Life....

So I started this blog with the intention of posting things that are going on in our lives that I want to look back on and remember since I have the biggest problem remembering things and I sometimes as you can see I forget to post or blog.  I have gone several several months without posting anything and I guess I have just been so busy with things going that I don't make the time to do this, but I want to start today and play a little catch up and try to stay more on top of it. So from January to today we have played basketball, baseball, tball, and Braden has shown his pig for the southeast Texas state fair.  Doesn't sound to busy right??  I have to say I am extremely proud of all three of our kids.  The boys played basketball and really loved might not have been the best but I will say they always stayed positive and had fun which is all I ask for, there are some kids that have the worse attitudes by far and it is just terrible to say at the least.  They are both playing baseball and are on the same team this year and it has been a very big adjustment for Carter he had to move up to kid pitch this year and was not to happy about it but he finally got a hit at his last game and we are praying that this will help him not be so scared.  The poor thing makes him self so sick on game days because he is a basket of nerves.  He has been hit twice by the pitcher so we have some reason to be nervous ( I guess but at least this is what I keep telling myself) .  Braden has been pitching in some of the games he still needs improvement but overall doing very good.  I am so proud of them both and makes my heart smile seeing them play.  I know this will all be over before I know it so I am enjoying every second of this busy season of our life.  Emma is playing tball and she loves it.  Her first game she tripped on the rocks and got a mouth full and scrapped her chin but she still got back out there and made some outs.  Loved it!!  She is also in full blown dance and tumble and preparing for recital time.  So onto our pig.  So you see this pig of ours this year gave us a great deal of frustration.  He was a rough pig compared to our calm one last year.  He made massive holes in his pen, he liked to bite us just overall made it difficult for us not to mention all the rain we have so we were in a muddy mess the whole time.  We could hardly ever walk him because of the wetness.  So when it came to fair time we were very nervous we had no idea how he was going to act.  BUT Braden and him did AWESOME!!  That is all I can say!  We placed 5th out of 26 pigs in his weight class and placed 38 out of 40 pigs for the auction.  It was an emotional roller coaster.  I have never seen Braden get excited about much but when he made the sale his smile to his dad as he left the arena is probably  one that Justin will never forget and when he got to me the big bear hug I got from him and the smile on his face was priceless. His exact words were "Mom I did it".  I knew he was excited and that made all the difference in the world and all of the work and struggle we have gone through all worth it!  I want to say a big Thank you to everyone that supported Braden.  I know we don't say it enough but really Thank you I know there is so much that you could be doing on your Sunday then sitting at a pig show all day but just having you there meant so much to us.