Can you guess?

Can anyone decode what Mylie said?

"SCRUMBLE PEAR PANTS"

I was stuck for a little bit and Mesa had to tell me what she was talking about.
Hint: We were on Netflix picking out movies. (That may have been too big of a hint.) Leave your guess on the comments!

She talks fairly well for a two year old and of course leaves out a few letters that can throw you on occasion. I love how two year olds talk, interact, and reason! Just this morning I was trying to convince her to take OFF the Nemo jammies and put clothes on for the day. I picked out a Nemo shirt that was also pink. She wouldn't go for it. So I used a little reverse psychology, "I think I want to wear it. It is so cute. Sorry you can't wear it." Expecting Mylie to tell me that it was hers and she wanted to wear it, she calmly said to me, "No mommy, you can't wear it now. You have to wait till you get LITTLE!" Too cute. We are always telling her if something is too big for her she can wear it when she gets bigger.

Friday Fave Five---Feb. 27th

My pastor's wife, Robin puts this up on her blog and it's so nice to see what she writes. I figured I really need to start being verbally positive and thankful for the things in my life. So I'm posting my five favorite things that happened this week. I'm hoping I'll get to it every Friday. You can post your own as well, go to Susanne's blog and follow along. http://susannesspace.blogspot.com/

1. Being blessed with girls! I love being a mom to GIRLS! The many princess dresses, the play make-up, the jewelry, the dancing to Hannah Montana songs. These are all apart of our everyday life. This morning when we played "Pet shop" with all the stuffed animals, the girls called it the Royal Ball Pet Shop and of course had their princess dresses on!

2. Celebrating Grandparents. Tuesday we celebrated my grandfather's 79th birthday! We had a great time just being together. I'm so glad my girls know 6 of their great-grandparents and see them often. We also celebrated that my grandma's biopsy came back with the great news of "Negative!" An answered prayer!

3. Friends! Okay so this is really three rolled into one...Having friends just to help lift up my spirit is a favorite thing. Jen and Bret live right across the drive way and this week we enjoyed brownie sundaes and great conversation ON A SCHOOL NIGHT at that! I love that we can just call each other up and randomly say hey-wanna get together tonight? We are so thankful for them and thankful Jen is an excellent cook! HA! A phone call from Kerry last night to ask me a quick question, but a very needed call to catch up. I was thinking of her 10 minutes before she called. And Anita e-mailed me back, just nice to hear from her.

4. Our basketball teams. I'm so glad Matt is done with middle school basketball practice in the early mornings and he is home now morning and night. We liked watching the games but it's nice to have him around again. Another favorite thing about basketball is I got watch our high school girls win their first game of the state playoffs. They got to have a home game for their first state playoff game. And won by 30 points! Yea! They play 6 hours away this weekend for their next game---don't think I'll be making that one! Our boys did well this year too, but lost their first game in the state playoff's by 2 points. I shared in their disappointment this week as the kids in my high school classes told me the story of their discouraging loss. Felt so bad for them.

5. Rainbows. Yes, a rainbow in FEBRUARY! Yesterday morning the dark storm clouds were rolling in over the hills. Right before the storm hit our house a giant full rainbow appeared in front of the storm. And as the storm came closer and hard rain and eventually hail hit down, the rainbow actually got closer to our house. It's the closest I've ever seen a rainbow. One end of it was in the field next to our house and the other end was in the field on the other side of our house. I tried to take a picture but it was too big to even snap a shot. It was a wonderful reminder of God's promises to us. It was so perfect for the week we've had. It seems the economy, loss of jobs, etc. is really starting to affect our horse clients and little by little a few have decided to wait on getting their horses trained. We were starting to get concerned about the business. We have the clientele we need right now, but usually we have a very large spring waiting list. God's rainbow yesterday reminded me of Matthew 6:25-26-- Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink;or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? (Lord help us to be focused on you instead of ourselves!) I know that our Heavenly Father will provide the business Matt needs, it is in His hands and in His will and I'm thankful he reminds me of that through his amazing beauty---a rainbow.

And the Winner Is....

And the winner to the best dad ever goes to......Mesa and Mylie's daddy! This morning I told the girls I would make them Mickey Mouse pancakes. They were excited of course but turns out, Matt started the pancakes before I even got to the kitchen. The girls had requested horse pancakes (or "worse" as Mylie says) instead of Mickey. This is what I found as I rounded the corner into the kitchen:

Pretty neat, dad! That was sweet! He also made a cat for Mylie. (Note: decorating by mom not dad! See I helped some.) I guess if horse training doesn't work out for him there is always PANCAKE ART!

Winter Carnival....

We got to go the Winter Carnival a couple of weekends ago. We stayed with Nana and Papa and got to see Aunt Sherri and Uncle Mike. We had a fun time visiting, seeing the sculptures, and sledding. It was nice to get a way for a mini vacation (I think we were gone 24 hours!!).

