Changes

This week has been fairly un-eventful except that we brought our horse from 20 minutes away to about 2.  We moved her on base and she is just down the road from us now.  We went and picked up two large bales of hay in Colorado that fill up our trailer.  It will be a change in our routine but a nice one.  I really like being so much closer to her and it feels good to know that we are taking care of her and not having someone else do it when they really weren't.  It is nice seeing the change in Joseph too.  I think he really enjoys having that responsibility and does it well.  WE have met a few people who board out there as well and are really nice.  Their seems to be a 'family' feel out there.  It will be nice getting to know a few of them.

 We finished as a family the Last Battle of the final book in the Chronicals of Narnia.  It is one of my favorites.  I love how CS Lewis pretty much wraps up his symbolism between Christ and Aslan.  It is amazing.  I love his books.  The boys didn't ever want me to stop reading when I would finish a chapter.  We would discuss and talk about the chapters and how they relate to our own lives or our own world.  They enjoyed it too.

Joseph is getting close to his Graduation for his ALS(leadership training).  It will be on the 12th and it is adults only, a big dinner and formal.  It will be fun getting all dressed up with Joseph in his Formal Air Force attire and 'go out'.

It has been down in the single digits and teens lately and we actually got enough snow that didn't melt away the following day.  The boys spend the evening playing out in it and having a blast.  This afternoon while we were taking care of the horse they made a big 'Cat and Mouse' game in the snow out in the arena and played in it with one of the other boarder's daughters.  They love that game and I am glad I passed on a childhood game I grew up with onto them.

Arya is so sweet and polite.  It could be the middle of the night and she is half awake but if you change her diaper or do something kind for her she says 'Thank you' by humming two syllables and doing the sign in sign language for it.  It melts my heart to know that my 16 month old appreciate's me.

We had home teachers come to our house last Sunday and it felt nice to have someone come to our home, visit us and give us a spiritual message.  I am really starting to understand the power in that and hope I can be a good visiting teacher and show others that I care about them.

I have been working more on my website and had it almost done when I started the blog portion of it and didn't like how Webs.com has it set up so I am exploring some other hosts that I can create with and that will fit my needs and wants.  It will be fun when it is all done.  So now I am switching over to Weebly.com and see how that goes.  That is the nice thing is I can try them out for free, see how I like them and go from there.  
I designed a home that I actually like for under 1000 sq feet.  We are trying to design something that we can get up and running with a very tight budget and not get a loan.  So I will finish that out this week and get a quote on it and see where we are and what are plans will be from there.  Joseph is looking into the National guard and to join it soon and be done with Active Duty and move back to Idaho for summer.  So that has been fun trying to figure out how we would be able to do that.  If anyone knows of some jobs up in Valley county area, fill us in.  We might be interested.

The boys have had it pretty chill lately.  With me having other things on my mind we haven't been as disciplined in our daily tasks as we could be so hopefully this week we can get back on task.  That is the challenge with home school.  So I will meet that challenge but gratefully for I love having my kids close by.  One of my favorite things in our day is nap time and not for the obvious reasons but because when Arya is ready I will say "Arya is going to bed.  Tell her good night" and Bridger and Gideon will come up to her and wrap their arms around her and tell her they love her and give her kisses and the look on this little girls face is, "I am so special and loved."  She seriously Beams as she walks up to her room to bed.  I Love it!

I wonder how long that will last.  It is Priceless!

Hope you all are having a good week and Happy February, Happy Ground hog day and Best of Wishes to your and your loved ones :)