Say goodbye to 2007 and hello to 2008!

Well it is about to be January 1st 2008... wow. I cannot believe how fast this year has gone by! A lot has happened in just one year. It's been good. I decided to go through all the months and list at least one thing that happened.


January: I almost quit my job. Justin started the youth group at our church.

February: It was a sadder month. My aunt past away, and that was heartbreaking. But I did meet my good friend Jessica this month.

March: I went to Mexico on my first mission trip! I met a few people. And got to know some others pretty well.

April: Well I don't have anything for April.. nothing to excited must have happened. I did have to talk in front of a bunch of people about the Mission trips. Yipes.

May: We went to my friend Joshua's graduation. I went to a woman's conference with our church.

June: Our youth group has a awesome paintball game. And we went to the mountains with our youth group for a weekend.

July: We went to Mexico a second time! I got to know a couple of other people.

August: Us as a family went camping. Spent some time at the county fair... and I got my drivers permit.

September: Spent a interesting weekend with Jennifer and John. And found out something sad about a friend.

October: Spent a little time at the Eastern Fair. Went a bronc riding in Seymour Texas.

November: Spent my very first night alone. Went to the Amarillo ranch rodeo. And I fed the crew for the very first time. And got spacers.

December: Got my braces. Went to Mexico a third time. And... turned 16!

See haven't I had a interesting year? I got to go two awesome weeks and a weekend in Mexico. Met some really cool people. Don't get me wrong it hasn't been perfect. There has been some not so great stuff that went on. I've made plenty of mistakes. Had to deal with stupid drama. And numerous other things. But I got through them.

My relationship with Christ has grown this year, and that has been the best thing. I've learned about just how great His love for me is, how much He wants a relationship with me. How I am fearfully and wonderfully made. How I'd be nothing without Him, nothing at all. How I have to surrender everything over to Him. Doing my own thing just doesn't work out at all. He's has definitely been working on me this year. And I know He will continue too. There is more, so much more! It is exciting to think about.

But I do think about getting older. I just turned 16... It has finally started to sink in. People keep asking me if I feel different... well no not really. But whenever I think about it, it's just like.... dang. I'm 16! I will be 18 in two more years. Two more years that will probably fly by. I remember being a little kid and how I wanted to be older, couldn't wait to get older. It wasn't that I wanted to get older and leave the house. No I wanted to get older and stay home, never leave. Never get married. Ever. I mean c'mon boys were gross. I claimed that I would NEVER start liking boys. I liked it how it was. Where I could play with them. And we could have cake wars... and race... and all that other stuff. Never... right. Let's just say... I've come to hate that word. Stupid stupid word..... Anyways... now that I'm starting to get older I've decided I want to be younger again. Life was so simple. I could just play with my older brother and sister in the sandbox. And we could play ranch, of course Taylor had to always be the boss. And we played Laura Ingalls... and made zip lines... and threw cats off the hay stack in a parachute... that is other story to be told another time. We could play in the tree house...

It was just. Simple. Now... it's not. I'm not saying it is super complicated. But it is definitely more complicated then it used to be. Now I have to make stupid decisions. I don't like making decisions.... getting older is overrated....

It is just pretty crazy. And now.... another year is gone. I am another year older. But I am excited to see what the Lord has for me this year, and the next year, and the next year... and yeah ya'll get the point. Well it will be 12:00 soon... sooo................

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!

Adios 2007!! Hello 2008!!!!

Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house not a creature was stirring..not even a mouse...

Its Christmas Eve!!!! Yep. Hard to believe that tomorrow is Christmas!!!!

It was a pretty busy day. I had to work this morning. Ugh. I really didn't want too. I was hoping, really hoping that out of the kindness of her heart my boss would let me off. Just this one day... she obviously doesn't have any kindness in her heart. All the other ladies get off for like two weeks... I didn't want off two weeks. Just one measly little day. Is that to much to ask? I guess so. Oh well. So I dragged my poor pitiful, freezing cold body out of bed this morning. And dressed in tons of layers. It was so cold! And I was tired. We went to Texas Saturday, and came back Sunday, got home kind of late and I was tiiired. I piled on clothes, got my hot chocolate that my momma had prepared for me and went off to work! Yeahh it was cooold. But! I survived!

I finished up with my horses and came home. We ate a little bit. Then got busy. My mom had to do a lot of cooking. So I cleaned the bathroom, folded loads of laundry, wrapped quite a few presents, and made a cracker toffee thing... Mmmm.

Cleaning to bathroom was... not much fun. But who gets joy out of cleaning the bathroom? Nobody I know. And... folding laundry was... blah. Yeah that is a good word, blah. Haha. I've never been fond of folding laundry. Its not a hard task really, just not very enjoyable. Its like... sweeping the floor, and washing silverware, not hard. I just... don't like it. Wrapping presents, now that is something I like to do. Not totally sure why. Maybe cause then I know what everyone is getting :-) Hehe. And... making the cracker toffee. That isn't hard. All you do is lay saltines down in a pan lined with foil, then boil brown sugar, and butter, pour over the saltines, cook for like... 5 minutes, take out, sprinkle chocolate chips on the top. And when those melt then you spread it all around. Very good I say, very good. As I was laying the saltines down, I got almost the whole pan done and I realized I had forgotten to butter the pan... Oh phooey. So I had to take them all out again, butter the pan then re-do it. Phooey. Oh well.

Uhh... after I did that. I washed dishes, stirred cooking hamburger meat, and BBQ sauce... watched the potatoes. Then I got to eat. Mmmmm food.... Me and my daddy cleaned up the kitchen afterward. Then we just all sat down. Joshua came over for a bit :) then... he left. And now everyone else is sitting down. Watching... a... movie.

Well that has been my Christmas Eve. Not super exciting. I'm pretty tired though. So I believe I'll head to bed soon. Then Christmas will be here! not only that but my birthday. Yep that is right :) So..........................................

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

His Love

I've been going through Jeremiah. I came across a verse in chapter 3 verse 1.

"They say, 'If a man divorces his wife,
And she goes from him
And becomes another man's,
May he return to her again?'
Would not the land be greatly polluted?
But you have played the harlot with many lovers;
Yet return to Me," says the Lord.

I was thinking about the part that says Yet return to Me. How cool is it that even if we mess up, or fall away we can return to Him. He WANTS us too. He just loves us THAT much.

I also read in Lamentations. In 3:40-42

Let us search out and examine our ways, and turn back to the Lord;
Let us lift our hearts and hands to God in heaven. We have transgressed and rebelled;
You have not pardoned.

It says examine our ways and TURN back to the Lord. Just think about that. He allows us to come back to Him. He could say after we've messed up are fallen away "Okay I'm done with you. You messed up, you fell away. Now your finished, go away from Me." But He doesn't! He loves us so much that He wants us to be with Him. He wants us to return to Him.

He has patience that I cannot even understand. Why He loves us so much that He wants us to be with Him.... even after we've fallen away... I just cannot understand it. He stands there with arms opened wide welcoming us back. Wow!

I have terrible patience. I think after awhile I'd just be like. I'm done with you. Forget it.

Thanks goodness He doesn't do that with us... I don't know. I can't even... grasp it. My small little brain cannot wrap around it all.

Even if we fall away and go after... money... are... whatever. All the different stupid things we tend to follow after. He'll still welcome us back. Return to HIM.

It talks a lot in 1 John about abiding in Him. He abides in us, and us in Him. He loves us so much that He wants a personal relationship with us. He didn't just place us on this earth and have that be it. No He wants us to enter into Him.

Why would He love us that much? I have NO idea. We've sinned, we've fallen away, we've as it said in the verse, transgressed, and rebelled, we've done so many different things. Yet He stills loves us. It's amazing.... more then amazing! there is no words to describe it all.

I just sit here... trying to write out my feelings, trying to put it all into words. And I'm not doing a very good job of it.

How can I even put it into words?

His love is powerful
His love it amazing
His love is everlasting
His love is wonderful
His love is incredible.

I can write those things... but I just CANNOT describe it. I try too... but I just can't. It's just too wonderful. He loved us to much that He died for us. There is no greater love.

I'm so thankful that He does love me. Nobody else in this world could love me. But HE does. And that is the only love I need. I'm grateful that He is mindful of me. I am so unworthy. So very unworthy... We don't need to forget His love.

The song I'm listening too right now put it well. My heart is overflowing with His love.

Now that I'm done... attempting to spill out all I've been thinking about I'll end this post. G'Night all.

Don't forget how much He loves you.

Sugar cookies, and little brothers.

Yesterday was... a interesting day I guess you could say.

Well I did... what did I do in the morning... oh! work. Right. Yeah I went to work. Nothing to interesting happened there. I come home, eat some food. And my parents leave for town. To do some groceries shopping... and I think some Christmas shopping. Taylor was gone day working, so... that left me home with... NATHAN.

I had stuff that needed to be done. Clean the kitchen, bathroom, living room. And make sugar cookies. I had made the dough the day before so all I had to do was cut them out and cook 'em. Nathan got to bugging me around doing them. "Sara let's do the cookies."... I'd tell him AFTER I clean the house. But he still continued with the "Saaaarrraa can we pleeease do the cookies?" NO NATHAN. Gosh.

