THE Horse part 2.

Welp, due to circumstances, Court was unable to get the horse yesterday. Dillon's Mama was riding her horse, Peanut, Saturday in an "Extreme Competition" and Peanut accidentally threw her. She has a broken collarbone and bruised ribs. MISERY!!!! So, Court talked to her Uncle Rhett, and they're gonna wait a couple weeks to get the horse. I can't imagine the pain Angie is going through, but she's so driven with her horses, she'll be back together in no time at all!!

I'm finally off for a few days today. I had to work the entire Memorial Day weekend and I was beyond ready to get off work. Court sang at two separate events over the weekend... Let me add here that Dad took most of the pictures because I was at FREAKING WORK. The quality of his photos is improving somewhat.

The second event was held at a wall that our city put up to honor our veterans. Dad has his name on it too!

LARRY E. MCCAULEY.

He's a retired Navy submariner and yes he's heard every joke ever said about that! hee....like, "a hundred men go down in a sub., and 50 couples come back up"! tee hee. There's loads more, but I can't put them on here. : )

Here is a pic of Courtney singing there....

and here the fam is waiting on something...I wouldn't know because I was AT FREAKING WORK.

Here she is singing Sunday at another service. This isn't the most flattering picture of her, but I wanted to show the bagpipers in the background.

Notice her tan? She works at a tanning bed place.

WAIT! The dress she has on here is the one Ashley wore at Britt's baby shower! I just noticed that!! I can't believe Ashley didn't stuff it in her suit case before she flew back to Seattle! She must have forgot to.

That's about it from my neck of the woods. Everyone is good, happy and excited about the baby coming, Ashley coming home for Christmas and us getting to meet her boyfriend! hee!! He wears ARGYLE sweaters (hee hee) and goes to ballets and junk.

Dillon and Brandon can't WAIT to meet this boy!

They're gonna take him snipe hunting and teach him how to spit dip out a pick up truck window so it don't blow back in your face! Real important stuff....!!

More soon!

The Horse.

After an extensive, exhaustive and exasperating search, we examined a horse this morning, expurgated those deemed execrable, and have found a horse. (whew)!

Court and Dillon's parents went to her Uncle Rhett's farm yesterday after Rhett called and said he had a horse he wanted her to look at. They went. They loved.

So, this morning, Court called Rhett and asked if I could go look at him too. We went. We loved.

Here is Rhett walking with THE horse and a few others and a mule named Connie (after Court's Aunt Connie. tee hee!!!)

I took my camera because I KNEW I would have photo ops galore and I did. The only thing was the horses thought my camera was food and my camera bag had feed in it! Me, not being horsey, didn't know if they were trying to eat ME or the CAMERA!

Here is Mama horse (the paint), Connie the Mule, and Mama horse's baby.

Mama horse is Mama to Connie and the other horse.

Here is PEP, the horse Court will most likely get. He's been extensively trained as a cow-horse and even went thru training with the Police Dept.

I am told the the hallmark of a well-bred horse is a big butt.

Hmmmm.....yup!

Here are all the pics I took from this morning. https://picasaweb.google.com/112298489614175847253/RhettSHorse#

Walking thru that tall grass has made me itchy.

I'm gonna make this short so I can go scratch.

Later.

GUITAR RECITAL~

and I was AWESOME! Actually, I was terrible, but whatev. I had fun!

NO, that's not me singing...I'm trying to get my hands from shaking so badly. I don't know WHY I was so freaking NERVOUS!

Dad didn't perform this time. He had a Cardio Ablation on Thursday and is still very sore. It worked tho thank goodness, and his heart is now beating normally! I was worried if he tried to do the recital, he'd get so nervous, his heart would get back out of rhythm again. All is good!

So, what did everyone else do while I shook my brains out on the stage?

and....

They talked and giggled and talked and...TALKED.

Mom has met her match with Brandon (Britt's boyfriend). I'm not sure who can talk more. Britt, Court and Dillon held up the back row and were much more behaved.

Afterwards, we sat out in the restaurant part and watched Brandon consume a HUGE banana split in about 3 minutes. A-mazing.

Dad took all these pictures and will be giving me more today, so I'll be adding them on here as I get them. He took pictures of my fans MOBBING me after my performance... embarrassing, but I'm used to it. I'll put them on here too.

More soon!

Baby Shower Pics Part 2

Dad finished up the pictures he took at the shower and I believe he took a picture of everyone. If not, it was because they ran!

Here are a few of my favs and then at the end of this post, I'll put a link to all the pictures.

This is a picture of the girls, Donna and Deanna....

One of them looks like her Mama, the other three don't! hee

Here is a GREAT GREAT pic...and Dad didn't even take it! It's GREAT because of the subject matter....MEEEEEEEEEEE! hee

here's a good one of Will...

Here is a good one of Mother, Son and Wife...

Darrell...here's a good one of your Ma...

Here's one of my Mother, Britt's boyfriend (Brandon), Court's boyfriend (Dillon), Donna and G'ma Terry.

