Bull Riding

I won tickets to our local "Bull Mania." I had never seen bull riding in person before, so I learned quite a bit! And I think I actually embarrased Tanner with how little I knew. For example, there were some guys walking around before hand dressed like cowboys and wearing spurs. I was wondering what they were there for, becuase surely you wouldn't wear spurs when you are riding a bull. That would just make him more mad! It turns out, that is exactly what they do. The more mad the bull is, the more points you get. I didn't take any pictures. No one else was and I didn't want a bull coming after me for blinding him with a flash, but I got this one off the internet as an example.

New Nephew

My little sister is staying with us for the few months between her various marine biology jobs and grad school. Probably as something of a mid-life-crisis, she adopted a dog today. I got some really cute pictures.
Noah is a 6-year-old, 25 pound, cocker spaniel mix. He and Drake seem to get along just fine, but Diesel was being a bit too rowdy (of course). I ended up putting his shock collar on him and, after one or two shocks when he was getting on Noah's nerves, he won't even get close. But I got an awesome picture of Drake and Noah. I'm not sure Noah really understands what "sit" means yet!

Snowshoe

I realized I skipped the middle of our vacation. We spent the weekend with my family in a neat little condo in the middle of the Village at Snowshoe Mountain Resort. It was sweet. Here are us sisters getting ready for some black diamonds!

And here are Lori, Tanner, and Julie relaxing in the hot tub after skiing back diamonds.
Dad relaxed a bit too.
If you've never been spring skiing, it's pretty fun. It was nice to not be freezing to death, and I can actually say I've been skiing and swimming on the same day!

Oklahoma

I should've gotten a picture of the cargo van that we drove down to Oklahoma in. We set up a little bed in the back for me to sleep and it ended up being the perfect size ot fit the motorcyle. It was kinda fun! But I did get pictures of lots of babies. We stayed with Steph and Cory. Here is Tanner with thier little girl, Kaia.We also hung out with Anna, Philip, and Lois. Thier lattest edition to the family is Ethan. I loved how cuddly he is!He loved to sit on my lap and push the buttons on my phone. So, I got baby fever again, of course! But I know babies change your world, so I'm still ok that we don't have any yet.

Roomies!

While we were in Hershey for Caleb's wrestling, I got to hang out with some old friends. Kim came down from Emmaus and we explored Messiah College together as we caught up. Then Michelle met me in Hershey where we ate at Isaccs, walked around the Outlets, and rode the ride at the Hershey factory. Michelle is really good at taking pictures of herself so we gave it a try even though the sun was in a bad spot. Beautiful!

Spring Break!!!

So much to say about our Spring Break Trip(s)!!! I'll probably spread it out between several posts. Our first stop was Pennsylvania State High School Wrestling Finals. Lots of wrestling, and also lots of extra time for me catch up with good friends and make a quick trip back to Messiah. Caleb won
States with no trouble which made for a very fun weekend! I got some good pictures of the Jumbo Tron. I couldn't get close enough for any good wrestling pictures.


Congrats Caleb!

Vacation!

In the real world, when you take a vacation, there is more work to do before you leave and after you get back to make up for it! Not that the vacation is not worth it. But that is my excuse for not getting any pictures up this week, and depending on my internet savyness (is that a word?), there probably won't be any posts until we get back. But we will putting lots of miles behind us as we go first to Hershey, PA for Pennsylvania High School Wrestling States, Snowshoe, WV for some skiing with my family, and Stillwater, OK to retrieve Tanner's motorcycle. Can't wait!