Update from the Bradshaw's

Happy 2013!

 

Time keeps flying by and we now find ourselves at the dawn of another new year!  Reflecting on this is a gentle reminder to me that we must cherish every moment with our family and friends, make the most of the opportunities we are given, and be found in service and gratitude.

 

October found us on a whole new adventure.  Colter and I just took a caretaker position and moved to the Worsley family's private lodge in Heber, AZ. Its beautiful. Right now, it is cold indeed which means building fires in our wood stove, icy and snowy roads to plow, and bundling up the kids every day but that also means cuddling and hot chocolate... lol :) Come Summer time, I'm sure we'll be feeling smarter about our decision to move here when the temperature is agreeable.  Colt still works for the fire dept. in Chandler and just drives down (2 hrs, 15 min.) for his 2 day shift every 6 days. I scan documents, clean, holiday decorate, etc. and Colt tends to the 35 acres and 21,000 square foot lodge, and we prep for when guests come. Its 8 miles down a dirt road outside of the little town up Heber up on the rim.  We've rented our Queen Creek home for 2 years and we'll see how this adventure works out for our family in the mean time. It is lonely some days when Colt's gone, but it will make us stronger, we will make great memories, meet great people, all while making a good financial move.

 My little Bryton turned 3 in November and makes us laugh all day long at her wittiness and comedic side. She melted my heart the other day when I was getting ready for church and said, "Mommy, I wanna be just like you!"  That is drive for me to be better.  Cager, everyone's little buddy, started walking on Christmas and will turn one next month! He says dadda, momma, and da for doggie.  He is still as bald as the day he was born and I love it. They are treasures! 

 

I'm so grateful for my family and for the comfort, peace, and guidance that my testimony of Heavenly Father and His Son Jesus Christ provides! 

 

All the best,

Kelsee

 

The above pictures were part of a photo shoot for the 2013 Perryman's Western Wear Calendar but these ones that we took for fun with my cute cowboy were my favorite.  And the last one I had to share of our pretty mare as well.  We're so proud of her and the job she's done this year as Colter's other roping partner.  (I will look forward to posting some more pictures of our cute kiddos just as soon as I'm able) 

Meet our newest 6 month old addition :) Cager Wayne

Well my dear friends, you all know that here at the Buckaroo Bradshaw's we've just recently hung up the pony express saddle and were getting use to the "emailing era" when you all progressed into the blogging and social media world, lol. Its silly us though.  My own sweet mother teases me that I'm not on facebook.  So, thank you, my few blog followers, lol, for having patience with my lack of skill in this arena... And on to the important mentionings...

Meet our sweet, adorable CAGER WAYNE BRADSHAW! He was born February 5, 2012 at 21.5 inches and 8 pounds, 13 ounces big.  He has been the sweetest, cuddliest, easy going baby I could have ever hoped for.  We love him to pieces!  The story on his name "Cager" is that when Joan was pregnant with Colter, they were told it looked twins so Joan had the idea that she'd name them Colter & Cager if that was the case.  Well, it ended up being just one big baby Colter & as the kids got older and heard that story, they always liked the name Cager and wanted to use it in their future family.  The middle name of Wayne is after Colt's dad, Gary Wayne.  It took some getting use to but I love his name and it fits perfectly.  Cager is easy going yet socially alert & always ready to "coo" to anyone. He sleeps & eats well & smiles & laughs a lot.  He plays like a pure boy too.  Bryton is often too rough with him & tries to wrestle and he just growls & laughs.   Bryton is sweet and tender with him as well.  It is so very special to see siblings interact with and love each other.  You can sense that their bond goes way deeper than just this earthly existance.  Colter and I are both over joyed by our two kids and feel very blessed to be their parents.

Our LITTLE MISS BRYTON is still a little spit fire (although she is showing her sweet side in this picture :) and we love it.  She is usually making us laugh really hard, occasionally making us pull our hair out, & so often melting our heart with her "kiss, hug, & a squeeze" as she says it, everyone time anyone comes & goes.  She knows her colors, alphabet, counts to 15,  and can reason & debate with the best of us.  She loves to ride horses and the "vroom-vroom" & at the ropings, she is Colter's biggest fan and critic.  She yells, "Yeah! Go daddy!" when he catches his steers and "Oh no!" if he misses.  She was just recently found in the backyard one morning while Colter & and I were asleep, with a broom in the air chasing the horses because she said she was "catching them."

Here are some earlier pictures...

