Wild Horses

Last Thursday Caden got to go on a field trip to the BLM wild burro corrals. They watched a video on how the burros and mustange are caught and cared for. Then they got to go out and see some of the animals. The night before a foal was born and the kids were able to see him that morning. It was pretty exciting.


They also showed the kids were and how they give the horses vaccinations.


And how the horses hoof are cleaned and shoed.


Afterward they went to the park to have lunch and play for a bit. It was a fun day and Caden learned alot that he had a great time telling us when he got home. :)

And I thought I loved you then

April 22, 1997

April 22, 2009


Twelve years and counting


P.S.
The new song on my playlist we heard for the first time today. Trent and I agreed it sounded just right for our 12 years together. :)

The ABC's about me!

You've been tagged! You are supposed to write a note with the ABC's of YOU. At the end, choose 26 people to be tagged. You have to tag me so really you just need 25 more people. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you - but not in a creepy stalker kind of way. ( I am not going to tag 25 people - seems a bit excessive!)

I was tagged on facebook with this but wanted to put it here as well so others could see it and so I could also tag a few other people. I want to tag Vicki, Torri and Sam. :)

A - Age: 33

B - Bed size: Queen

C - Chore you hate: Putting dishes away. I don't mind doing the dishes but I REALLY hate putting them away.

D - Dog(s) name: Belle

E - Essential start your day item:Anxeity medicine

F - Favorite color: deep red

G - Gold or Silver: Silver

H - Height: 5'7

I - Instrument: None

J - Job title: Mommy

K - Kid(s): Rees, Caden, Paige and Tricia

L - Living arrangements: with my husband and our kids. My mother lives with us as well

M - Mom's name: Patty

N - Nicknames: Brina, Bree, Princess

O - Overnight hospital stay other than birth of child: Other then my four kids, I had my gall bladder removed when Rees was about 4 months old

P - Pet Peeve: Having to repeat myself over and over again.

Q - Quotes you like: "Though lovers be lost, love shall not. Death shall have no dominion."

R - Right or left handed: Right

S - Siblings: 1 brother and 1 sister

T - Time you wake up: 7:00 a.m.

U- Underwear: Um...Yes.( I don't really get it.)

V - Vegetable you dislike: Peas

W - Ways you run late: Getting kids ready and out the door.

X - X-rays you've had:I have had chest x-rays a few times for pneumonia, I sprained my ankle so bad once the doctor was afraid I broke it. So an x-ray then. And before they knew that my gall bladder was what was paining me I had xrays to make sure I didn't have a blood clod moving to my lungs.

Y - Yummy food you make: My mom tells me that my chicken and rice is yummy and one of her favorite things. A few few of my brother-in-laws have told me that my dutch apple pie is really yummy.

Z - Zoo favorite: For me it would have to be the penguins. Unfortenuly not all zoos have them. But really I greatly enjoy seeing most of the animals. Especailly with my kids

Just maybe....

...I am not dieing after all. Since Sunday I have had a terrible sore throat and have been running a fever off and on. Tevan came over last night to help Trent give me a blessing. Today I have actually felt like I might live. I really hope no one else gets this bug. I don't think it was strep but pretty close.

Stay health. Love you all

Here comes the Easter bunny!

Last night we let the kids decorate some hard boiled eggs. They only got 3 each as a dozen hard boiled eggs is more then enough but they enjoyed it all the same.

Getting started. Tricia is only in a diaper because we didn't want her clothes to be dyed also. :)

The kids had great fun with the wax crayon. Trent drew the bunny on this egg for Tricia.

Here is all our colorful eggs.

Then this morning the Easter bunny visited us, sense he knows we don't want to hunt eggs on Sunday. Wasn't that nice of him. ;). The kids had a blast looking for their eggs.












Here was our fun! Hope everyone else had or has a great time also. :)

Depression

Hmm, here I am again. Funny, I think I can get away from it but it always finds me in the end. Now that I am looking at it, I have been fighting it for a few months. I know some of you don't understand or care. I am not looking for sympathy or anything. Mostly I have found when I put these things into words I can fight it better or at least try.

