Taking walks

Found this heart shaped branch while on the walk. How cool is this!!

Julionna looking over the edge of the bridge

Justen standing by large tree

Mountain we see on our walk

Standing by an old stump

Just playing around

All 4 actually together!!!

Paul and Gabe showing off their muscles!!!
To funny!!!

Julionna and me and below Brian and me..

Snowing and more

Above is a Bard rock chicken
Blow is a Bronze Turkey (good eats around thanksgiving :( )

Below is a Rhode Island Red Chick

Below is a bobwhite quail

Below is a chucker

and the beauty here is a mountain you can see out our living room window. It was snowing and beautiful!

Have you ever been so mad you....

Want to chop your vehicle in half with an ax, because it won't start on a very important day? I was this morning. But went in my room and cried my eyes out and felt much better!!!

Have you ever been so mad you said things you don't mean and then later when you calm down realize it and have to apologize? Did that this morning too!!!

Its one of those days I just needed a good cry..Ever have a day when all your sins for some reason just want to show the world how bad you can be..yup that's me! I am a sinner.

The most important lesson is repent and ask for forgiveness and hold my tongue.GRACE OF GOD

Ramblings

So we were thinking hum wouldn't it be fun to build a "cat house". lol Yup a neat kinda dog house thing but larger and made for cats. Really a cat heaven! Yup we are cat lovers (as you have probably read animal lovers) nothing weird like dressing our pets up or having birthdays. But we love animals. Thus the reason to live in the country and own a farm!
Anyway if we ended up not using it, it can be used as a garden tools shed. So anyway I was thinking we could make the toys and buy some catnip plants and carpet the walls and having scratching posts and shelves for them to rest on etc.. I am weird but it sounds like it would be fun to do..

There are always projects running through my brain. And the main reason is to get the cats out of the house. We have several and I think it would cause them to spend more time outside then in. Not keep them out of the house entirely but encourage them to want to be outside. Most of our cats are fixed but the kittens my cat had need to be. They are not of age yet so I have time to get them fixed!!

Then another thought came to me..what if we made a large cement pad out by the side of the shop we could set up a whole play area for all of us to do as a family. I think that would be fun. We need more family time then what we have and getting exercise outside together sounds like a solution to me. I can't wait until summer comes as far as swimming. I miss doing that. And taking our walks. I know we can do that now. By the time the kids get off the bus for school do homework and eat its already dark out. Out here dark is pitch black!! But I can't complain..

Today I cleaned and cleaned and cleaned house. I find it hard to be motivated to do that, but once I am doing it. I find myself enjoying it. My laundry is loaded up and is getting washed but washing all bed clothes and clothes that are hidden in every crevice of the house has been more work then I expected.

Today is very foggy outside. We live not to far from a mountain and if a person were here to visit today they would not even see the mountain. You should see how sometimes God will shine the light on different parts of the mountain at different times, so each part gets enough light from the Lord to keep the trees happy and the mountain flowing with beauty. God is so good. He created the earth just for us. All of it glorifying His precious name. God amazed me with His beauty on a daily bases. I look up at the stars and believe you me in the country you can see them so clear its as if you are seeing God. What I mean is you see His glory in it so powerfully. God is the creator of such beauty, majesty. He is the mighty King, redeemer, He is so simply awesome there are no true words. A person couldn't possibly put into words how awesome God is. When you look at a star, a leaf and its vessels, when you look at a bug and how perfectly formed it is, a rock that has crystals, a piece of wood from a tree just cut and see how even in the that God made it to have lines for the age of it. There is no reason for people to not believe that God is the I Am.
I sit and pray and feel my heart burning with love and burning with desire to be used by God.

There are times I struggle and feel like a failure. I feel like I am not worthy to be alive even. I struggle with feeling like I can be used. I see all my faults and feel so fake and feel like God should be using someone worthy to do His work. I am far from a mother Theresa or a Billy Graham. I feel like a worthless piece of dog you know what. I know I am the child of the most High. I know God loves me and I know I would die in His name. I guess when I see me, I see but a person like in the passion when He draws the line in the dirt and Mary reaches up to Him with humility. I feel like I am her. I feel like I am not worthy to be in His presence. He is the almighty God. We as people do not always see how awesome God is. I think so many people use His name, to get money, fame, fortune and more and so many people who are His church are failing to do His work. Tears stream down my face when I think how we as the church have failed so many hungry people, children, the unborn, and more. We the people are forgetting. God isn't a squishy person asking people to ride fences. God wants us to walk amongst the Nations from every corner of the earth and tell others about Him. He wants us to feed the hungry. Not just with food, but with His message of hope and love. I see God as not just a peace loving hippy type Christ but I see Him as more then that. I see Him as all. Love, grace, holiness, mercy, compassion, discipline, father, alpha, omega, King, redeemer, Emmanuel, messiah, also a see God as creator, and I see Him as the one that will lead us believers into war as spoken in Revelations.
God is the same today and He was back then. I know God said He does not change. So some of the believers who chose to only believe that the new testimont is the only book to read are blinding themselves from who God truely is. The bible is like a circle, all things go in full circle.

So anyway...Ramblings..

2nd Post gifts from Dad

Of course my dad when he was little. He also sent a 4th grade report card. And a couple class pictures. I think I may already have copies for.
Looking at these pictures I can see a huge family resemblance. My son Paul and Justen look so much like my dad its amazing!! Well and I admit my looks as well :)
Plus he sent pictures of my brother Mike when he was a baby. The last I talked to my brother is the same year we moved to Oregon 2000. So sad to lose contact with him.

Anyway....

