I Heart Faces - Hearts

This week's theme at I Heart Faces is of course, hearts!  Inspired by some of their other submissions, I grabbed my little Valentine and did some heart pictures real quick in front of the bathroom window...I actually had a hard time picking just one.  She sure has my heart!

 

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Catch Up Day

It's a bleary, cold, snowy, wet, dreary day.  Luckily, the snow is already melting.  But since it pretty much nixes any horse riding, it's become a good day to catch up on some blogger posts, catch up on some paperwork for taxes, and catch up on some napping in front of the fire!

Video of the Week - Week 36 - Trailer Loading

And if you needed the proof - here is Ava trailer loading Tinkerbell.  Now, I have to put in a disclaimer that this is not perfect - ideally Ava would stay outside the trailer Tinkerbell would load herself.  However, because Tinkerbell is so willing and goes easily inside the trailer, we're starting here.  And it gives Ava some confidence going forward as well...

Project 365 - Days 247-253

Day 247 - September 4 

Rosie chillaxin' on the patio...she's so cute!

Day 248 - September 5

Starting to get all my documents together for our home study so we can go get her...

Day 249 - September 6

Rosie loves to race around our property

Day 250 - September 7

I never get tired of our sunrises and sunsets.

Day 251 - September 8

Amelia trying out her Daddy's motorcycle - this girl likes to go FAST!

Day 252 - September 9

Out for a little jaunt on Butters - she's learning how to balance and hold on at the same time ;-)

Day 253 - September 10

After the fire that got a little too close for comfort, I decided we needed to keep the trailer out in order to practice our trailer loading more often.  Ava did a great job with Tinkerbell!

Video of the Week - Week 35 - Fire!

While I've already blogged about the fire and posted this video, I wanted to post it again for posterity's sake...this is the fire that was less than a mile from our house...

Project 365 - Days 240-246

Day 240 - August 28

I was taking some shots of the gorgeous sunset when this hummingbird flew right in front of the camera!  I was able to shoot the picture before he flew away - and this was taken with my iPhone too!  I was impressed with the fast shutter speed!

Day 241 - August 29

My beloved horse, Tommy.  I got so lucky when I bought him! (Though I didn't know it at the time...)

Day 242 - August 30

One of the two greatest gifts I've received in my life were from my father-in-law.  The first was a gas powered heater for my tack room in the winter, and the other was this portable swamp cooler for the barn in the summer!  Neither heats nor cools efficiently nor a big space but it takes the edge off the heat or cold!  While it wasn't on at the time, even the cats know cooler air comes out of here and I think MeiWah was hoping to get some...

Day 243 - August 31

The day of the big fire that threatened our property...

Day 244 - September 1

This was the day we first saw our little peanut's face for the first time!!  I can't show her publicly yet - not until final approval from China but I can assure you - she is a super cute girl!

Day 245 - September 2

Ava and Trinity joking around with a skeleton at Trinity's Daddy's work...

Day 246 - September 3

This rooster lives at our friends' house - the friends who let us bring all of horses to their property when that fire threatened our house earlier in the week.  Anyway, I liked the silhouette in the early morning sunlight...