Great Year

Well 2010 is almost done and over all it was a great year. 2011 is going to bring a lot of changes, Joe, Brodie and I will be living in Hot Springs, AR. I am actually really excited for the Oaklawn meet, mostly to just be somewhere new for a little while. Another big change is that Britt and Scott got engaged on Christmas Eve and will be getting married sometime in July. Brodie has completed all the surgeries that his heart required, and is currently medication free. I have really high hopes for 2011, and I will try to be better about blogging more regularly. Happy New Year everyone.

Scott popping the question

I am not sure that he actually got to ask the full question before she shoved her finger in the ring and shouted yes
Brodie on Christmas morning with his new bike

Brodie also got a ton of toy story toys and these super cute P.J's

It was so nice to spend Christmas in Ocala with Mema and Poppie, unfortunately when we got here Brodie and I were horribly sick. So we actually spent all of Christmas laying around coughing our heads off. Joe had to leave for Oaklawn a few days after Christmas so little Brodie and I have just been here in Ocala recooperating. Finally we are feeling better, but around here that means getting to work
Brodie down by the track

Watching us train

And his guard dogs

Me on Brookie

Poppie and Phantrick

I wonder what the neighbors think when they drive up and see this

I love training on this farm

Brodie's favorite job on the farm, scooping the grain

No Man Left Behind

Let me just start by saying that I am so sick of packing. It feels like that is all I have been doing lately. If you wondering why it has been taking me so long to finish packing, that would be because of my little "helper" Brodie. For every one box I pack he manages to unpack two. So needless to say a lot gets done while the little angel is sleeping. I do have a few distractions for my little guy, first is Nana, who has been coming over to play with Brodie for a few hours, and second is Toy Story 3, his new obsession. Every day as the house gets more and more empty, three items seem to be more and more constant. They are Woody, Buzz and Rex. I think that Brodie thinks that if he lets them out of sight, mommy might pack them. So instead, they just go everywhere with him.

After watching the movie for the ten millionth time he started checking out the bottom of their feet. So we wrote Brodie's name on them. Now he checks their feet twenty times a day and smiles

One of the reasons that packing has been taking so long. Pause the music at the bottom of the page to here Brodie call me to come find him

If you can't understand him he is explaining that he was "just hiding"

Preview

I am sorry that it has been so long since I posted anything. It seems like every free second I have, I am packing and cleaning to leave for Oaklawn. This month has really snuck up on me. I started getting every ones Christmas cards in the mail and realized that we hadn't even taken pictures yet. So I tried to go to Baby's R Us last night, but they were all booked up. So instead we taped up a black sheet in the house, I gave Brodie a real quick hair cut and then ran back and forth hitting the self timer switch on my camera. So cards should be out soon.

This is my personal favorite, he would try to smile so big that it made his eyes close

Not only was Brodie great while taking the pics, but when we were done he wanted to take some more. So I got out some stuff and let him keep saying Cheese for another twenty minutes or so

I call this one "Blue Steel"

I Ride

Brodie and I were in Ocala all last week. We had so much fun there, and did so much work. Brit is in Ocala for a short while before she goes back to Tampa, so dad decided it was a good time to break all the babies. We worked all day long, and Brodie played all day long. I think that Brodie tired to ride everything on the farm, he rode horses, dogs, tire swings, moving mats, little spiderman four wheelers,golf cart.... if it moved he tried to ride it. He would just walk around spot something moving and say, "I ride that!".

Brodie was so happy everytime I got off a horse

Brit shoeing

Walking up to the track, it is so peaceful on the farm that it doesn't even feel like work

Me and Brit galloping

Brit

Me and Doc

walking back to the barn after training

Brit has broke all the babies this year, here she is bellying up on a baby

working with them in the stalls

Brodie watching auntie Brit ride a baby in the round pen

Once they went good in the round pen we took them out to a field

Brodie helping Poppie keep auntie safe

Brodie took his outriding job very seriously

Brit and mayham

While I was there Brit got to take the first baby to the track, she went great. Brit is doing a really good job with the babies

Brodie mixed up all of Poppies horseshoes

waiting to ride the Polaris with the dogs

While we were on the track Brodie helped Maam'a clean stalls

He is so proud of himself when he thinks that he is helping

Riding his tire swing on the walking machine

Riding stall mats as Poppie tried to move them

I think his favorite part of the day is getting to drive during feed time

Cody is Brodie's best friend on the farm

Brodie even got to sit on his first race horse. He was so proud of himself, he knew it was different than riding his pony

Everyday while babies were getting worked with in the stall Brodie demanded to ride his pony. He never wants to get off, so I thought that if I let Phantrick gallop in the field with Brodie and I he would want off. But that back fired. Brodie just got a hysterical laugh and said "I like that". After that all of his other toys were just a little too slow.

I have never seen a kid play as hard, or go as strong as this kid does on the farm