THAT DAMN Clancey!

Merr had HAND Surgery in

September, That Damn Clancey took some really BAD photos at the Panda Express in Scottsdale before Dickie drove me home...............ya think your kids like you HAHAHA. Mylea took these photos and they are not much better that Clancey's.........just glad it is over and hope to get to start riding and rope few before the snow flies! Dr. Fitzmaurice and the nurses were sorta shocked when I was able to answer all the questions "NO".......like Do you Smoke? Drink ? etc. Sorta makes you appreciative for the way you were raised. I am regaining strength everyday and even helped get the cows and calves moved back to the State Lease and unload the panels on Monday (I used my arms ....I swear) So life is good once again to ole' R.V.

SOCCER TIME

With FALL comes Soccer Season , Clancey at MCC and Mylea with the Sting Rays of RV. Myleas team was undeafeated this year as she scored 12 goals for the Season.

She was the oldest on her team............next year she'll be the youngest and start all over. Clancey on the other hand, still flipping around has 2 Goals thus far and 4 assists 2 of them on the Flip Throw-In They have not won too many games this year, but he really likes his coach and says the team is waay more unified. Dickie and I have spent the last 6 Saturdays along with Wes and Amanda at one Soccer field or another! Wes and Amanda's dog LUNA entertained the kids at the 1/2 times fetching the ball. Some games there were 1/2 a dozen kids sitting with us hoping to get a chance to throw the ball for Luna..............yes, we know LUNA you loved every minute of it!

Mylea TURNS 8

Mylea's Baptism was a little bit different that the boys. She had helped her dad and Steve Udall gather our Bull loaned to the Udalls back in August. Steve made the mistake of asking her how old she was .........and well he got the whole I'm turning 8 in 2008 Baptism Speech. Steve told her that some of his grandkids had been baptized in his pond. That did it. The next thing I knew, we were planning a "Pond Baptism" The day of the Baptism, it rained all morning, during church, and after, we wondered if the would really happen and then abour 2:00 it stopped, we drove out to the pond, set up the chairs. People started coming and the sun broke through the clouds. It was truly beautiful ! There were mares and colts turned out on a hill close by and calves in the field beside the pond. As the baptism started, the horses came to the edge of the cliff and the calves came to get a drink in the pond. Everything was so clean and pretty from the rain..................what a great memory. Thanks Mylea for trying something so unique!

Labor Day Weekend -

Labor Day brought a lot of crazy FUN. Mylea's Last Rodeo of the Summer. We were afraid Leaf Getter might not perform well for Mylea as she got in the barn and helped herself and her side kick Jigsaw to about a 1/4 sack of Sweet Feed. Off to the Vet! Dr. Pew in St. Johns tubed Leaf Getter and Jigsaw and we took them home watching them close for 2-3 days. The Labor day Rodeo was 12 days from the incident. Leaf Getter, with a few prayers and tender loving care by Mylea, ran her best of the Season. Cinching things up winning the Barrel Racing Buckle, the Pole Bending Buckle 4th in the Goat Ribbon Pull and the All-Around Cowgirl Title for the 2008 Season. For a little girl that would'nt even trot last summer, she had a Smokin' 2008 Season. We are really proud of her............and yes you too Leaf Getter.

Time for School

I can't believe how fast the summer has flown by this year. Here is is august and Mylea is ready to start school WOW! She is very excited to go to a new school. Her adopted brothers are walking her to school. Mucho thank yous to Tanner and Cordell, yer' the best! We are about to wind down the summer with The Rodeo Club Finals coming up at the end of the month. We have had a great time, but are glad to through for the Season. We will be gearing up soon for SOCCER here is R.V. that pretty much takes the Saturdays up for September. Kody and Clancey are starting their seasons at College, Football for Kody and Soccer for Clancey. Marlen and Cassey are playing Frosh and J.V. Volleyball........boy do I feel old. It will be a FUN FALL time as the County Fair is around the corner, Mylea and I are planning to enter our flowers again and she just informed me whe can enter her chickens as well......................not sure if that will happen but we will see.

Pioneer Days in St Johns, AZ.

We took Mylea to the Jr Rodeo in St. Johns on Thursday. What a crazy day. Mylea had a super fun Day, she and Leaf Getter won 4th in the Barrel Race with the time of 20.68 and 2nd in the Pole Bending with a time of 28.02. Both times are her personal BEST! They really stepped up as a team and all their hard practice at home paid off. It was really hot and between events we shed our shoes and socks to cool off a bit. What memories I have from this Rodeo , some good and some not so good. Dickie and I visited with lots of old friends that we competed against when we were 1st married. It was great to see them and their families still carrying on the tradiition of "Rodeo" for the Pioneer Day Celebration.

Dickie's Birthday

We celebrated Dickies Birthday in the middle of the 4th of July celebration at the fireworks. We drove up past Larry's house and out past Coyote as far as we could parked the truck, got out the lawn chairs, cranked up the Lantern, ate cake, sang, watched the Fireworks, and then tried to take a special Birthday party photo. As you can see some of us are having a better time than others. We ended the Fun weekend at a roping in Pinetop. Clancey roped well but missed his 3rd steer to win the roping., what bummer!......can't win'em all. It rained and rained some of us went bowling and some of us stayed, heck we were wet anyhow! What a great Holiday!