Life

Ahh, I am tired but very happy in spirit, if you know what I mean.  We (Sarah and I) just got back from some sewing time with some friends.  They were wanting to learn to make a quilt so we went over and had a quilting day.  (Really it was just a good excuse for a chat!)  :)  It has made me appreciate all the work that goes into a scrap quilt.  When you do a quilt that you buy the material, you can easily whip it out in a day.  With the scrap quilt it is taking a lot longer because it just does.  You have to match up the different materials, cut out enough material for one to four blocks, then do it again.  Plus you have to sew it together!  :)  That's alright.  Just another excuse to get together!

We have started up a drama club!!!  It is called "A Bunch of Characters".  :D  Mom came up with the name herself.  She is the director, I am assistant director and Sarah, Josh, and Caleb are acting.  We have a nice group coming together with some great talent.  I am really looking forward to everything.  It is going to be a "Bunch" of fun!!!

We are gearing up for the homeschool convention- we do the registration for it.  I am looking forward to that as well.  It is something I really enjoy and one of the highlights of my year.  :)  The only bummer about it is that I don't get to go listen to the speakers.  And there are a bunch of good ones that come!!!!!  I do get to go to a few and we buy the CD's of the convention, but it just isn't the same.  (But I would much rather do registration.)   So if you come to the CAPE convention you will get to see me!!! Haha!

Buttons is curled up with me on the bed.  She would like to play with my hands as I am typing, but it creates unusual words and scratches up my hands so I don't let her. :)  We have been missing Tinker for a while now.  I miss her a lot, and I feel sorry for Button as she doesn't have her buddy.  I know animals don't have feelings, but I am sure they enjoy the playmate.  She seems pretty happy, and we enjoy grabbing her and hugging on her for a while.  She likes to play so we grab a string to play with her and she is pretty happy. 

How's that for a major catch-up?  Things are starting to fall into a "normal" after the busyness of December.  How is your January going?
Blessings,
Rebecca

The Mom Song

This is a really fun song!  Finally, someone writes a song about the hardest working people I know- MOMS!

You're the Boss

The Driver

The Ultimate Surviver

A Doctor

A Cooker

Your Man thinks Your a Looker

If you work all day and bu you never get paid

You're a Mom!

This song is by a group called Go Fish.  They have some other songs that are neat as well...

Winter on a Ranch

It is New Mexico, so winters here are really not bad.  It has been getting pretty cold- cold enough to freeze the ice so that we   Joshua has to go break ice.  It can get pretty thick too.  Anywhere from an inch to half a foot.  Try lifting that out of the water after breaking it....  Not fun after the fourth tank.  :)   Poor Josh was getting REALLY chapped hands even with all the gloves he was putting on.  He didn't complain until we started noticing.  We found a pair of long gloves (up your arm) that are made of PVC plastic- or something like that- to protect him from the ice and cold water.  Now his hands stay protected through all the abuse. :)

Here are a few pictures from last year;

Of course, when you have snow you have to take the opportunity to play in it!!

Joshua breaking ice while Daisy "helps" warm it up and cool her off.

Loading a big hay bale onto the back of the truck while Daisy supervises.  Them cows eat a lot, ya know.

Our cousin and Josh feeding hay to the Mommas.  Amazing how those cows hear the feed truck. 

Even more fun to watch grown cows run!!!

Although it is nothing to crow about...

It is a lot of fun on the Ranch, and we pray daily that God continues to let us live it.

Love in Christ,

Rebecca

Still to come, The Case of the Mad Momma

Secretariat

 "Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said..."

"Do you give the horse his might?

Do you clothe his neck with a mane?

Do you make him leap like the locust?

His majestic snorting is terrible.

He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength;

He goes out to meet the weapons.

He laughs at fear and is not dismayed;

And he does not turn back from the sword.

The quiver rattles agains him,

The flashing spear and javelin.

With shaking and rage he races over the ground;

And he does not stand still at the voice of the trumpet.

As often as the trumpet sounds he says, 'Aha!'

He scents the battle from afar,

And thunder of the captains, and the war cry."

Job 38:1, 39:19-25

The above scripture was the starting line to one of the best movies I have seen in a while.

Josh, Mom and I went to it the other night.  I think it is on my list of favorites.  It is about Secretariat, one of the greatest race horses of all times.  There is yet a horse to beat his record. 

He was a champion of champions.

   

 It was one that just touches the right chord in your heart and makes you want to sob for the sheer joy of watching this animal run.  The director did an excellent job of letting the movie grow, and letting the emotions of the moment rule.  It was beautiful.   

If you haven’t gone and watched it at the theatre, it is worth the $20 to go and buy it.  Yes, it was that good. 

It was very clean.  One place where there is a bit of rude humor, although not bad. 

One of the things I took away from the movie was that God created this wonderful animal that was a one-of-a-kind animal.  But it still needed an owner who was willing to persevere and still continue on through rough spots, and who would believe in Big Red and be beside him to get him to where he needed to be to “show off God”.   The animal in itself was amazing, but it needed a human to get it to the races.  To train him, feed him, take care of him when he was sick.  

It was excellent!  Absolutely beautiful!  I thoroughly enjoyed it.  Anyway, go see it.  :grin:

Love in Christ,

Rebecca

The owner and Secretariat;

The Real owner and the actress who played the owner;

Some quotes from the movie;

"He leans back against the starting gate like he's in a hammock in the Caribbean"

"The owner hates the attention but the horse loves it."

"That woman scares me."

"How much did you pay for your hat?"

"That horse just loves to run."

Other Page

Someone on another blog did this so I thought I would "steal" their idea.  I have added another page up at the top for all the blogs that I recomend.  Go check it out! 
~Rebecca

Photography

We had a nice, quick blizzard this afternoon.  Typical NM weather.  It snowed hard for half an hour then was finished.  We could hardly see the barn.  It was quite charming. 

Anyway, I went out afterwards and brought my camera along. 

The Kittens came along, but just for some fun in the snow.

One of the trees by our house.

The Lilac bush by the barn.

A few shots of the corrals that didn't turn out quite like I wanted them to, so I turned them black and white. 

Well, what do you think?   Which is the best?

~Rebecca

Isaiah 42:5-13

I really enjoyed this beautiful passage.  Read it as if God were really standing and talking to you.  He is Mighty and Awesome!!!  I serve a Righteous God.  Who do you Serve?

Thus says God the Lord,
Who created the heavens and stretched them out,
Who spread out the earth and its offspring,
Who gives breath to the people on it
And spirit to those who walk in it,
"I am the Lord. I have called you in righteousness,
I will also hold you by the hand and watch over you,
And I will appoint you as a covenant to the people,'As a light to the nations,
To open blind eyes,
To bring out prisoners from the dungeon
And those who dwell in darkness from the prison.

"I am the LORD, that is My name;
I will not give My glory to another,
Nor My praise to graven images.
"Behold, the former things have come to pass,
Now I declare new things;
Before they spring forth I proclaim them to you."

Sing to the LORD a new song,
Sing His praise from the end of the earth!
You who go down to the sea, and all that is in it.
You islands, and those who dwell on them.
Let the wilderness and its cities lift up their voices,
The settlements where Kedar inhabits.
Let the inhabitants of Sela sing aloud,
Let them shout for joy from the tops of the mountains.
Let them give glory to the LORD
and declare His praise in the coaselands.

The LORD will go forth like a warrior,
He will arouse His zeal like a man of war.
He will utter a shout, yes, He will raise a war cry.
He will prevail against His enimies.

Love in Christ,
Rebecca