Say a Prayer

My mom just called me and told me that one of my cousins and her two children were in a car accident last night. She is in Bozeman with a broken neck, broken collar bone, broken ribs, broken pelvic bone and punctured lungs. She went into surgery today on her neck. She was thrown from the vehicle. Her 12 year old son was not injured but he was the one who had to call 911. Kids can be so brave when they need to be. Her youngest was also injured and is at the hospital in Bozeman. So please keep her and her family in your prayers today and in your thoughts.

MISS YOU MICCA

I am SOOOO sad that my new virtual friend who I can't wait to meet when she comes to visit Brooke deleted her page. BOOOOOO! ;(

B-Bar

We went xc skiing at the B-Bar Ranch on Saturday. It was tons of fun. So far I have only skied in the fields so I was a little nervous. But SO glad that we went. B-Bar is way south of town up Tom Miner Basin. Grif actually did a whole bunch of work up there one season when he was working with a design/build firm while still in school so it was really fun for him to see everything that they had done up there and show it all to me. We spent the morning on the easiest trail up there. I only fell about four times. Grif even filmed me going down into and back out of a creek bottom thinking that I would fall at some point but........I didn't!! He didn't catch any of my falls on the camera this time.

I'm coming slowly but surely....... I tend to trail pretty far behind so G has to stop and wait for me a lot.

G taking a rest in the Anderson Cabin. We saw HUGE animal trail going up the hillside behind.... bear maybe??

What a cute little cabin. The snow was up past my knees outside the door.

So the B-Bar has these amazing work horses that they use all over the ranch. I keep forgetting what they are called but I know that they have the work punch in the name so I will call them punches. They are incredibly thick with huge hoofs. They remind me of some sort of prehistoric lizard with their thick necks and smaller heads. We spent a lot of time checking them out.

After skiing we decided to check out a sand bar on the river off of the bridge. One that we have never been to. We found lots of great rocks and even crossed paths with another old rock hound out there. Fun day.

And what did my bro do this weekend???.........................Fished of course. No sure why he looks so angry. Looks like a pretty good day to me.

Weekend Fun

I had a 3 day weekend full for things that I usually don't get to do. Saturday I spent the afternoon volunteering at the Livingston soup kitchen Loaves and Fishes with my Manaia group. We served 58 plates of yummy hot Sloppy Joes to some hungry and very nice people. Then I went to my cousin Alishas house. My other cuz Ruby and her bf Derrik were in town from Missoula. (Ruby and my little sis live together) Derrik brought his guitar hero game and I AM REALLY GOOD!!!!! Add guitar hero and whatever other game thing it is that you need to play guitar hero to my list of things that I want. Sunday was the Big Brothers Big Sisters 'Winter FUn Day' at Mountain Sky Guest Ranch up Big Creek in Paradise Valley. My tiny and I enjoyed snowshoeing and coloring and of course food and had a great time. The snow up there was a couple of feet deep at least and it was quite comical to watch the little kids try to tredge through it. Everyone had a really great time. I also did a couple of rund down the drift and back on my xc skiis. Grif went to Point of Rocks on Sunday to look for rocks. (We just got a vibrating flat lap polisher.....tell you about that later, very exciting) Then we had a nice dinner at Rib and Chop after we both got home. I did not work on Monday. (Presidents Day) Grif of course did work. He had to go on a site visit to a project up the west boulder so I went with him to check it out. It is a beautiful little guest cabin (900-1,000 sq/ft) near a main house that sits RIGHT on the river. So we had a nice afternoon drive in the company truck and got to check out all the places back there and talk. Now back to work today and off to do tobacco compliance checks all throughout Madison County. Long drive but beautiful country.

VISION

In Manaia we all write vision statements for ourselves. This gives us an opportunity to really think about where it is that we would like our lives to take us and what path will get us to that place. This is mine.
I am a dependable fortress of love for myself and others. My Search for truth and passionate hope guide me in life.
As I am faced with challenges in life as well as simple choices and decisions I am able to think about my vision statement and choose the road that I feel is most in line with what my vision of who I am and what I want my life to look like is.

Love My Valentine

I really had the BEST Valentines Day ever yesterday. First of all, Grif is really great every day. But yesterday I woke up to roses and new boots!! What girl doesn't LOVE a new pair of boots right? These are no ordinary boots either. Not the kind of boots that I have ever really owned. But I really LOVE them!! They are beautiful. And not to mention perfect for practicing our dance moves. Now that dance class is over we really need to keep practicing or we are going to forget all the we learned. Check them out.....................................

I surprised Grif with new subscriptions to his favorite magazines (Rock & Gem and Dwell) and a new Sake set that is supposed to be romantic because the three pieces fit snugly together like they love eachother. Very Cute.I thought that we should just stay home and I would cook us dinner but Grif was insistant that we go out and I not have to cook because I always cook dinner. So we went down the road to Pine Creek where there was live music (we thought we were going to be able to bust out our dance moves there but the music was more lounge like...very nice but not good for dancing). We will have to find some music this weekend to dance to...I have to try out my new dancing boots! We had a perfect dinner and went home and practiced our dance moves in the livingroom like we always do. So much fun. Grif is the greatest!

Happy Valenitnes Day friends