Things to be Thankful For!

That my soon to be 21yo son walked away from this rollover accident!

He hit a patch of black ice on his way to work Friday morning, lost control and rolled his truck. The truck is quite a bit the worse for wear, but expect for some sore ribs my son is fine. Thank You Lord!

New Addtions to the Family

For Christmas my DH and oldest DS got puppies. They are blue heeelers or Australian Cattle Dogs if you want to be technical. DS is on the left with his dog Dixie and DH is on the right with Kassie.

They are really cute puppies but this brings our dog total to 5 between the two households. We also have a Sheltie and two Labs.


Another picture of Kassie.
Isn't she cute?

Aftermath of an Ice Storm

Below are pictures of our house and property after the recent ice storms. If you scroll down and look at the flood pictures [uh yeah, it seems to be our year for natural disasters], anyway you can see the differences. Luckily for use we were only without electric for about seven hours. Many have already been without for days and the electric companies are saying some may be with electricity for as many as seven days.

Count Down to Christmas

Do you like the cool count down timer I added to my blog?

You can find it at customizable countdown timer generator . Thanks to PaperBack Writer for passing along this cool feature.

We have the Christmas Tree up and decorated and my youngest is finally back to normal. Well he's not eating quite as much but that's okay.

Our first real taste of winter arrived yesterday with a mix of sleet, rain and freezing rain. According to the weatherman more is on the way Monday and Tuesday, along with temps that aren't supposed to be above freezing for the next few days. Could be an interesting few days.

We Have Twins

ACK! I can't believe I haven't posted since August and it is November!


Well it has been exceptionally busy around here. Both our heifers calved and one of them had twins. A rather rare occurance according to the DH. Here is a picture.





Aren't they cute? The one on the right is a girl and the one on the left is a boy.

What a way to wake up

Woke up this morning to Water World. About 8 inches of water in the garage and water lapping about 3 inches from the front door.

I have lived here for 25yrs and Toby has lived here for about 35 yrs and it has never looked like this.

Maternity Swimsuits

While working out at the gym this morning I was watching the Today Show. On one of the segments they had a mini fashion show showcasing maternity swimsuits. Now I’m familiar with the concept and since two of my four were born in August and another in October I’ve actually purchased and worn a maternity swimsuit. But not like these suits.

Three or four of the suits were Takini type suits and in every one the model’s belly protruded from under the top, one was a bikini. Yes a bikini for pregnant women and only one was a one piece style suit that actually covered the belly.
Maybe at heart I’m more of a prude then I thought but I just can’t seem to wrap my brain around this new desire to show off one’s pregnant belly.

Trim Kids

Title: Trim Kids

Author: Melinda S. Sothern, T. Kristian von Almen. and Heidi Schumacher

Year Published: 2001

Why did you get this book? I was looking for nutritional information that was geared for kids.

Do you like the cover? Not bad

Did you enjoy the book? This books was actually a DNF for me. I read the Part One section, which was titled Setting the Stage for Success. It did have some good information for parents, such as diet changes can’t really be made for just one family member and be effective for that family member. And yet at the same time you can’t never let the other family members have the things they like to eat. To make real effective changes in our children’s diet and exercise choices and attitudes we might first have to change our own. Ouch!

The second part of the books lays out in detail the Twelve-Week Program. That is not the information I was looking for hence the DNF status.

Are you keeping it or passing it on? It is a library book and I will be returning it.

Anything else? If you have a child/children with weight problems you might be interested in reading this book. I think it does have merit.

Catching Up in Blog land

I haven't posted here in forever, my excuse .... life has been busy! Yeah, I know that excuse is worn thin but it does apply.

So what have I been doing?

Well in February we had the wedding! Our oldest son married a wonderful young lady whom we all love dearly. We also became the owners of two rather wild mustang horses. They had been adopted by someone who found themselves no longer able to afford the feed bill and so they were free to a good home. We spent endless hours trying to gentle them down ourselves and finally decided to enlist some professional help. One horse will be coming back from the trainer soon and hopefully come next spring we will have a colt.

Then in March we had some wonderful spring weather that resulted in major cases of spring fever.

April .... brought a return to colder weather and desperate attempts to get back on track with school.

May brought an abundance of rain. Last week alone we had 6.5 inches at my house. Hopefully that will help all the flowers I planted grow. I also attended our state's homeschool convention which provided some great speakers and a chance for me to decide on next year's curriculum.

I have been getting to read, averaging about 9 books a month. During our oh so short summer break I hope to increase that number.

The Thaw

Okay, first of all we lived in the deep freeze.

I know that to many a week or ten days of weather with temps under freezing is not a big deal but in Oklahoma it is. Add to that the 4-6 inches of sleet that is still on the ground 12 days after it fell and we truly feel as if someone moved the Arctic Circle several thousand miles south.

Now we are in midst of the Big Thaw! It has been in the 40's for the last two days and may even reach 50 by Friday! As you can see from the picture I posted of our driveway, we are now leaving in a mud hole, although the wheat pasture is still an almost solid sheet of ice. *Sigh* How long till spring???