Now on to DADDY COLTER's update!  Colter is still loving the Chandler Fire Dept. & has now also been working for Porter Bros. Construction on many of his days off.  He is a hard worker and I'm so grateful for that, especially after having grown up with a dad that worked so very hard day in and day out.  We learned from him and mom to make the most of every single day.  Its difficult for me to understand people who are lazy so Colter and I work well together with life's tasks :) My family does love to play hard too though! Colter roped AWESOME this spring and won a lot, mostly heeling on the bay mare.  We've traveled quite a bit for it, mostly just local but we have some fun trips ahead of us for roping:  Show Low, Utah, Mormon Lake, than most likely the USTRC nationals in Oklahoma in the fall, and FOR ANY OF YOU WHO WANT TO PARTY WITH US IN VEGAS, LOL, we'll be going in December because he qualified for the World Series of Team Roping NATIONALS.  Colter is a talented, tough, tender good man, & handsome to top it off!  I love him!!

Okay, and lastly, MOMMY KELSEE'S update:  its still surreal that I'm a mom to two adorable children!  It really seemed like time flew and it happend so fast!  Colt and I just celebrated our 5th anniversary in April and I'm looking forward to an endless amount of more anniversaries.  We also just celebrated his birthday and we had a blast!  We took a much needed over-night stay at a gorgeous Scottsdale resort, Montelucia, and my mom watched the kids.  You've just got to do this periodically when you are married and you have kids!  It was so refreshing to just focus on each other only. If any of you ever feel like you need to do this, I will want it for you so bad that I will watch your kids so you can go, lol!  Just let me know! :) As for what else I've been up to, I'm still involved with riding & performing with Cowgirls Historical Foundation (www.cowgirlshistoricalfoundation.com) and as a spokesperson, we just celebrated the National Day of the Cowboy on Sat. (www.nationaldayofthecowboy.com).  And by the way, if you have anything you want to buy this week at Barnes & Noble, print the B & N voucher out on the National Day of the Cowboy website and part of your purchase will go towards this non-profit organization of NDOC that is so important to me.  I've roped once since I had Cager and I'd like to rope more but its not feasable with these little kids and that is alright with me.  I am also working part time doing some scanning from home, and whenever I have any spare time, I like to try to learn to play the guitar & write lyrics, lol.  That sounds cheesy but I love it and writing country music would be my dream career.  But, the job of mommy and wifey far surpass anything on this earth.

(This picture was taken at our all time favorite, the Reno Rodeo, just before rodeo legend Cotton Rosser walked over to our box seat on his horse, pointed at Bryton and said,"Bring that cute little girl down to me!" Bryton pet his horse and than Taryn let him know that Bryton was Harry Frost's great-great granddaughter & Cotton said,"To this day, Harry will always be one of my dearest friends."  This experience was a little heaven send to my family :)

Keep me updated in your beautiful lives as well! All my best to each of you!  Happy trails! 

 

Funny youtube video of us we just found :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0DqZIScBl8

Not sure who recorded and posted this but we got a kick out of it... although we lost for the buckle to some of dear friends, the Hastings, by a second I believe, it was good for a laugh & a memory. We love Gilbert Days! That arena is where we met :)

Well hellooooooo!

Hello friends! Yes, Buckaroo Bradshaw's are still alive and kickin' though I have not posted for over a year :) Life is beautiful, not free of up's and down's, but beautiful and the up's and down's are what make roller coaster rides fun & exciting, right? :) Here is the gist of the 3... okay FOUR of us Bradshaw's... Yes, I'll start there with the best news: I'm 19 weeks pregnant, due Feb. 8th :) :) Yeehaw! And, we just found out its a lil' cowBOY buckaroo! :) We are so very grateful and excited! Bryton is already talking about "baby brother".

BRYTON: She is 22 months old and thinks she is a teenager. She is still in the 95th-100th precentile for height but probably the 5th percentile for hair. She is constantly making us laugh and appreciate all the sweet little moments in life. She can carry on full conversations with strangers or friends alike (wonder where she got that trait...) but they are almost always about horses and cows. Seems she knows a lot about the subject. She does love to ride and be around the horses, & her Dallee dog, & mommy, daddy, Nanna & Abu (my mom & dad), grandma & grandpa (Colt's mom & dad), and ALL the cousins & friends. She can be so very sweet and cuddly & she can be so very.... sassy :) but we love her either way. She knows what she wants and she works at it. She is mischievious but yet very helpful and loves a task. She melts our heart with her "I love you's", her morning cuddle time, her wild jumping & laughing on the bed, her hugs (always with a couple pats on the back), and her kisses (always on the lips, to everyone... we'll have to break her of that before too long, lol)! The other day I heard her yelling "yeehaw" from her crib during nap time and I went in to find her straddling the crib, one leg on each side, with one arm in the air like she was riding a horse, and yelling "yeehaw!" :)

COLTER: My sweetheart is a good man. He has been working so hard, especially this Spring and Summer with the fire dept., part time on his days off for AZ Superior Cleaning (good friends the Hastings), and for Mechanical Bull Assoc. (aka, me). I just feel like I'm missing him all the time. He just got back from NYC playing in the World Police & Fire Games playing on Chandler Fire's basketball team. They played great and lost in double overtime to the gold medal team, Athens, Greece (which game included a 3 pointer Colter swooshed with just seconds left to take them into OT :). I'm proud they all did awesome. Bryton is a daddy's girl and he sure does a great job with her. I guess that makes me a "Colter's girl" :)