While I was cleaning the kitchen I had the dishwasher opened up. He got to bugging me about... something. I was telling him to get out of the kitchen and let me finish. He was walking backwards.... and he... well... fell over the dishwasher. And I... ran over and helped him up. Checking him for any bleeding... Uhhh... Well... I actually... errrr... uhhh... laughed at him. I was doubled over, trying to contain my laughter. Yeah it was just that funny. Are maybe it was just cause I'm easily amused. Ahem. So after he got up he got really ticked at me. Yelling at me saying it was all my fault and I made him do it, and that I shouldn't have been talking to him, and blah, blah, blah. Ummm. How was it MY fault? I was on the other end of the room. Standing there. Yes I was talking to him, but how did that make him fall over it... I don't understand how his mind works. We got into a fight about it. He got all emotional, went into the living room... and... blubbered. Gosh.

Well he was quite upset with me. And he kept on screaming at me that it was my fault... during all this I was on the phone with Caitlin (Sorry Caitlin) I kept asking him to go outside. Well he didn't want to go outside. I begged him to please go outside. For just a little while. And I told him I'd make the cookies after I got the house cleaned up, and he could come in and help me with them. I was trying to be reasonable. It didn't work. He was still madder then a wet hen at me. And just didn't care what I had to say. I did finally get him outside though. He went out at first and sat on the picnic table. Still crying. Then he left, I didn't see him for awhile. Then while I was rinsing off dishes he walked by in the yard, looked in the window and glared at me.

He came in at one time... still mad at me. Kicked me. Then I told him I was going to make the sugar cookies since he had acted like that. And so I got begged. He begged me ALL AFTERNOON. "Sara please, please. I was just playing. I didn't mean it." He at one time got down on his hands and knees begging. Finally after I just couldn't stand it anymore I told him if he'd do the chores, and clean the bathroom I would make the stinkin' cookies. I knew if I didn't do them then I would have to do them today. And I just didn't want to do that. So I made the cookies. He did the chores. And I thought he did the bathroom. But I walked in there and he hadn't done anything. Grrrrr. I did it myself.

Hey I did get 20 bucks though! Our neighbor off way behind our house is building a house and so there are sometimes people who go by taking stuff back there. Well at about... 4:30 this big huge white van pulled up. I went out there and they said told me who they were looking for. Robert, our neighbor. So I told them how to get back there. A little bit later they come back. Well they couldn't find it... gosh. So I told them I could lead them back there. When I said that the lady looked at me with big eyes and was like "You can!" uhhh... yeah. Do I not look capable of driving are what. So I hollered at Nathan and we loaded up in my dad's ranch pickup and off we went. Down the rocky, bumpy dirt road. I get them there. The lady thanks me, and gives me 20 bucks. Well thanks! I wave at Robert and we go back to the house. I make the sugar cookies, eat some supper. Talk to Caitlin on the phone... again. And crash.

Hmmm ya'll want to hear about today? Probably not but I'm going to tell ya'll about it anyway. It wasn't just super exciting. Me and my mom cleaned house this morning. We have family coming in this evening and tomorrow. So it needs to be clean... I'm not quite sure why though, the minute they get here its just going to turn into a disaster area again... oh well. I got to clean the living room and bathroom... I'm not to fond of cleaning to bathroom. But it has to be done. Something I really don't understand is why we have so many dang toothbrushes! I mean seriously. There is 5 of us in this house. We have 9 toothbrushes. 4 extra! Do two people in this family need 2 toothbrushes are what. Maybe so. So then they can brush one side of their mouth with one, and brush the other side with the other... maybe their being... smart... I just really don't understand..... ah well.

Later I load up with my two brothers and my papa and we go to a Christmas party! The people my dad work for have a "appreciation meal." every year for us employees. Oh fun. Squeezed in a single cab pickup with two brothers. While I'm sitting in between of them. Fun... fun. Nathan spends most of the time chattering... about... interesting things? nope. Nonsense, absolute nonsense. But you know what? after awhile he stopped talking. Yes he STOPPED talking. And there was.... silence. Wow. We arrive after a 30 minute drive. Eat some good food, talk to some peeps. Then we leave and go get some hay. We get halfway home and my dad remembers the tire he dropped off at the tire shop. He scolds us for not remembering. Oh wait. THEY scold ME. Hello. I wasn't the only one in the vehicle. What about Taylor and Nathan! gosh. So we have to go all the way back and get the tire. Then we come home! And I get to wrap presents. I'm the only one in this family that likes to wrap presents so I'm the one everyone comes to whenever they need stuff wrapped. I do it... but for a price. 50 bucks a package. I'm kidding, I'm kidding. I do it for free! cause I'm just that kind of a person ;) I really do like wrapping presents... I don't really know why though.... Oh right. I'M WEIRD.

Well I must go now. I know tears are probably running down ya'lls cheeks. And ya'll are saying "NO! Please don't end this wonderful post. Please!!!" I'm sorry! I must go! Farewell!

Oh Mexico...

I'm back in the states.... Not where I really want to be. I really want to be back in Mexico. But I'm not... I'm here.... in this desk chair... listening to music. Ho hum. Well I'll stop with ho humming and tell ya'll about the trip.


We met up at 3:00 on Friday. (3:00 in afternoon, not morning. That would just be... not cool) We loaded up the van, and Justin's mustang with luggage, boxes, and such as that. We met in the church Sanctuary and Justin did a short devotion, then we took communion. Prayed, said our goodbyes to everyone. And off we went! There were 12 of us. Nancy, Justin, Jessica, Les, Kent and Liz, me, my mama, Blair, Shadoe, Eric, and Nathan. The youngest were, well, me, Shadoe, Blair, and Nathan. So some of us loaded up in the van, some in Justin's mustang. Off down the road we went!


Its a 4 hour drive. Part of that is in the mountains. Us in the van were behind Justin in the mustang. We are cruising along and Justin pulls over..... hmmm... Justin gets out and opens the hood... oh dear. That can't be good. Eric and Les get out and they all 3 stand over the car. Les comes back. He tells us the car is overheating... not good. They do... something. I don't know, I'm not a mechanic. We decide to go on. A few minutes later. He's pulling over again... phooey. They get out and talk again. Us in the van pray. Then Eric and Les come back to the van. Its overheating again. We turn around and head back to Roswell. We are going to go back and get Les's car. So we're going along again. Then Justin turns back around. What? I thought... but... gosh. During this Eric and Justin are communicating via walkie talkie. Well Justin says the car has cooled. So we're going to try this again. Alrighty then. We go on, up and through the mountains. Nothing else happens. Whew. Thank you Lord. We stop... where was it... I don't remember. Some where, in some town at a auto zone. They get... something. I'm not very informative I guess. We use the restroom and go on our way. Later on since everyone was starving we stop at a burger place in Alamogordo. Everyone gets... well... a burger. And I drool over the burgers while I just eat fries and drink a milkshake. Yeah my mouth was hurting a little. It wasn't bad until the pain killers wore off. Well after we're done eating. We load back up and off to the border we go!


I was so ready to get there. I was in the very back seat with Shadoe and Nathan. I was in the middle. I tried and tried to sleep... no luck. It was kind hard to get comfortable. But finally! I see lights! Its El Paso!!! we're almost there! WOOHOO!!!!!!!! We go on through El Paso and come to the border. We go right through. We pull off and wait on Ernesto. Oh I guess I should tell ya'll who Ernesto is. He's the pastor of the Calvary Chapel Las Plamas, where we were going to be staying and such. I'd already mentioned this was our third trip down there. They (He and his wife, and well some workers that attend his church) are currently building a church, we've helped with that the last two times. Right now their church has a kitchen, and then the sanctuary. Which is pretty small. We ate and had our devotions and stuff in there. And they have a upstairs, with two rooms. One for the boys, one for the girls. Its very nice. I'll show pictures at the end of the post. Anyways. So we waited on Ernesto, cause well... we couldn't get to the church by ourselves. We'd probably get pretty lost.


Ernesto shows up in his little white pickup. And off we go! through the crazy streets of Juarez. Driving is... somewhat interesting. Stops signs and stuff are more of a suggestions. It gets a little wild. And there are also a lot of hills. But Eric did good! he's aggressive enough to drive in that place... I personally don't think I'd be able to handle it. After awhile we arrive at Ernesto and Maggie's. Ahhh man it felt good to be back. We meet up in the sanctuary and Ernesto just tells us some rules. Nothing big, just stuff like don't drink the water, how long of showers we needed to take, such as that. Then we all unload our junk. Meet back up in the sanctuary for a bit. Then we get to crash.


Saturday: I get woken up at... 6:30 I think it was. The only people that we awake were me, and Shadoe. Shadoe goes downstairs to take a shower. (There are two downstairs, and then one in each of the two rooms) I take one in the shower in our room. After I get out a few more people have stirred. I blow dry my hair. Then go outside to spend sometime reading the Word, and writing. Then I get coffee... Mmmm. After just a little while everyone gets up. Some shower, just do different things. We eat some yummy breakfast at 8:00. Pancakes, cereal, donuts, fruit, and yogurt. After we're all finished up. My mom does some worship, and then Justin does a devotion. Afterward he gives us some time to spend with the Lord. Its always really nice. You can just go, and sit somewhere with no distractions at all. Well besides to music that is usually blared from a few houses down. But that is just something you get used too.


