Last week of b-ball & school..

This week offically marks the last week of baseball for both kids and Friday is the last day of school.
I think that the kids have really enjoyed their sport this year. Michayla has had a great time finally playing the sport that she has watched her brother play for so many years. She mainly played catcher position, and she did great! She is such an energetic, team player. She always volunteered to help coach out with anything. She caught a few hits in the arm but powered right through it and kept on playing. Catche is a hard postition to play just because you can get hit by some pretty fast balls. Great job to her this season for playing so well!
Clay has enjoyed that his Grandpa has been his coach and that Mick has been the umpire to all of his games. My dad had quite the challenge to coach a team of rowdy boys. He did a great job, although the team wasn't the best in the league, I think these boys came really far from where they started from! I believe my dad is done coaching, and probably will only volunteer to be an Asst. Coach next year. Clay is trying to talk Mick into being the coach, we'll see how far that goes. It's a lot of work being the coach..
I can't believe that I am going to have a 6th grader and 3rd grader next year. Time has just flown by. Both kids did great in school. I was so proud to see Clay's grades were A's & B's this year. Last year was hard on all of us with a not very nice teacher. I am glad that he has had a great teacher. Michayla is doing great. She loves to read, write and is a very high achiever in her class. I hope she continues to like school as much as she does today.
Kuna doesn't have 6th grade in Middle school, and I can honsetly say I am glad. They brought it back into Elem. school so that the 6th graders have time to adjust. It's hard to be thrown into middle school at that age, and I think by the time they get to middle school they will be a little more mature and it should be more benificial to them at that time.
This summer the kids are going to the B&G Club in Meridian again. It's a great way for them to do fun activities at a reasonable price. They are looking forward to getting back and seeing their friends they made last year.

We went camping at Owyhee Res. over the weekend. Mick & Michayla left Friday night w/ my parents. Jason & Darcy were already up there. I stayed behind because I had to work Sat and Clay didn't get to go on this trip because of some bad decisions he made at school on Friday. As a punishment he wasn't allowed to go. My sister wasn't going so she offered to keep him till Sunday. Although I am sure it wasn't quite a "punishment" to stay with her, it wasn't a reward to go fishing/camping either. Mick & I are starting to buckle down on that issue with Clay. I adore that child but he doesn't understand just how hard he is making it on himself when he doesn't behave. I guess he'll just miss out on going if things don't change.
I realize that it is only going to get more challenging the older he gets. I certainly don't want to see Clay go down the wrong road in life, and it's at this age where we have to rein him in inorder to control what happens down the road. **Oh- the challenges of raising kids.** And to think in only 2 more years I'll have a teenager.. WOW!!
Anyhow, I headed up there with the dogs after work and got to the camp site about 6 ish. We didn't take the camper this time because we want to do more tent camping so that we can take the 4 wheelers more, but after the windstorm that we tried to sleep through and the rain we had to get out of, I deffinately am addicted to the camper and love all of the anemities that is gives us. So, the tires are going to be replaced and we will be taking it from here on out.
Sat they caught about 230 crappie fish. They were only keeping 9" and longer, so they ended up keeping about 160. I am not a fishing person. I don't like waiting for a fish to get on the line, but Mick says I would have liked this because they were catching them like crazy. We had a good weekend.

Monday we went and saw Grandma Betty, ran a few errands, then came home to hang out for the rest of the day.
I am finally back at my work out routine. I completely fell off of it due to being at B-ball practices and games everyday of the week and Sat. I was either working and scrambling to get to all of those things, or just too darn tired. Last night I got back to the gym and hope to bring it back into my weekly routine from here on out.

There's our weekend in a nutt shell. Hope everyone is enjoying this great summer weather we are having!!

Sun filled weekend..

I loved this weekend!!! I love the sun. I am a huge freak on being outside when the weather permits, sometimes even when it doesn't. Anyhow, like every weekend the past 10 wks, our Sat was filled with 2 games. Michayla's was at noon and Clay's was at 4p. It's kind of funny, because the girls on Sis' team have been complaining either about the wind, rain and just the weather in general, so here we have a beautiful day and everyone is complaing about the warm weather.. Can't ever make everyone happy now can we. :)
Anyhow, I wore a tank top to her game and by the time it was over I was really red, Mick too. He is not a farmer anymore.. We came home for just enough time to eat, Clay get in his uniform and out the door to his game..
WOW was it HOT. The game that was suppose to be done at 4 didn't start on time, so it ran an hour late. My mom, sis and I decided to go do some shopping in Kuna. My favorite store is called Under the Willow Tree. It has the cutest
Knick-knacks, and house decor and I want to buy so many things everytime I go in there. I have refrained for a while but really wanted to get a Star to hang in my kitchen window, and found the cutest one and had to get it.. My kitchen decor is almost complete. I want to find some cut outs of Stars that are sticky and put them on the wall above the cupboards and saw a very cute picture that says "country kitchen" on it there and would love to have it too. I dropped the hint to my mom because they give 20% off in your B-day month and I can't believe it but I will be the big 3-0 in just 2 1/2 wks.. So we'll see if she gets it or if I have to get it myself. ;)
Anyhow after the game was over we went to Shaun & Christina's house for a BBQ with them and the neighbors. It seems like this has become a Sat night ritual and one of our houses. But after being out in the sun all day long we were all beat and headed home around 10.
Sunday has been a very productive day. We got up early and headed to town so that Mick could buy the rest of his plants for his garden. We were caught in traffic when the HUGE bike rally was going on. It left from the Harley place on Overland and was seriously forever long. I bet there were 2-300 bikers. We came home and I started mowing the yard and Mick started planting. Before too long there were the bikers riding in front of our house.
The kids rode their 4 wheelers out to the end of the riding arena got up on top of the fence and were waving to all of them as they went by. All who saw them waved and honked it was quite cute!!

