Snuggles and Horses

The other night Arya got sick and so I had to clean all of her bedding well she found it all clean in the laundry room and decided to lay in it and that is where mom found me.  So I brought her in so we could have family scriptures, song and prayer and she just cozied up in it the whole time.  So cute!  

The boys love and adore her.  I hope it lasts.  It makes me feel really good to see that they have love for her and she loves them. (This is inbetween her hitting and biting them which she is starting to do but she will give the best loves afterwords to say sorry.)

Arya LOVES going out to do chores.  As soon as she see's her daddy's red vest go on she is running for her boots and pants.  She has her little cotton Sunday dress under all of that :)  

Yesterday we all went out to the horse and I have had my suspicions in the last couple of days for lice on our horse.  She is constantly itching her neck on fence posts especially this week.  I always brush and rub her down and lately she just can't seem to get enough of it.  So yesterday I inspected her really good and within my fist minute I found the first biting lice.  The poor girl.  There was these white things a while back when we were boarding at the other place that wouldn't brush out of her hair on her legs and we are assuming now those must have been the eggs.  So treatment was needed.

So Daddy and his boys shoveled out that horse pen to bare ground and put new gravel and wood chips on top of it and Arya and I went to the store and got some Lice powder and saw dust for bedding.  An hour later we show back up and the pen looked amazing.  They worked really hard.  Joseph then powdered her down really good and noticed the neck area as a problem.  It was starting to snow too so she was getting all wet.  So this next week we will be making sure she gets that powder all over her and hopefully we can get rid of them.  Thank goodness people can't get lice from horses but they can bite you.

She is starting to fill out pretty good too like a pregnant mare.  She is due sometime in April but you know what that means with horses....Anytime withing the month before or after are free game too. :)

We are excited for her.

It was funny in church today Gideon noticed the pulpit going up and down and he turns to me and ask's 'How is it doing that?'  It was funny that he was paying attention to what was going on enough to notice.  He is growing up but he is still my #1 snuggler.  I love my Gideon snuggles.

Bridger loves to draw up Ranch plans and what he would have on his ranch.  He is so funny.  He has a pond with waterslide and all and a garge with a couch and tv...I think that was a Germany influence on him since we used our garage as a play room most of the time.  He sure is cute.  He LVOES his sleep too.  If you wake him up before 9am in the morning he is a little grumpy for a while which means Sunday's we try to be as delicate as possible with him since we have church at 9am.  Arya is usually up between 6 or 7 depending on the day and Gideon usually by 7 or 7:30.  But Bridger loves his bed :)

Arya was so cute in nursery today at church.  I help out in there sometimes adn so she comes along with me and there was a little boy crying and she goes up to him and rubs his arm and then lays her head on his chest saying in her little way, 'It's ok, don't cry!"  It was adorable and it helped little Jag.

Joseph and I are doing pretty good.  I feel a love for that man that grows and blossoms more everyday.  Sure we have our days and moments but lately it seems like we are on the same page with things.  We love researching and finding all the things we can do in our future and it is an exciting feeling and I think that feeling helps draw us closer together as well.  He has really reached out lately to serve me more and that has seemed to help a lot too.  I sure love that guy :)   

I hope you all have a good week and family, your in our prayers and anyone else in need of prayers let me know because I would love to pray for you.  love, Camille

February

This last week we had a lot that happened.
 Joseph graduated from ALS training school.  It was an adult only dinner and ceremony.  I got a friend to watch our kids while we went.  It was formal dress and that is a little hard to find something formal when as pregnant as I am but I went in nice Sunday dress that worked.  It was an interesting experience.  The first hour was open bar and people just standing around drinking there huge mugs of beer and then there was me and Joseph just sitting at a table talking but half of that time he was doing other things he had to do to prepare for the ceremony.  So me alone in a bar, pregnant...weird.  Anyway, they finally rang the dinner bell and we found our assigned seats.  Joseph looked really good in his nice blues military suit.  My friend took a picture for me but still has not sent it so maybe someday I will post that here.  When there graduation ceremony finally happened after some speeches every department or squadron had there own cheer and every single one of the cheers had swear words...Nice.  Anyway, it was fun getting to know some of the other people at our table and having the experience but now I understand why Joseph has not had us go to military functions.  It is just not worth it.  But he graduated and we are proud of him.
We have been so spoiled the last month with him in school.  He is gone during the day but always came home for an hour for lunch and then usually always got home by 4:30pm and then he had weekends off and was always around at nights too.  It was a REALLY nice month being together as a family more.  Now he is back at work where he goes off in the wild blue yonder and works for four days away from us.  We look  forward to when he gets back.