After awhile we meet back up with Justin and he just opens it up to anyone that wants to share something they had read. We do that. Then Justin goes with Ernesto to get some lumber. And the rest of us put gift boxes together... I'll explain. Well I already mentioned from my last post we were taking gift boxes down to a battered woman's shelter we had been to before. Well we did it to where our church could do the boxes. There ended up not being enough. So Jessica went to shopping (she is the church's secretary) she ended up getting 4 baskets full of stuff. None of it had been put into the boxes yet. So we formed a assembly line and made boxes. Some for the woman, and some for the kids. We had, toothpaste, tooth brushes, shampoo, lotions, candy, hair stuff, coloring books, crayons, and a bunch of different kind of toys.


We ended up doing a lot of boxes. And we had extra!! Which was just the coolest thing. We get all the boxes loaded up in the back of Ernesto's pickup. Then we eat some dinner (lunch) we had tostados... that probably isn't how you spell it but oh well. Mmm I love those things though. We've had them everytime we've gone down there. They are just like a corn tortilla, with beans, hamburger meat, lettuce, cheese, and some kind of other stuff... they are sooo good! After we finish up dinner. We all load up in the van and follow Ernesto to the shelter. We stop first at a lookout point. You can see all of Juarez, and El Paso. You can definitely tell where Juarez ends and El Paso begins. It was cold up there, and windy. Brrrr.


We leave there and go on our way. It was about... a... 45 minute drive... I think. I don't remember I was to busy being nervous. Like I already said I had been there before. And it was extremely hard. Its... you can't really put it into words. The building looks like a prison, its just gray with bars on the window. They have a big yard type thing that just has trash everywhere. And inside it smells, and its dirty... its just a really sad place. Neither the kids or the woman are happy. It is unexplainable. We get there and we all step out. Nobody had been there yet besides me, my mom, Jess, and Justin. We go inside and have Ernesto translate for us. Since none of us speak hardly any Spanish. He just told them where we had come from, what we were doing there, such as that. It was cool though how the minute we mentioned presents those little kids faces just lit up. The minute we handed the boxes to the kids they just ran off with them and opened 'em up. And the ladies all told us "Gracia's" for theirs. It was just really, really cool.


For awhile there we just kind of stood there watching the kids. Then we got to playing with them. And the guys went out and did some work. The first time we had gone down there we started a little shed. Then when the guys had a trip down there over labor day they did the siding. So this time they did the roof. So they did that. Jessica held the babies, she is great with them and that was what she was wanting to do. I played with some chalk with one of the girls for awhile until she decided to wanted to do something else. After awhile I got to playing with a really cute little girl. Her name was either, Sally, or Sarah. We were pretty sure it was Sarah. She as adorable. She had this truck and she put the little dog she had gotton from her box in the truck and she loved to run in between me and Nancy's legs. She did that for awhile. Then we went downstairs to this big ole room they have. She got to chasing me around with the dog. She'd catch me and grab onto my leg and pretend like the dog was attacking me. She got to giggling, she was having a blast. We played some soccer too. Sad thing is she was better at it then I was. Haha. I really, really enjoyed playing with her.


Another little girl came and played with us too. Her name was Leslie. I became attached. I would have brought her home if I could have. I have her a piggy back ride. That she loved. I'd run around, and then spin her and she'd just get to laughing. I asked her once if she wanted down. All I got was her holding on tighter and saying "No, No, No." She liked gum too. She had a whole mouth full of gum. And pockets full of candy, and a handful of suckers. We decided we might have given them a little to much candy... but oh well it made them happy :) Aww man she was just the cutest thing. It was cool that we could make those kids happy. Even if it was just for one day. I wish so badly that we could have done more. But we did make them all happy. And that is a good feeling. It was a good day. It was hard to leave, I felt so sad. Little Leslie was just standing there... and... ahh... it was hard. I pray we'll be able to do some more stuff there. Those ladies need Christ. That is the biggest thing. We want to do some stuff there though. They have a well but its contaminated from the sewer. So they have no running water. They take baths by pouring water over their heads. And they have to haul water back and forth to fill up the washing machine... its hard. That place needs prayer. Definitely.


I could go on, and on about it all. Its heartbreaking it really, really is. Its unfair why it has to be that way. Why those poor little kids have to live that way. They were just born into it all. Its not right how many abused woman there our out there... its all just... AHHHHH!!!! makes me want to scream. Its just not right.

After we get back from the shelter. We do some different things while we wait for supper. I shower, we talk, read, just different stuff. We have some great supper. And we have a reflection time. Justin just asks us all what we thought of the day, what we got out of it, such as that. And after awhile we crash.

Sunday: We do kind of the same thing. Everyone gets up, some shower. We eat. Have devotions, pack, clean up our rooms, and just some various other things. Talk to Ernesto and Maggie. And I err... rope a dog... hey Ernesto wanted me to do it! It was his dog Colby. I caught him by one of his front legs. And man it tripped him. Bad. It was pretty funny though. And Ernesto got a kick out of it. We then all go in and sit in for the church service. Which was very awesome. Even if we didn't understand a word they were saying. The music was great! I loved the music. After its over we say goodbye to Ernesto and Maggie. We load up. Me in the mustang with Justin, Jess, and my mom. Ernesto leads us to the border is his pickup and off we go. Going over the border is up hill and then down hill. Going up. The mustang started over heating again... ohhh goodness... It was boiling. So finally whenever we reach the part that goes down hill Justin kills the engine and we just coast all the way down. It was... interesting. But it cooled down! We get to the American side. And go through... the... thing. Where ya have to stop, and they check you and such as that. We pull up... the lady seemed nice enough. She took our passports, asked out citizenship. And then checked inside the trunk. We make it on through okay. But we were worried about the van. They made it through all right too.

After all that we go on down the road. Stop for gas, get some snacks to hold us off until we stop in Ruidoso to eat at... Cafe Rio! they have the best pizza EVER. Nothing really exciting happened on the way... Justin had us laughing... by just.. being Justin. Oh man it was fun. They even sang. We get back to Roswell at exactly 7:00. Then... we... well... went home. I was sad. I really didn't want to go home. But... I had too.... ho hum.



To sum up the whole trip. IT WAS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so very thankful the Lord allowed us to go down there. I hope we are able to go again. God is AMAZING.



Well I think that is everything... I probably left something out. If I did... well I'll just... edit later... maybe. This is probably been the longest post I've ever written...
I'll post some pictures now.



Calvary Chapel Las Plamas. A light in a dark place.


Inside. Where they have church, and where we eat.


The kids with their boxes


This is where they get their water now. They is it for everything. Drinking, bathing, laundry. And it has no lid.

Front of the shelter


Me and little Leslie.



All of us in front of the church that is being built.

There are more here.

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Just click on Juarez November 07. There will be more up later on. Shadoe tooks pictures too but I haven't gotton them from her yet. So now I think I'm going to go read that awesome book Justin is letting me borrow. I'll leave ya'll with one last thought....

Corn on the cob.

GOING TO MEXICO!!!!!

We leave for Juarez Mexico today!!! This will be our third trip down there. We are taking some gift boxes to a battered woman's shelter. They'll be for the kids and woman. The other two times we were down there a week. This time only a weekend thing this time. We're coming back Sunday. I'm super excited to see what the Lord has for us down there!! I'm a little nervous. We went to the shelter last time and it was a hard thing to see. But we needed to see it. I think its going to be a good trip though. I'm pretty excited :)

So I'm going to get. I need to finish packing. I'll post when I get back!

Chao. ('Bye)

The joy of braces

Today... was THE day. The day I had to get braces... oh joy. I went to work this morning. Rode my horses in a rush. Got home at 11:30. Took a 3 minute shower (yes I can do that thank you) blow dried my air. Ate a smallish bite of food. By this time its 12:00. Took a shower, dried my hair, and ate all in 30 minutes. Oh yes, I'm good ;) Well off we go! I fall asleep in the backseat. And by 1:15 we have arrived at the place I had been dreading. I get to go in right whenever we get there. And then it starts.

The nice lady tells me to sit down in the middle chair. I do. She puts the little... bib looking thing on me. Then yanks out my spacers. It felt really weird after they were gone. But it didn't last long cause she put these round band type things where the spacers had been. And then she starts putting this stuff on my teeth. "Its going to taste and feel like dirt." Yep she was right. It did. Yuck. She and the dentist were trying to talk to my while I had this icky stuff in my mouth. And well it wasn't exactly easy to talk.... After she gets done putting it all on my teeth. She tells me to to go brush me teeth and come back. Alrighty then. I come back and sit down again.

She does some more weird stuff to my teeth. Uses the little saliva sucker and such. Puts some more nastiness on my teeth. Then we go to the mold thing. Ugh. She shows me the metal thing that will go in my mouth. Then tells me she'll put a paste thing on it and it'll go in my mouth. Then she says. "This sometimes slides to the back of your throat. And it makes a lot of people gag. Are you a gagger?" Oh... great... I tell her no I am not a gagger. Then she walks off. And comes back with the metal thing full of pink gunk. She the sticks it up in my mouth. It was pretty nasty. And they had to stay in my mouth awhile. She had a hard time pulling it out. I was worried it wouldn't. Yikes.

