A Family Affair-Boatnik!

Becca's Coach Jeff
Doing jumps on the flatbed in the parade
Coach April, just being April :)
More fun jumps on the truck!!!
Marissa and I having fun :) :)
So we have lived in Oregon how long and have never been to Boatnik!!! Crazy as it seems, but I lived in AZ for 19 years and never went to the Grand Canyon, so I guess missing Boatnik isn't all that nutty just the norm for me.....anyhow here are some fun pics from our experience in the Boatnik parade!

Becca on the News!!!

As many of you may know I have taken on a full time job this year "Fundraising"!!! Now, I have never been a fundraiser person so to speak but this past year of putting my hubby and my whole family on a VERY tight budget has forced me to either fund raise or pull my kids out of their extra curricular activities, so I chose FUNDRAISING! With the help of my VERY dear friends Colleen and Annette we put our heads together in December and came up with some great ideas for fundraising! Okay, so we have had bake sales, car washes, we have sold pizza cards and in the midst of all this have been running regular ads in Craigslist asking for soda cans and water bottle donations (we pick up and recycle) cuz as you know we get .05 for every can or bottle which does add up believe it or not. Well, crazy as it seems a sportscaster for the local news spotted our ad and was intrigued! He called us and wanted to interview the girls! To make a long story short we hit the big time and landed a spot on the local channel 10 news last Thursday night!!! This was such an incredible experience for the kids, they loved it and it made what they were doing a little more fun. The 3 girls have been working so hard lately at all these events and have so many more to do this summer that this was some recognition for their hard work!!! Check them out using the link below, they look sooooo cute :)

http://www.ktvl.com/search/?q=gymnasts+get+creative&fistype=site

Sorry, you will have to cut and paste this link as I am not smart enough to figure out how to make it just a click away....sorry about that!

Life on a Farm or Not

So, Last week when I left to take Bec to gym we were having quite the wind storm. Things seemed okay at home, but poor Marissa was a bit concerned about the trees around us and all the wind. I had been at gym for about an hour and thought I would give Marissa a call to be sure she was okay. I called and she answered the phone but had a quiver in her voice. When I asked her what was wrong she replied "Barkley just killed Lilly". Let me clarify something for those who don't know who Barkley and Lilly are. Barkley is one of our dogs (large lab mix) and Lilly is/was one of our chickens (yes they are all named). Sooo, it's not like we have a ton of animals but I always say my brain holds a lot of info and things that aren't earth shattering kind of get put in the back of my brain and sometimes it takes things a while to process in there. Sooo, back to the story, as she said this I am struggling to try and remember what animal Lilly is. I knew it wasn't the other dog or the horses but wasn't sure if it was a chicken or a rabbit. You have to understand she has wanted to name an animal Lilly for some time now; she had a rabbit pre named Lilly until she later found out it was a boy when it became Bam Bam. Okay, back to the story...finally it hits me it's a chicken and then it hits again...oh man that was Marisssa's "show" chicken. Yes she is going to show chickens (we are real hicks out here). She was devasted and I felt so bad as I wanted to climb through the phone and give my daughter a big hug! Fortunately Rame was home with her and she handled it very well. The saddest part for me was that she was riding her horse and witnessed it all and couldn't make the dog stop. I know that must have been so hard for her to watch :(.

The good news is that Rame fixed the hole (we think) that the chickens escaped from and so far we still have all 5 left. Marissa is working with another one to take to fair and actually is planning on taking 3. So, all in all things worked out, but what a thing to see. Life on a farm!!!!

My Junior Champion

Kisses to Tez from the Trainer

On April 27th Marissa participated in a large League Dressage Horse Show. She not only rode 2 tests that she had been practicing for but at the last minute (the day before) she was asked to ride another test she had never done for a rider that was sick. Well, she did FABULOUS!!! Her scores were 68%, 63% and 62%, good for 1st place, 4th place and 4th place. These are terrific scores considering she has only been doing this for 1 year and a half!!!! We then found out afterwards that she had the highest score of her class, good for Junior Champion!!!! Isn't she something? I have truly been blessed with very talented kids!!!!

Whew, it's all over!!!!!

A Proud Mama!!!!