Aubrey's 4th Birthday Party

We celebrated Aubrey's 4th birthday this past weekend.  Aubrey want a cowgirl birthday party and LA out did herself.  We had a general store full of candy for all the cowboys and girls to take home.  We had a watering hole for everyone to get their fill of drinks in their mason jar or they could grab an ice cold root beer in the bottle.  We had a city with a house, saloon, and jail.  All the cowboys and cowgirls got decked out with bandanas, badges, cowboy/girl hats and they all got to pick out their own horse from the stables.  The big attraction for the afternoon was the bucking bronco that we had brought in especially for Aubrey.  All the kids got a chance for a ride and had a blast.

We probably should have just rented a bus and taken all our city friends to Lodge.  It would have been a little easier and allowed our city friends to see the country and experience life in a small town or actually 15 minutes away from a small town.

We owe a big THANK YOU to the Wesley Ulmer family and especially Garrett for letting us use his bucking bronco and to the entire family (Wesley, Karissa, Wes, Garrett and Paige) for all the hard work they did to get the bucking bronco ready for the party.  She was beautiful.  They even bailed hay and loaded it up for us.  They went above and beyond to make this a special day for Aubrey.  Aubrey owes each of you lots of hugs and kisses and LA and I are indebted to you for the next 7 years (isn't that how it works...however, how about LA makes you mac and cheese and we call it even).

I checked the jail last night before we went to bed and Lucas was still in jail so we took him some bread and water.

The best thing for me and LA about the party was everyone that was there.  It was great to have family and friends gathered together to celebrate.  It makes us realize how lucky we are to be apart of a great family that puts an importance on gathering together and for friends that give up there time to be apart of our lives and most importantly part of our kids lives.

I am not sure when we will recover but hopefully it will be in time for Wyatt's party in March and Ansleigh's in April.  

PS - All the horses that the kids took home were handmade with lot of love by Nannie and LA

WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE:

For Horse Theft

The horses were for the kids.