After that I had to go brush again. I come back. She does more stuff. More saliva sucking and all that good stuff. Then we move on to the wonderful thing that gets stuck in your mouth that opens up your mouth really wide. And pulls your gums back. Its not much fun sitting there with this huge thing in your mouth. And someone sitting over you messing with your teeth. I felt like I was in surgery are something. She puts more nasty stuff on my teeth. Stuff that is sour tasting. She tells me not to swallow it. Then she rinses all in my mouth, then sucks it all out again. Ugh. Puts these things in my cheeks that are supposed to keep inside of my mouth dry. Then we move on to the brackets. That wasn't so bad. She just did the glue, then the bracket. The dentist had to come over twice and do a "bracket check." .... hmmm... guess he just had to make sure the lady did it right. He did a lot of prodding around in my mouth. Made me move my head this way, and that way. Up and down. After he said that they were okay the nice lady gets out this little tool thing.... with I blue light.... and I sit there wondering what the heck it is. I still don't know. But she used it a lot. Hmmm....

We move on to the wire. That I didn't like much. It just doesn't feel right having wire stuck in your teeth, then sticking out. And it seemed like it took forever. Maybe just cause I'd been sitting in that chair so long. Hardly able to swallow are do anything. Ugh. Finally after what seemed like forever she is done with the wire. And I'm done! well not quite yet. I have to wait to get "instructions." which are. How to floss, how to brush correctly, what not to eat, so on and so forth. THEN I'm done! YAY!!

We stop and I get a hamburger on the way home. I was told by several people I needed to eat after I got them on. Well that wouldn't be a problem. I do like food ya know.

Now I have these weird, extremely strange feeling things in my teeth. But so far they haven't really been sore. Thank goodness. I guess I'll get used to them after awhile...hopefully... I just have to think about what pretty, straight teeth I'll have in... however many years....

Well I shall bid you all farewell. I need to go pack.

MEXICO TOMORROW!!! WOOOHOOO!!!!!!

Sitting here on a Monday night

I'm just sitting here.... on a Monday night. Rocking out to some David Crowder. Normally I'd be at youth. But I didn't get to go in tonight. My mom wasn't feeling to swell. And Taylor didn't want to go in. So that left me without someone to ride in with me. :( Dang I need my license... then I CAN DRIVE ALL BY MYSELF!!!!!! Just two more months....

Well honestly and truthfully (haha that sounded funny) I don't really have anything to write about. I thought about telling the story of getting our Christmas tree Saturday. But as it is my sister, and mother have already written about it. So... I didn't figure ya'll needed to hear a 3rd story. The only thing ya'll need to know was that is was cold. Very, very cold.

Today... was just... today. I dragged my self out of bed this morning. And went to...where? can you guess?? Work. It was... boring. Yes, I said BORING. It was cold. I got there... and... no boss. Whew. I catch up a horse. And start walking out of the barn. Joe (Terry's.... right hand man I guess you could say) stopped by me and turned off his 4-wheeler. Oh no. That usually means he has orders from headquarters. Which could mean I'm in trouble, are Terry wants to come out and ride with me. Oh please NO! what he said was.... "When you get done. Put the horses in the East pasture." YESSSSSS. Not a word about my boss. I go on my way. Doing what I do. Waving at unfriendly people on the highway. Oh and you know what? I have vehicle's memorized. Yep. Ones that go by every time I'm over there. Here is a smallish list:

A white, single cab Chevy with a trailer... and something on the back. It looks like a thing they spray weeds with. But I'm not sure if that is actually what it is are not.

A maroon dodge with a long livestock trailer

A truck with a livestock trailer. Sometimes empty, sometimes full of... bovines.

A little maroon... uhhh... not sure what it is. Its a older looking pickup though.

A white 4 door Ford.

A white Chevy

And then Terry's two sons, Joe, and Aaron usually go by. Sometimes her husband Donald too.

Hmmm I think that's it... Oh! and let's not forget the dude I always meet while I'm DRIVING to work. A dude in a white Cherokee jeep. Yep. I meet him in almost the exact same spot too. See aren't I a very observant person?

Anyways. Enough about the people I see. I kept expecting Terry to come out to the barn. But she never showed. YEAH. Nothing really exciting even happened with the horses. CJ spooked at a couple of things. And I called him a dummy. But that was basically it. After I finish my exercising the beasts I get to come home. And.... well... nothing exciting happened here either. I did get a laugh from Taylor though.

Taylor: (hanging upside down in the chair. Talking to my mom) "This tree doesn't grow pine cones. Its kind of ironic that you have pine cones on it. Its kind of like your degrading the tree. Its probably yelling at you right now in its tree language."

Hahaha. It made me laugh. My mom said some stuff too. But I don't remember what is was. I have a weird brother.... two weird brothers....

But that's really been it. I'm sorry if I bored you with this post. I probably shouldn't have even bothered with posting.... Course ya'll also didn't have to sit here and read this. Ya'll could have just... not read it. Now ya'll have wasted... well I don't know a few minutes of ya'lls lives. I'm saying ya'll a lot huh?

Well now I must bid you all a farewell. Don't cry! I shall return in the near future with more intellectual talk, and wisdom.



GOING TO MEXICO IN 3 DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cold day.

I had a hard time dragging myself out of bed this morning. It was just... so... stinkin' cold. And my bed was so very warm. But, I had too. I had things to do, places to go, people to see.... More like I had to go to work. So I dragged my poor pitiful cold body out of bed and dressed. Then ventured out of my room and went searching for breakfast. Oh and did I mention my mouth was hurting? yeah it was. But I won't complain about it. Well all I found was toast... hmm okay surely I'll be able to eat that with no problem. Ha. Maybe I was just being a big wimp. But my goodness! I could barely eat. I had to gum it, and take tiny small bite and only chew with my front teeth. It was painful. But like I said, maybe I was being a wimp. After I got finished with my painful breakfast I pulled on my boots and a sweatshirt, coat, and gloves. And walked out into the bitter cold to start the mighty beast, aka. The Nissan. MY pickup. Yep. Got the heater on and waited for my mom and Nathan. They come out and we head off to my wonderful work place! ummm are not.

I arrive. And go about doing what I do. Catch up horses, clean them up. Such as that. The rest of the people show up, Ann, Pat and Brenda. We get horses ready. Which is... brushing (are vacuuming which ever) cleaning feet, and saddling. I get done and I jump on the great and mighty steed CJ. Remember CJ? my most favorite horse of all times.... yeahh.... anyways. We head out. Into the... cold bitter wind. And my ears start freezing. Froze solid as a rock. They did, really. I had to thaw them out. Don't believe me? fine. I did get smart though and put my hood on so they wouldn't get so cold. Yeah that's right. I can be smart sometimes. While we were plodding along... suddenly!.... out of the alfalfa jumped a... BIG, HUGE VICIOUS MAN EATING BUNNY!!!! who's name was... Jack. I guess it decided we didn't look so tasty though and it ran off in the other direction. Yes it did scare CJ. Chicken. Okay, I can't say much though it startled me too. We went on our way. And after he got frightened at a few more numerous things we headed back to the barn.

The kids showed up at 9:00. We had... 7. Very cool kids. We have... Alex, Ruby, Chloe, Sebastian, LaKeith, Eric, and.... fudge I can't think of the 7th one. Alex is one of my favorites, he is really cute, and everytime he see's me he waves at me three or four times. So we took them around in the barn, and outside some too. Which I kind of mean I thought cause they got really, really cold. Poor kids. They left at 10:30 and I helped Terry do some stuff. Put up a Nativity set, and put a train around her Christmas tree... then! finally! we got to go feed my hungry belly. We ate at the bar. Yes the bar. No I didn't feed on bud light, or coors, or anything of the sort. Its actually a bar and GRILL. They have food. Good food. But its expensive. And very, very dark in there. I like bright... brightness. Since you know, I have such a bright and sunny personality ;) I had some soup. Mmmm very good. Then I got stupid and ordered a BLT. I... couldn't eat it. Every bite hurt. Again I guess I was being a wimp. But I couldn't help it. So I just got a box for it. It would have been good though! the french fries that came with it were easy to eat. I munched on them.

Later on my mom and Nathan came and got me. And we went to see a movie! Enchanted. First we visited my sister in her cube. Then we went and saw the movie. We were the only ones there. We were the only ones in the WHOLE movie theater. Hey not a problem with me! It was kind of cold though. The heaters were out. The movie was.... cheesy. But kind of cute, and clean. So that definitely counts for something. There was a little to much singing in it for my taste. But oh well. The chipmunk had to be the coolest character. He was cute. But yeah. We came home afterward. And I got to have some good stew for supper. That was so very easy to eat. Thanks mama! Ooo and macaroni and cheese. I decided that the only thing I would eat when I got my braces was macaroni and cheese. Its so easy to eat! you don't have to hardly chew it, and it goes right down. And its very yummy too :) Oh and I can't forget the milkshake. Taylor told me I should make a milkshake because "It would make your teeth feel better." Uh huh... I'm sure your concerned about my teeth. So yes I made a milkshake. Being the kind and generous sister I am. Hehe. He better start appreciating me....

So that's basically been my day! I'm going to go crawl into my cozy bed now.

