December!

We went to Las Vegas for a week and had an awesome time. Took the kids to see tons of stuff, shopped, went to the rodeo and hung out.

Kinsley in her Christmas dress and cowgirl boots. Grandma Kathy gets all the granddaughters Christmas dresses. Kinsley basically lived in hers for a week before and after Christmas. Can you believe how big she is getting?

Santa Claus made a special appearance at our house to bring Ryder a new "turtle blanket" and Kinsley a pair of dress shoes. Ryder's Aunt Tiffany and cousins made him a turtle blanket when he was born and he has packed it around since then. He left it in a motel room in Salt Lake and we were not able to get it back. Somehow Santa knew all about it and had an identical one made, just a little bit bigger! It seems to have the same stitching and homemade touch Aunt Tiffany's did! Thanks to that tall, blonde'ish elf for making Ryder's Christmas!

Then we have Todd showing Kinsley the correct way to shoot her "Brave" bow and arrow in grandma Kathy's house and boy does it fly and stick to everything!!

This is what I feel like most days about 5 pm!

Wade and Ryder watching the buckin' bull sale in Vegas, love this picture - two peas in a pod!

If you look really closely at the center of the photo there are two big black cowboy hats cheering on their favorite Nascar!!

We had a great Christmas. Lots of fun in Vegas. We are excited to start a brand new year and see what it has in store for us. I try to post some words that describe the last year, and there is usually a lot of them. So here's to 2014, goodbye, farewell and Welcome 2015, we are ready:

Cattle business
Growth
Promotion
Health
Good Loss
Endings
Beginnings
Rain
Commitment
Crafts
Derbies
Friends
Enemies
Activities
Oh, I could be here all day, better get going. In short, it was an eventful year.

Take care. Best wishes to all. What a great start to 2015, there are only better things to come.

"Don't let a bump in the road, be the end to your journey."