March and My Birthday

Hanging out with our horse Haidas

In Windy Cold Wyoming :)

Caught this the other morning.... I love siblings and moments like this

Happy Birthday to me!!!

My Birthday!  I turned 29!  This is my last year in my 20's.  So excited and looking forward to my 30's.

My Birthday cake made by my wonderful husband and decorated by my beautiful children.

Arya's unique little looks :)

Just after a bath all snuggled up

Arya trying mom's birthday cake and loving it :) 

Breakfast and morning hair

Me and my love on the morning of my birthday

I got a set of  US made cast iron cookware for my birthday.  The first of our many purchases to come for our homesteading experience.  I also got 29 cents all wrapped up as a gift from my children.  So cute!

Going through the car wash.  We got our car serviced and cleaned for my birthday.  Feels good :)

Eating a banana while we vacuum out the car

We were going to go out in the hills on my b-day but it was pretty windy in the afternoon so we got movies adn watched them instead.  After that we went and spent some time with our horse which we are really enjoying doing as a family

Arya loves to be up on Haidas

Gideon writing messages in the gravel letting us know what is coming :)

This is our horse after a much needed brushing.  We have been brushing her every day and she still sheds A TON.  We are also trying to get rid of the lice she has.  I am really looking forward to a warm sunny day where I can wash and scrub her down and put some different kinds of medicine on her to help with her skin from the irritation from the lice.

This is her pregnant belly at 10 months pregnant just one month to go.  

She is really starting to make up for a foal.  Her udder is filling up  I hope everything goes well.  Joseph works away from home for 4 days at a time so it could happen while he is gone and so we have been doing our research so I know what to do in case if he isn't here. 

She looks like she has a black eye from her shedding so much and from the lice.  She is a lot better off now then she was.  I am glad we got on top of it when we did.

The sunset we got for my birthday

These are some fun pictures.

This is Gideon doing a Selfie with a mirror behind the camera.... Guess he wanted to make sure he was looking good for the picture :)

Early Mornings with Arya in the office Area

My Birthday was great and laid back and Joseph did dishes too.  I love that man.  We enjoyed the day together as a family, just what I wanted.  I got phone calls, texts and lots of love from family and friends.  I used a friends money she gave me for my birthday to get some organizing boxes I have been wanting.  I am excited to put them to use and simplify.  Thanks Larissa!  I had a new friend here in Cheyenne, Melissa who is my visiting teacher take me out to lunch.  It was really nice to get to know her better and just have girl time.

We got taxes done and look forward to putting our return towards buying and building a place this summer in Idaho.  I am just doing the final touches on our '1000 sq foot' homestead home design so we can get it engineered and in the works.  I think the trick to it all is only bringing in the house what we absolutely need and that we can fit into the design and the rest will be stored or sold.  I am way excited for this adventure and the lifestyle it will lead.

We had a tragedy here on base this week.  There was a guy who took his life while on duty with a duty weapon.  He was in the TRF unit which is the Tactical Response Force that Joseph was trying out for in Novemeber.  He shot himself in front of 5 other co-workers that are like family.  So if you could all just keep those families in your prayers as they will need them a lot right now.  It is so sad to see and hear these things happen.  Suicide is the top killer in the military.  

I have a month in a half left for the kids school that we are doing then we are going to be focusing on the new baby coming and hopefully moving.  I have a summer unit for them as well and they want to continue this fall doing home school so we shall see what we end up doing.

I don't know if I said before but Joseph just got put in as the Elder's Quorum Secretary at church and I am helping in Nursery till next week and then I will have the sunbeam class to teach.  I am excited for it.

I am anxious for spring now.  I want to organize and de-clutter but also have warm sunny days to spend outside.  I also think about this blog and have attempted multiple times to use those online sources to print off my blog but I have to do each page and there would be hundreds..... So I think I am going to start doing what I should have done a long time ago and that is I am going to start printing out my blog one post at a time adn then when shutterfly or snapfish have their sales I will print off pictures from them.

A friend of mine just lost most of what was on her blog and if that happened and I didn't have it backed up somehow I would be sick.  It is my families journal so I want to give it the time and money to print it out too.

My website gets a little more fun every week with more ideas coming in and more posts that I do.  It is fun to add to it and see it become more of what I want for it. 

Well that is all I can think of for now.  Hope all is well with ya all.