(Oh and BTW. Since I know ya'll all probably lost sleep over it. I DID find my wallet. It was under my cap on my dresser. See I told ya'll it was hiding)

The evil spacers

I happen to be getting braces next week. Thursday to be exact. So today I had to go and get... the evil spacers. They are just rubber bands that they stick on your back teeth... or something. I don't know what they do. All I know is that they hurt. Getting them on wasn't much fun. They pushed real hard down on your teeth. And yeah... I can't explain it. And there is 8 of them. So now I sit here with these things in my teeth that really don't belong. I keep wanting to pull them out are something. Eating feels weird too. They quit being sore after I got them on. Now they hurt again... phooey. Braces will be worse... much worse. And how do I feel about getting them? Well its simple really. I. Don't. Want. Them. But obviously it doesn't matter what I want. I have no say in the matter. I have been told though that I'll be glad I got them. And I guess its probably true. But dang I wish they didn't have to be so painful. Guess I'll get over it though.

I did accomplish something today! My daddy wanted me to drive. So I well drove, to town. No that isn't the accomplishment. The accomplishment was that I drove IN town. I had never driven in town. Well not that town. I'd driven in some others that were small and easy to drive in. So yes I did it :-) I... was...uh.. pretty nervous. But it wasn't so bad! I didn't kill us (obviously since I'm sitting here typing) are wreck us or anything! :-)

Driving to town though I was noticing how unfriendly people are. Well I've noticed it before, but I noticed it even more today. I like to wave at people as I pass them. And I really like to wave at people while I'm riding horseback. They like to look at me like I'm a two headed freak are something. But seriously. People are just so unfriendly. I waved at bunches of people, and only two people waved back! How rude! I think people should be more friendly. I mean how hard is it to just wave at someone. Its sure not going to kill you. Gosh, snobby people.

I'll get off the unfriendly people subject now. I got to go riding yesterday. Bareback. Yup. The BEST way to ride is bareback. Most definitely. My little Dunn horse has grown his winter hair and he was all warm and soft... It was awesome :) I was out for awhile... like... 2 1/2 hours I think. It was kind of cold though, the wind had some what of a chill. I enjoyed it though. Being able to go out for a joy ride is just great.

Well I have a kitchen that awaits cleaning. And I need to go find my wallet... no its not missing... its just... hiding. Yeah. It likes to do that. So I'll leave ya'll with some pictures I took yesterday.

Walking in a winter wonderland

Some pictures of the snow!
I like icicles

Turkey, Pies, Snow, Gunfights, Brain Sucking Aliens, and Redneck Sledding

I've been meaning to post for the past few days. But I just haven't gotten it done. But now I sit here. And I do have some stuff to write about!

Well I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! I know I did! My grandma came, along with my 3 little cousins. Dalynn-age-9 1/2 Laurie-age-6 and Jarrid-age-4 A roundy bunch of children. They came in Wednesday evening. I was woken by their loudness on Thursday morning. And the loudness... loudness is that even a word? anyways. The loudness continued all day. And it decided to snow! I love snow. But snow meant the little children couldn't go outside and be loud. Nope they had to be INSIDE in this small house cooped up like a bunch of chickens, and be loud. Oh well. I played Monopoly with them. Are at least tried too. Don't ever play that game with a bunch of little kids. I was just trying to be nice. And they didn't even appreciate it. They were arguing about the rules, and the deeds, and who got to go first. And blah, blah, blah. We FINALLY got the game over with. That stinkin' game goes, on, and on, and on. And after awhile my mom and granny decided that the little children could finally go outside! YAY! They were out for awhile. Then had to come back in... NOOOO!!!!!!! Please no!! We made them sit down and watch movies. They were quiet then hey got loud again after awhile. Oh well it was good while it lasted. I felt like running and screaming through the night. But... I didn't

Later on Jennifer and John came over and we had our thanksgiving meal at supper. John fried a mighty fine turkey, and we had, dressing, and cranberry sauce and biscuits, and all the good Thanksgiving day fixings. Oh and the pies! lets not forget the wonderful pies! Mmmmm. We had a cheesecake too since it was Taylor's birthday. So yeah. We had a very nice Thanksgiving. After we ate and got everything put away we sat around and talked, and my mom told us stories from her high school days and such as that. Then we all crashed.

Friday. We wake up to is snowing some more! Snow rocks! And while my grandma was getting stuff ready to leave. I was involved in a gunfight! and had my brains sucked out by a alien/robot! and was attacked by 4 evil tickle monsters!!! No joke. First Jarrid came and sat on me and we goofed around. And he told me he was a alien/robot and he was going to suck my brains out. No don't do that!! I need my brain!!! Then I told him I didn't have any to suck out and he told me I did. And we sat their arguing about it. Aren't we mature? :-) Then he grabbed a rifle. And Laurie a pistol and we got into a gunfight! there were bullets flying all around us. I grabbed the gun and told Jarrid to run for his life!!! then we took turns shooting at Laurie. It was one heck of a gunfight... then... I got shot in the heart and died. The end. Haha.

After I recovered from all my gunshot wounds I sat down on the sofa and watched. "What not to wear" with my grandma and mom. That show just makes me laugh. They get 5,000 dollars to spend. But they don't get hardly anything with it cause they spend 500 dollars on shoes, or whatnot. I mean goodness. But ya know I found out by that show how fashionable I am.

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ME fashionable. Oh yeah sure, uh huh. They would probably chunk everything in my wardrobe. But I don't care! My clothes are comfy, and they work for what I do. I don't think high heels would work to well for riding horses. Are a 600 dollar jacket. Or anything else they buy on that show.

Anyways. I lost my train of thought... oh yes. So we watched the show. Then my grandma, and cousins packed up and left. And there was.... silence... all through the house. It was... creepy. Then me and my momma had to go about cleaning up the wonderful mess. It wasn't that bad, I mean my little cousins are such clean freaks! they pick up after themselves, and its just great. HA! I wish! it was a disaster area. Looked like a tornado had gone through it. So we spend the morning cleaning and get everything back in order. Whew! Then we're bums the rest of the afternoon. It was really cold outside!! BRRRR. But I LOVE IT!!!! :-) Anyways moving on.

Yesterday, which was Saturday. Joshua came over... sometime in the morning. I don't remember exactly the time. I was really happy to see him though! it had been awhile. Oh and I forgot to mention the snow. I woke up and looked out my window to see a winter wonderland! haha. It was awesome! and it was still snowing! It snowed for most of the day. Anyways. So Joshua had brought over their 4-Wheeler and we went sledding! Our sled. The side of a old dryer. We were redneck sledders! We went last year too. Its tons of fun. You can go really fast on the 4-wheeler and get the sledder swinging around really wide and really fast. Yeah it's great. We all got dumped in the snow so many times last year. But we didn't hardly this year. Just cause the snow was deeper this year, and so we couldn't get going as fast. We had to to wear goggles cause of all the snow that flew back in your face. It was a lot of fun!!!!!!!!! FUN IN THE... SNOW!!!! :-) After awhile. We went inside with red noses, and frozen feet. And had hot chocolate! ate dinner. Then we didn't really do anything. We watched some TV shows, and some movies. Then that evening after a supper of pancakes. Joshua went home. It was sad :(

So yeah. That was my weekend! today nothing exciting happened. We just went to church, came home, ate, such as that. So now that I've smoked up the keyboard I'll end this rather long post.

My first day...

My first day of what? Feeding the crew! Yep that's right. So it wasn't a huge deal. My mom had put the roast and beans in the night before. So all I had to do was. Make biscuits, make a salad, stick the already prepared dessert in the oven, make tea, get out 8 plates, forks, knives, and glasses, get out the butter, salad dressing, peppers, and salsa. Clean house, and do laundry... joy.

So I woke up this morning and my mom informed me she was going to quilting. What? Leave poor little ole me to feed to crew! I break into tears and say, "I'm only 15 and your leaving this major task for me! Oh! What will I ever do!" Okay, no I didn't do that. I mean seriously. That would have been childish. And I'm not childish, I'm a mature adult.... Y'all stop laughing! Ahem. No what I did was nod, and ask questions about what I needed to do. Then I sat atop the cabinet and listened while she instructed me in every little detail. And did I listen? Of course! this was a big deal I needed to know exactly what to do.

After I was instructed, and had a list of things to do so I didn't forget. My mama left. I look around the house... in complete.... uhhh... what's the word.... well I don't know. But whatever. I just looked around the house feeling somewhat... overwhelmed. I started cleaning. Living room first. It wasn't a horrible mess. Just needed to vacuum, and dust. Easy enough. Next the bathroom... hmmm not as easy. I get that done. Oh! laundry! clothes are in the dryer, and some in the washing machine. Okay not done yet. Move on. I open the door in my brothers room. The fellas come through there... why? well because... it's close to the bathroom where they can wash their hands. Yeah that's it. Anyways. I make sure they can get through the door and decide to clean it up later. Ya know it would be nice if Taylor would clean it up the DAY BEFORE so then I wouldn't have to do it. But that would be to easy.

