day trip

I spent the weekend at Candi's house and on Saturday we went down to Kim's for lunch, to see the new baby, and get some riding in. Sorry no pictures of the baby. BUT... Hannah at one month old already has her own horse.

This is Winnie. Don't let her short stature fool you. She's a pistol and happens to have the rest of the herd of boys totally in rapture. They prefer to spend their days next to her pen rather than grazing. Not kidding.

David and Goliath. Actually that's Perry. He's her Frisian and the Cadillac of all horses.

Not sure whether to put this one up or not. I promise I was only trying to make him stand, but it looks like I was pulling his mouth off.

Look at that mane!

Kim jumping Sunny the perfect little western guy. Did I mention I got to jump Perry? It was over a log in the woods and on that guy you feel like you are floating.

You can't help but love the guy.

to get old

People say that getting old is awful because you feel like you're losing your mind. What if I've already lost it?The other day I made it all the way out to my car before I realized that the merchandise in my hand had not been paid for. Dodging the steel bars that now seemed to be everywhere, I successfully made it back into the store to pay for my crime without being noticed by a single person... Apparently it's really easy to steal, but don't try this at home. Maybe my angels just made me invisible for a bit so I could have my senior moment at 22.

Furthermore, being senile can go hand in hand with 20/20 vision. You know you have a problem when your roommate refuses to move her desk over for optimum space inhabitation because she knows you'll kill yourself if she does it. Let me explain. According to her, I hit either the corner protruding towards the desk, her sitting at the desk, or the desk, most every time I walk by. I didn't really feel that this was fair, but upon her role play of the event in every possible situation, I had to admit it did look extremely like me. And.... well.... yesterday I ran into something both coming in the room and leaving it. She felt the need to give a rather hearty "I told you so." I just nursed my throbbing body parts and pretended as if it was the wall's fault.I really don't understand why depth perception alludes me.

My crowning act, which I am ashamed to say happens on and fairly regular basis, is when, like yesterday, I am walking beside a wall and happen to come across an open door way. BAM! my shoulder makes contact with the inside of the door frame and I am immediately stopped in my tracks.

Older adults will walk into the room, smile and say to me, "honey don't ever get old. I can't even remember why I came in this room." Is it bad that I'm thinking, honey, this isn't a foreign event for me. I probably do it more than you do.

So if anyone would like council on what it's like to get old, please don't hesitate to call. I'm a trained professional AND I'm ahead of my time.

all the way to tim-buk-too

Spring break finally came and I am sad to say I'm almost at the point where I will have to say it went. After spending the weekend with my parents I flew to Jaclyn and Ryan's for the week. I should say I tried to fly... Charlotte got a tad bit of snow and it shut the world down, so I arrive 6 hours late. But that's better than some of the poor people I met on the way so I guess I have nothing to complain about.

By the second night, only because Ryan got stuck in a staff meeting on the first, we had Settlers out. Toby likes to put his two cents in too. But for the most part he can't stand to be on the floor when everybody else isn't.
I have never met a dog with SO much personality. He's almost human. I wish you could see the rest of him. I'm holding him like I would a baby, and he loves it.

Believe it or not, this is him in his most comfortable state. Every night he climbs up in Jaclyn's lap and goes to sleep in some position similar to this. Rough life. He's such a mamma's boy.

We picked up a gate so that they can restrict him to the kitchen when needed. See how happy he is about the whole thing?

We spent two days painting... Day 1 was baseboards and doors in the living area.

Day 2 was the bathroom.

To keep with "tradition" we had to write something on the wall. Toby got included even though he was stuck outside. I say stuck but I think he was pretty happy about it. He dug holes and chased his tale til he was caught in his line and couldn't spin any more all morning long.

Working on the fourth coat at 8 o'clock after doing the books and score board for Ryan's game. All in a days work.
When Toby finally got to come back inside he very much enjoyed getting high off of the drop cloth.
While poor Ryan was stuck in class, Jaclyn and I headed to a Wilderness Safari place.

Before you go out on the Safari there's a petting zoo and monkey houses you can go through. This was a baby Capucha (or however you spell that) monkey named Chloe you could pet and hold.
It was at this moment that I figured out adulthood was boring. When I was a kid I always wanted a lemur, had a stuffed animal of one that I absolutely adored, and at 22 when I finally got to get this close to one, my life's dream, it just wasn't nearly as exciting as I had always pictured. How boring am I.

Fact of the day: goats are picky. They don't like whole wheat bread and the won't eat it off the ground... it HAS to come from your hand. Spoiled brats.

Yay for petting Kangaroos! I didn't think they were that nice, but this guy didn't seem to care one bit. In fact I think he rather enjoyed it!

They are extremely soft...like a rabbit.

This one's got a little somethin somethin hiding out inside. :)

Strangest chicken I ever did see. If that doesn't make you giggle then maybe you're more boring then I am ha ha.

The safari proved to be a lot dodging self promoted sentinels.

What a way to sleep...

The camels were very friendly and made it a point to stare into your car as you passed by. This one was obliged to use the rear view mirror as a scratching post.

They had all kinds of animals. I'll leave those for Jaclyn's blog perhaps. :) It was a regular zoo and then some. I was pretty impressed.

Friday night, Toby got to have a friend over. Yeah... was pretty excited.

I think Buddy however was a little bit intimidated by this young whipper snapper.

For the most part Toby played the part of the only child who wasn't quite sure he liked sharing his family.

Tomorrow I fly back to Charlotte and Monday back to school... yuk. I'm feeling stressed just thinking about it. It's been a pretty fantastic spring break.