Finally a house update!!

So it's been a while since there has been much to blog about with the house... Slowly a little more siding got put on here and there. And finally there was a huge push to finish the front with our scaffolding leaving. We scrambled to get as much done as we could but the day it was leaving we still had a couple more hours of work. Little did brother Sam know this when he called Keith up with some car questions and got roped in to help in exchange for Keith's car knowledge.

And with that (and aside from 3 peices) the front is done. I was about to have a heart attach seeing this and Anne you might have too, however we both aren't widows yet!

 

Then for Christmas my dad "gave" us a back yard fence! He would provide the lumber and do the work unless we wanted to do it ourselves, but with everything else we have going on we more than willingly took him up on his work. So as the new year has come in he has come over a few days a week for a few hours and started getting a fence up. What is nice is that from the papers we got in buying the house it gave the fence laws on set back from the road and we are actually able to increase our back yard quite a bit! Awesome. And we also can have our exsisting "fence" up while we put up the new one so we aren't completely open to the world. The house is looking like something and now we are baracading our selves in! When its all said in done the people who buy our house will have NO IDEA how horrible it was.

 

Putting in the posts.

Making them straight.

SOOOO much more room!!

45 degree angle around the corner.

Some latice type stuff on the inside to let a vine grow up easy or perhaps certain veggies.

Working away with Dio and Ozzy supervising.

 

 

wrapping up '12

So 2012 ended pretty crappy buuuuuuttttt there were a few good weeks before. Since its been forever since I last blogged I'm just going to do a picture entry, please enjoy =)

I love this little smirk 

Sleeping baby girl, she had grabbed that toy in falling asleep.

She's too cute

Smoothies with my friend Brianna 

Dollar tree had balloons

Girls at a crazy decorated house, it was FREEZING

They had a donation box for PGE and other costs, very smart and funny

She loved the decorations

Myra brought home some ginger bread kits from a relief society meeting, Naomi loved it!

Playing in the rain in our new rain coat and boots!

Sadly we didn't get a picture there but we went over to Napa to drop off some fish and the girls got to see Uncle Dave and Aunt Doe, Cousin Ashley and Grandma Pauline

Merry Christmas!

We had made some venison sausage for my dad using Kyle's recipe, turned out great!

Merry Christmas Eve!

My parents came over for Christmas Eve dinner and Naomi got to open her presents from them. 

From "Papa" 

From "Nana"

Helping make Christmas morning waffles on our new iron

Look what Santa brought!

Christmas beanie

Naomi wanted to sleep with her balloon, I was going to let her play with in for a minute but she just fell asleep, really cute.

Paige loves watching Naomi when ever she is near and Naomi is a FANTASTIC big sister!

Oh hey cutie!

Protective Ozzy

Naomi loves being near her.

Love them

In her big girl bed now, she does great and even picked out her own sheets! 

Us snuggling before bed <3 best way to end the day. 

So we've been up to quite a bit. Naomi is the best big sister and Paige is a great little baby. We definitely hope the new year brings better things for us than new years day brought. 

ringing in the new year

Looking for a distraction I go on Facebook this morning with status updates of joy and great comings and hopes for 2013 for pretty much every status. I get to start the new year 9 hours in watching my beautiful horse die in front of my eyes. Happy freaking new year......

Backing up less than 24 hours

At just before 11am December 31st my dad calls says Fancy is down and had been for a while the way she was covered in mud and just lying there. He gets her up and comes in to call me. We decided to have him bring her over from the back pasture to the barn. I rush and get Naomi and myself dressed in record time. I was just changing Paige as he calls again she fell and wont get up. EFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF. I made there in record time, threw the girls at my mom, threw on rubber boots and most literally ran out to her. She was down, shivering a bit, breathing heavy. we tried to get her up and she wouldn't. called the vet who had just gone to lunch but was going to call me back asap. She nosed her stomach, ok so were probably dealing with colic (a blockage in the intestine or worse case her intestine got twisted around its self) My dad and I kept trying and finally after a solid hour down she got up. We immediately walked her to the barn and she was doing ok. I kept her walking assuming colic and not wanting her to go down. Vet called me and said he could be there in an hour and a half. Miss F was getting done walking so we went backwards. We went in tight circles we did everything to keep her up. It was getting almost impossible and the vet showed up! Hallelujah!!! Gave her some pain meds and a sedative. Listened to her heart rate, gut, flushed water and some oil in her and did a rectal exam all leading to twisted gut. He left me with a pain killer and a sedative said to call and if he didn't hear from me he'd call when his shift was over at 8. We crossed our fingers for a miracle and said good bye. She stayed up and when he called right at 8 he said give her the pain meds before I go to bed and see what shes like in the morning. I didn't know what to hope for. Since it happened once she can colic again and that is just no fun especially when I don't live there and have the 2 girls. Maybe it would be better to... Nope just go with the flow. Don't say or think anything and let her tell us what to do. Went down and gave them around 1045, she looked tired, she was shaking, unsteady on her feet, blood shot eyes and cringing at my slightest touch. Say it with me now, EFFFFFFFFFF.......
Woke up January 1st 2013 She was still up, Keith and my dad very optimistic only because she was up. She was shaking, distressed and you could see the dozen times she had been rolling that night. She was pacing pacing because standing she was too unsteady, she was in pain and she was rolling a lot with paper white gums and tounge. I ran up got the other pain med/sedative for her and my phone. Gave the drugs and was leaving a message for our vet when the sedative, which should still allow her to stand, took affect and she literally fell to the ground. She then started to have a seizure with me DESPERATELY trying to get a hold of a vet to come put her down but as I finally got a hold of one, not mine but his partner at the clinic, she was gone, right before my eyes. After 15 years she was gone at 22 years old. She is great. She waited for me, just like my perfect J did.

So yes my favorite holiday is tainted, 2012 ended crappy and 2013 started even worse.

What's ironic is as I'm leaving the Of Monsters and Men song Mountain Sound came on and these are the lyrics: Hold your horses now/ We sleep until the sun goes down/ Through the woods we ran/ Deep into the mountain sound

Forever dedicated to Miss Fancy Poco Diamond 7-28-90 to 1-1-13