Moving on. Yipes it's time to cook! It's 10:00 time to put the dessert in the oven. That goes in. I move on to making the biscuits. Pitchfork biscuits. Yum. I get busy... After everything is mixed up I get to put it on the cabinet and knead it. That's the fun part. It's all squishy... doughy... whatever. And yeah it's pretty cool :) I then cut them out with the handy, dandy biscuit cutter! thingy. Place them on the pan. And stick them in the oven. Yipes! the kitchen hasn't been cleaned yet! I get busy with that. Putting the dishes in the dishwasher, wiping down the cabinets. Then I get out the plates. I was feeding 8, but we always get out extra. So I got out 11. 11 plates, cups, forks and knives. Put it all on the table.
Oh! I need to take up ice! so I do that. And pile the many, many ice trays in the sink.

And oh dang. I haven't done my brothers room yet. I proceed to straighten it up. So it wasn't perfect. But I made it to where they'd be able to walk in, and have a place to set their hats. Oh and did I mention during all of this I had Nathan there. And I was trying to get him to do a few little tasks for me. It was like pulling teeth. I get feet stomping. And "I don't want to!" and "I don't know why I have to do this." and so on and so forth. He did get happy when I sent him out to burn the trash. He likes fire.... hmmm.... so maybe sending him outside with fire what the not smartest thing to do. But hey I was running around like a chicken with it's head cut off trying to get everything done and he'd done it before. Anyways... where was I.... oh yes cleaning the brothers room. I got that done. Then decided I should probably make the salad. See the guys were supposed to come in and eat at 11:00 so I really needed to get everything done. I made the delightful, wonderful looking salad! Okay so it wasn't the greatest looking salad. But hello it's a salad! it's going to be in your stomach. I doubt those guys cared what the salad looked like.

After the salad was made I got everything out and had it ready. I then proceeded to cut up the roast and place it in a pan. So then the guys wouldn't have to cut it off for themselves. That wasn't the easiest task. It was pretty fatty, and my knife was dull. So that did take me awhile. Then finally! everything is done!!! the biscuits are out of the oven, along with the desert. So I pour the tea and wait..... and wait some more.... my food was getting cold. Finally about 11:15, or maybe it was 11:20.

Anyways they come in! Wash up, form a line and eat. And I sit there... watching hungrily as the consume their food. Some of the guys seated in the kitchen, some in the living room. And I have to wait for the to get done, so then I can eat. Don't get me wrong, I'm used to this. It's how it's always been. But I didn't have any breakfast and I'm really, really, hungry. Well after they finally leave I get to go eat! I walk in the kitchen.... and... there was hardly anything left! A few biscuits, hardly any meat, not to many beans, and the salad was almost gone too. Which surprised me cause they aren't salad eaters. So I eat a little. Then eat a lot of desert! :) hehehe. My mom comes home while I'm trying to clean up the lovely mess they left me. I don't understand these guys. They left a leaning, and I mean leaning pile of plates which still had food on them. It wouldn't have been good if they would have falling into the sink and broken. Not good at all. But they usually pile them in the sink, with food still on them and then sometimes, somehow water gets run over them. So then we have a mess of soggy food. Yuck. Well I get it cleaned up. And then relax! well I really didn't. I went outside and did some stuff, helped my dad. And did some various things. But yeah that's not very interesting.

So that was my story of my very first time feeding the crew! Hmmm I wonder if I'll ever have to do it again.... Guess I need the experience! My mom is good.... real good. Well I've made this post long enough. I'm outta here.

Just around the river bend....

Just around the river bend beyond the shore where the gulls fly free don't know what for what I dream the day might send just around the riverbend for me coming for me.
I have that song stuck in my head. You know the song from the movie Pocahontas. I don't know why the song is in my head. It has been for 2 days! I don't even like the song.... or the movie for that matter. It has A TALKING TREE. Uh hello. TREE'S DON'T TALK. I mean come on. Seriously. Then she jumps off a waterfall. And does other various stupid things.... Okay so yeah it's animated but still.... Doesn't it have a racoon in it....? I like the racoon. It's just a goofy movie if you ask me. I don't like John Smith. And who would name their child Pocahontas. That's just mean and messed up if ya ask me. But they obviously didn't.... so whatever. Pocahontas and John Smith love each other. But she's bethrothed to a great indian warrior! and John Smith is white! so their love is forbidden. It's all... just.... so romantic *tears up* It reminds me of that wonderful movie Tristan and Isolde. Okay so I'm drowning in sarcasm here.

It's obvious that I DON'T LIKE THE MOVIE. Why am I even writing about it. I'm sure ya'll could care less that I don't like the movie. I'm sure ya'll could care even less that the stupid song is stuck in my head.

I'm going to go clean the yard now.

I can't believe it's November. And it's almost Thanksgiving! I really like Thanksgiving. It's a good time for family to get together and eat to much food :) Mmmm the pies are what I'm looking forward too. People always seem to forget about Thanksgiving. They focus on Halloween, then Christmas. It's sad I think. My poor mom had to spend Thanksgiving in the hospital one year. Taylor was born on Thanksgiving, and his birthday is hitting it this year! The big 18th birthday....yikes.... My mom also had to spend Christmas in the hospital. Us horrible kids, just had to come at the wrong times. Anyways. So my grandma is hopefully coming for Thanksgiving, and my uncle too *crosses fingers* we're trying to get my Aunt too...but I'm not sure that will happen. It would be really awesome though! I love my family... as odd and strange as we may be.


So it's just kind of crazy thinking about it... Thanksgiving is next week. Then Christmas! Before Christmas we're going to Mexico again! I'm super excited :) Then.... in February.... I GET MY DRIVERS LICENSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAYYYY!!!!!! sorry, sorry. I'm just... a wee bit excited.... Haha. Okay I'm calm now.... maybe....

I guess I haven't posted on here in awhile. I could say that I've been super busy and just haven't had time... but that would be a lie. More like I've been lazy and just haven't made myself sit down and write. But now I am. Aren't y'all excited!............ Yeah right eh?

Hmmm well I don't have just a awful lot to right about actually. Over this past weekend we went to one of my most favorite places EVER. Amarillo Texas :) We go every year to the big ranch rodeo. It's a 4 night rodeo, they have a HUGE trade show, which has, belts, boots, clothes, tack, and such as that. I really like going.... but as it was I was sick. I started getting sick Tuesday evening. And it just proceeded to get worse. Thursday evening was when we headed down there. My head was pounding and I just felt awful. Friday I was feeling better. So we headed up to the trade show (it goes on all day) as the day went on I started feeling bad again. By the time the rodeo started I felt horrible again. I slept during most of the rodeo. Or at least tried to sleep.

That night... was horrible. I couldn't sleep. I'd sleep like 20 minutes, wake up, get a drink, lay there and fall back asleep, wake back up 20 or so minutes later. This went on all night. And I kept having the same weird dream too.... somebody I knew had created little people and they were in my floor.... yeah I don't know. I think the fever was making me delusional.... and when I woke up I thought the dream was real. So I thought there was actually little people in the floor! weird.... about 5:30 I decided to go take a really hot bath. I'd been cold all night and couldn't get warm. I bathed. Then threw up.... Okay so I seriously thought I was GOING TO DIE. No joke. I went back into my room, and finally fell asleep. I was woken up later by Nathan who was... bugging me about something. My mom came up, I told her about my night and such. I ended up staying at the house all day, by myself while everyone else went around Amarillo and did stuff. I slept most of the time, watched TV. And ate nothing but Sherbert, and drank 7up. I did sleep that night!

Sunday I felt SO much better. And had a ton of people ask me what had been wrong with me, or how I was feeling. My mom had been sick too, but she didn't throw up. She ran around and did stuff... maybe I'm just a wimp. We went to Cowboy Church, ate, and then went to the rodeo. I got to enjoy it this time. The Turkey Track didn't do too great. We got second in the team penning. But that was it... it kinda stunk. Oh well though.

So yeah that's been basically it. My week has just been a... regular week. Tomorrow we're having a Thanksgiving meal out here for Cowboy Church... I know what I'll be doing all day! cleaning!! oh the wonderful joys of cleaning!! whatever. Sunday is Nathan's birthday... then Taylor's, then my dads... gosh. I have shopping to do!

Hmmm how odd. A minute ago I was typing. I looked down and there was a dead wasp by the key board... Wait... that wasn't there before, I know it wasn't. It couldn't have been....

Maybe I'm just going crazy. Send me to the loony bin right now!

Okay I'm going to eat some chicken and rice right now.

Such a cold, lonely night....

I was actually hoping I'd have something interesting to tell ya'll about my night, lastnight. But as it is nothing interesting happened really.

I arrived at 4:00 and my boss, Terry. Showed me stuff, how to set the alarm if I wanted, where the candy was, where some food was, what to feed her dog, such as that. Then we kind of waited around for her grandkids to show up for some candy. They left, then Terry left at 5:30. So... I had this pretty big house, all to myself. A pool table, computer, plasma tv, movies, candy, and a little food. Though she was lacking quite a bit in the food area. Hmmm... what to do first!

I threw a wild party. Yeah uh huh. Called all kinds of people, it was insane!

Okay I didn't.

