Disappointing Day...

Well, this Saturday was a bit of a disappointing day. We had made plans for over a month to go to Abilene on Saturday to see High School Musical performed by the Abilene Civic Theatre at the Paramount. We had a mother/daughter day planned with Gay and Ashlee, Betsy and Katie & Abby, Me and Abbey, Lainey, & Emiley, and Amy and Kate, Kooper, Ashlee, Krista, and Kaylan.... But, since the weather was horrible we were unable to make the drive and spend the day. The girls were so sad. The understood the dangers of driving two hours with icy roads and the potential for worse roads in the day, but they really did not want to talk about it. So instead, we went to the movies. It wasn't the same, but it was fun... I guess! We never get weather like this... it had to happen on a weekend with MAJOR plans!

Bad Life for Abbey...

BAD LIFE FOR ABBEY
Abbey was born in August the 23 but
in July Lainey was born then Emiley was
born . that is when it gets bad as we grew up 12345 Lainey & Emiley
learned to pinch kick & slap now
I get torchrd but life moovs on.

Abbey has been working on a "book." This is the beginning of it and I thought I would share it with you all! She is so funny!!! She is really growing up and I think that Lainey and Emiley do annoy her sometimes... it was just cute to see her type her thoughts on the computer.

I got tagged...

Holly tagged me, so I guess I will comply and answer the following questions...
1) Do you like the looks & content of your blog? The looks may have some to be desired, but since I am not too computer savvy... i think it is OK. The content is just what I had planned...to share the lives of all those in my family for a record book for me and so those who live far from us and be "in the moment" with us.

2) Does your family know about your blog?Yes... and they say they love it.

3) Can you tell your friends about your blog? Yes

4) Do you just read the blogs of those who comment on your blog? Yes, I read their blogs and blogs from comments on their blog... it is so addicting!

5) Does your blog positively affect your mind? This blog thing has been great for me! I love doing it and it gives me a way to vent, share my feeling, and express the events of my day to others.

6) What does the number of visitors to your blog mean? I have no idea... i don't know if I have ever even noticed how many visits my blog has had.

7) Do you imagine what other bloggers look like? Of course... I often check out their profile and if there is no picture, I scroll through their blog to find one!

8) Do you think blogging has any real benefit? Not sure if they are real benefits, but it does allow my parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and friends a way to see my kids grow up since they don't live in the same town we do.

9) Do you think that the blogosphere is a stand alone community seperated from the real world? I guess it could be, but it definately is not for me.

10) Do some political blogs scare you? Do you avoid them? I haven't really visited a political blog, but I dont think they would scare me.

11) Do you think criticism of your blog is useful? I am all for a little constructive criticism, but I am not making a profession out of the blog thing... it is just for fun.

12) Have you ever thought about what would happen to your blog if you died?No... I'm sure it would die too.

13) Which blogger had the greatest impression on you? ???????

14) Which blogger do you think is the most similiar to you? No idea????? I have something in common with all of my blogger contacts... that is why they are my friends.

15) Name a song you want to listen to. Tim McGraw... "My Little Girl"
Ok... Julie and Vaness its your turn!
Have a great day..................

I'm at my wit's end...

Ok... as I am writing this... I am also procrastinating. I am at my wit's end with our old horse, Jasper. This morning was it!!! This morning Will went out to feed and found Jasper INSIDE the saddle house. OK, yesterday Will asked me to load 7 bags, 50 pounds each, into the suburban and take them back to the feed store because they had given us the wrong feed on Saturday. So, I loaded all 7 bags, took them to Micobe feeds, and got 10-50 pound bags of the right feed. I got home and was so proud of myself for unloading the feed into the saddle house for Will. Anyway, I either didn't close the door to the saddle house at all, or didn't close it good enough, because this morning Jasper was in the saddle house and had torn up half of the bags of feed. There is now feed all over the saddle house and poop all over it as well. I am not looking forward to this job at all. Will told me Jasper could die from eating so much. We don't really know how much he ate... I am hoping not much since there is so much on the floor of the saddle house. Emiley gets so mad at me when I talk about her horse, but he really drives me crazy. He acts like a dog or a cat. What kind of horse would go up three narrow stairs to get into the saddle house. Jasper also climbs the five steps to get onto my front porch to eat the dog food. We must feed the dogs and cats at the same time we feed Jasper so that the dogs and cats can eat their food while Jasper is eating his food. If the dogs and cats do not eat all their food... that I have to put on the front porch to sort of keep him away... Jasper will eat it.

