Our 2nd anniversary!!

So Monday was our 2nd wedding anniversary. I love that man more than anything and more everyday!!! We have a plan to visit a different state every anniversary. Well since we really couldn't afford to do much we did our Colorado one this year:) Guess good thing we moved to this state:) Sunday we got up early and drove up through Glenwood Springs to Carbondale and drove to Redstone, marble, and went on a dirt road to Crestted Butte and then around Gunnison, Montrose and back up to I-70 and home. It was an amazingly beautiful drive to take this time of year. All the brush and aspens are changing colors and it just made it stunning. We stopped at a few of the little towns and just enjoyed the atmosphere and learned some history in marble, co. Which is where the marble for the Lincoln memorial and other federal landmarks came from. It was just nice to get away and enjoy each others company. We truly truly LOVE each other, but more than that we LIKE each other:) Now we are working on 3 years:) and have many, many, many more to go!!!! Thank you LORD for putting this man beside me in this life!!

I love aspens!!! They are just the prettiest when they change color and I love the sound as the leaves dry and clank together. So I took a TON of pics of them:)

Eric standing in the doorway of what use to be one of the 70ft. marble walls to keep fires from spreading if they were to break out at marble, CO.

on a dirt road between paonia and crested butte area.

pinnacle cliffs on the gunnison reservoir. It was just such an awesome view!

A LONG shot on a great place for us.....Maybe a home finally?

Ok so it is a HUGEEEEEEEEEEEEE long shot but we found a place listed here for 189,900. It is a 2002 hud manufactured home with 4 bedrooms and actually is really nice for a mobile home which I usually hate. But I LOVEEEEEEEE this one. It is on 35 acres. It is only about 15 minutes from erics work and a little ways out of town but not hours from everything. Now that seems like a lot to people like us from S.dakota, Nebraska:) but around here this price is UNHEARD of. Everything with 5 acres or more is averaging 299,900 or more. We have been looking and it is crazy. IT also has the most amazing views. Now with or credit and such it is prity much impossible, but GOD does great things. So we are going to atleast see if there is anything we can do. I mean if not atleast we know we tried and what we need to do to make it happen later. But I am absolutely in love already!! I know bad, bad, bad. But gotta start somewhere to see what we got to do. First we have the personal loans and then this. So we will see what happens. I am putting some pics from the website but they don't do it much justice. Just lots to work with over the next years to make it a real home for us and all the critters:) I know it is a long shot but just got try. Never know:)

The side of the house

The couple little sheds for eric storage-plus you can't see it well but a dog run that is prity good sized and actually has a door to the back part of the right shed that has a little dog house built in.

Just part of the amazing views from here. It is such a beautiful place and walking thru the junipers and sage was so nice. There is already some parts cleared and ready to make a pasture and as time goes we can improve and plant more pasture and cut trails and such. It is just such a cool piece of land in a perfect spot for us.

The simple joys in life

I have always been the most bubbly,upbeat, easing going person in life. But the last couple years have really beat me down. One thing after another, after another, after another...you get the point has taken its toll on me and more specifically my joy and attitude. I don't want to keep having that problem, life is way toooooooooooo short!!! I need to remember the simple joys.
This morning when I woke up I looked out into the pasture and seen my baby girl Shar standing there sleeping in the morning sun. I just love that horse. It is so hard to see her getting older and not to be able to ride her, show her and compete on her like the old days. I trusted this horse with my life and truly felt the most amazing peace and joy when I was riding her. So I put some treats in my pocket and walked down to love on her and spoil her. Which I haven't done enough of since I hurt my arm. It was just the perfect fall morning and her sweet soft muzzle against my hand made me smile. It made me realize how much I truly miss the horse world and being involved with horses daily. I even love cleaning stalls just to be around them. They bring a joy I can't explain and I know you horse girls understand:)
I just want to spend more time enjoying the simple. I just wish I could do more for her. But I am going to enjoy what I can do and love her. And Mr. Pringle:)
Thank you LORD for the everyday in our lives. Please help me to see it all more and to appreciate it and love it and see the joy in it all:)