I turned on the tv and went in search of some food. I ended up eating some kinda chicken thing she told me I could have. It wasn't bad, not bad at all. After I ate that, and drank a cherry limenade. I then called Caitlin... nobody answered :( how sad! She called me back a few minutes later :) Me and her talked for quite awhile. Mostly a crazy goofy conversation. But that's us. We can't talk without having some kind of crazyness. Oh and we sang too, yep that's right. But you know what? We actually had a... somewhat deep conversation! Yes! Us! Don't faint anyone! no it wasn't about a grape sitcom, or anything of the sort. We discussed some Bible verses, it was really great! :)

After I got off the phone with her I called Joshua, we talked for... a hour and 18 minutes, that's what my phones tells me anyways. What did we talk about... wouldn't you like to know. HAHA! Oh and also while I was talking to him, I was also talking to Caitlin on IM. Then after I got off the phone with Joshua I talked to Caitin again. What did I do while on the phone you may ask. Well I played some pool, you know it's not much fun playing pool by yourself. I... got on facebook, ate candy, ate pub mix, hehe, wandered around the house turning on all the lights, and I also had the tv going. See what a good multi tasker I am! And also I would put my phone on speaker phone so it was like that person was actually there! yeah! it worked :) :)

Well at... midnight I sent Caitlin to bed ;) I had too, we were about to fall asleep on each other. Then I went around the house, locking all the doors. I thought about doing to alarm but I was afraid I'd set it off then the cops would come and think I was a robber... oh yeah sure. Then I started turning off the lights. I was afraid that I would get scared after I turned off the lights. See I hadn't gotton scared yet. So I turned off almost all the lights. I did leave two lights on. But I wasn't scared, didn't get scared at all. I was suprised at myself.

Then I couldn't decide whether to crash on the couch. Or go sleep in the bed Terry told me I could stay in. I decided to try the bed. I set my phone alarm and crawled in the covers... and layed there... staring at the ceiling. I couldn't sleep! I was about to fall asleep talking to Caitlin, no laying in the bed I just couldn't sleep. I finally turned over a few times. Settling on sleeping on my stomach, I grabbed a pillow and cuddled it up to me... I sleep better that way. Yes, I know, I'm weird. I did end up falling asleep at 12:30. 3 hours later.... I woke up, groaned and looked at the clock. 3:30! oh gosh. I tried to fall back asleep... no luck. So I layed there, listening... all I heard was Scooter, Terry's dog go into the kitchen and drink water. That was it.

I crawled out of bed, grabbed a pillow and went into the living room. I turned on the TV and curled up, hugging my pillow on the couch. Ya know there isn't much to watch to 3:40 in the morning. I put on... I don't remember. GAC I think. Later I got on the computer, facebook. Turned on some music. Then decided to watch the Rescuers! cute movie :) I haven't seen it in forever. While that was on I searched for some breakfast. There was cereal, but the milk was expired. So I just decided to eat more pub mix. After the Rescuers was over I watched Tristan and Isodle. I. Did. Not. Like. It. It had a stupid, sad ending... and yeah I don't want to discuss it.

Well the morning went on. At sometime, Aaron, Terry's son showed up. I saw him and thought he just came to get a horse. But he called inside the house and asked me to let him in. I felt kind of weird... 8:00 I drug myself out to the bitter cold and started riding. Then I just had a normal work day. Came home, and slept... for uhhh... like... 3 hours.... I seriously didn't mean to sleep that long. My mom didn't wake me up.... oh well. Well now I'm going to bed, cause I'm sleepy again, and cold. I need the warmth of my bed. Good Night.

(oh and it wasn't a actual cold and lonely night. Being on the phone kept me from being lonely. And the house was pretty warm. Thanks Caitlin and Joshua for talking to me!)

Chicken house cleaning, and a rescue mission

Sunday night I got to go to a AMAZING concert. Shane & Shane, Bebo Norman, and a new girl, Alli Rogers. I liked her a lot. It was somewhat funny though. I hung out with Jessica after church, and we killed time waiting for the concert. Then we called and got a friend of ours, Camille to go with us. So we went to go pick her up. I called and asked what the name of the road she lived was, and she said Prager, I thought she said Fraiser... maybe I need a hearing aid... anyhow we turned on one road that looked like it was going to take us to someones house and this giant killer attack dog came out!!! okay so maybe it was just a black lab, and wasn't a giant...but it was mean... Jessica rolled up her window and turned around and spun out of there. It was amusing :) Then we finally found Camilles house, oh the experiances I have...

But yeah anyways it was a really good concert. Started at 7. And ended at 10:00 I got home at 11:30. I felt bad cause my parents had to come get me. Well Jessica took me half way. I drove the rest of the way home, and they fell asleep. I don't like driving my dads pickup much, the headlights aren't very bright. And it goes all over the road. It's not the greatest pickup.... I did feel bad though that my parents had to go get me so late...

Next day I didn't want to get out of bed. But I had to. I had...work. It was not bad. My boss did come out and ride with me once. But other then that it was allll good. It was somewhat cold though. I got home at 12:30, ate some dinner, then cleaned up the kitchen. And decided to lay down for just a little while. 30 minutes. I needed to make my almond crumble twist again for youth that night. (which by the way was good, and a big hit at cowboy church) So I layed down on the living room floor and drifted off to sleep. Remember I said I thought I'd only sleep for about 30 minutes or so. Even if I didn't wake up I thought surely someone would wake me up... I wake up. And it's 3:00!!! WHAT! I went to sleep at like... 1 something, I don't remember. I wasn't the happiest person in the world... so then I was running around like a chicken with it's head cut off trying to get that dessert made.... and did I get it done?? Yes I did :) barely.

Yesterday... well nothing really exciting happened yesterday. My mom got some cats... I got to have the house to myself for awhile... and yeah... that was about it.

Now we move on to today. I awake, go through my normalish morning routine, blah, blah, blah. I then sit down for just a second at the desk and try to do this stupid puzzle... okay so maybe it was more then a minute. But this puzzle is horrible. It's called Triazzle puzzle, and it's not easy. I'd done it several different times before but that was like several years ago. Belive me it's not easy. Just ask my dad, it took him two days to do it, it's only 16 pieces.

Anyways. My mom asked me and my lil bro to do some stuff. Nathan do... something or the other with the kitten. Me clean out the old chicken house, behind our house for the kittens...what? me, go in there. Where there is possiblity of spiders and snakes. Both creatures I hate with a passion. Please no. Did I get out of it? no. I walk out there and open the door... and! A BIG HAIRY CREATURE JUMPS OUT AT ME!!!!!!!........ okay, maybe not. Nothing jumped out at me. All that was in there was a bunch of junk, and a lot of cob webs. Ugh. So I start pulling junk out. Thankfully there weren't any snakes or critters in there. It wouldn't have been good. If I'd had found a snake...well... I don't know what would have happened but I would have probably screamed. Seriously.

I get that done. Come in the house. And procceed to clean up the breakfast dishes. When Nathan comes running into the house telling me that one of the cats is stuck in the barn. Stuck where I ask. On the salt block.... uh how can the cat be stuck on the salt block I ask. He just drags me out there. The problem. There was one stack of salt sacks, which had, well salt. My dad feeds it to the cows. There was a big stack of it. A crate, then more sacks. Then stupid cat had gotton in under the crate... and couldn't get out. How the cat got in, and couldn't get out.... I just don't understand this. So I tried to pull it out. It didn't fit. I try several different things. No luck. So the only thing I can do move the salt sacks. I being the dummy I am try and push the whole stack. Why did I think I could even do that? I mean seriously. There is a ton, and they weigh 50 pounds. That's not to heavy. But whenever you have a ton of them it's not much fun. So I start taking them all off. After awhile. And almost falling off the stupid thing I get the off and lift up the crate and the cat runs away. Did I get a thankyou? nope. Well your very welcome... ungrateful little brat. So that was that.

Now I have dinner dishes to take care of. Then I have to go throw some clothes together. I have to go to my bosses house tonight. She and her husband are going out of town tonight and she wanted someone at her house to greet the trick or treaters. So she asked me to stay there, overnight. By my wee little self.... to scare... I mean... uhhhh... give candy to the sweet little trick or treaters.... oh boy! I'll let ya'll know how is goes. Adios.

Mister Maturity

My day started off with me getting woke up by my mom telling me to go outside cause there were some guys out there in a pickup and to go see what they wanted. She sayed she'd go but she was still in her pajamas... well so was I. She must love me... send your daughter out some some weirdos. This is what she said about that. "I'd have a gun here in the house and if they tried to grab you I'd shoot them." hmm.. maybe I needed to be the one with the gun. So I sleepily got up and peered out my window. And sure anough there were two guys, in a green Ford sititing in our parking lot... kind of strange? I thought so. By the time I was dressed they were pulling out and leaving. And I watched them drive off very slowing down the rode. It was kind of creepy. We thought maybe hunters, but they sure didn't look like hunters. This was all at 7:30 in the morning mind you. Hmmm... it was pretty strange.

So anyways I curl up on the sofa, cover up and dove back off to sleep until 8:00... okay so I'm a bum, I don't care. Then I unwilling go outside to the cold to turn out our milk cow. We put her in with the calf in the mornings and evening so the calf can suck. I then feed the dogs. Come back in and procceed to start cleaning my room. I wanted to ride. But alas! the horses weren't up. Dangitt. I clean out my desk, do different little things. Then my mom tells me if I clean up the house I won't have to do school. Alrighty. As much as I hate cleaning, it's not as bad as school. So most of the morning was filled with cleaning.

