Uh-Oh!

After two years of guessing and second guessing... Dusty has given birth to a little gray stud colt! Several months back I told Megan that if/when Dusty foaled, regardless of gender, the foal will be named "Uh-Oh."

So...without any further delay (thanks FaceBook for screwing up...again!), lil Uh-Oh is here! More pictures to come!

Equine Event

Saturday was AWESOME to the max! I need to note that I am now an expert (well, almost) at backing up the livestock trailor!

A sweet man who, honestly, tried to help put the wrong light hook-up on the trailor and since I refused to pull the thing (again) without lights, I backed the thing up in Mom and Dad's front yeard for him to swap out the hook-up. Then for some reason Megan drove the truck and trailor to Grandpa's house (when her horse is at Mom and Dad's...). Again, I backed it up perfectly!

Got to where Megan's group was gathered - they had enough room to turn around, thank goodness! Parked at Dollar General, still didn't have to back up! YAY! Then, Mom and I see a family from church and the mom went on to tell us about how her 16 year old daughter barely made it to Woodville from Ivanhoe to ride and she wasn't sure how she'd get the horse back home and that all the numbers her daughter's group gave her are full or not going in that direction. Made me kind of think she wasn't going to ask, but wanted us to offer to take her horse home. Fine with me...really. I just needed to know if there was a place to turn around. And I meant "turn around" not "back up." "Sure, sure! Plenty of room to turn around." Good! I have nothing else to do, really. I'll take ya home.

Megan's horse Fancy is...funny...particular...kind of a dork! We put up the divider and wait for the girl to ride up on her horse. WOW! BIG HORSE! Poor boy...he barely fit, semi-comfortably. Get to their house...oh, there's room to turn around, but "stuff" every where in the way... By stuff, I mean: glass, tin, and other sharp and big objects! Backing up it is!

I did AWESOME! Again!

Mom needs to pick up her baby donkey on the way home. I know they have a circle driveway - easy peasy!

The baby they've been working with for a couple of weeks...?? Turns out, not so working with her...at all. No skills what so ever! Though, she did allow us to put a rope on her once she was hemmed up in the small stall.

Backing up...again. Down a hill surrounded by buildings, trees, stumps, and other obstacles. But you know what?! I did it! Backed up to her shoot and got that baby donkey loaded and went on home.

And to wrap up the awesome backing up...I backed up the trailor perfectly straight where the trailor goes when no one is using it!

I. Am. Amazing. Just saying...

Ain't it Great? Pearl is 8!

Excuse the picture, she refused to be still...
Could have been the mosquitos, though. :)



My sweet little first born turns 8 today! How times flies! (Cliche', I know Mr. Hall!)

Time Out!

Just to mention something funny...

I was blessed to keep my 2 1/2 year old nephew, Lindon, while his parent's were with his sister, Claire, in the hospital.

Lindon and I tease each other constantly. SOMEONE, name with held *cough*megan*cough*, taught him that I don't like throw up and to be tickled and he'll make throw up noises or tickle me. And I'll grab his B (blanket) and say, "My B!" And he'll tell me, "No! My B!"

When I had him I told him to, "Go to time out! Forever!" We giggled and hugged and got sugars and had a great time! The next day I was teasing him and wasn't going to let him have chocolate milk. Know what that little booger told me?! You guessed it, "Time Out! 'ever!"

What a toot!

Up Above The World So High!

Sunday night was an amazing night! I had sticky fingers for my Grandpa's old fiddle and asked him if I could drag it out from the back of the closet. (Not so) suprisingly, he allowed us to!!

He let Megan and me "fiddle" with it (hahahahaha!) for a time then taught us to listen to the notes being played as we drew the bow over the strings. And he taught us/we taught ourselves to play Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.



Watching his face light up as he saw our faces light us as we got each note correct was beyond words! For the first time, I'm sad to say, in a long time, I saw him completely happy! And I do have to mention that I know for a fact that Grandma was in that room with us, if not many more family members who have passed on, listening to our little "jam" (if it can be called that) session.

Next lesson ----> we'll learn Maiden's Prayer, one of Grandpa's favorite. Then, he'll teach me to play In The Pines and Megan will learn a song of her choice.

Though Grandpa is a cause of anxiety in my life, he sure is a blessing in my life as well. More of a blessing! Much more of a blessing that a burden! Much more! I do love him!

Solve, Part 2

Thanks to the Quadratic Formula (that I always seem to forget about...) the problem I had trouble with can now be solved. And could have been solved in last semester's class. 95% of the time I forget about this never-fail formula.

Since I can't write it out as it should appear, you'll have to discern it is written.

The Quadratic Formula:

(-b +/- *the square root of* b^2 - 4(a)(c)) / 2(a)

The (so far) answer we had then was -3(a^2+2a+11)=0

First, you'll take the -3 and simplify it: -3=0. Um, nope! So that eliminates that.

Then, you'll take the remaining: a^2+2a+11. To fill in the polynomial in the formula we know that a=1, b=2 and c=11. Use those numbers and fill in the blanks.

(-2 +/- *the square root of* 2^2-4(1)(11)) / 2(1)

That simplifies into, (try to keep up): (-2 +/- *the square root of* -40) / 2

Simplify the square root of -40 and you'll get: -2 +/- 2i *the square root of* 10 / 2

And all that will simplify down to: -1 +/- i *square root of* 10

Any mathematicians need to correct me? Please feel free to do so, because I'm still not 100% positive this is correct.

Four Months Left...

Give or take about four months and my little brother will be leaving for the MTC in Provo to go on a mission! ...to the Philppines!!! Holy Smokes!! So excited and yet so very... excited! :)