Just some thoughts...

I guess I've forgotten about blogging in the last little while. No, I don't have an excuse. :) Here's just a couple of thoughts for ya.

• Life of Fred is the best Math Book EVER!!! I have never liked doing math for years until I started doing Life of Fred, if it just awesome! 

Flex-Force Pellets are awesome, I've been giving them to Idaho for a couple of months it is super cheap and works GREAT! I keeps her from getting stiff as I train her. If I had a horse in more stressful training I would probably buy something like this. But for now this works great and is about 1/3 of the price. I buy it here. They usually have the best prices and shipping etc.

• Feed Flax Seed to your horse for extra shine, better hoof quality and overall wellness. I feed 1 TBS a day(1 oz) but you can feed up to 1 cup(8 oz) a day. I love the stuff! I buy it in bulk from Winco.

 

• If you live in the Magic Valley the best radio station ever is 88.1 The Bridge! They play 100% Christian Music. I'm not a huge fan of the styles of the artists, but hey, it's clean music! So it's better than nothing!

• Roxy aborted her baby right before Christmas so we will not be having a baby this spring. She is healthy at least, I still have no idea what caused it. I have a secret fear that it was EHV, but none of the other horses were sick around that time and none of them have been exposed to other horses in MONTHS!! I am really hoping it wasn't EHV! She had a little bit of retained placenta so some oxytocin fixed her up. She was fine for two days and then got super sick and we gave her lots of antibiotics and NSAID's for a couple of days. It wasn't too fun to have to be running all over town to get drugs on Christmas Eve when we had a bunch of family over! But she was fine again after a day or two and she's been fine since then. I am going to have her cultured this month (hopefuly!) to make sure she is still good to breed this spring. It was cool I got to see the placenta this time(I didn't see Que's because Bailey was at the vets).

Sorry if this grosses you out! It was pretty awesome!!!

•  Christmas was good, we got to see lots of family which was sweet! We were able to have our big family dinner at our house this year, something that hasn't been able to happen for a while. :)

• We also were able to go to the Care Center again to deliver lap quilts on Christmas day. It is a special tradition that I love! 

(Kayti, Justin and I) This is the only picture we got...and it's super blurry...and it was super last second so it's all kind of silly looking. I love all of our faces. :)

 Hopefully that's all! See ya later...

Thursday on the beach

wow! we've made it to Thursday already! Today we got to see some pretty cool stuff! Beware, this is a VERY picture heavy post again!

To start the day we had breakfast and played on the beach...

this is the view from our back porch!

 then Jared hid from the camera!...

After that we went to see John Adams' houses...

On the trolley...no, we didn't pose for this picture!

the house where John Adams was born...

The place where John Quincey was born

they are right next to each other, this is the only picture I have to prove it but the cream colored building is John Q.'s birthplace and the brown house in the corner is John sr.'s birthplace. They are on the same lot and very close together.

and last but not least...the place where John Adams died and where he lived for a long time, it's about a mile away from the other houses. It really is a pretty house.

Jared

this is the fireproof library that was built to protect John Q's books!! It's a HUGE library!!!

a plague like thingy to commemorate John Q and his wife Louisa Catherine in their church

John Adams' plaque in the same church

the church had a cool little organ in the balcony in the back

a closer view of the organ

this is the pew that John Q sat in when he was alive

my mom and dad standing by John and Abigail's graves which are in the basement of the same church

this are John Q. and Louisa Catherine's graves they are in the same room

Jared standing in front of the gate of their tombs

 then, we went back into the visitor's center and bought some ice cream from the neighboring shop...

then we drove home and fried some hamburgers for dinner and then the boys wanted to brave the cold and go swimming again...

Meanwhile I sat on the rocks because it was COLD!

we weren't finding any good stuff like last night and the boys finally realized that it was FREEZING so us kids hightailed it home,

 but that's when mom and dad found the good stuff!!

a big fish!

and a big crab!

See ya later!

oh, P.S I have a really fun quilt to show you when I get home!

Boston

Hello everyone, for Jared's 12th birthday we are in Boston! How fun is that????

We went down to SLC on Monday, on our way there we stopped in Ogden at the Hill Air Force Base and swam with my uncle Cameron and his family at out hotel. Here are some pics of the Air Force Museum, it was pretty cool!

We flew out Yesterday(Tuesday) and flew for most of the day. We got to our beach house at about 9:30 pm. We didn't take any pictures, but you get the idea...



Day three... today... we just had a free day, we went shopping and we went and saw the Avengers movie, it was AWESOME!!!


we relaxed...

We walked on the beach:

this is the back porch of our house! AWESOME!!! it has been SO nice to have a whole house to ourselves instead of being in a cramped hotel room! It's actually quite a bit bigger than our current house! I even have my own room!

we wrote each other's names in the sand...

this IS Boston in the spring so it IS raining a lot! it has been raining almost non stop since we got here! But because of the humidity it's still pretty warm! which is why i'm in shorts even though the sweatshirt doesn't make sense!

it's never too cold for them!

my Mom and Dad on the beach

We saw a lot of cool animals...

do you see the hidden object? (you'll know if you do!)

yep, you guessed right! a stingray! we actually saw several that were dead

here is what the underside of it looks like!

a closer look reveals... a crab1 we saw lots of these! this one is dead, but there were a lot of live ones

a teenie little starfish!

a big clam shell and the starfish!

a bigger crab

lots of crab!

Well...i'd better run...