Heard from my dad-bearing gifts again

I got a surpize package from my dad today. I was totally not expecting. Plus a nice letter I have not seen from my dad in years!!! He sounded like how he used to sound before he got weird..hard to explain.

Anyway here are a few pics he sent me (Fred you are welcome to snag them off of here. If you like a specific one I can email you a larger version. Hey my dad mentioned sending you some pics. Would love to see some if any of them apply to me of course, Far as family ones)

Lottie, Morgan and my father
(I have not cropped them yet, was to excited to do that just yet)Lotties Dad

Lottie in Play (Which one is her)Ok Who is this? My dad had Morgan and Lottie with a question mark. But this doesn't look like them to me.

My rooster is handsome

This is my rooster. He is onry and beautiful!!! Just had to show yeah :)

An Egg---hum weird

So I was out checking for eggs and reached in and was picking some eggs out of one of the nest boxes and discovered this

Now in the early part of the year they typically lay darker eggs so no surprise at color.. But look at the size of that egg!!! Weird huh?

Beautiful Skies this morning

Aren't these beautiful pictures of the clouds above. I took these this morning. I was sitting her and the kids just went off to school on the bus and seen these out the window and I couldn't help myself. I took my camera and was standing in the yard snapping. Matter of fact right after I put my camera away the sun started to shine right under the clouds where the bottom picture is. I knew by the time I got my camera set up, it would be gone. So left well enough alone.
Just beautiful!! Thank you Lord for this lovely day!

Good Morning

Good Morning!!!

Today is a beautiful new day that the Lord has made. Just want to say hello and I hope you have a blessed day!

My son Gabe was Abe Lincoln

Julionna and Gabe had a play called " Who wants to be President?" It was really neat to watch. It was set up like a game show, the Presidents were hid behind a wall such as you see in the second picture. Then the Presidents had to give facts about what they did etc.. and the game show guests had to guess what President it was. Gabe is fairly shy and he did very well. He is skinny like Abe and he looked so cute! Brian made his hat and beard. It was cute!!

Random Picks

(Above) Grandma and Paul
(Below) Justen

(Below) Sadie waiting for Brian to get home

(Below) Gabe

(Below) Me and Julionna

(Below) Brian and my nieces finance building our fence

A ZOO

Meet Mario and Di Vinci (above)
Meet "Beans" (Below)

Well we own a zoo of animals for sure. But all are taken very well care of and all are great!
My mom purchased 2 Llama's to help guard our goats. They are good boys and I cannot wait to sheer them and clean and card the wool. I have a wonderful lady in Washington who will spin the wool. I am excited about that. They get along great with the goats too. The lady we got them from is a sweetheart. I think we made a really good friends with her. She is great! She said these specific Llama's have awesome blood lines and of course she has all paperwork. But the point is the wool from them is suppose to be some of the best! Move out of the way yarn shops..lolol

Plus a ferret we decided to name Beans. I had a ferret when we first got this place. But did not have time to ferret proof anything and he disappeared. He was rescued by my sister Lori and she gave him to me.
This little girl made a nice addition to our family. I know we have tons of pets and most people would say I would NEVER have that many animals. But this is us and we love animals. I thought often about being a rescue place for them. I know how to hand raise birds from the egg and I know how to bottle feed about anything. Maybe one day...for now I am busy with what I got.

From my Dad

I finally heard back from my father after I wrote him a letter. His letter was well not real personal (at all) kinda like a stranger. But he sent me a treasure. In the past he gave me his bible his grandma Crawford had given to him when he was a boy. Well he just sent me his mothers bible (Lottie) inside is an even bigger treasure. It lists Lotties parents, and grandparents and her sisters and brother.
This is a treasure I am honored to have received. I was not expecting it and did not even know it existed.
Anyway the pictures

Goat Kisses

Yup these goats love to give kisses. Its so funny cause they put their nose on you and they are obsessed with people. They follow you around everywhere. There are tree's in the field and I run around them and of course the goats kick and fart and love chasing you. I play hide and seek and they are quick, no hiding on my part they are way to smart. lol

Random Pics

Julionna in her new glasses

Paul on Tractor

Will add more soon

One of my chickys

Some of my chickens....

I found one of my favorite chickens dead. It looked like she was perching and must have fallen asleep and fell and broke her neck. She hasn't been sick and the position I found her says so. Frustrating!!!! She was a sweet chicken. I know to some that sounds stupid or silly but when you spend time with them and they come up to you and talk in chicken way and they are tame and come running up to me to be petted or fed and each have their own personality you would understand. God created animals for us to take care of..having a heart for even a chicken is what we are suppose to have. lolol anyway my poor chicken is buried under a flowering tree.

Hog Dog techy heaven

I have a cousin of mine works for Adobe and sent me this . Adobe Design Pro! I am so excited to learn how to use it all. I know allot of it, but this has many things I have been wanting to learn and Flash is one of them. I am so excited!

Bunnies

Weakness of cute animals. My mom decided to buy some dwarf rabbits. Meaning they will never get any bigger then this. At the feed store they were in separate cages, well Gary the feed store owner a nice man. He gave us a cage to put them in to bring them home together, most of us know how rabbits are. Well on the way home my chair was well moving kinda like one of those vibrating massagers. I curiously looked back and YUP we are having babies. We were not planning on breeding them. But I guess now we will be having baby rabbits!!!

The white one with spots is the male (buck), the brown one female (doe).

Anyone want a rabbit? lolol
They are very tame rabbits and have been hand raised so they are very sweet. They have indoor cages. And are much cleaner then Genia pigs! Which is nice!