My glory days live on...

I need to start this by telling an embarrassing story but one that the kids will love when they are older. My parents and husband sure love to tell it now. When I was in high school I moved the middle of my Junior year. By the time I got to school all the science classes were taken. There happened to be a science class that was geared around FFA still available. I was told it is an easy A, and I needed a science credit, and lets face it I was horrible in science. I came from a very POSH school and had not been introduced to the FFA before in my life. So when I went to class I was shocked to find this country bumkin as my teacher and a bunch of cowboy kids in my class. They were the sweetest bunch of guys but much different then I was use too.

In this class they have what is called the FFA sweetheart. It was a contest determined by how many votes the girls get and a competition at the end of voting.. They voted by putting their pictures in local gas stations and putting pennies in this box. Who ever had the most pennies was already almost a front runner because that was 50% of the vote.  The competitions were the other 50%.  Well I got nominated by a bunch of guys in the class as a joke on me. Funny ha, ha. I was not a cowgirl or even a part of the FFA but I was in. It was embarrassing seeing my pic up in gas stations. Well my "friends" decided that it would be even funnier to dump pennies in my box. It ends up that I had most of the votes due to these "friends".  I didn't want to be considered a jerk so I participated in the contest. It was a bunch of humiliating things to make fun of us to see who wins. One of the contests was "Chubby Bunny" you see how many marshmallows you can stick in your mouth and say chubby bunny. Well, I did 16 large marshmallows and won that part of the challenge. Jeron and my parents love to harass me about this. They wondered if I could do it today. So I took the challenge. Tara thought it looked like such a fun challenge that she joined in.

Here we are looking oh so hot

"I'm a chubby bunny"

"I'm a chubby bunny"

Ellie is being a chubby bunny

In the end we  both did 14.  I started to laugh and some went down my throat so I may need to redeem my number.  It was a a lot of fun and it was great to have a partner.

To finish my story, I actually won the roping contest which was insane.  One of my good friends gave me lessons the day of and the girls I beat had been doing it there whole lives.  I killed on the cake sale.  My dad paid a pretty penny for the cake I made.  He got in a bidding war with one of my good friends.  It got up to over a $100.  It was pretty hilarious.  I couldn't move a bail of hay to save my life, let alone throw one.  Hammering nails was not my thing.  In the end I ended up taking first but because I wasn't in the FFA they couldn't crown me Sweetheart.  Shucks;(  I will have to say I loved being runner up.  Just think if for any reason she could not fulfill her responsibility I was next in line.  WAHOO!!  The best part is i have the belt buckle to prove this whole story is true...even if at the young age of 16 I thought my life was over.