told everyone since we were laughing so hard about it!
Brianna was a good little girl, a little clingy to her mom but overall was good at being passed around to "real" moms. i.e. those who had successfully raised a child or two! ; ) Kirra got a chance to meet her cousin and hold her too!! All in all, a very fun visit. Thanks MOM!

Daddy dressed me

Well, today Rob dressed Brianna. We were going to church since it was Sunday. We now affectionately call it her BAM BAM outfit. She was accused of being a boy! Can you believe it!?

Apple Hill visit

Rob and I decided to take a little trip to Apple Hill. All went well until "the breakdown"-- when Brianna decided that she had had enough! My little girl has some lungs!! Here are some pictures... also some pictures of her cute outfit-- Rob thinks it makes her look "fat"! ; )