Easy Money Ranch

I don't want to take away from Libby's blog, don't forget to look at the post below this one and see what Libby has to say.  She's only received one donation so far, so see what you can do to help her out. 

Well Happy Valentine's Day!  It has been a great weekend.  Shannon is home again, whee!  He was able to pull in about 1:00 am on Thursday morning.  And whoops - I had locked him out!  Lucky for me I woke up the first time he banged on the door.  I don't think he would have been very happy with me if I hadn't!  Libby and Sophie were so glad to see him.   There was a father daughter dance at the elementary school on Thursday night.  I had my dad on backup in case Shannon hadn't made it home.  They were so excited to realize that he would make it.  But Sophie wanted Grandpa to come too.  So they were spoiled with Shannon and my dad as their escorts.  It was really cute and the girls of FC had a great time with their heroes.  What a wonderful event for them.  It was a special night for a whole gym full of daddy's little girls. 

The girls also got to spend Friday afternoon with him.  They had an early out for school so Shannon took them to Rochester shopping.  They picked out my Valentine's present (I got Chihuahua notebook paper and a Chihuahua key chain too!) and did some grocery shopping. 

Yesterday was great fun too.  We had the 2009 POA banquet in Owatonna.  We left a little early and stopped at Menards.  Guess what I got?   Wait for it.. wait for it... a new..... TOILET!!! YAY!  I can't wait for the bathroom to be done and my shiny new toilet to be installed.    Did I post already about my jacuzzi tub?  The one that we have had for 4 years but it didn't work.  My dad in his remodeling discovered the problem.  It wasn't plugged in.  Guess what - it works now!  So a new tub, a new toilet and my dad bought us a new mirror too!  I feel so spoiled.  Isn't it funny what gets a person excited!  So we bought a new toilet and then headed to Owatonna.  Of course we were early so we checked out the Let's Ride tack shop there.  Pretty neat place, but we didn't seem to need anything much.  Go figure!

The banquet was lovely.  I'm glad that kids 6 and under eat free because the only thing we could get Sophie to eat was a dinner roll.  Libby ate a little better (but not $13.00 worth for sure).  The food was pretty good and then they presented the awards.  First they skipped over Libby when they were announcing awards (went right on to the next kid). When we pointed that out, they announced that they printed it wrong in the program she was actually in 4th, not third. That was a little disappointing, but it was an honor just to place.  She won an English saddle pad and a chap bag that was embroidered with her name and the year.  It wasn't until we got home that we realized they had spelled her name wrong.  She became Liberty Oneager.  Then we get the participation awards and they had printed in the program Olivia Onsager instead of Sophia Onsager. LOL! Can you tell we're the rookies in this club, lol!  Sophie was bummed they announced her name wrong and then she got her prize.  Both girls won a hay bale bag. Sophie was so funny, "I just can't believe they spelled my name wrong on my prize too. ... It's easy, S-O-P-H-I-E." The bag was labeled MN POAC 2009. LOL  So we are now the Oneagers.  Shannon and I both think it is hysterical.  Have you seen the movie, "That Thing That You Do"?  It's kind of funny. This music group calls themselves the Wonders, but spells it One-ders. But then everyone mispronounces it the O - Nee- ders.  So we figure you must pronounce our new name, O - Nee - Gers.  I've been called worse!