tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723536999276999662024-02-07T19:54:46.892-07:00Little Mama on the PrairieDocumenting My Life as a MamaPrairie Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07780650889795002546noreply@blogger.comBlogger101125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172353699927699966.post-64944599053865749972012-10-09T07:32:00.002-06:002012-10-09T07:32:34.221-06:00Kittens and Kids<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I haven't shared with you a couple of our newest aquiring's.</div>
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Meet, Sassy and Charlotte, oh and Hallie.</div>
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We have had mice problems, bad.....</div>
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It comes with living in the country, as does peace and quiet, and wide open spaces. Mice must enjoy the peace and quiet and wide open spaces too.</div>
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Ack!</div>
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We knew what had to be done, we needed to get some barn cats. </div>
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About that time a friend adopted a cute little cat who 3 weeks later gave her 7 more cute little cats.</div>
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Side note: I have a couple of friends,(Hi Megan and Sarah) who in college went and bought a couple of cats at a pet store and one of their dad's threw a fit. He told her that you never pay for a cat, you can always find one for free.</div>
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Funny how that has always stuck with me. (: </div>
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We are not cat people. I'm barely a dog person. I know, I know, how could I have chickens and not a dog or a cat. It's easy..... I can leave my chickens outside, even for a couple of days with an auto feeder and water. Cats and dogs are different. They need care and love and cuddles and you can't leave them for a weekend without someone checking on them......</div>
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Sometimes a Mama can only care and cuddle so many things, and my kids take up most those care and cuddles. </div>
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Cats were not on my radar. </div>
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Until now.......</div>
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I'm kinda a cat person now. Well, at a distance. </div>
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I don't want them in my house, but I will cuddle and care for them outside. Believe me when I say they are well cared for and cuddled by three little girls all the time. </div>
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They love the chickens and drink with them out of their auto waterer. They cruise the coop and you can find them sleeping out with the chickens or on the patio furniture, or maybe in my husbands Jeep.</div>
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OK so they have taken over.</div>
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Prairie Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07780650889795002546noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172353699927699966.post-1694808279582065692012-10-08T08:49:00.002-06:002012-10-08T08:49:21.890-06:00Marinara Sauce Recipe<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I mentioned previously that I would give you my marinara sauce recipe. As, I mention in <a href="http://littlemamaontheprairie.blogspot.com/2012/10/how-i-meal-plan.html" target="_blank">this</a> post, Friday night is pizza night at our house. I make both a gluten free crust(recipe can be found <a href="http://www.glutenfreecookingschool.com/archives/rolling-in-dough-homemade-pizza-crust/" target="_blank">here</a>) and a whole wheat crust for those of us that still can eat it. (: The GF is the best crust I have tried; trust me, one year into cooking GF and we have tried at least 10 different recipes. This one is the best. The whole wheat recipe that I use is Tyler Florence's from food network and you can find it <a href="http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/tyler-florence/pizza-dough-recipe/index.html" target="_blank">here.</a></div>
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Here are the ingredients you will need....the Agave is optional. </div>
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This will make enough sauce for 4 ten inch pizza's. If you like to have extra for dipping or you like "Extra Sauce" on your pizza, double the recipe. </div>
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You know I like my stuff a little sweet. (:</div>
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I have an option to brown/simmer on my crock pot, so the last 5 minutes I will take the lid off and reduce until most of the liquid is gone. Then I dump it into my blender/food processor/bullet(name your device) and puree.</div>
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It is amazing how you will not miss adding any herbs or anything else to make this taste like it has been flown strait from grandma's kitchen in italy(I'm guessing here.) However, you could add your favorite herbs or garlic, I have done both and they are good too. This is just plain and simple and easy.....just the way I like things, oh and it has butter sooooo....that makes it delightful!</div>
