Bring you up to speed on my life

This is for my family and friends who I have neglected in the past 7 months. In March a fella we know called me one evening and asked me to take him to pick up his kids in Pueblo. We picked them up and were almost home at 1am when he told the kids that they would be staying with us for a few days while he got his house ready for them. I'm thinking to myself...I don't know if I am up to this but go along with it. I will call them Jim and Sue for their privacy. Jim was 6 and Sue 10 at that time and the poor little ones were so scared and here they were left with us. I will add that Sue has Cerebral Palsy and is wheelchair bound. She has severe spastic quadriplegia. Anyway the cutest little kids and so polite and thankful for us coming for them. Anyway the kids got us trained right away on how to take care of them and I helped their dad enroll them in school. After they were with us for around 5 weeks their dad went to jail and their mom hadn't called or came so I had no choice but to go to DSS because the children had medical needs that I did not have authorization to help them with. They have been with us for 7 months now and are doing well. These two little ones have really touched our lives and we hope we have been good for them also. We had to go through training and all that to be a foster family so the kids could stay with us in our home. We don't know how long they will be with us but it makes us feel good to be able to help them out. Our girls have been so good to help and teach the kids about farm life (they came from the city). That is a great report card when you have the chance to see your own kids helping others and being responsible young adults. Greg's family and my family have been so good to accept the kids and help out. We are surely blessed and we know the lord brought these little darlings to us for a reason. Maybe it was to make us appreciate how wealthy we are even if we don't have a lot of $$$$$$.

Hard time saying goodby to Summer

Today I am having the hardest darn time seeing my flowers dead and the thought of no more weekend rodeos is killing me. I know that when one door closes another one opens but I am really holding on to this one. Maybe it is knowing that my oldest daughter is a Jr. in High School and slowly slipping out of my nest. So here I sit blogging or blubbering. This photo really hits me on how this portion of my life is flying right by. I remember when I watched my little Kassie come flying in at 6 years old in the same arena...to that same barrel

Now she is all grown up...that's enough of my pitty party so now I will get siked up for Basketball season and go on.

I will get my simple pleasures from reading your blogs and knowing someone out there is still able to ride and enjoying a little bit of warm weather.

toodles