Babies!!

On Feb 13th & 15th we got baby goats!!

1st set was triplets:

Onyx

Jasper

Diamond

My goat Cory had the second set, twins:

Nethaneel (Thanee)

Issachar (Ike,or Izic, depends on who you ask) ;)

I wish they were girls, but at least their handsome fellers. ;)
And because I got some extra cute pix of Thanee (yes, he's my favorite) I shall post them too! :)

Aren't they all cute?!

Next babies due the first/second week in March. Yay!!

Happenings Thus Far...

Well..... so far my post every week plan has...well... not happened.....
Mostly my not getting around to it, and lack of finding an interesting topic to post about.

The month thus far has been quite fun. :)

Starting the month off with the 1st Saturday was an overall exciting day.

The 4th marked the 1st day of 1st yr. at the Fort Vancouver interpreters training.
The new students all seem ti be good ones so far and quite good listener!
No pictures due to the fact I was in costume, a camera doesn't go well with keeping the 1840's look.. ;)

Then after the school day was over, us girls went to a ball we had been invited too!
It was SO much fun! Learned several new dances, my favorites are the River Snake (or whatever it was they called it), and my very new favorite The Spanish Waltz!

Feb. 4th also marked the birthday of my mom's stallion Poppy (Pops), he turned 34 yrs. old this year!
He's still looking and going good! :D

The handsome boy a few years ago :)

Then this past Tuesday marked Kai's 16th b-day!!
I can't believe she's that old already!!
Does anyone know what it feels like to have your "baby" sister be 16 yrs. old!!
It feels....well...hmm...
Anyways, we made her enchiladas for her b-day dinner and had strawberry ice cream along with her chocolate cake. Yummyness!! :D
Here in the next week or two we're hoping to take her ice skating!
We got some passes at like half price so are taking her since she's been "dying" to go, and we want to go too so...... ;)
Just have to wait for a friend to get over a cold so they can all come, don't want to leave anyone home alone!

Been raining quite a bit this month...
Yesterday we had to do our morning feeding the critters in a torrential downpour!
Soaked, totally soaked my pants and part of my shirt that the coat didn't cover..
Why don't they make normal warm waterproof coats longer??........

I've been waiting for my goat to have her babies this week, she's due Sunday, but you never know...
We actually have 2 goats due Sunday, (my birthday!), so hopefully they have them Saturday & or after church on Sunday. :)
Hopefully next post will have baby pictures!

So this will be my last post at my current age, Sunday marks my second double digit birthday!
I will be 2 decades, 2 yrs. old!! :o
Oh.. that sounds old...... :P
Hard to think it's been a year already since my surprise party for my 21st birthday!
It's also been a full year since I had my ears pierced!
I love being able to wear the sparkly studs all the time and not worry about them slipping off while working outside. :)

Well, I can't think of anything else to ramble on about, if you made it thus far I congratulate you!
I need to come up with something to post about, maybe I should do short stories or something?
My poor imagination needs exercise, I'd say its broken, but I've been told by a good friend "your imagination isn't broken, it just needs retrained."

Any thoughts on what I should do for posts?

Have a great weekend everyone!!

Cuteness!!

Boy time sure is going by fast! Only 2 more days left of January and I've only posted once!
Though of course there really wasn't much to post about, and I couldn't think of anything to write about.... :/

Look what was born sometime early yesterday morning!!!!!

Is she just TOO CUTE for words or what!?!?!
I think the name decided was Bramble Berry because when we found her she was sleeping at the base of a tree with brambles (blackberry branches) all around her and she looked so cute. :)
So this is little Bramble girl.
Mom said if we can get her to be friendly and let us walk up to her as she grows we can keep her as her mom is getting up there in age. :D

Today we put a shelter together so she can stay out of the rain if she'd like, her mom and older brother
usually just hang out under the trees, that and cows don't usually use shelters, but her being so little we wanted her to have a rain free place to sleep if she so chose. :)


Our January went pretty well, busy.
We had our first day of 2nd yr. at the Fort. It want really well!
1st year starts this coming Saturday. Hoping it goes smoothly!

How's your year going so far?

Snow, Snow Snow!

This has started out to be one of the funnest years for awhile now! We got snow!!
If you haven't noticed, I love snow, sorry to those of you who find it annoying, a pain, an inconvenience, but I still love it. :)
I know, some of you are thinking, "Just wait till you have to drive in it and then tell me how you like all the snow", or "Wait till you get snowed in from going somewhere you really wanted to go then we'll talk about how you like snow".

Well yes, I haven't had to try driving in it yet, but yes, I was "snowed" in yesterday from a coffee "date" I really wanted to go to, but that's okay 'cuz they said next week would work for them just as well as they had gotten snow also. :)
The first day of the Fort Vancouver Dame & Engagé school was canceled due to frozen rain and ice and was just canceled again due to more snow coming this weekend!

Anyways, we ended 2016 and started 2017 with a beautiful 2-3" of snow on the ground!
Here are pictures from early morning Jan 1st, 2017:

After the first day it iced over, so for the next week and a half we had crunchy snow and ice.
The snow fell off the trees though the first day so no broken branches thankfully due to ice.


Then night before last it snowed again, we woke up the next morning to 4-5" of snow!!
It's just so beautiful!!
Here are some pictures, us girls went on a walk to the river and I was able to get some really cool snow pictures.

We went for a walk in a Winter Wonderland!!

The East Fork of the Lewis River and a pretty hill beyond. :)

Yes snow can be an inconvenience, yes it can postpone and ruin plans, but I wouldn't wish it away for anything! <3

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!

Countdown to Christmas!!

Thanksgiving was yesterday, we had a very fun day.
We had a couple from our church who didn't have family spending the day with them so invited them over.
Besides eating dinner and talking, we played the card game golf over and over and the dice game 10,000.
So much fun!! I love those two games! :)
 Dinner was amazing and everyone enjoyed it. I got to make the pumpkin pies this year, and they were delicious if I do say so myself. ;)

And with a wonderful Thanksgiving there are only 4 WEEKS till Christmas folks!!
Already! Time is sure flying this year!
Today marked the official "we can listen to Christmas music all day" in our house! Yay!
I love Christmastime music!

Here is a favorite one of mine and the words are so true, It will Always Be Christmas To Me.

I first heard this song on a CD I won on a call in and be #3 on the gospel sing last year about Christmas time.
I just love the songs on that CD!!
 I'll share other favorites each week till Christmas. :)

We might get to get our tree on Sunday!!!
We usually get it the day after or Sat. after Thanksgiving but...... it's raining. :/
 But it's supposed to be nice on Sunday, so maybe after church we can go get one.


Tomorrow is our first orientation for the new students to the Fort schools.
So we get to go interpret to visitors then when the kids come through we get to be bad interpreters and then have to be good interpreters to show the kids the differences.
It's the one time a year we can be naughty!! ;)
Since most all the older kids decided to get lives( the nerve of them! ;) I get to be in charge this year. :)

We got our new shower completely tiled! It looks beautiful!!
Now to get the grout in.....