Possibly some big changes coming in our lives

Well we may have some big changes coming in our lives soon. I will have to wait and see how things work out in the next week and then update y'all. It has been another trying year, especially with these arm injuries, but I have spent a lot of time lately seeing the hand of GOD even in the bad. We have missed ranching like crazy but if Eric had his appendicitis attack and his hernia we would have been in even more trouble not being able to work on a ranch. I can see so much of GOD even in the bad times. I know in my heart to trust him it is just my darn head that wants to stress and worry. I am REALLY working on that. Thank you to everyone who has stuck by us and prayed for us, it has meant more than I could ever say or write!!!! Sometimes when I say things they don't come out right but I definitely am thankful for all my blogger friends who have commented, prayed and just listened. So I will update when I know more:) I Know vague..... but guess you will have to keep checking in:)

More surgeries

Well Eric will have to have surgery on the 28th to repair two hernias. They found the one when he was in surgery for his appendix. I know, I know why not fix it then? That was our question to but with all the lawsuits they don't do that stuff anymore. So now he has to go through another surgery. Eric is beyond hating of hospitals and doctors so this is not a good thing for him. He tends to pass out and have seizures at hospitals so we are praying all will go well and that won't happen. So we are just praying it will all go well and no complications. He will be off work for two weeks and then light duty for couple weeks so it is going to be a challenge for us. But GOD is good so all will be fine.
Then when my left arm is doing better and can bare weight, the doctor said I will probably have to have surgery on the right arm. So we shall see.

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.




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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:)

HOPE for the first time in a long time

So I just have to say that today the LORD really spoke to me. I have been praying and praying to hear from him. I have been praying for so many things lately...Hope, strength, patience, peace, no fear, direction in our lives and so many many other things. Today hope was sent. It was sent in the form of a Dr. Dobson broadcast. It was a broadcast done from crystal peaks youth ranch in sisters Oregon. This is a ranch I have mentioned before and is very dear to my heart. This is the place I got hope another time when I really needed it most!!!!

My whole life I have just craved animals. They bring sooooo much joy to me and they were always there for me when I needed them. They never hurt me like people did or if they did it wasn’t on purpose. They were my saving grace. But it was horses that had something soooo very very special. I felt like everything was right with the world when I was on them. I had a dream for so long of rescuing horses and then helping kids who had been in bad situations like I had. It was in 2006 that I found out about crystal peaks and went for one of their information clinics on how to run a ranch like this. But I had no idea that the LORD would speak to me in such a big way that time. I was feeling so hopeless at that time as I was in a very abusive marriage that had prity much taken everything away from me and where I wasn’t even allowed to worship GOD in the ways I wanted or needed to. I prayed the whole way there that GOD would show me how to make my life better. Well this is what he showed me.......
　

　
OK so you are thinking that looks like a skinny old horse with a bunch of paint on him and that is exactly what it is!!!!! But no he is even more than that. This is JOB, he was of course named after job from the bible and that is because he had been through such terrible things. But on one of the breaks I was leaning on the fence watching all the horses, crying as I just felt so terrible I was praying GOD please talk to me, please say anything...and at that very moment from the bottom of the pasture this broken, boney horse who normally slowly, and achily made his way around the pasture looked up at me and ran to me at the fence. He came right up and put his nose in my face. I started to pet him and at that moment on his neck plain as day and spoke right from the LORD was the word HOPE. As you can imagine immediately broke down crying and job just stayed and let me cry my tears all over his beautiful dusty face. It was then I knew GOD was always with me. I held that day sooooo dear to me and lately I have let things fade that memory and I won’t do that again!!!

I am not sure what the LORD has for me. I hope it would be to work at or run a rescue program and to change lives but I just know I want my life to be about him. I want to spend everyday of my life seeing GOD work in others and see people come to him and be saved. I don’t just want my life to be about money and things. I don’t want to die wishing I had done more for him and others. I am going to be praying fervently about this. I want more than anything for my life to change for him in big ways!!!!

Here are the links for the broadcast if anyone is interested and the crystal peaks website. They are amazing, humble people who are truly devoted to the LORD and helping others. Amazing story of what they have done through the LORD!!!

http://www.crystalpeaksyouthranch.org/
http://www.myfamilytalk.com/index.php/2010/07/20/crystal-peaks-youth-ranch-i/
http://www.myfamilytalk.com/index.php/2010/07/21/crystal-peaks-youth-ranch-ii/