Nat King Cole - "There Will Never Be Another You"

How's the New Year Going...

OK... things are chugging along. So far so good on the home front. The snow drifts are still here, it hasn't warmed up enough for those to go away although we may be up to 50*F on Friday so it will be muddy muddy muddy around here! School started back up for our daughter today. Unfortunately she broke a back molar today chewing gum?!? I see a dental appt in her near future, which is doable now because hubby has dental insurance YAY!!! It is odd, but hubby pointed it out that ...every time he gets dental insurance our daughter has something happen with her teeth??? She is due for a cleaning so we'll get her in for that & a regular check up. Our son goes back to Job Corp this week... it is bitter sweet because he will be away. But also good for him to out in the world.

Changed the color of the print from white to black. A friend, Mel, let me know it was hard to read. I had thought it was just because my eyes were tired when I changed everything but nope... it was hard to see. Let me know if there is anything else.

New look for the New Year!

OK... I decided to freshen up my blog for the NEW YEAR! What do you think? I wanted something with Appaloosas but unfortunately I couldn't find one that specific but I did like this horse one the best out of the selections. I will see how it "fits" for a couple weeks. May be later I'll get creative & learn how to make one up myself with our Appys... we'll see. ☺

Nothing special planned for New Years, staying home where it is warm & safe. We've got LOTS of snow drifts out there thanks to the arctic blast that was here yesterday. Thank goodness it was gone by this morning. Wonder how long the snow will be here? Is it Spring yet?!?

Happy New Year all!!!!

Here's to a FANTASTIC new year!!!

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Screeching halt ... HOME SWEET HOME

Well... after many sleepless nights, moody days, some nightmares & weird dreams we have come to a decision. We are putting our move to Florida on an indefinite hold. When we moved here to our dream ranch we said THIS would be our LAST move EVER!!! The thought of packing up all our stuff, cleaning, the drive there...UGH!!! Not anything I feel up to tackling any time soon. I have been absolutely sick to my stomach at the thought of not having Gypsy & Cheyenne, our beloved Appys! My daughter & I swore we would never re-home them and it has truly been bothering us at the thought of having to do that. Always wondering if they were ok & being taken care of. Well we do not have to wonder any more. We are staying here on our 40 acre ranch out on the Eastern Plains of Colorado. I have been looking at property in Florida since October & even have 2 different Realtors and my FIL also looking and NO ONE can find a place comparable to our ranch. The largest place I found has only 5 acres and that house is SMALLER than our current home! It seriously just isn't doable with all our things and all our critters. We'd be pretty much starting out totally new... new house, new neighbors, new job (if we could find one), only the in-laws that we don't really know. I have a few people that I've met on Facebook that live in Florida but we do not "know" them personally. It is just way too much stress that hubby and I really don't want to deal with. Things are getting better for us here and we love it on our ranch, all the fresh air, space and no BS unless we allow it around. Cut ties with the idiots and life is good now. We have some awesome neighbors/friends here too. ...we are home sweet home! Smith Rescue Ranch is our home =)

The BLAHS

Well... it's Winter once again here on the eastern plains of Colorado. With that comes freezing temps, howling winds and just a general grumpy demeanor in everyone here! We just do NOT like Winter any more!

We have decided we want OUT of Colorado! We are spending one last Winter here so we cannot say later that we miss Colorado and Winter. Come Spring 2011 we will not be living in Colorado any more! That being said we decided we want a warm climate.... Hawaii is lovely but there is only so much you can do on an island & moving there would be too costly getting everything over there. We have decided on moving to Florida! My husband was born in Pensacola & his Dad, step mom, and other family members are there too. We have been house hunting and there are a lot of homes available. We have a few months until we are going so we don't have to be in a rush to get a place & can be a bit picky so it has been an ongoing project house hunting.

The kids are getting excited about moving to a new place & we adults are more than ready to get out of this miserable cold.

I will attempt to keep writing about this process but I have not been very good at blogging every day. I will try to do it at least once a week. =)

Beaches, sunshine & ocean here we come soon! woohoooooooooooooooooooooooooo