Fair

The Kansas State Fair called our name Saturday! Ella, of course, just loved it. Lots of animals to see and take pictures of!

A goat with no ears and two piggies snuggling up!

Nap time

In front of the Watusi cattle. Those are some big horns, y'all.

Down the main drag. See Madame Lil's? I KNEW Lilly was a hussy!

This goose was MEAN and kept hissing at us. Look real close and you can see its teeth.

Fine feathered friends!

Check out the flags to see how the wind was blowing as we rode the sky bridge!

And finally...


Where is our car?!?!

Chubby

Did y'all ever do the "My name is Chubby. My mama's chubby, my daddy's chubby, even my dog's chubby" thing?

I remember it well and have thus passed it on to my daughter!

Ella Grace makes for quite an entertaining supper!

We're famous. Again.

Oh boy.

These are scans of an article in today's K-State paper, The Collegian. I know the text is hard to read so check out the online article. See if you can find a common thread among these girls. I'll wait.

Did you find it? Could it be, perhaps, that they both are from animal science?! Good grief! What does that say to you about animal science girls? Or maybe girls who graduated from K-State in animal science and now work for the department?!?!

We are having a ball with this over here! There has been talk of using it in some of our recruiting efforts! Ha!

Scenes

Wild sunflowers in one of the university's pastures.

This is might be why they are considered weeds here!

Cows in the adjoining pasture enjoying the sunflowers.

Sheep from the sheep unit grazing with the football stadium in the back.

More of the sheep munching down.

E showing her muscles.

A little bit of garden fun

This may, in fact, be the last garden post of the season. Y'all are quite sad to hear it, I know.

The weather has turned very fallish here so the only things we have going on are okra, two tomato plants and the pumpkin. Everything else got pulled up the other weekend.

It looks as if the pumpkin plant is having a wee bit of trouble and I may only get the three that we have growing. If that's the case, Halloween will have to come early!

Wow! The weeds are taking over!

Misc. notes:

My friend Andria did the coolest poll on her blog. She posted about what costume she should get for her adorable daughter Dellaina for Halloween. (Click here if you would like to check it out and vote!) I saw hers and felt like a little kid thinking "I want one! I want one!". So now the question is what to do a poll about? Hmmm... If you have any ideas, send them over. I want to be cool too!

Notice anything different about the blog? Ashley started a trend and converted her blog to Blogger beta. Just like above, I wanted the new cool thing too so I have swapped. It allows for easier color and font changing so don't be surprised if I mix it up a bit! Heads up, fellow bloggers! Blogger says eventually all blogs will have to convert.

And finally, Marisa, a.k.a Aunt Sissy, has been doing her own blog lately. I added the link to the list at the right. Feel free to check it out if you have time! (There is one really crazy story on there from her Lowe's store.) Don't be surprised if you see some Lowe's/Home Depot clashing going on. There are some very loyal employees of each who read Here Comes the Bride and they aren't afraid to lash out at each other every now and then!

Football

We went to our first K-State game Saturday!

We stumbled into some free tickets and jumped on it! We had thought about leaving E at home but decided that she would enjoy it. Boy, did she ever! My little girl is a football FAN. She learned all of the K-State cheers and entertained all of the people around us. (Don't worry, UGA fans! For every KSU cheer Ella knows two UGA!)

K-State's stadium is small compared to Sanford so even though our tickets were considered nosebleeds, they really weren't.

See how close we live to the stadium?!

"Go Cats!"

One of the things that the K-State fans do is after the announcer says "Good for a K-State..." and everyone yells "First down" or "Touchdown" and do the appropriate hand signals. Ella picked up on the hand signals and was having fun doing them. We thought it was pretty funny so David taught her some other ones. (We just know that Aunt Jamie and Grandaddy are going to be so proud!)

Since the videos went over well last week, I decided to get one of her doing the signals. I wasn't thinking and turned the camera sideways to shoot and now I don't know how to flip it. It's only 30 seconds so you shouldn't get too bad of a neck cramp! Notice the red socks. She was quite proud of those. Picked 'em out herself because they matched her shirt. Also, I apologize for my loud mouth. I must have been right over the microphone. Sheesh.

Sideways, loud mouth, red sock football hand signal video

Silly girl

I have been composing a rant of a post regarding a movie I watched recently but can't quite seem to get it all down before the day ends. Maybe I will assign myself a little homework this weekend and get that done...

Is anyone missing the weekly post about the garden?! No?!

Here are some quick pictures of my silly girl after her bath. She likes to cover up with the towel and we play 'what is this lump?'. She goes wandering around the house blindly and then takes the towel off and screams "it's me!". It's all pretty funny watching her bump into things and then laughing hysterically but maybe you just have to be there...

Here she comes, then bumping into the dishwasher

(I see her hiney, all white and shiney, and when it wiggles, it makes me giggle!)

Had to crop this to keep it G rated.

We're Famous! (sort of)

Today K-State said 'Good Morning America!' a day earlier than we first expected. The College of Ag didn't have as big of a turn out as they had hoped but it was still cool!

Click here to see our debut!

Cowgirl E

Sunday and Monday the weather was absolutely gorgeous! We jumped at the chance to enjoy the cooler temps and took Ella out for a ride on Scooter. David was teaching her how to get Scoot to turn and I was able to grab this video!

Click here to watch.

And one more of some trotting.

Click here to watch.

