Friday, April 25, 2008

Spring with the Romans Family

Hey all, just an update here. I can't say I have any recent pictures but I thought I might write everyone and tell how our Spring is going so far. Well as always the ranch is keeping us busy. I have actually down-sized my ranch quite a bit. I am down to 3 horses, 2 donkeys, 9 goats (14 before), but I have doubled in chickens. I have 4 hens and 4 chicks on their way to being hens and 5 dogs.

Cheyenne (7 yrs) is still riding and riding awesome if I do say so. She is riding 2 horses in Gymkhana and is doing well. She needs a confidence booster, she had a hard year last year. She placed 3rd in Keyhole on Rusty at her April Show and that is her best finish since she started riding by herself in Gymkhana. So that ribbon is on the frig and we are very happy for her accomplishment. She rides twice a week and practices hard at different obstacles here at home and she has joined 4-H horsemanship to get even more knowledge of horses.

Austin (8 yrs) is playing baseball and is doing really well. He has improved so much from last year. I guess it all comes in age. So far he has hit 2 home runs:) The coach gave him his home run balls, so we are looking for cases put them in. The coach put the date, the team we played , and Austins name on the balls. Its really cool. He just loves sports but not as much as "trucks". Big Rigs are still his most favorite things in the world. Vegas has a annual truck show every June and we awaiting that. He has been on top of all the Nascar races and goes with his dad to all the desert races. He knows every car number and driver, very thorough.

Besides the farm, I am homeschooling still. We will be done in the middle of June and then we'll start our summer festivities, like swimming, cleaning, painting, and riding. We had a 2 room add-on built and that will us all busy moving furniture, painting, and decoratoring. The two new rooms are Austin and Cheyennes rooms. Cheyennes old room is my new school room and Austins old room is the hallway to the new rooms and his walls are coming down. That will expand out family room. It is all working out fine.

Well I do hope everything is well with everyone.
Love ya all and God Bless.
Kristal and Family
Cheyenne doing her reading homework in the laundry basket. She is way too funny. The next picture is Austin being really funny also. He was playing his playstation with his motorcycle helmet on. I saw him doing that and just cracked up. The 3rd picture is so funny, its my dogs in lock up and they are soo not happy about it either. Left to right is Benson, Reba, Fred is the newest bassett, who is not happy about being in lock up and the black/white dog is Buster. Trucker is there also but he was jumping up so he wasn't in the picture. I thought these were too cute, hope you all like. Love ya all. 5-28-08