Photos from Stephenville

Ok everybody, I told you that I would get some photos of my trailer and my dog up on here, and here they are!

Have a Super Heavy Duty Great Borthday

Hi Sugar,

I hope you have a terrific birthday. The only thing that would make it better is if you could be celebrating here at Arrowhead!!! Hope to see you soon.

Much love,
Chris

Happy Birthday Grandma!! Love you!

Have a wonderful day!

We love you and miss you! And really wish we were going to be there for enchilada casserole tonight! Have a wonderful day, Love, Gary & Mel

Happy Birthday Grandma!

Have a happy birthday Grandma! I wish I was there with you on your special day! Love Alyssa

It worked!

Okay, now that I have blogging abilities, here's a little bit of what I have been doing:

I live in Florida now, in a school bus, and am going to school for technical sound mumbo jumbo. Everything is treating me quite right here, except for the unbearable hotness of it all. My school has the most insane schedule known to academia. I have classes and labs about 10 hours a day, and they roll round the clock. Sometimes at thoroughly unwholesome hours like 1:00 a.m or 5:00 a.m., but I haven't had to experience that monstrosity just yet. On top of this insanity, I am working two jobs in an attempt to avoid life-long college debt. One of them throwing dodgeballs at kids at an elementary school, where I am known to the boogers as Mr. Kevin; and one tending bar at a cigar shop on weekends. I'm going to quit that one soon, because I feel like collapsing most of the time. But never fear! I'm still rockin' a 4.0 and have obtained director's awards in both of my completed courses. Cross your fingers and wish my luck on my current course. I'm gonna need it.

Heart Kevin

Alyssa's Last 4H District Horse Show

We met Alyssa in Belton on Monday for her last shot at qualifying for the State 4H Horse Show. She is allowed to compete this year since she is still only 18. She could only take Leggit this time because Chloe is no longer a yearling, and is not trained for the 2-year old event due to an injury early in the spring. Having just one horse made this the easiest district show we've been to. Leggit continues to amaze us. He is so smart, and together he and Alyssa make a great team. They easily won the 3 year-old Stock Horse class, and picked up a ribbon in every event they entered except reining. They outclassed all the other competitors in reining, but Alyssa lost count and spun 5 times instead of 4, causing a disqualification. Guess she needs to teach the horse to count! Her big triumph was taking third out of 40+ entries in Western Horsemanship, beating some very expensive, professionally trained horses. Anyway, all of this adds up to another trip to State next month in Abilene.

Our other big news this week is that we're expecting... another horse! Crystal is due in mid-April! The daddy's name is Elvis. That opens the door for some pretty fun names.

Swearing In Pics

Hey guys I just wanted to share with y'all some pictures from my swearing in ceremony which is where I take the oath of office for Midland and after swearing in and signing my papers I was pinned with my badge!! Thanks again for all of the support!! Love Y'all -- Officer Whitley!!

Here We are Swearing to uphold the law, enforce the law, and keep to the

Law Enforcement Code of Ethics.

I decided I wanted my Dad to pin my badge on

since he once was an officer--Thanks Dad!! (and if 2 people

could have pinned me, Mom you would have been

there right next to Dad-Thanks Mom!!)

The Officer to the Left is the Temporary Chief of Police Robinson

... He is telling everyone what a great honor it is to be a

Police Officer but that we couldn't do it without our families!!

And the family picture at the end!!