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Note: I have also used fresh tomatoes instead of canned and it is equally as good. However, for those of you Wyoming folks, you know it is hard to find "good" fresh tomatoes unless they are from your own garden.....and sadly that didn't happen for me this year. (:</div>
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<em>I wanted to share one of our favorite recipes.</em></div>
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<em>My 5 year old calls these just "Chiladas." I love that. (:</em></div>
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<em> Remember in <a href="http://littlemamaontheprairie.blogspot.com/2012/10/how-i-meal-plan.html" target="_blank">This</a> post I shared how I meal plan? Well this is one of my Go-to crock pot meals that we as a family will all eat. *Angels Singing*</em></div>
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<em>I also make these up on a Saturday night in the Crock pot insert, refrigerate overnight and then drop in the slow cooker on Sunday morning. When we come home from church these are hot, cheesy and ready to eat. </em></div>
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<em>Now, I know these do not resemble a traditional enchilada. My Mother-In-Law showed me how she layers her enchiladas instead of rolling them individually and it was life changing for me.</em></div>
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<em>You won't be wasting your time rolling an unmentionable amount of these, just layer like a lasagna and you are done.</em></div>
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<em>1 1/2lbs. Cooked Shredded Beef</em></div>
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<em>I usually make these with shredded beef. However, you may use whatever leftover meat you might have. Shredded Chicken or Turkey, ground beef, ground chicken or ground turkey would be great too. I usually cook a roast in the crock pot once a week this is what I use the leftover meat for. </em></div>
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<em>Then I decided to add one Chipotle pepper last minute, but you can add one more if you like the heat......<a href="http://www.mexgrocer.com/1349.html" target="_blank">La Costena Chipotle Peppers</a> are gluten free. I just mix it in to break it up.</em></div>
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<em>Garnish with Sour Cream, Salsa and a side of Tortilla chips.....our favorite GF brad is <a href="http://www.vitacost.com/garden-of-eatin-tortilla-chips-blue-chips-no-salt-added" target="_blank">Garden of Eatin</a></em></div>
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This is a recent shoot that I did for Jordan. I was absolutely honored that she drove from North Dakota to have me take her Senior pictures. </div>
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This is a beautiful girl that we have had the privalegde of getting to know while we were involved in youth Ministry. She is also a fellow photographer and so we have a lot in common. </div>
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She is not only beautiful, she loves the Lord and absolutey show's beauty in everything that she does. She has a lovely heart and one that her Savior has already stolen! </div>
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Thank you for the fun that we had Jordan. Congratulations on being such an accomplished young woman with a heart for the Lord. </div>
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When my older two girls were babies, I did not have the mental capacity to take both of them to the grocery store with me numerous times a week. In fact I still feel that way with three of them. It seriously never gets any easier even as they get older. (: I digress.....</div>
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I plan a menu with one full week of meals and create a shopping list based on what I have on hand, and what might be on sale that week at my store.</div>
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I pretty much stick to this list when making my meals for the week. Now, you may have a different type of food category, or a day that you eat out, so put that on your meal plan for the week. We rarely eat out and we live too far out of town for Pizza delivery. (I know! I'm still crying about it) </div>
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I will not lie, this takes a sacrifice of my time in planning and cooking. I cook everything from scratch and love to do it for my family but it is a hobby and I understand not everyone can or wants to cook like this. (:</div>
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So after I have my menu for the week I break down the ingredients for each meal and create my shopping list. If you stick to your list you will save money, time and a headache over the next week. </div>
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Having everything on hand ahead of time is key and essential to keeping you stress free. Also, a well stocked pantry will aid in those unforeseen times where you need a quick meal for a busy night. I have a few recipes and ingredients that I keep under my sleeve and in my pantry at all times for such an emergency. </div>
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<strong>1. Sweeten my coffee.</strong></div>
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I do not use sugar or flavored creamer. I use honey. </div>
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It is so yummy!</div>
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<strong>2. I use Honey instead of sugar in savory recipes</strong></div>