(This is a picture of the horse on my front porch just the other day... eating the dog and cat's food.) Jasper also ate the foam out of Emiley's car seat the other day. The girls did not shut their car door so Jasper just stuck his head in the suburban, pulled the fabric off her car seat, and ate the foam underneath it all. I was once again so mad at him. I mad Emiley cry because I hit him on the nose. She came over and started petting him and saying, "You are a good horse Jasper." One last horror story... we use to feed the dogs and cats in the garage. We would leave the garage cracked open so they could get in and out to eat. Well, Jasper figured out how to push the garage door open with this nose. One day, he pushed the door open so hard it fell of its tracks and trapped him in the garage. What to do, What to do... I must now go clean the mess in the saddle house.......................

Why I Need a Kitchen-Aide Mixer

...not only because I strive to be Martha or Rachael, but because then I could make awesome, perfect, beautiful meringue like at did at the Horton's with Amy's kitchen-aide mixer... This was my best chocolate pie ever!!! My pie always tastes pretty good, but the meringue is always runny and comes away from the sides of the crust. Not this time, and I didn't even have cream of tarter!

Abbey's Prize Cake...

We spent this weekend at the Hamilton County Livestock Show and Home Economics Show. Abbey decided to enter a Swedish Pineapple Cake in the the show. She cannot compete since she is under nine, but she could enter as a 4-H Clover Kid. She made the entire cake herself! It turned out great and sold quickly for $10. I am so proud of her and her work on this project. She has already planned to do a horse drawing for next year and possibly another cake. The girls has lots of fun this weekend just hanging out and running around the show barns with their friends. We packed snacks and lunches and watched the kids show their animals all day. Emiley had a good time running around with Denver in the pig barn most of the day. Gina and I only got worried when one of them came back without the other. Abbey hung out with Brody in the steer barn. Brody's mom and I decided they may each have secret crushes on each other, but neither will admit it... "they are just best buds."
(just a closer look at the cake)

Hope you all had a great weekend, too.

Happy New Year...

Happy New Year Everyone... I hope these first four days of 2007 have been wonderful.


We just returned home from a great visit with our college friends Jason and Amy Horton. Our children miss each other just as we adults miss each other, especially Abbey, Kate, and Kooper. We were there from last Friday until Tuesday. I don't think the kids fought one time... they had so much fun together. We met Will's sister in Childress to give her Lainey. Lainey is staying with her for a coupld of weeks. She has been wanting to do this for almost six months. When I called to check on her she was making cookies and listening to rock-n-roll. I am sure she is loving the fact that she is the center of attention.
Looking back on 2006... I cannot figure out were it went. It flew by like a whirlwind. We stayed busy with Abbey and her school, soccer, baseball, 4-H, and lots of friends. Lainey kept us busy with ballet, art, preschool, and a go with t-ball. Emiley is just busy... she is in preschool and loves tagging along with us to all the girls activities and church. We had many blessings and prayers answered this year. The one that comes to mind is Carly Jo. My good friend Susie had to deliver at 28 to save herself from too much blood loss due to placenta previa. Carly was due on Jan. 6, 2007 but was delivered on Oct. 17, 2006 at only 28 weeks. She weighed 2lbs. and 5 oz. She was in NICU for two months but got to come home three days before Christmas. WOW!! We are planning her shower for Sunday. She now weighs a bit over 6 lbs. God is so good. As I prayed for her EVERYDAY... I kept remembering the verse ... "The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective." I wanted nothing more than for Bobby and Susie to receive the blessing of this child in their lives. God has answered our prayer. I think this situation with Carly Jo has also taught my girls a lot about the power of prayer. They too prayed for her and thought about her daily. They drew pictures of her and I would take them to Susie at Scott and White who would then place them on her crib. Along with praise and thanksgiving, there is also disappointment that comes along in a year. The biggest shock of my year... life... came when my parents said they were divorcing. I think I cried for a whole month. I felt like a little child whose life was slipping away from them. Everything was changing, everything I had known for the last 31 years. I have prayed and prayed about this too and I am finally finding peace in it all. God is good and has taught me things through this situation as well. So as I look onto 2007, I hope to grow closer to my Lord and Savior through good and bad... in all things I hope to give HIM all the glory in all situations... Happy New Year!!!