Girls Week

All of us at pizza hut

Rachel and I

Bridger Being So Cute!

Gideon enjoying His Greens

Cathi and my mom

We all gathered in Pocatello for a long needed girls time and catching up on each others lives. It was really great to be with my sisters and mom and having a good time being with each other. Lot's of long talks and deep discussion, had some laughs and cry's which made for a good week. We stayed at the Holiday Inn in pocatello and Bridger and Gideon loved to go swimming. I worked with Bridger with floating on his back and he got so relaxed that he would close his eyes and almost fall asleep while I had him on his back. I think he was enjoying it. We got my sister moved into a new Apartment and she seems to like it and we went by my Grandparents old home and how the memories flooded in. It was neat to see that old area again and be with the girls.

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A very cool filing system

So at enrichment this week we were taught a different way of filing papers of any topic. Supplies needed: A FILE BOX, ALPHABETICAL FILING CARDS...A-Z, INDEX CARDS AND MANILA FOLDERS, AND A LOT OF PAPERS OR PHOTOS TO ORGANIZE. The first manila folder write #'s 1-25 on it. The next Manila folder will have #26-50 on it and the next one #51-75 on it...get the idea. So how the system works;


you gather any papers of any topic. You then write a #1 on the first article you put into your Manila folder.

My paper is a paper about organizing and filing systems. So on my index card I write #1 and then under that all the topics that relate to my article. So #1- Filing System, organizing. So I put that index card under "F" for filing system and I make another one for "O" because Organizing is another one of my topics so I make a index card on organizing and write the article # and the topics under that article.
So your index cards could look like this (example)
Organizing
#1- organizing, filing system
#14- organizing, food storage
#26-organizing, home office
So then you create cross references to the other index cards like, "f" for food storage etc.
In your Manila folders your first article or paper could be on organizing when your #2 paper is an article from conference that you enjoyed and
#3 could be house plans you like




So it doesn't matter what papers go into the Manila folder, any topic. You just # the articles in the first Manila folder 1-25 and then reference them in your index cards



So now when you need to find something for a talk at church or a lesson you need to give or that piece of art work you were so proud that your son made, you just go to your index box and look it up. I hope I explained this OK. it is really an ingenious way to get organized of all of those papers, pictures, etc. lying around. I still keep my financial things in their own folders but practically everything else can be filed this way. Good luck and have fun organizing!

The COZI site for families

I was on BHG.com and saw a link of theirs to http://www.cozi.com/home.htm So I checked it out. It is just a cool way to stay organized with scheduling, grocery lists and knowing what is going on for each member of the family. I think it is worth checking out and seeing if it can make your life easier.

It's a Race!!

Gideon and Bridger love pushing the chairs around in the kitchen. Bridger is getting good at the walking thing. He'll be taking off before we know it.

Gideon and Bridger hang'n out in the kitchen

It is so cute when he says HOT :)

Fun day on the ranch

This is my really good looking cowboy who I am madly in love with. He looks so good in chaps

This is my other little cowboy having a good ride on his daddy's horse "Scout"

This is a guy from Norway that was here in the McCall area participating in the special Olympics. I feel bad I forgot his name and it was a really cool name too.

So yesterday on the ranch we had the special Olympics crowd from Russia, Bulgaria, china, Norway and I am sure lots of other places as well but those were the only people I met yesterday on the ranch. WE had cowboys riding horses and pulling people on inner tubes behind the horses and giving rides on snowmobiles and sledding and having such a good time. It is really cool cause a lot of the special Olympics youth were really pretty hesitant to try new things but when they got here on the ranch they had a blast and couldn't get enough of it. i wish I got more pictures of the festivities but you only can do so much with Bridger boy in your arms.

My New horse

Her name is June Bar Badger


She has really good blood lines and a cutting horse Dad and good looking stock


I am really excited to train her with my hubby Joseph and be there when she fouls in April. It will be a lot of fun. She is 9 and has had training before but has been a broodmare (breeds and hangs out in the pasture)for the last six years or so. So wish me luck on this new venture and hopefully Joseph and I won't get too beat up in the process.
I am going to name her something that has to do with a firey spirit or something. She kicked joseph within the 1 minute checking her out. Joseph didn't even know what was going on by the time it happend. She's fast and smart and she will be a good horse.