Year's End

I can't believe today was the LAST day of 2016!!!!
It was a good and not so good at the same time kinda year, I'm sorry but kinda glad to see if coming to a close.

The highlight of the year for me by far was the amazing surprise party my family and friends threw for me!
It was so great and I had an absolute blast!

A few other highlights were:
Going to the zoo with a couple friends for Kai's birthday, had lots of fun and took lots of photos. :)
The Ape cave was an amazing time too, first time ever going the long way!
Our trip to Spokane to get Mac and getting also to meet a pen pal for the first time and see some friends we haven't seen for ages!
Snow! ;)

Down sides, well.....
Lost several goats to pneumonia.... I started out this spring with 9 goats, after selling 1 of them I now have 5 goats.
Yeah.... weird weather, they say people were losing goats to pneumonia and unknown reasons all over the U.S. this year! :/


Looking forward to what the New Year will bring, what God had planned for my family, me, my friends. :)


On another note, here is a fun 12 days of Christmas video, it was done several years ago by some friends, but its funny watching them! ;)

Most folks don't know this, but did you know that the 12 Days of Christmas actually is between Christmas and Epiphany which is January 6th?
Yep, you can check google now if you'd like. ;)

It feels like 2016 is going out with a grand finale, Snow!!
It's been snowing on and off all day, and started to finally stick so now we have about a 1/4"of snow!
Not much but hey, it's snow. ;)

Have a Happy New Year!!

More Snow!!

On Dec. 19th we had more snow!!!
Woke up ti Mac barking because he heard a branch fall in the driveway, looked out and there was snow!!
So at 7:30am we were outside playing in the snow, taking pictures and making a snowman!
Here are some pictures:

I LOVE snow on the trees!!

Kai rolled the base, Megs the middle and I made the head, the girls did the finishing touches. :)

Mac "helped" he took both arms off at different times!

Snowing!

Belinda wanted us to kick her ball for her .:)

Snow, snow, snow!!

Out my bedroom window, beautiful isn't it?!

Christmas is just 3 days away!! So excited!!

Merry Christmas!!

One Week!!

I can't believe it's only 9 days to Christmas!!! It's just coming so fast this year.....


Last Saturday was the Christmas at the Fort event, that was fun and very busy.
Here are some pictures from the Fort photographer and one of dancing from the Colombian.

In the Carpenter Shop they were helping kids make tops

The Ladies in the Chief Factors House visiting and doing some handwork

A gentleman portraying Dr. Barclay in the Infirmary

Dancing in the Counting House *picture from the Colombian*

We were all very busy but had fun. :)


This week it snowed pretty much everywhere but our place. :/
Drat.....

Anywho, here is this weeks song. :)

This song is sung by one guy, his name is David Wesley, you should search him on YouTube, he's really good!!



Keep warm!!

Snow!!!!!!!!

It snowed today!!!! Okay, only 1" a the most but hay, I'll take what I can get! ;)
So we played out in it off and on today, got some fun pictures and just hung out. :)

We got our Christmas tree last Saturday, yay!! So pretty!!

Here are some pictures I got today. :)

The handsomest and most photogenic boy ever!! :D

Miss Trixie

I got one with Belinda not wincing from snow in her eyes!!

Can you tell what kind of weather we had till this week? :P ;)

Buried in the Snow

Snow Grass

Pony girls!!!

Pretty <3

Hawthorn branches

Pipe corral fence

And to keep with my Christmas song theme here is another one I like and thought I'd share. :)

Sorry the video I found isn't the greatest, but you can still hear the song. :)

It's not the tree, the lights the gifts, that's not what makes us sing,
a Virgin birth, a manger bed, the birthday of a King.
These are the Truths, I'll hold on to, 'cuz they will always last
We celebrate on Christmas Day, because it came to Pass.

December - Finally Getting Cold!

Well, it's December already, and it's finally starting to get cold around here!
Haven't had a single frost yet! I remember 2 years ago when we'd had at least 2 weeks of frost by now! (I remember so well because that was the time my pony decided to get really sick and I had to go out every 20-30mins to force water her and it was COLD!)
But it's supposed to start getting cold this weekend and possibly cold enough to have snow here on Monday!! Yay!! :D

I have already decided if we don't get to it before my birthday, I want to go sledding!
I found there are 2 places up by Mt. Hood that except for the $3 pass (which I think our card we have covers) its free to go sledding!!!
So I know what I want to do .:)


We've been listening to Christmas and holiday music all week! Love it.
Here are two favorites of mine. You have to listen to both!!! Trust me. :)

It rained last weekend and was nice the one day we were busy.... so we're hoping to get our tree this weekend.
We have inspectors on the new HVAC here and coming today, so hoping to get it tomorrow. :)

Keep warm and safe! Especially if its gonna snow!