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4. <a href="http://www.sixsistersstuff.com/2011/12/slow-cooker-parmesan-honey-pork-roast.html" target="_blank">Slow Cooker Parmesan Honey Pork</a> and <a href="http://www.sixsistersstuff.com/2012/01/slow-cooker-honey-sesame-chicken-recipe.html" target="_blank">Honey Sesame Chicken</a></div>
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These two recipes are on our weekly menu rotation. Both are from <a href="http://www.sixsistersstuff.com/" target="_blank">Six Sisters' Stuff</a> and both are great for entertaining. When you make either one of these your guests will think your a genius and that it took all day. Just a hint, it did take all day, only your slow cooker did the job for you. </div>
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You may have heard about the The 31 Days <a href="http://www.thenester.com/2012/09/preparing-for-31-days.html" target="_blank">Here</a>. I would like to say that I have an ingenious topic or How-to posts but I don't. I have to be honest and say that I'm going to <strike>try </strike> to post something everyday and that may be a dream not a reality at this time. I will probably post a recipe, some decorating, a photo of my kids, you fill in the blank or leave a comment with a suggestion....<br />
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I needed something to kick my backside into gear. Can you help me? (:<br />
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This will be the maiden post on my 31 day challenge; "How to pop back up into blog land after 10 months of ?"<br />
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Prairie Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07780650889795002546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172353699927699966.post-58160725883421209122012-01-03T14:01:00.000-07:002012-01-03T14:01:26.741-07:00Update on Us<div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The holidays just flew out with 2011 and I figured at the very least I owe you an update. Prepare yourself for lengthy and very photo heavy.....</div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Our Holiday's always start off with Hallie's birthday, which is always right around Thanksgiving</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="center">This now puts me at 5 heads of hair to fix in the morning including my own...</div><div align="center">Kanani is on the assembly line now too....</div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div align="center">Sophie's birthday follows Hallie's and she is a big full hand of fingers.</div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div align="center">She received <a href="http://littlemamaontheprairie.blogspot.com/2010/12/number-4.html" target="_blank">Bitty Baby</a> for her birthday last year and so this year she wanted a back pack to carry her in.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="640" rea="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp3ITJkUCiWJQRl-Imii_ovYwK4LHgofYRknmW6Kl-T4qfyXaMvi_6-40h6O48OHqBDLCxAybmu9S1PU6cw-Hv_Bccqy1dVb3_oqFhgqy4r6sqQ5GsW1LvF_bG6_pn2W6SSdJkOtVQv_U/s640/101+copy.jpg" width="426" /></div><div align="center"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I was told he is a City Counsel Member.....I hope he was given a really good bonus for having to dress up....I'm still baffled. </span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Here is a glimpse of my obsession with peppermint stripes....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdvADy1gqe4y7G8kgbprcSQAkzc1iQU5zMaGMPFkSzCnUeoVgkYhSe9fI1XDNujFPl3nAOubp5Oqzp_KgxRP9mudHnDwPL4qieVKdg3bME93hW0WLKpzLnU46nsHZRc87MIt289BEYbc0/s1600/023+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" rea="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdvADy1gqe4y7G8kgbprcSQAkzc1iQU5zMaGMPFkSzCnUeoVgkYhSe9fI1XDNujFPl3nAOubp5Oqzp_KgxRP9mudHnDwPL4qieVKdg3bME93hW0WLKpzLnU46nsHZRc87MIt289BEYbc0/s640/023+copy.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Christmas Eve service was beautiful! After a long day and lots going on Lillie was so tired and we paid for it. She is just going to hate me when she is older. Every group picture we take of the girls she cries, poor baby. I have no idea why, however a trip to the manger scene and she was good as gold...</div><br />
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We took Christmas morning really slow and easy and we have started a new tradition with opening 1 present every hour, that way the girls get time to enjoy it and play with that particular present before they tear through the rest. It worked great! I'm excited to start this tradition with the girls.<br />
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</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">We had such a sweet time with the girls this Christmas. We made it simple celebrated with friends and family, and ended it with great memories.. They most important thing was that we enjoyed the celebration of our Saviors birth to the fullest. It was wonderful, relaxing and then the vacation ended this morning as we rushed out the door back into reality. </div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"></div>Prairie Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07780650889795002546noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172353699927699966.post-23257628320477384032011-11-04T14:09:00.000-06:002011-11-04T14:09:17.265-06:00Kids and Costumes<div align="center">I am writing this as fast as I can so that we can head out the door on our long planned weekend getaway. It is our anniversary on Sunday, 12 years....