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A Hard-Working Todd
I’ve been looking through old photos and wanted to share a few of my baby. Todd has always been a hard working cowboy. Shoot, even when he was still a toddler, he was so committed to his job...
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Hooker and the Dodo Birds
The ranch was busy last week, as it has been every week for the past several weeks. I sure hope that made sense. That’s Marlboro Man in the scalehouse, weighing the cattle. Do you like my outfit?...
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A Hot, Dusty Morning
We shipped cattle last week. When we ship cattle, the cattle are loaded in groups onto our set of scales, then weighed. Here, Marlboro Man is helping “shush” the cattle to get them all on...
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Sweet Faces
Aw, I love these two girls. Albeit in slightly different ways. Hooker’s a dog. Alex is…well, my daughter. So there’s that. Alex Update: Applied to one of her top choices for college....
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Takeoff and Landing
First of all: Happy Monday, friends! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend of rest, relaxation, excitement, exercise, watching movies, dusting, eating…or whatever it is that you hoped to accomplish...
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Panorama
I was running (okay, walking) Saturday evening (wait, was it Saturday? I think it was Saturday. At least I hope it was Saturday. This is what happens when you’re 45 and have four kids and can’t...
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Twelve!
This was taken shortly before I started blogging. I only owned a point-and-shoot camera then, and didn’t know anything about photography…but this is still one of my favorite photos of him....
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What Do Moms Do at Concerts?
Back in February, I wrote a long post about my older daughter’s experience with attending a concert with her best friend. I chaperoned, but did not accompany them to the concert, and at the end of the...
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The Calm Before the Earplugs
Thank you all for your support yesterday. I feel much more buoyed and equipped to face the challenge before me tonight. I was in a deep struggle in my life, and you helped pull me out of it. (In case...
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The Next Era in My Life
Well, we had a blast at the One Direction concert! It was the loudest experience I think I’ve ever had—short of that time I experienced natural childbirth—but I wasn’t ashamed to rock the bright orange...
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Senior Pictures
As I said on Instagram the other day, I have been encouraging Alex to use a professional photographer to have her senior pictures taken. They always say a surgeon should never operate on his own...
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I Love You, Snip
I’m working on a longer post for tomorrow morning that will detail my experiences in the press box of our small town stadium, where I’ve been assuming the role of coach’s wife and shooting game film...
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The Press Box
For the third year in a row now, my strapping cowboy of a husband has coached my son Bryce’s football team. I’ve written before about this relatively new phenomenon in our lives—the practices, the...
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Fun Announcement!
Hi. Happy Monday! I have something to tell ya. The last eight years, five months, two days, seventeen hours, forty-nine minutes, and seventeen seconds (give or take 304,000 years) has been an...
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So I Got a Little Carried Away
As I shared with you week before last, I took my daughter Paige and two of her friends to see the One Direction concert in Tulsa. We had a rip-roaring good time, and I had sympathetic laryngitis the...
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Toenails, Tires, and Titles
Good morning! Are you alive, awake, alert, and enthusiastic? If so, I’ll have what you’re having. Zzzzzzzzzz. Okay, I’m back, I’m drinking iced coffee, and I have a list. 1. I attended the Incredible...
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One of Those Weeks
It’s been one of those weeks! Like, totally. I got back from a trip on Sunday. Then I resumed filming new shows on the ranch, which we’ll be doing through next week! Then Marlboro Man and the kids...
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Nature
In the eighteen-plus years I’ve lived in the country, I’ve seen my share of wildlife. I’ve seen colts being born. I’ve seen calves being born. And okay, they’re livestock, not wildlife…but I thought...
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Thank You, Marlboro Man
Thank you, Marlboro Man. It’s nice for normal people of average strength (i.e. me) to see that someone who can wrestle steers to the ground without even blinking… Who can ride across the...
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Play Misty for Me
Just a brief post this morning, because I’m scurrying around tying up the loose ends of my Food Network shoot here on the ranch (a good thing, because I’m out of clothes), knocking out some schoolwork...
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