Where does the time go? What an experience the last couple of years has been. I guess I'll just have to go with this....

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” Maria Robinson

Some Good Quotes

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Dale Carnegie

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. ~ Wayne Dyer

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path. - Paulo Coelho

You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted and used against you

Religion is what you do when the sermon is over.

By: Arvind Passey

Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. ~Author Unknown

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. ~Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ, c.1420

Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. ~Author Unknown

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. ~Leo Aikman

Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway. ~Elbert Hubbard, A Thousand and One Epigrams, 1911

Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. ~Dandemis

Make somebody happy today. Mind your own business. ~Ann Landers

Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them. ~William Hazlitt

It’s not the critic that counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.
Theodore Roosevelt

What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~Jewish Proverb

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ~Spanish Proverb

Respect for the truth is an acquired taste. ~Mark Van Doren, Liberal Education, 1943

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

whew

Things are finally starting to look up. After this three year roller coaster of hell, emotions I would like to forget, I have been going non stop for about three weeks straight. We have moved back to Englewood. Really close to the ranch. I love the new house, I started working and it looks like we are going to be okay.
The kids are happy and I think it can only get better from here on out.

I don't care~

I don't care if you like me.... Just don't pretend that you do.

If you want to know something about me than just ask, don't assume.

My Kids

A great day at Stump Pass, Just the three of us. A much needed day of alone family time was so nice. Lately, it seems we have all been busy going in different directions, always surrounded by others. Which we love~ But sometimes it is nice to just be with family, out in nature. UNPLUGGED from the games, the phone, the internet........
Especially when times are hard, it is refreshing to know that no matter what happens we have eachother. I am so proud of my kids. They are my world. Some may not understand it. But it doesn't matter. Tend to your own children. My kids don't go without love and everything we do for them is because we love them.

The Horse Project....

Okay, so Kayla and Heidi are doing a demonstration for 4-H. "How to groom a horse". Heidi wants to be the horse. so I have been trying to come up with a way to make that happen. Here is the work in progress.... a long way to go ! they need more layers and paint and fur.... ..... lol

Bit Of Hope Ranch

My safe haven, the place we like to go to forget all our troubles. I just love it there. Kyle rode for the first time a few weeks ago. He has put in many many hours and never even logged them. He does not have an interest in riding much. But that is okay, I am just glad he tried. I rode a couple of times too and I love it. I am still a little nervous and saddened that age changes your whole state of mind and takes away the fun it seems. When I was younger I thought nothing of hopping on a horse and just going. Now as an adult I think 50 steps ahead, the horse has knocked me off, I visualize myself in the hospital, no insurance.... etc... maybe I need medication? no... but seriously, I am working on how to let go more often and just let it be. what will be will be.
Kayla is in 4-H and will be riding in shows and I for the most part will live vicariously through her. I envy her attitude, she is smart enough to know the risks and is not careless but she moves forward and pushes herself as much as she can. She is such a hard worker too. she was meant to live on a farm.