Well, just to let you know, I didn't get paid for those two days I took to go see Jace & the family in Oklahoma.  Its a really big mess up that I'm sure I'll spill in a later entry, because I know it will happen again...hopefully not in the near future.  I don't know if I can take another short check.  That was two VERY short ones right in a row.

Anyway, here are some updated pictures of Claire and Jace...

Aren't they the cutest babies ever!  Jace has already grown soooooo much and Claire doesn't even look newborn anymore~  She looks like a little girl!  That Jace, he looks like a happy baby.  Just having a ball... 

Sarah & Claire were supposed to go up with Mom this weekend, but Dave Ramsey (see his new book "The Total Money Makeover") said it wasn't a good idea.  I know they're only babies, but I would love to have seen them together.  They're reactions to one another.  I know the bond between them will be, and I'm sure were in the pre-existence, very strong. 

I just hope more will follow...soon.  It looks like at least until November 2007 (when LaVoie comes home from mission) before the thought of just dating will come to mind for me.  And Megan and Jarom are still young.  So, if Kevin & Sarah or Heber & Ashlei don't have another, these two babies will be much older than the rest of the grandkids!

That'll just help that relationship between the two even more, though. 

Horses are great.  Lucky Joe has scratched most of his hairs from the top of his tail again.  It seems to happen just at the Fall season now, instead of Spring and Fall.  And this year is NOT as bad as last year.  The pasture where he stays, I've noticed is the cause because I've moved the mares there and the insects mess with them more there.  I'm going to have to get Dad to spray the field for me, then.  Right at the end of summer, like they do the hay field.  I try to keep spray on him, and it does help, but Megan won't spray him on the days I work, so...

Aurora is doing excellent.  Megan's riding her more and she said, she feels just like her mother.  The gait is right on!  She was misbehaving right there at first and we just blamed it on the weather changing...her and her mother both get real excitable when its starts getting cold.  But I noticed one day, watching Megan run drills in the corral that when she used the bit, she would act up.  I brought out the halter and a lead line and fixed it up kind of like a hackamore and the problem was solved.  No more head tossing, no more "accidental" side stepping.  She actually crossed the bridge better without the bit.  She's really made me proud...Aurora and Megan.  I don't know what I would do without both of them.

And little Pearl.  That chunky-monkey is soooo spoiled.  Even more that Aurora!!  And that saying something.  I need to finish scanning her pictures to my computer and get her pages set up.  The same training problems were happening with her, too.  Took out the bit and viola!  We have another perfect horse.  I'm guessing by next Spring/Summer time ....it'll be her time to go....  I don't like to think of it, but I really need to get this Quarter Horse plan off the ground.  And with the family having a total of four horses on the three acre plot I'm leasing from Grandpa...its not good for breeding or even maintaining!!

Its said that the horse to acre ratio should be 1:1.  One horse to one acre.  And now, there's a total of six horses on a 3 acre pasture plot!  Two are mine; two 2 year olds.  And four belong to the family... or Megan.  Two 15-20 yr old mares and two younger than six month old stud colts. 

I have a pasture just down the road I'm looking at for renting until they can sale three of the four.  Megan's not pulling her weight  as far as taking care of them.  She leaves tack out in the weather and has to be reminding often, bribed sometimes, and threatened to feed.  She was going to be allowed to keep two, but Dad & Mom said they've decided on letting her keep just one. 

So, until that happens...I need to rent that pasture!  Its about a mile down the road and about 1 1/2 to 2 acres.  I think the guy said that its been fertilized and weeded.  There's a shed for them and so on.  I wanted to move the mares and foals because of the fertilization part, but Mom "won't have it." 

Anyway, because I go on any more.  I need to get back to work...

Till Next Time~