Anyway, hope everyone is doing well. Love you all.

So exciting

Tricia said her first family pray all by herself tonight. And her first blessing on dinner by herself yesterday. She is getting so big. :)

5 Things

Tagged:
5 things I was doing 5 years ago:
1. Enjoying my two boys
2. Anticipating Caden's first Easter.
3. Fighting off mice. (We had a mouse problem for a bit)
4. Celebrating 7 years of marrige.
5. Trying to find a way out of a VERY deep depression I was in.

5 things on my to-do list for today:
1. Go to post office.
2. Go to library
3. Get boys from school
4. Do a few chores
5. Pay the storage

5 things I would do with a million dollars:
1. Buy a house
2. Put money away for my kids futures (mission's, college, weddings, etc.)
3. Put money away for a rainy day
4. Take my kids to DisneyWorld
5. Take some trips

5 places I have lived:
1. Riverside, Ca.
2. Cane Break, Ca.
3. Trona, Ca.
4. Ridgecrest, CA
5. Colorado Springs, Co.

5 jobs I've held:
1. Child care provider at a Day Care
2. SAHM
3.
4.
5.

5 things I want to be doing in 5 years:
1. Have a house
2. Be amazed that Rees turned 12
3. Be amazed that Tricia will be almost old enough for baptism, which means all my kids will be. Which is a GREAT thing just sad that they will be so old.
4. Be more financially secure
5. Be happy!

5 people I tag:
1. Verity
2. I think everyone else was tagged. :)
3.
4.
5.

Spring Break.

Last week was spring break for the boys. We had hoped to go to my Aunt's for a few days but she had something going on, so we had to change our plans. We took a few day trips instead. On Sat. the 21st we went up to Lone Pine and poked around. We went back to Alabama Hills and climbed around but after we realized we almost had a close incounter with a mountain lion we left. (We didn't see him, just evidence that we were a little to close for comfort) We went down the road to a creek that had some bridges crossing it. Then down to the local park for abit to eat and play some more.





Trent had to work all week so the kids and I were on our own. :)

On Tues we spent the whole day at Torri's. The kids had great fun running around with cousins.

On Thrus. we went to Lake Isabella with my sister and her kids. I forgot the camera for which I am still upset at myself about. The kids all had fun throwing rocks in the lake. We found a few spots to climb on some rocks. (mountain lion free :)) We also saw some pelicans on the lake. It was very strange. I have been to that lake a million times, even lived up there for awhile but never have I seen pelicans there before.

Then the following Sat. we went and looked at wildflowers with Vicki, Torri and her kids. The kids had a nice time hiking and we saw some really pretty flowers.






We had a fun week (with the acception of Fri)

If only......

If only they could get along this well all the time. ;)

Jr. Olympics

Today Rees took part in his first Jr. Olympics. It is really strange to watch your kids doing things you remember doing. Jr. Olympics was always a fun time for my sister and I. We just really loved take part in all the events. Rees ran the 100 and 200 meter. He was suppose to do the running long jump but there was some confusion and he missed it. He was ok with that though. After he ran the 200, Trent went down to talk to him. Trent asked if he had fun. Rees said "No." Trent asked why Rees said "Because running makes me tired." He really is the sit and read or draw kinda kid. I was proud of him for giving it a shot though.

Here are a few pictures of his races.

This is him running the 100 meter.

This is him running the 200 meter.

My niece and nephew were also there doing their events. So all in all it was a fun morning watching the kids give it their best.

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Birthday Fun!

Last week we had two birthdays. On the 26th Tricia turned 2, and on the 28th Rees turned 7. We had a party on the morning of the 28th for Tricia. We did a Mickey Mouse clubhouse theme as she is a BIG fan of Mickey.



Tricia had a Mickey Mouse cake that I made and Rees had a Sonic the Hedgehog cake that Vicki made.