</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">I get to talk to my husband uninterrupted for 2 whole days. I'm so excited!!! </div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div align="center">These just have to be posted though....Oh I love looking at "Little's" all dressed up in their costumes. It won't be long and they will be too old for dressing up, *BOOHOO*</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">I pray you had fun dressing up your "Little's" or enjoying as other people brought them by your door for candy.</div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We had Cinderella, a Queen Bee, and a T-Rex</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We woke up Lillie to throw her costume on her and we saw a lot of this during picture time....</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A very cute backside though.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Hallie loves the color blue and dinosaurs. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">She asked me to marry the two and this is what I came up with.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The face paint was courtesy of this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxt_auRSzH8">Video Tutorial</a></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here she was a little more cooperative....Sweet little Bee!</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This little girl changed her mind 3 different times before she settled on Cinderella. She was contemplating 2 other princesses before her decision was made....Belle and Rapunzel were in the running.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This little Lady bug, our niece Ava, was so funny during trick-or-Treating. She giggled and pulled her mama the whole way....she also had on Wee Squeak shoes and it just added to the fun.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">All the girls together before trick-or-treating. We had fun this year, the babies were so eager to enter every ones home and they stole the show. Everyone in the neighborhood just oohed and awed over them.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">On a side note I'm ready to toss all the candy out on Monday. One week of begging every day for candy is enough for me.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Do you have any suggestions on what to do with the candy? I would love to hear how some of you handle too much candy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I will be in the Black Hills relaxing in snow. Yes it has already done that here. Oh *sigh* winter begins.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Prairie Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07780650889795002546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172353699927699966.post-24332386851718425942011-10-26T16:46:00.000-06:002011-10-26T16:46:16.586-06:00Catch UpCatch Up is the "feeling" I'm living in right now......Do you know the feelings of the "Catch up game:"<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Trying to catch up</div><div style="text-align: center;">Working on catch up</div><div style="text-align: center;">Almost Caught up</div><div style="text-align: center;">Something else came up</div><div style="text-align: center;">Behind on everything....Laundry, dishes, dinner, cleaning....</div><div style="text-align: center;">Catch up again....</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Oh the game goes on and on. The blog world has had to take a back seat to the game of life and catch up. I have had a hard time adjusting to driving back and forth 15 miles one way to the girls school. Not just twice a day but 3 times a day......it has not left a lot of blog time. I can't say there is not any time, but when 8pm rolls around and the girls are finally all tucked in for the night, I'm so tired I can't think strait enough to blog.....So Little Mama has had to wait it's turn for catch up....I promise I will try to be better.....</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">So a little catch up for you all... </div><div style="text-align: center;">This little girl started preschool last month. Where did the time go? She loves it and the drama it has brought into her life.....This mama could do without the drama, but that is Sophie and I love her. (:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk6JPWBzFoT4q9_QMZMzVuhcxvNaWMQfRtih1BHIpVttNwrT36fjRHSLYP30w5wShLo688S0omNh-Jt00MmgUNB-XKmELn0WS4a10edb-JoZWbLhXkKMdJ4iNZJy-cgKsbHWCsUHIHQzle/s1600/009+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk6JPWBzFoT4q9_QMZMzVuhcxvNaWMQfRtih1BHIpVttNwrT36fjRHSLYP30w5wShLo688S0omNh-Jt00MmgUNB-XKmELn0WS4a10edb-JoZWbLhXkKMdJ4iNZJy-cgKsbHWCsUHIHQzle/s640/009+copy.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">She also has learned how to ride a bike without training wheels, and she is only 4. That still amazes me, I couldn't ride a bike until I was well over 5.</div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I love that Hallie is in the background waiting on her sister. *Loves*</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">This was one of the last days of summer for us, and the light was glorious!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div align="center" style="text-align: center;">Notice the burn mark on her chin? That is one of those invaluable life lessons you learn after you lick a marshmallow roasting stick that just came out of the fire. Poor girl! Painful lesson to learn. </div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">Hallie is doing well in First grade and has had an adjustment period after coming out of easy non challenging kindergarten. She does however, have an excellent teacher who has challenged this little girls intellect in ways I cannot even explain and she is doing so well. We are blessed to have such a wonderfully talented teacher that loves and prays for her students like "Mrs. L."</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">On another note, we had our niece, Ava, come stay with us for a weekend and we decided to shuck some corn from my parents garden........These photos are just too sweet!</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Here they are all very intently trying to shuck the corn............and at last Hallie did it!<br />