I just know that Grandma and Grandpa are going to be so excited to see their little cowgirl in action!

Here are a few photos from the ride.

Clever editing makes it look like E is steering all by herself!

We got to go over to the gym Sunday and E and Mal had free rein on the trampolines.

These make me laugh!

And now something to make you laugh... Poor Miss Mags is becoming a woman. We did some quick thinking and fashioned a panty/diaper for her out of leftover puppy pad trainer. We laughed and laughed at Maggie walking around in this thing. (I did explain to her that this was a natural part of being a female, etc. but she didn't seem to appreciate...)

Good Morning from Kansas

Attention Good Morning America watchers!

Next week GMA is unveiling their new logo and K-State got to help! Producers went to four locations around the country to film people saying 'Good Morning America!' Can you believe that they chose Manhattan?! The new logo was cut into a field of alfalfa and they recorded College of Ag kids saying GMA! How cool is that?!

(From our vacation) E kickin' it in David's shades

Garden Fun #10

It's almost over with the weekly reportings of the garden fun!

The tomatoes are slowly kicking the bucket, leaving just one huge plant to do all of the work. We still have okra and cucumbers (which I think I'm getting sick of) and of course the pumpkins that are just starting. At the moment, the pumpkins are lost among the weeds but I have grand plans to take a hoe to the pumpkin area this long weekend. We'll see!

One thing that we do have in the garden that you never want is caterpillars. Sorry S.O.B.s. E and I tooled on out to do a quick pick over last night and this is what we found.

Two fat caterpillars helping themselves to my tomatoes.

If you look close above the one on the left you can see what's left of a tomato that it was snacking on. I was none too pleased to see these pests and wasted no time in slinging them across the yard (where they met their gooey demise).

Beyond vegetables we have a couple of zinnia plants that are putting out some beautiful flowers. Ella planted these leftover seeds herself.

Zinnias are quickly becoming one of my new faves!

The raspberry plant is desperately trying to hold on to life after I neglected it for a week or so... Oops. Maybe I can find myself some stout manure and fertilize the hell out of it. Wonder if pig, chicken, beef cow, dairy cow or horse manure is better? Our department puts together all of them in a savory blend in the compost piles. Yuuum. On second thought, the idea of that stuff being close to my house is not that appealing. Miracle Gro it is!

Wishes

Happy Birthday to my Mom!

E sends Grandmama lots of birthday kisses!

If you know my mom, ever met her or just admire the woman who created me, leave your birthday wishes for her in the comments!

Not much

Just a few pics to share:

This weekend we had TC over and he told us 'my dad ties me up'. If we weren't hip to the rodeo scene we might have needed to make a quick phone call to the local authorities! But then TC quickly showed us his calf tying skills and we decided that maybe TC's dad is getting a run for his money!

E cheers TC on.

These pictures just crack me up. First, because David was getting the dogs all whipped up last night (it was our first cool evening and the dogs were feeling spunky) and I managed to just barely catch them.

Closer up of E wearing my flip flops.

Catching Up

Sorry for the delay in posting, Blogger was giving me fits Friday and since we don't have a computer at home, today it is!

I finally got around to scanning the other proofs of the not-so-flattering triathlon pics. I am only doing this for your amusement. Common sense tells me to burn these things but it's Monday and everyone deserves a good laugh!

Nice, right?! Can you read my face?!

I had to blur that swim photo. I'm crazy but not stupid!

Here are scans of the ones I bought. Best of the worst, I'll call it.

One of our profs (a UGA alum, BTW!) has a neighbor with a peach tree. Who knew that a peach tree would grow and produce fruit here?! I begged my way into a few fresh, locally grown, free peaches! On my way to making a peach cobbler I sliced into the pit of one of the beauties. Am I the only one who didn't know that there was a seed inside the pit? I always assumed that the pit was the seed. Learn something new every day, I guess!

You bet that I planted that seed!

A Bit of a Haze

David and I had a discussion recently that made me want to look for outside opinion... on the subject of housework. Yeah, I know.

We were trying to work out a better plan for even distribution of the housework and David tells me "I just don't notice that things need to be done" and then pulls the "I'm a man" stuff. Of course, I immediately roll my eyes and dismiss this excuse as crap.

But later I start to wonder: Is there a genetic flaw that prohibits men from seeing the grime that builds up in the shower? Have they been taken care of their whole lives by loving mothers, girlfriends and wives that they have honestly come to look past a teeming trash can? Much like 'beer goggles', is there such a thing as 'man goggles'?

Do women have any 'goggles'? Where can I buy a pair?!

No new pics of E so how about

Miss Dellaina, saying "Even I can see all that dust!"

Garden Fun #9

Hard to believe that I am on #9 of this garden update stuff... Wow, that's a lot of making people suffer through pictures of vegetables! Oh well, on with the show!

We went out and were snooping around the garden and happened upon this bee taking adavantage of one of the last sunflowers.

Really big bee or really small flower...

And Ella decided that she wanted to show the bee her belly. I kid you not. Right out of the blue.

That belly reminds me of a big ol' watermelon!

Speaking of the watermelons, I haven't managed to kill them yet!

Two beauts!

The pumpkins will never say die, I'm afraid. Here's one of our first!

That'd be a s*load of weeds creep, creep, creepin' in!

The tomatoes, okra and cucumbers are still producing, don't worry!

Thank goodness for you that things are slowing down and I won't be able to do Garden Fun much longer!