Another cool one...

Dad and the girls at the Candyland ice sculpture. It was our favorite!

In Candyland with Nan and Papa!
The girls and Duke (my grandparent's dog) with their parade beads. Duke was so patient to dress up with them. At one point he had about 50 necklaces on!

Sledding with Aunt Sherri

When we went up for the Winter Carnival, we went sledding.

Aunt Sherri took us to a little hill just perfect for little ones.

Mylie had fun going down the hill with Aunt Sherri...

...but not with Dad! Do you see those big tears?

Mesa had a blast! She went down again and again and again.....

Mylie and Aunt Sherri went walking out on the frozen lake. This picture doesn't show it, but they were out there pretty far. I think that was Mylie's favorite thing about sledding! They were out there forever.

Baby Pictures...

The Princess Dress Part 2: On Tour

Okay, so the princess dress has not lost it's magic in Mylie's eyes. I thought the addiction to the dress would weaken at some point, but right now it has only gained strength. In fact she's in bed wearing it right now! I don't mind her wearing it all day and night, but there comes a point and time where I put my foot down. That place is called: PUBLIC! I personally would be a bit embarrassed going to town with Mylie in THE DRESS. But evidently, I guess I stand alone. A couple of weeks ago, my mom and I went to a lady's Mid-Winter's Breakaway through our church. Matt was "granted guardianship" over our children for the day. They were going to a client's house to deliver horses a couple hours away. When I left in the morning, Mylie was completely dressed in real clothes. "Apparently," by the time Matt was preparing to leave, the PRINCESS DRESS had magically been put on. "Apparently," to avoid tears, fits, and frustration, Matt let her wear her dream dress. When they arrived to their destination point, Matt left the girls with the wife of the horseowner in the house. I guess she commented, "Why, I've never babysat a princess before!" Matt said, Mylie just beamed and sauntered right in. I'm sure she was really wondering, "What was this child's mother thinking, putting her in a princess dress with no shoes or coat in the dead of winter?" When we got home, we had a good laugh over it and I thought that would be the end of it. OH NO.....My mom and dad went to town the next week. When she brought Mylie home, Mylie was in the PURPLE DRESS! All I could say to my mom was, "Seriousy?!" She laughed and said that my dad wasn't too fond of the idea either but it was easier to just give in.

Jen made the comment to let her wear THE DRESS to the next basketball game. Jen you might be surprised....

SURPRISE! IT'S A BOY!!

No, not us....but I gotcha didn't I!?

At about 9:30 this morning, Matt walked in the house and said, "Come outside, we've got a problem..." It didn't sound too urgent and he had a twinkle in his eye so I knew it wasn't that big of a problem. This is what he had found:

We had NO idea our Palomino mare was bred! We got her last spring and she must have been carrying that baby this whole year. She didn't even look pregnant! Matt had said last week he thought she was getting fat and he figured he'd just ride her to get some weight off. Well, the weight is gone now!!

The girls and I are so excited for our "suprise baby." It's a little baby stud colt (although eventually we'll geld him of course). I can't tell if Matt is excited. I don't think so. He just sees another mouth to feed. We are trying to get our horse herd number down--not up! We haven't bred mares for the last two years for that reason. At least he came from his very favorite horse.

The Palomino must have had it while Matt was out talking to our neighbor about 50 yards away. This morning when Matt went to feed the horse at 6:30 she hadn't had it. And while he was talking to our neighbor about 8:30/9:00 he mentioned all the horses were looking over toward the pen she was in. He didn't bother to check it out though because they weren't excited or anything but he wondered what they we're all looking at.

Mesa was so excited to say the least! She told us, "I PRAYED THAT GOD WOULD GIVE ME A BABY HORSE!! AND HE REMEMBERED!!" It was too cute. Then I asked her, "When did you pray for a baby horse?" She said, "Before Kindergarten." I quickly replied with, " Please, don't pray for a baby sister or brother!"

Here are some pictures of "Mr. Suprise" himself. He's got to be only two-three hours old. We've been calling him "Tippy," ---"Tip," ---- "T-Train" because of his tipping ear. It's cute right now and hopefully his ear won't stay that way! There are also some pictures of Matt imprinting the little guy so he gets use to human scent, etc. After about 5 minutes of it the baby was sleeping.

I also have to mention about the cats and Ginger. They have been out in the pen with them all morning. Matt moved the pair into a pen closer to our house and our pets just think it is great. In fact, you can see one of the cat's ears in one of the pictures. Ginger is a very mothering dog. We've watched her be so mothering to our kids, baby kittens, her own puppies of course, and now this baby colt. She has not left the pen where that colt is at. I looked out a little while ago and the baby colt, Ginger, and a cat was sleeping real close to one another out in the sun. Too cute! What a great suprise gift we got this morning!