NFR!!!

So another part of our christmas present from Rusty's mom and dad is that every year we get to go the first three nights of the Las Vegas NFR (National Finals Rodeo). They pay for the motel and the tickets. All of his sisters and spouses come to, but none of the kids get to go. It is one of the funnest things that we get to do all year... Yes I can say "spoiled." And to Marty and Ethel, I can say "Thank You for such a great present".

This is ONLY REBA MCENTIRE

Singing the National Anthem as the Show was about to begin.

Funny Story: Every year they have these large horses just outside of the rodeo. You can go and see them before & after the show starts. Well in the year of 2007, we were outside walking around to the different things and were looking and petting these horses. This lady was standing with the horse next to us and as we looked over she was tipping a bottle of Budweiser toward this horse saying "you deserve this for all of your hard work". Well not wanting to be rude, the horse thankfully guzzled all of the bottle of beer!!! We laughed and laughed, he sure was feelin' good that night for the show.

This is Rusty's Sport, the Calf Roping...

This is Trista's Sport, the Barrel Racing...

And Finally, this is the new 2008 World Champion Saddle Bronc Rider: Cody Wright from Milford, Utah. We have been cheering for Cody at the last 6 NFR's. We know him as a family friend and it was finally his year...

Way to go Cody!

So I am reminded of the song "I cried the day that I take the tree down..." All of you must know this song from the Forgotten Carols. Well I thought that I would take a picture of my beautiful Christmas tree before grumpy ol' Rusty makes me take it down...I am just simply dragging it out until he puts his big ol' size 12 foot down! I love to turn on it's lights and leave my living room lights off while I snuggle under my blanket and read my scandalous novels. It is not a perfect tree, nor are the decorations but I will cry when I have to take it down.

CHriSTmaS - And Clean Romance ;)

Here is the Sexy man reaping his spoils. For Christmas he got and Ipod dock, some games, candy and some new motorcycle riding gear. He can be so spoiled at times...

And for Christmas I got a Vacuum (YES!!!) and an Ipod. I didn't really think that I would enjoy my Ipod, but I have listened to it everyday. It pretty much only has Taylor Swift on it. Rusty had bought all of her albums and added them to my Ipod before I opened it for Christmas, so it was ready to go.

Christmas was not only awesome, but I got a full week and a half off of work for Christmas. It was so quiet and peaceful. I lost myself between reading six books by the author Marcia Lynn McClure, She is my most favorite author and I have ALL of her books and have almost read each book two times!!! This is not like me, because I hate to read (ask my mother). She is coming out with a new book soon and I have already bought it before it release. You can go to her website at http://www.marcialynnmcclure.com/. I recommend all of her books to everyone who like a good clean romance book. She even captures you right for the beginning. But while I read her books I listened to my Ipod over and over again. I even got sick for New Years, which I quickly turned into a positive thing after throwing up once, I decided that my new years resolution was officially in place! I lost almost 5 pounds over the break and hope to keep it up.