Torri ran around as Toodles for us, while the kids went from place to place looking for the party decorations that had been taken.
At last the presents and goodies were found and Rees and Tricia opened there presents.



Then that afternoon, we took Rees with a few friends from school and his older cousins, to the bouncehouse to play for an hour. It was a wild and crazy time but I think everyone had lots of fun. (At least I hope so)


Happy Birthday my babies! I love you very much!!

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How many have you read?

Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.

Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
2) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
3) Star (*) those you plan on reading. (Let's just say everything I haven't read is *ed) :)
4) Tally your total.Then, post your total read at the bottom.

1. [ ] Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
2. [] The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien (Trent read)
3. [x] Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
4. [X+ ] Harry Potter series JK Rowling (Trent read)
5. [x] To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
6. [X] The Bible (Trent read)
7. [*] Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
8. [ ] Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell
9. [ ] His Dark Materials Philip Pullman
10. [ ] Great Expectations Charles Dickens
11. [] Little Women Louisa M Alcott (Trent read)
12. [ ] Tess of the D'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
13. [ ] Catch 22 Joseph Heller
14. [ ] Complete Works of Shakespeare (Trent said he has read quite a few but not all)
15. [ ] Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
16. [X] The Hobbit JRR Tolken (Trent read)
17. [ ] Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
18. [] Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
19. [ ] The Time Traveller's Wife Audrey Niffenegger
20. [ ] Middlemarch George Eliot
21. [ ] Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell
22. [ ] The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
23. [ ] Bleak House Charles Dickens
24. [ ] War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
25. [*] The Hitch Hiker.s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
26. [ ] Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
27. [] Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. [ ] Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
29. [] Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll (Trent read)
30. [x] The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame (Trent read)
31. [x] Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
32. [] David Copperfield Charles Dickens
33. [X] Chronicles of Narnia CS Lewis(SOME OF THE BOOKS BUT NOT ALL) (Trent read all)
34. [] Emma Jane Austen
35. [] Persuasion Jane Austen
36. [X] The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe CS Lewis (Trent read)
37. [ ] The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
38. [ ] Captain Corelli's Mandolin Louis De Bernieres
39. [] Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
40. [X] Winnie the Pooh AA Milne (Trent read)
41. [x] Animal Farm George Orwell (Trent read)
42. [X] The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown (Trent read)
43. [ ] One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. [ ] A Prayer for Owen Meaney John Irving
45. [ ] The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
46. [] Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery
47. [] Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
48. [ ] The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood
49. [X] Lord of the Flies William Golding
50. [ ] Atonement Ian McEwan
51. [ ] Life of Pi Yann Martel
52. [ ] Dune Frank Herbert (Trent read)
53. [ ] Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons
54. [] Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen (Trent read)
55. [ ] A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth
56. [ ] The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. [] A Tale Of Two Cities Charles Dickens
58. [x] Brave New World Aldous Huxley
59. [ ] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon
60. [ ] Love In The Time Of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. [] Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
62. [ ] Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
63. [ ] The Secret History Donna Tartt
64. [] The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold
65. [x+] Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas (Trent read)
66. [ ] On The Road Jack Kerouac
67. [ ] Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
68. [ ] Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding
69. [ ] Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie
70. [ ] Moby Dick Herman Melville (Trent read)
71. [ ] Oliver Twist Charles Dickens (Trent read)
72. [X] Dracula Bram Stoker
73. [X] The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett (Trent read)
74. [ ] Notes From A Small Island Bill Bryson
75. [ ] Ulysses James Joyce
76. [ ] The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
77. [ ] Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome
78. [ ] Germinal Emile Zola
79. [] Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
80. [ ] Possession AS Byatt
81. [] A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens (Trent read)
82. [ ] Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
83. [ ] The Color Purple Alice Walker
84. [ ] The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
85. [ ] Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
86. [ ] A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry
87. [X] Charlotte's Web EB White (Trent read)
88. [ ] The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Alborn
89. [] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. [ ] The Faraway Tree Collection Enid Blyton
91. [ ] Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
92. [x] The Little Prince Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. [ ] The Wasp Factory Iain Banks
94. [ ] Watership Down Richard Adams
95. [ ] A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole
96. [ ] A Town Like Alice Nevil Shute
97. [] The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas
98. [ ] Hamlet William Shakespeare(Trent read)
99. [] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory(Trent read)
100. [] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

I have read 18. I was interested in how many Trent has read so I put it after. He has read 23.