There are over a hundred more here....

https://picasaweb.google.com/larry29662/BrittanySBabyShower7May2011?authkey=Gv1sRgCPaeqaPSodm0qAE#

Dad did a fantabulous job and his next assignment, which will cover many MANY years, will be capturing many more happy memories of family, new babies and whatever else we all do!

Thank-you to everyone who joined with us in preparing Brittany for her first arrival.

Hopefully the younger generation will continue these traditions and continue passing them down...with the help of Dad's pictures and more importantly, loads of family and friends!!!!

More soon!

Brittany's Baby Shower

WHAT a day! Thanks to everyone who helped out, hauled, prepped, showed up and HELPED (did I already say that??), it was a HUGE success!

**I want to add a very special THANK YOU to my brother and his family who provided us with the beautiful venue to hold the shower, helping hands, beautiful smiles and all the other hundreds of ways they helped yesterday. You all made it the perfect day!

Dad, thankfully, was the camera man! He took above average pictures (I didn't take my camera because I had to schmooze), and they all turned out really good! I don't have all of them yet, so if you don't see a picture of someone who was there, it's coming!!!

Here are the girls!

Dad hasn't sent me all the pictures yet, so I don't hve pictures of everyone there, but the following are just a small sample..

Here are the girls with their cousins...

Let me just add here that I don't know what I would have done without Lauren and Alex yesterday. My gene's are just astounding and really need researching! REALLY!

Here is me with Deanna, who is equally beautiful! It's nice having her staying so close to us!!

Here is Mom with Brandon, Brittany's boyfriend. I just HAVE to say that I have NEVER met anyone who could equal my mother in talking, but he has equaled her, if not passed her. I asked him the other day, HOW does he catch so many fish when he talks so much! He replied back that he "never seen a fish that had ears!" HAAAAA!!! He is a WONderful boy and we all just feel SOOO lucky he is in our lives! That's his Mom and sister sitting behind Mom.

I don't have all Dad's pictures yet, but here is a group shot of some of the guests...

Darrell~~ You can see Will, Angie and Trish, Sandra and Summer and Summer's daughters Erin and Alex (whose head is in a bag). Dad will add more pics of the family today and I'll post them here for y'all!

Here is Britt and Moi EATING! Before the shower began, Dad went to McDonald's and got a bunch of hamburgers and fries to feed us. THANKFULLY he did, because it was all most of us ate until after the shower! THANKS DAD!

Also, before the shower, the girls all had time to get in a little volleyball...here is Ash and Deanna playing/posing...

and Court and Lauren...

Here is me, Ash and my brother, Larry jr.

I KNOW, I know...how did all the good looks go to me. I've asked myself that before.

Here are the girls and they're friend, Allston and Deanna...

I'll be adding more pics on here as Dad sends them to me.

Britt had a wonderful shower and was surrounded by very loving, caring and beautiful family and friends!

More soon~

Baby Shower Prep!

Tomorrow is the BIG EVENT! Well, minor, Big Event. The shower! Alot of prep time has gone into this and it should be fantabulous! We're headed out today to get everything together, pick up the cake, table cloths etc....tomorrow, it will take all us with vehicles to pick everything up and get it to the shower. My Dad is taking pictures tomorrow, so although adequate, there will be pics. ha

No pictures to add today due to my not taking any! AND, I want to add here that my girls are getting more and more reluctant to even let me take their pictures! VERY frustrating.

Anyways...more to come after the shower!!!!

Also, it's SOOOOO good having Ashley home! She has just added what was needed to make our family complete!

More soon!

Easter and ASH IS HOME!

What a great last few days! It started with Easter. We got up super early, everyone got all fru-fru'd up and we headed to church. I took pictures before we left out...

Britt is 7 months pregnant here. This is the dress she'll also wear at her baby shower.

You KNOW they have to clown around too...

Here is a good one of Court...she works at a tanning bed, so she is getting dark!

Britt is NOT tanned in any way, fashion or form...

Next was the Royal Wedding! YES, we were one of the BILLIONS that got up to watch the big event. We did it "Southern Style" complete with Krispy Kreme donuts, chocolate milk and a center piece...my mater plant.

Then, later on that day, ASHLEY CAME HOME for a few days!

Two car loads went to the airport to haul her home...

this is a bad picture, but notice her smile?

She was SOOOO happy! The two boys beside her are Britt and Court's boyfriends...

It's been fantabulous having her home!

SOOO, after that was Courtney's horse show.

We all loaded up and headed to it!

Court and Lady won two 1st Place ribbons!

Deanna went to her first horse show and got some love from Lady too....

Angie, who is Dillon's Mom, rode Peanut, who ALSO won several 1st place ribbons...

So, what did Ashley do during this you ask? What she does best...tanning and scoping out the hot guys on horseback...

and make faces...

Here I am with Ash and Lilly, Angie's new puppy...

Here Mom and I are...

and family...

Here Court and Angie are competing...I will neither confirm nor deny Dad taking any of these next few, average, adequate photos....

and more riding...

and more riding...

That's it for the moment! I'M OFF WORK FOR THE NEXT 13 DAYS. So, hopefully, I'll be taking loads of pics while my baby is home and Britt's baby shower, and Britt's 4D ultrasound and tons more stuff! We're all SOOOO excited!

More soon!