I got the yard mowed and then the kids wanted to play in the water. Of course why the heck not. I should have joined in but didn't.. Mick worked hard on getting his garden all going. I really don't have a clue what he planted but it looks nice. I know we will have corn, that I am excited about!!
We are finally winding down on B-ball. Thank you lord. It's been interesting going here and there and everywhere all week long. We have enjoyed watching Michayla play for the first time, she is a natural. It's been great to see Clay advance from the little leagues up to the AAA, he'll be here for another year or two then onto the Majors.. I am sure we will be in this same rat race again next spring, and that's ok, the kids enjoy it therefore we do too..
I have an awesome tan going on and summer hasn't even hit, it's looking good.. :)Here's a few pictures from the fun weekend out in the sun!! Enjoy..

The Tully Farm

That's what I am calling it these days, the Tully Farm..
~I absolutelty love living here!


The Cats: Chloe & Laci
Mick's crazy ball carrying dog: Tessa



~I love all of the interesting animals that we see: owl's, crane's, Eagle, fox, Duck/Geese, Cow's and Bulls, of course Horses, dogs and cats. A lot of different things..
The Bulls that are next to the horse pasture:

~I love the way you can see the sky change when the storm is coming in, or when the sun is shinning.
~I love the HUGE trees that surround our house and make it so "cool" during the summer.
~I love opening up the windows and smelling the fresh air that flows through.
~I love the fact that the dogs can run down to the end of the Hay field and are tuckered out by the time they have ran around and then back to the yard.
~I love that we have some great neighbor's, Mr & Mrs. Green feel like they are our grandparents.
~I love how peaceful it is out here. As long as it isn't 7 am or 5pm this is a pretty desolate road and it's nice to just sit and listen to the birds chirp.
The pretty horses
Goldie the best horse you can have:

~I love leaving my bedroom window open at night and hearing the horses neigh when they think it's time to get up in the morning to be fed.

Sadie riding around on the trailer that Mick is moving:

~Needless to say, it's fun out here. If you ever need a place to go when life's a little too hectic you are always welcome here. I welcome the hard labor that we have to put into this place to keep it looking good. And as we speak the weeds desperately need to be sprayed and pulled and the yard has probably grown 2 inches since I started typing.. It's great!!

Spring To-do's..

I have recently found out that there is a lot to do with 10 acres.. Besides keeping up on the house work and mowing the very green lush grass, we have other things to do.

***Fertilizing:We have about 4 - 5 gal buckets and 2 50lb bags of pasture fertilizer. There are specific instructions to fertilizing the pasture. We need to harrow it really well to break up all of the horse poo, then we have to hand spred (something I am not looking forward to) all of the fert. I don't mean hand spread with our hands but with one of the spreaders that has two wheels. I am going to look into Tates and see if they have a spreader that we can rent. One we can hook up to the back of our 4 wheeler.
Then I have to keep the horses off of the pasture for 2 weeks. OMG, that is going to be difficult. They hate being locked up in the runs. I know that it is going to be interesting to see if they don't kick something over or chew their way through the logs that seperate them from one another.
Sara (our landlord) says that the grass grows really well. Within two weeks we will have tall green grass and it will keep growing through the summer.

***Weed control: The weeds can get totally out of control around here. And with this weather they are growing more ever. We should have sprayed last weekend when it wasn't raining, but it was windy and Mick was affraid that it would blow into his garden. Hopefully the weather will cooperate and we can get a hand on it. I know that if we don't now, it's going to get out of control!

***Windows and blinds: With all of the dirt/dust that is around this place it's no wonder we need to clean the windows and blinds. I like to open the windows most days to just get a fresh smell in the house, therefore I now have really dirty blinds and the normal gunk in the tracks of the windows. I have contemplated on hiring someone to come and do that ~ it really is something I don't want to do nor do I have the time to do. We'll see what I can talk Mick into..

***Front Bathroom: I painted that bathroom before we moved in here. It had ancient wallpaper, so my Sister helped me paint it. I haven't done anything with it since. I would like to get some wallpaper up, and buy some accessories. I need to get the frost window paper that you can attach to the window because the cats "when" they had claws ruined the blinds in their so now I need to do something else.

***Brush the dogs: You'd think that with working at a Vet Clinic where we do bath/brushes that I could do that for my own dogs. It's a little harder than that. I could take them in and do it myself, but that means I would have to do it when I am not working. When I am not working I am usually at some sport event, so I don't think about going in. If I was to take them in when I am working I would have to pay someone to do it, so I guess I will just have to keep doing it here at home when I have an extra 15 mins. But I need to do it soon, because I am tired of sweeping up enough hair that I could make a stuffed dog with.

We have enough to keep us busy around here for quite a while. We have about another month of Baseball/Softball, then we won't do anything through the summer, besides camping and a vacation or two.
I am not complaining, I love any reason to keep me at home, I am kind-a a home body, I like taking pride in where we live and making it look nice.
We have a month before our Party at the house, so we have a lot to do to get it looking even better..