KELSEE: I'm enjoying watching Bryton grow and watching my belly grow quickly from this big baby boy on the way :) I'm enjoying spending any time I can get with Colter :) We enjoyed several adventures this spring and summer, including rodeos, ropings, mechanical bull gigs, and one of our best trips, UT & than on to Reno, NV to see wonderful family, work some jobs, & enjoy my favorite spot, gorgeous Lake Tahoe with Colt, Bryton, and dad; a summer highlight. I love my calling in church as YW pres. and I am inspired by the young women that I get to serve & serve with as well as the spiritual and growing experiences I've been blessed with. I'm still working for Wild West Performers and am grateful for that. I also appreciate my continued involvement with Cowgirls Historical Foundation and another great cause, the National Day of the Cowboy (nationaldayofthecowboy.com), which is the 28th of July this year. We bred our Australian Shepherd Dallee and she had 9 beautiful pups this summer that we sold quickly. We had a blast with this and most likely look forward to doing it again.

I feel blessed every day for the joy in the my life and I pray for the same for all my friends and family! Until next time,.... happy trails!

Hello!

Howdy friends and family!

I hope everyone is doing well and enjoying the start of summer! Where does time go? Every time I contemplate that age old question it helps me to re-commit to cherishing every single day and all of the beauty and joy that life has to offer, especially when it is coupled with God, family, friends, and freedom!

I've been excited to email out an update on Bryton because she is growing up so quickly! Colter and I just can't get enough of her and we feel so very blessed. She is now 7 months old and has been healthy and strong all the while, and progressing well in her baby stages. She is determined in every curious little venture of hers, and has been crawling for about a month now (well, what is and has developed into a real crawl from a slither, and is more developed going backwards), and she loves to try and stand on her own. If you give her any help at all, she'll pop right up and start stamping her feet because she's so excited and she'll also take a few little steps on her own if you hold her hands. She is very social almost to the point that she has sensitive feelings about it it seems :) At 8 weeks old, Colter blessed her in church and it was a beautiful and unique baby blessing. The first thing that came out of his mouth, unbeknownst to what he thought he was going to say, was that she's been blessed with a strong personality :) We think, hope, and pray that means she will be a strong influence for good in her life :) Since about that age of 8-10 weeks, she's been so expressive in loud gasps, and big eyes, and so often a big smile. And now over about the last 6 weeks, she's developed a very loud baby talking voice too. She has a good disposition (as long as she's not hungry) and is patient with Colter and I as we learn together how to be parents and as I work from home with her by my side as my "personal secretary." She is in the 10th percentile for weight and 90th for height, her eyes are sky blue, and she's still bald but with a little blond/auburn hair. She got both her bottom front teeth at 4 to 4.5 months! And though it may not look like it, she loves to eat (man, all this is starting to sound like I'm describing Colt and I... the "loves to eat" part :). And, most people still say when they see her, that she is a "little Kelsee". I agree and that is fun, but I often see Colter in her too which I adore. We've taken her on several road trips, horserides, and fourwheeler rides of course, all of which she seemed to enjoy. She loves animals too and will stretch as far as she can to pet any horse, dog, or other. She is daddy's little girl, and my little buddy.

Our Little 10 week old cutie!

This pic cracks me up! But, this is her sometimes-- give me what I want, or else... haha. Than she'll give you a big smile. Grandpa Brady loves this pic, as he is a boxer.

Hello! Time has quickly passed and our little Bryton is now over 10 weeks old. She makes us smile, laugh, cry, proud, tired, perplexed ;), and over all, incredibly happy! She looks different every week. When she was born and throughout the first few weeks or so, she looked exactly like my baby pictures. But now, her look is changing and she's starting to look a lot like Colter sometimes too. She is vibrant and healthy, and has a strong personality developing with a lot of heart, you can tell. Here are some pictures as she has grown:

Nanna (my mom) gave her this adorable little Santa dress with rhinestones and it was so great. My nephew Bradyn (3 yrs) on Christmas when he saw her started laughing hysterically and said, "Silly, little, Santa, Baby Bryton!" :)

Baby Bryton Bradshaw has arrived!!

We are honored and humbled to announce the birth of our sweet baby, Bryton Odile Bradshaw!! She was born Nov. 9, 2009 at 6:06 a.m. at 8 pounds, 4 ounces, and 21 inches long. She is healthy, strong, adorable, and sweet, yet sometimes "spunky" I guess you could say :) I am healing well and Colter and I have enjoyed learning how to be parents together. It has been a welcomed challenge, but we are so touched every day that the Lord blessed us so greatly with this precious little girl! I will tell more of her story as soon as I get some more time. Gotta go-- its feeding time for sure!