cleaning up our mess and making a future

So last night I found a listing on line for a house near erics work and it had 35 acres with it. So for fun we went and looked at it. NOT a good idea because of course we really really liked it and it is actually pretty affordable for this area:) But it did really help us to decide we really need to look into things and how to go about getting our future in order. Our past is a mess full of huge mounting medical bills and a foreclosure from all of it. So it is a mess. I am an open book so I don't try and hide things and some of it was just plain sh*$ty luck and some was bad choices I am not about to blame all our trouble on life. But it is frustrating and now we find ourselves wanting to start to really build a future to have a place that is home that we feel like home. We are paying way to much in rent where we are. It was a great place at the moment as we didn't have time to go looking and be picky. But we don't want to saddle ourselves with it next year. We want to be able to put money away for a down payment. With our foreclosure it looks like it will be minimum 2 years before we can really look at anything so for now we just need to put our nose to the grindstone. And before even that we have some private loans to some that WE WANT WANT WANT to get paid back. Those are my priority and with me out with my injury and eric out with his appendix for so long that really put a damper on income for those sooner. But I don't care what it takes those got to get paid ASAP. So private loans first, emergency funds, medical bills, and such. We just want to get where we are not worrying all the time. Get our cars fixed from all their problems, have emergency money for things and the animals:), Get enough hay put away for winter, etc. We just want to be responsible and enjoy life not dread what is around the corner.
I just want to share these things to look back in a couple years and hopefully see a huge change in things in our life:)

Drastic Change!!!

Ok so I did it! I cut my hair. I will be honest that I don't know what I think of it yet. It was just so damaged from everything. I was scared to death to do it. I know why? It grows back right? Well that is what I am afraid of. First time it started to get long was when I had the gas explode on me and burn me all over and burned my hair mostly off and we had to shave it, then it started to get long and I lost most of it with all the cancer drugs, and then since it has fallen out and regrown, and fallen out and regrown because of my thyroid levels being so all over the place. I know it is just hair, but for me it helps me to feel more feminine:) Silly I know but hey. Well it was sooooooooooooo damaged and since I can't use my other arm and my husband can't put hair in a pony tail to save his life this will be easier to actually brush myself:) We will see:)

before and afters

Recovery is happening but slowly!!

Well my surgery was 10 days ago now. It is very painful and then I got pneumonia from the surgery to. So to say it has been trying and frustrating is an understatement. It is like starting all over again. No using my left arm, in a brace, lots of ice, physical therapy and 3 months till I can use it all the way. Then since my other arm was injured also and now has been my only usable arm for 2 1/2 months it is extremely painful. MY doctor says I am not allowed to use it except for basics, eating, etc. OK ya that isn't good as my house is beyond needing cleaned and is driving me CRAZY CRAZY CRAZY. He says my husband has to do everything. I know, I know every woman's dream, well not mine. I hardly even see my husband lately. He is working long, long, hours. I am not complaining by any means as we really need the income. With him being out for surgery, me being out for all this and surgery it REALLY screwed up all our income to get loans paid back and get ready for winter and all that. So now I just have to try and be not so frustrated with the mess around me:(
It is just very hard not being close to any friends and family. It makes it a big challenge. But hey that is life and I am living it as best I can:) I have a few posts I need to do but one handed typing is hard so maybe in a day or two:)

Goes to show impossible is possible-amazing barrel racer

Here is a video of an amazing girl who is paralyzed from the waste down from a car accident and is barrel racing only little over a year later. Makes you think about how much we can truly do if we put our heart and mind to it.




Description:
Amberley Snyder was paralyzed in an auto acccident. This bright young girl is a high school rodeo champion and past Utah State FFA chapter president. The daughter of ex-major league ball player Cory Snyder. She has gone to be an inspiration to many as she makes her comeback to rodeo. She is still paralyzed but is still determined to live her rodeo dream by competing in the WPRA barrel racing.

The 2011 Spanish Forks Fiesta Days Rodeo is part of the PRCA Wrangler Silver Tour series. It attracts some of the top rodeo contestants in the world.

This year's event featured both present and past world champions along with many of the current leaders in the world championship standings for the PRCA.

Its official.....Surgery!

So I went to the orthopedic doctor today and he says the surgery will be done next Wednesday the 7th. I am not happy about surgery but if it fixes my arm then I would be happy. So hopefully it all goes well and hopefully we don't have any complications with the nerves. I wish they would have just done it sooner, but with Workman's comp they have to prove they really tried without the surgery. I will have the surgery and then start all over with the brace and physical therapy. I won't be able to do my regular stuff for about 3 months:( But we will see how it all goes.
I am up for a full time opening in the streets department at work but I am really hoping that I can still get it since I won't be able to be fully useful for 3 months. We will have to see. It would be awesome if I could get the job as it would be full time, decent pay and BENEFITS!!! Yes that would change a lot for us.
I just want to get back on track of trying to get back on top of things financially. We were doing really well and had hoped by today that we would have some personal loans paid and a few bills but with my arm and reduced workers comp salary and then Eric's appendicitis and no work and then reduced work that really gave us a punch in the gut. So hopefully this will be the start of trying to get back where we need to be. We have had some very very awesome people help us out and it makes me very frustrated and sad not to have it paid back and settled by now. So LORD please help us with that:)
I hope everyone has an awesome Labor day weekend. I have my mom, dad and grandma driving in tomorrow and staying till Tues am. So it should be a weekend of fun:)