Later on it's time for dinner, spagetti. And I get to sit in the kitchen and eat with Nathan while my mom goes in the living room and watches the news. How messed uo is that!? Oh well I don't like the news anyways. We have a interesting coversation.

Nathan: "I'm a very mature person."
Me: "No your not. Mature people don't whine, and cry, and act like baby everytime they don't get their way."
Nathan: "Mature means that you know stuff, and your smart."
Me: "No not really. Maturity is when you act like a adult and don't whine, and cry and act like a baby."
Nathan: "Well then I'm smarter."
Me: "Are you saying I'm dumb."
Nathan (gives me a smirkish look and says in sarcastic tone) "No your smart too."
Me: "uh huh. Whatever Nathan. Eat your spagetti."
Nathan: "I'll tell you all the stuff I know."
Me: "I don't really care."
Nathan: (goes off on something.)
Me: "I'm not listening. I don't care. Lalalalala."
Nathan: "You can still hear me. (continues his "smart" talk then finally stops talking... ok so that was just something I wished would have happened. He NEVER stops talking)

Aren't we both just so mature :) Later on I hear him in here whinying to mama about something and I say. "Naaathan. You aren't being very maaatuure.".... he really wasn't. Well anyways I'll leave ya'll with that little story. I must now go cook! or bake... whatever. I'm making a almond crumble twist. Sure hope it's good! I'll let ya'll know if it is :) Chow. Or whatever.

Fun Weekend

My brother in law was invited to go down to a bronc riding in Seymour Texas on Saturday. So we all headed down there Friday. Went to my grandma's house and stayed up until about 1:00 talking and such. The next morning I slept in until about 8... So I was a bum, I don't care. It would have been only 7 here at home... so we went and had some breakfast. Just kind of sat around and talked. Took showers.
We had our smaller cousins with us. Daylynn, Laurie and Jared, so I took them out on the deck (my grandma has a ... uhh... pond I guess you could say out behind her house) and there is a very nice deck out on it. So I wanted to take the kiddos pictures. And my grandma has a Nikon D80 and she let me use it :) very nice. We left at 10:30 for Seymour and got to the rodeo grounds at 11:00. The actual bronc riding started at 12:00. It was fun, I enjoyed watching it. But they drug it out until really late. And John didn't get a score cause he blew a stirrup, that really stunk. It was a stupid rule... but whatever, I'm not going to get bitter over it. Anyways. At like 3 or so we went to DQ and had a hamburger, least me and Taylor did. Then we had some ice cream :) yum. We headed out to my grandparents (my dads parents) stayed out there for awhile.

After awhile me, Taylor, John, and Jennifer loaded up and went back to my grandma's to get ready for the dance. It was somewhat funny cause when we got to the rodeo grounds there is a building right before you enter the rodeo grounds. And we thought that was where the dance was at... and we walked in and it ended up being a wedding reception... we uh... felt kind of stupid. Well we found where the actual dance. It was... not that great. They had a live band and that was pretty cool. But there weren't really anybody there me and Taylor's age, pretty much everybody was drunk. It just wasn't that great. My cousin Sharria showed up though with some of her friends so I atleast had someone to hang out with. Then she had me dance with one of her friends.... But yeah it just wasn't the greatest dance. Jennifer and John enjoyed it though. We got home at 12:00, crashed. Woke back up at 8... again.... oh well. Then... what did we do... we sat around eating breakfast and talking for awhile. I took pictures of Jennifer and John, and my mom and dad. And some of granny. She gave me a little Nikon she had, a Nikon cool pix, 5.0 MG 8xoptical zoom. I really like it. So then we all got ready, packed, and left. We went out to my granddads old place. It was extremely sad. I hadn't been out there since he passed away, so it had been about 4 years.... we hung out there for awhile. Went down to the Brazos river which is behind the house a ways. Then we got on the road. I drove some of the way, and man the wind was blowing like crazy! I didn't like driving in it at all. We got home at about 9:00. And it was coooooold. A northern had blown in... and... dang! haha. So that was pretty much it. It was cold today too, I had a ton of clothes at work today... So I'll end this long, and boring post. Sorry it's not more interesting.

Morning with a little brother, and chores,

This morning my mom left for her quitling class which is every other week... I think. My daddy was gone, and Taylor was gone day working again. So that leaves me home alone with Nathan. For the entire morning. With a chore list:
Nathan:
Take out chicken scraps
Feed Dogs
Pick up trash in bad and put in trash cans
Clean water trough at barn
Put up your clothes
Make your bed
Dust the living room and your bedroom
Give Ginger and Sugar a bath.

Sara:
Clean Kitchen
Mop bathroom and kitchen
Vacuum
Clean your room, that means dust the shelves and such
Get your clothes together for the trip to Texas
Finish the cookies
Clean the tub after the dogs have had their bath

Both get some school done.

Okay, easy enough. I was going to do most of those things anyways. I'm just really glad she already had dinner cooking. So anyway lets get started. Nathan rolls out of bed at.. 8:00 I think.
He takes awhile to wake up. He is not a morning person, and can very cranky whenever he wakes up. He gets woke up and wanders the house aimlessly. I tell him "Nathan get some breakfast I need to get the kitchen cleaned up." I get a "Okay, okay." in response. He wanders around the kitchen going through the cabinets forever and just going through the cabinets over, and over. Finally he says.

Nathan: "I'll just have some cinnamon toasties."
Me: "Nathan I don't think there are any."
Nathan: "Yes there are."
Me: "No Nathan I don't think there are very many."
(He looks in the bag)
Nathan "Oh."
Me: "Have some rice crispies."
Nathan: "They are old."
Me: "No they aren't."
Nathan: "Yes they are we've probably had them since the first of the summer!"
Me: (rolls eyes) "No we haven't we've had them two weeks. And besides rice crispies can't get old." (okay so I don't really know if they can or not, but whatever)
Nathan: "Can't I just have a couple of cookies."
Me: "For breakfast!?! No!"

He finally decides to get the rice crispies. I start to clean. I start witht he living room. I get it all picked up and such. And pick up Nathan's dirty socks... this child always, always leaves his dirty socks everywhere. He doesn't believe in wearing clean ones. So he take them off, stuffs them in the sofa cusions, under the coffee table, leaves them on the kitchen table, coffee table, places such as that. I don't know what is with this kid. Me and my mom both tell him all the time to pick up his stinkin' dirty socks! weirdo. Anways moving on I get the living room all picked up (It was a a horrible mess by the way)



It was then like 9:00 and I realize that Ginger isn't around... hmm odd. I ask Nathan where she is, he doesn't know. I holler for her. Nothing. I go into Nathan's room and call her. I see movement under the covers, and hear a tap tap. "Ginger get out of bed." she sticks her nose out. "Come on Ginger get your lazy butt out of bed." she finally comes comes slinking all the way out.

So I put her outside and walk into the kitchen and Nathan is staring off into space. I say. "Nathan get to eating." He just looks at me... Then starts to eat.
I start vacuuming. He comes running into the living room. Jumps onto the sofa, starts jumping up and down and does the ape man, beating on the chest thing. I screech at him over the vacuum cleaner. "Do not jump on the sofa and go get some clothes on! it's 9:00." Well he doesn't. He grabs a pillow in his teeth and starts swinging it around. Then he leaps of the sofa still swinging the pillow in his teeth. And then starts beating the floor with the pillow... why? I have no idea. Maybe he was imagining it was me. So I tell him again to go and he finally goes in and starts getting dressed. I get done vacuuming and he emerges from his room. I tell him what his first thing is on the list. I move on to the kitchen. This is what I had to clean.

Wonderful huh? I get busy. Nathan comes in after awhile. I read him off more stuff to do. He whines about it but goes and does it. A little later he comes in again. I tell the list says for him to go clean the water trough.

Nathan: "I don't want to."

Me: "Well you have to do it anyways."

Nathan: "I don't know why I have to clean it out! Why can't you!?"

Me: "Because I'm doing stuff too."

Nathan stomps out the stoor, slams to door, turns around and glares at me... well don't we have a attitude.

I continue my task.
After awhile I'm done with the kitchen! I have it mopped and everything. Here is what we have

Ahhh much better :) I do the corn bread. During this I have Nathan throwing a fit cause he "Doesn't know how to make his bed." uh huh, yeah right. I get him to do it. And after even more whining and complaining I get him to wash the dogs. I hear a lot of stuff from in the bathroom where he's washing to dog.
"Sugar no!. No sugar stay still.".... "Sugar!".... "Sugar you stupid dog." Then he makes all kinds of noises, growling, huffing, such as that. Then I move on to the bathroom. I walk in, there is water all over the floor, seriously. Of course the badtub is filthy. There are dirty clothes, and like 3 wet towels all over the foor. The wet towels and wet floor I can figure out... the dirty clothes all over the floor, I just can't figure that out. They were all in the hamper this morning... I'm thinking, Nathan. Well I get that all cleaned up, bleach everything. Scrub the tub with comet. Mop. Get the corn bread out of the oven. And now... I'm writing this. Waiting for my dad to get home so we can eat. I guess I should finish do my final task... school... yuck. Then maybe this afternoon I can go ride, after I finish the cookies..... oh and do my room... dang.... Well... I'll end another long post. Adios.