"Mama's Don't Let your babies grow up to be cowboys"

This week Zack had some time in between all of his haying and fun and so he took tiny lil Tom on a pony ride into the mountains. It started out with Opey leading Junior but pretty soon he just let Tom ride all on his own. Junior just follows Smokie everywhere she goes so it wasn't very difficult and he had his own lil set of sturrups that goes over the saddle horn so his feet stayed in and he rode really good. here are some of the pictures

So last night me and Thomas were cuddling in bed (Zack said he wasn't coming home so I told Tom he could sleep in bed with me) and we were looking at a book about the United States, it has flaps in it so with the states so you can learn the capital and other random information about it, so as we were going through it and I was showing Tom where Idaho was and Wyoming he all of the sudden pointed to the full map and started saying "and here we have a storm coming in from there and the storm is going to come." I stopped him and asked him what in the heck he was talking about until I realized "Duh we watch the weather on the news" It was so incredibly hilarious because the kid just spouts off like that all the time, We have been watching JW Coop a lot this week (we found the movie in dads pickup he had been hiding it why I don't know he doesn't get stuck watching the movie) and so he is back on his "I want a black cowboy hat" kick because thats what JW Coop wears. The other day him and his cousin Roan swam at our house and so I had to throw in a cute naked pictures of those to because neither of them will wear a swimming suit, Its like the blind leading the blind with those two!

Levi Budge is just as fat and happy as always, although he is starting to throw temper tantrums, the lil stink. I got some cute pics of him today and have a few other from the other day when Tom insisted he wear his cowboy hat.

Because I have the best kids ever...

The Boys with their blankys from grandma, don't know what we would do without them!!!

His legs were too fat to fit into his swimsuit, he certainly doesn't miss a meal

Daddy's lil helpers (Levi does his best by staying out of the way) and tom just mimicks everything his father does

So Tom is potty trained and has been for about a month but I didn't want to jinx it. (I guess I can't say finally because I am told most 2 year old boys aren't potty trained yet) But what they do say is true, One day he woke up and said "I want big boy underwear on", and it was done, I didn't have to fight him anymore, and today I discovered he has even taught himself to pee standing up to the toliet and doesn't make to big of a mess (he is afraid of the "worms" aka germs in public restrooms.) So one down one more to go:) Levi is the sweetest thing ever but is learning to throw temper tantrums, the other day during the middle of one tho he did say "ma ma" on purpose or not I don't care he obviously loves me the mostest!! The other day we went swimming at Lava and it was tons of fun (thanks grandma and grandpa) Levi complained less than thomas and just sat in the intertube having a good time. Tom insisted on wearing his swimsuit from the time we got up and of course the kid can't go nowhere without those cowboy boots! But I am seeing the future, the other day Tom and Opey sat in the chair and made fun of me, so thats it no more kids! Its always gonna be the 3 boys against mom, AHHH good thing I had big brothers growing up! Luckily Opey makes up for it by being the best husband and dad, the rest of the time. Always taking Tom with him and making my life a lot easier, gotta love him!

accident

The cutest fattest baby ever!

Toms newest war wound, not the greatest picture but you can get the idea

He was looking at the picture above on the computer saying "gross"

The Bull

A lot has happened in our lives this past month and I have been busy and not had time to do anything about it, We branded all of our calves and I even helped push the calves through the shoot (i know thats not how you spell that but oh well) and still have the bruises to prove it. Lil Levi is becoming more and more vocal all the time and loves the bouncer a lot, in fact he sits on the couch and screeches at me until I put him in it and then he is as happy as can be. Thomas (knock on wood) is almost completely potty trained, he really really really wants his new toy from cal ranch that we promised him. We have a new addition to the family, Opey got a new bull and loves him. I have become a bit of an ebay addict but i'm sure in time that this too shall pass. here are some of our pictures from the last month: In the picture of levi asleep in the bouncer it was his dads job this time to watch him, and you'll notice in the picture of opey holding levi, yes he did brand his arm.

haircut

so aunt tiff moved away so we gave tom a new haircut, one she would never do for me, so I did it myself and opey is SO mad!! Love it!

as you can see his nose is still scabbed from the fall he took the other day (and I guess he just fell really hard at oily's shop is the real story!)

thomas, thomas, thomas

While Levi is very sweet and cute, he just doesn't do much, his older brother on the other hand is a CLOWN. He got to spend the day with his father (the whole day) and had a ton of fun, I didn't talk to Zack at all during the day and so when thomas walked thru the door tonight I was suprised to see his poor little nose was all scraped up, As I asked him what happened, as we all know thomas the story grew and grew, and then I noticed the bandaid on his palm as well and when I mentioned it, Tom gave me a real good story, this is how it went:

Me: Tom, my goodness what happened to your hand that it needed a bandaid, did it happen when you hurt your nose?

Tom: Ya mom, I went down to Rupert and I was at the mall and there was a buckin bull, A BIG bucking bull, and I got on him and I was ridin and he was buckin, and then I fell off. (the story was somewhat longer but it was mostly gibberish with a few the bull was just so BIG in there)

ah the child makes me laugh so much and I appreciate his imagination. He obviously is filthy dirty from his fall but claims that a bath is NOT necessary. He doesn't like to take baths and so the other day I got him to take a bath in the sink in the kitchen, in levis tub. Well as he was bathing I heard him start pounding on the window hollering, "Look look i'm naked, DAD, look look at my naked butt." (all the while trying to stand up and moon his dad) I went in there and looked out the window and there was his dad standing there talking to the neighbor, Luckily they didn't hear Tom but I promise this one we did NOT teach him, its just in his blood!

Tom in all his glory showing off his owies he just wouldn't stand very still but you can kinda see the damage