The boys and I went to the dentist this week.  Bridger had no cavities, Gideon had one and I had.........wait for it......10.  Yep you saw that right 10!!!  Not cool.  I haven't been to the dentist since before we went to Germany and the last dental work I got gave me issues and now I have more issues.  But I might have found one of the reasons, Lemons.  I LOVE lemons and lemon water all the time or Limes.  She said the acidity level in lemons eats away at the teeth a lot faster than bacteria.  So that might be one reason for my mouth full of cavities. BLAH!  Though I have always been one to have cavities my whole life.  I think there has only been 2 times I have ever gone to the dentist and not had a cavity and growing up I was a regular.
Anyway, So hopefully I can at least knock out the bad ones and just try not to eat so much citrus (that will be hard :)

I got my 'Creating Arcadia blog and Dirt Roads Photography photo gallery up and running last week and it feels so good to have a project to work on and keep my brain thinking about different things or touching up my photographs I have taken over the years.  I have recent posts you should check out and more pictures.  You can go here to see the new changes.

For Valentines day I got up and made yummy heart shaped pancakes with pink sprinkles and buttermilk syrup and decorated hearts and gave the kids some goodies.  We had the missionaries over for dinner that evening too and made tin foil dinners in pie pans with tin foil over the top.  I made These Brownies for the second time adn I think they are my favorite.  So Yummy and easy to make.

 Arya got sick last night but seems to be fine today.  She loves to go out to the horse on a daily basis and pet her and ride her and just play around and explore.  She got really mad at me this morning because I had the kids stay in the car because it was so windy and cold and all I did was just feed her but we will go back this afternoon more bundled and play with Haidas.  She Loves horses.  She is going to fit right in.

Bridger is accident free at nights now which I am very proud of him for.  He has always been such a deep sleeper that it has been a problem but now we are doing pretty good.  He is sounding words out now and starting to gain more of a desire to read.  He is great with math and loves to color and makes some really nice pictures.

Gideon is really liking to do Multiplication.  He brought me the math problem 9,786 x 9652 and so we spent a little bit breaking down the different steps and he figured it out.  Times table charts were a help to him as well but it is fun to see him understanding it and it making sense.  We went to a baptism of a boy in his class at church and so now he is pretty excited to plan his baptism this summer.  We have been spending our family Home evenings breaking down the different parts of the gospel to help him better understand it and the covenants he will be making when he turns 8.  I love sharing the gospel with my family and seeing light and understanding come to them through that.

Joseph went to the recruiter this last week and we hope to get the ball rolling in the direction of palace chase.  That means that Joseph would transfer from active duty to the reserves.  Why we would choose reserves over Guard is that they have a program where your one weekend a month and 2 weeks a year can be bunched into one month so you can get it all done at the same time and you can be from a different state.  So we are looking into the reserves in Spokane Washington and being able to start that out come mid June or Early July.  That is when we hope to move back to Idaho as well.  We are looking forward to change and our new adventure.  Hopefully we will find out more as we go through the paper work and process and know more of how and when we will do all this.

We got a quote back from my house plans I designed and we just might be able to make it work.  Our goal is to 'live within our means' we will be just starting out new and we don't want to risk much at this point so we are looking into making things work on a very tight budget :)  Hopefully we can.

So that is the update in our life thus far and we hope you all are doing well.  Your all in our thoughts and prayers.

More Phone Pictures from 2013

excluding this picture which was taken a couple of days ago...Arya wearing Gideon's shirt as a hat.. She is so funny!

The rest of these pictures are of this fall and winter 2013

In Idaho from Germany....We loved being in Idaho!

Up at no business lookout with G and G jones

Dreaming on the South side of Ranch :)

I love walks in pastures or in the forest.  So calming and beautiful!

My dad killing flies that were invading their house

Cute hair Arya!

Bridger and Arya waiting for mommy and Gideon at the doctors office....can you see him saying it 

 "It's taking forever"

Our road trip to Cheyenne from Idaho

Arya being demanding to Bridger...Give me a snack buddy :)

The paper work that we almost went through with when thinking about buying a house here in Cheyenne.  We are so grateful we didn't go through with it.

Geese at the park

Our TLF Building (Temporary Lodging Facilility) where we lived for a month in.

most of the buildings on base are historic and look like this.

Daddy and Arya

For a while there Arya had a thing for  drawers and standing in them..  She is so cute!

Arya's first steps around her 1st Birthday

playing at the playground

Move over I'm coming through

Arya in daddy's boots

I love this picture of my kiddos!~

Our cabin camping experience before we moved into our home

the propane heater we wouldn't dare run longer than for 5 minutes at a time

Our morning ritual at the campground hangout getting a cup of ice to eat

We had a porch swing at the cabin and you can tell by her face how much she was enjoying it :)

Moving in and seeing her rocking horse....she couldn't wait till she was dressed 

after a long day

taking pictures for daddy while he was at work

Brushing her teeth..which she LOVES to do.

At G and G  Jarvis' house in December

 

Love the hair

Joseph sent me this, a sign he found :)

another late night sending pictures to daddy who was at work

Christmas morning bows

And the typical spot for Arya if there is a box around....

Play Group field trip to the FD

It was fun to be inside of a Fire Dept again.

We learned all about the trucks and uniforms and had fun touching things and looking around.