Happy Valentines Day!!

Happy Valentines Day everyone! I love you all!!

Valentine Goodies!

I saw these cookies on a magazine cover, thought they were really cute and then prompty forgot what magazine I saw them on. So after some searching I found a recipe for them. I think they are so fun looking. And not as hard to make as they look. It did take all day to make them. But I ended up with enough for all my family that is here in town. I hope everyone who had one enjoyed it. :)

Trent thought they were good. He is trying to snitch one while I am taking a picture of them.

Here is the recipe for anyone who might like it. I left out the almond because I don't care for it. I also used strawberry jam because I am not a fan of rasberry. The dough is not very sweet and was really easy to handle. I am thinking I will use the dough to make other sugar cookie type treats. Also the cookie cutter I had was bigger then the ones they asked for in the recipe so I had to double the recipe to get a dozen of the big cookies.

Raspberry Sandwich Hearts
Ingredients:
Dough:
2 cups all-purpose flour, plus additional for work surface
½ teaspoon salt
1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
¾ cup confectioners (powdered) sugar, plus additional for dusting
1½ teaspoons pure vanilla extract
½ teaspoon pure almond extract

Filling:
½ cup seedless raspberry jam

Directions:
Dough:
In a medium bowl, sift flour and salt together. Set aside.


In a large bowl, combine butter and confectioner sugar; beat together until mixture is smooth. Add vanilla extract and almond extract; stir until blended. Add flour mixture; stir to mix.


Press dough into a ball, cover and refrigerate until well chilled, at least 2 hours.


Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Baking sheets may be ungreased, or lined with parchment paper.


On a lightly floured surface, and using a lightly floured rolling pin, roll the dough to a 1/4 inch thickness. Cut dough into hearts or other desired shapes using a 2½ inch cookie cutter that has been dipped in flour (to help prevent dough from sticking to the cutter.)


Using a 1 inch heart shaped cookie cutter that has been dipped in flour, cut out the center of half of the 2½ inch cookies. Re-roll the scraps, or bake the 1 inch heart shapes separately.

Bake:
Place cutout dough 2 inches apart on baking sheets. Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until cookies are set and the edges are very lightly browned. Remove cookies from baking sheets and cool on wire racks.

Filling and Assembly:
Leaving a ¼ inch border uncovered, spread about 1 teaspoon of the raspberry jam over each cookie without the middle cutout.


Using a fine-mesh sieve, dust the tops of the cookies that have the middle cutout with confectioners sugar. Place the cutout cookies on top of the jam-covered cookies.

Makes about 2 dozen cookie sandwiches

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Husband Tag

what's your husbands name? Trent

how long have you been married? 12 years in April

how long did you date? 3 and 1/2 years to the day.

how old is he? Just turned 33

who eats more sweets? Me

who is a better singer? He is by far and away. He doesn't sing much but he has a beautiful deep voice.

who is smarter? He is. He is always amazing me with bits of info on things I didn't know he know anything about.

who does the laundry? I do but he is always willing to help if I need it. And there are times he will surprise me by doing a load or two.

who pays the bills? I pay the bill after he we gets his check from work. :)

who sleeps on the right side of the bed? I do

who mows the lawn? No one. We don't have one. But he would if we did.

who cooks dinner? Normally we work on it together.

who drives? I do most of the driving. I like to drive.

who is the first to say they are wrong? He is. Even when it wasn't his fault.

who kissed who first? I kissed him first

who asked who out first? I asked him to the homecoming dance. (our first date)

who wears the pants? We both wears pants. ;) But I am the bossy one. :D

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