Randy's Visit to the Silver M Farm

This was as much a joy for Holly and I as it was for Randy. We are always waiting for any excuse to go hang out with the Morenos at the Silver M Farm. This time though, we were excited to get Randy out there and get her out on a horse ride. Randy got to help the girls get Buckshot out of the barn and get him ready for riding. Buck seemed very happy to be out with the girls.


Randy got a some quick start lessons from James and the girls as he lead her around. Randa-lyss slowly got used to it. Them thar horses be some mighty creatures. After learning to steer Buck, James lead her a little faster and got them trotting. The girls showed us how they ride bare back and how to run barrel races. Pretty impressive. We need to get out to one of their competitions very soon.

While Randy was enjoying the ride, Holly and the boys kicked it in the shade. Holly had help from Misty Rose (miniature pony) and Bella (great pyrenees) taking care of Jeremy and Jordan. Bella was really protective of the boys. She'd stay very close to them. At one point she snapped at Bella for getting to close to Jeremy. She was all over Jordan and made sure Holly was okay and didn't need any help.

Randy meanwhile was getting pretty comfortable with Buck. Shelly took over for James helping and James headed inside to get the grill going. Randy stayed glued to Buck. She got to the point where she was able to ride around on her own. We finally got her off Buck and we were lured back to the house with the smell of grillin' burgers. Jeremy was all too happy to get back to the house and just chill out while we ate. We had to planned to jump in the pool, but it got late quick. So we eventually pulled ourselves away from our gracious hosts and hit the road. It is way too easy to forget the time and just pass the entire day and night there. Way too inviting and relaxing out there.


Can't wait to get out there again and play cowboys and cowgirls. Check out all the photos on the day at our KodakGallery Photo Album here. And of course...got plenty of video of Randy:

Holly and Randy Race To Find "It"

Loaded up a pic for Holly and Randy to see who would be the first one to find "It." What "It" is, they didn't know, but they'd know it when they find "It." I tried to be slick and catch it on film. Left the camera rolling...then being the sly cat that I am, I slowly picked it up and started recording them. Unfortunately, I'm about as sly as our fat cat Tiger II who thinks hes hiding from you cause his little head is behind the couch but his fat ol' rumpus is sticking way out. The girls were on to me and the jig was up. Still gave them a good little scare though...

Randy Is Here!! (New JAG Video)

As I mentioned before, my lil' sis Alyssa (or Randy, Randa, 'lyssa) is staying with us for a while. Zaiah is all growed up making a man of himself in the U.S. Navy, so time to bring in a new kid. Tradition dictates that when we have out-of-towners with us we take them to...CHUY'S!! We wasted no time and took 'lyssa the first day she was here. Right after Sam's football game we went for lunch at our fav Tex-Mex eatery. Oh Creamy Jalepeno, how I lub you!!

We haven't done anything exciting with Randy like we did with Zaiah in the past. Hard to go to the Gulf Coast with 2 infants. Hard to go most anywhere with 2 infants. Mostly Randy is helping Holly out a bunch at home and eating. We had pizza night where we all made our own pizzas out of biscuits! It is an old fav my pops feed us as a kid...'cept this time we used real pepperoni instead of bologna. The original was great too, making pizza is all the fun. Randy has also made an art out of making her lunch time sammiches. She eats them for lunch, breakfast, mid-morning snack, afternoon snack...after dinner snack. During one of the girls' lunch time sammich feasts...Holly got carried away and got mustard and mayo all over Jeremy.

We finally bought lots of apples and bananas. Don't want to send my lil sis back home pushing 150lbs. We do have some stuff lined up for her to work it off. Tomorrow the fam is going out to Georgetown to visit our favorite famers on the Silver M Farm. We get to go play on the farm, yea! Sounds like James plans on grillin' some good ol' fashioned burgers and dogs too. So we'll back later with farm pics I bet.

Here are the latest pics of Randy's visit and the boys [CLICK-HERE]

And finally...leave you with a random JAG video. There is a spot in the vid where Jordan grabs a hold of Jeremy's face and then decides to go digging for gold!! Gross...

El Paso Visit in October

So last month we hit the road and headed back home to El Paso. This was the last trip for a while, Holly is no longer allowed to travel. We visited with Holly's Mom and Pops, my Grandma and my Pops and the kids. Everyones doing great...we miss them all. :(  Didn't get a chance to see the rest of my family. You guys all need to move to Austin soon! Until then, you always have a place to stay here.

One of the highlights of the trip was getting to watch my lil sis (Randy) playing volleyball. They lost, in fact, I think they said that was their worse game of the season, but it was still great watching them play. Got some great pics with the pics, Holly and my Grandma and Holly and her mom, pops and Mike. Here is the PHOTO ALBUM for our El Paso trip.

We've been busy and sick, so thats why its taken me a while to post. We gotta get back to working on the baby room. We've got 2 baby showers lined up the next 2 Saturdays in a row! Both came up with great invitations...

And tomorrow night is part 2 of our wacky birthing class. Please, oh please, no more birthing videos! Ewww...