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</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">This little girl has turned from our little baby into a little girl. It's kinda sad when they decide they are a decisive opinionated little girl, instead of a baby.</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"> Oh where did my baby girl go? </div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">She is talking more and more and loves to repeat words that the older girls ask her to say. It is funny to hear them converse with her. She adores her big sisters, but oh does she know how to put up a fight with them. Lillie fights usually involve teeth and tears, it can get nasty pretty quick. We are avoiding Walmart and grocery stores if at all possible right now.....Oh, I could lose my mind in a store with a screaming toddler. Did your kids ever go thru that? It seams like 15 months until 24 months is the worst time to take them to stores and restaurants. I avoid taking her at all cost. (:</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">So just a quick catch-up for you on what I'm doing and not doing. I will work on blogging more, I miss it and you! </div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"></div>Prairie Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07780650889795002546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172353699927699966.post-9876393180520869452011-09-08T21:17:00.000-06:002011-09-08T21:17:53.847-06:00Dresser Re-Vamp<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> I have been meaning to get this dresser done for over a year now and Ta-Da....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I finished it, in only 4 days might I add. By far a personal record. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is what happens when your husband is out of town for work. You stay up late eating chocolate and painting furniture....bonus both ways wouldn't you agree? (: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This one is painted in the same Swiss Coffee by Behr as <a href="http://littlemamaontheprairie.blogspot.com/2011/08/grandmothers-buffet-reveal.html">this</a> and <a href="http://littlemamaontheprairie.blogspot.com/2010/11/dresser-reveal.html">this</a>, for a few different reasons. First of all, I'm trying to take a bunch of hand-me-down furniture and make it look coheasive. Second, I'm scared to paint it any other color, and lastly, I'm cheap, very cheap. I still have a whole gallon of this paint left and I'm going to get my moolah's worth out of it. Someday I might try a nice gray or soft blue on a piece of furniture but for now safety is my driving force and white is safe! I sealed it with a coat of Minwax Natural Paste Finishing Wax which adds such a nice sheen to the finish. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is a solid 1980's dresser that had one of the hutches on top, you know with the mirror and brass accents and little cubbies to put only heaven knows what in. Anyways, this piece has always drawn my attention with great lines and details that needed to be accented.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div align="center">It really needed that pop of wood underneath to bring out all of the details.</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">Here is the before....it's not a close up but you get the idea.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL2ByZHFJOCJ2_W0_UjQpS3ungdgngjewjdWy8xbKj39Oiqu9rbhDKOfLZwbRq99Ezo0dhvjyfBrEpJrXiSzE3OF-BMIk8KBrgVEFt528s5rsDGgUjtiqICf5NI2JxRlxaXP9nIorKiM-z/s1600/114+copy2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" nba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL2ByZHFJOCJ2_W0_UjQpS3ungdgngjewjdWy8xbKj39Oiqu9rbhDKOfLZwbRq99Ezo0dhvjyfBrEpJrXiSzE3OF-BMIk8KBrgVEFt528s5rsDGgUjtiqICf5NI2JxRlxaXP9nIorKiM-z/s640/114+copy2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div align="center">A very "Cottage Style" dresser for sure.....<br />
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The hardware was a mix of old and new. The little knobs were the original brass ones that received a coat of rubbed oil bronze spray paint and the drawer pulls were from Home Depot. <br />
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I *heart* that mirror.</div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Maybe not "Cottage Style" but definitely a "Drama Glamor Style" statement. *sigh* My favorite garage sale find from this summer. I'm toying with the idea of painting it a bold color, like fuchsia or turquoise. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">What do you think?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> Leave it gold or paint it.....???? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Safety might win this one out too.....Any suggestions?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Prairie Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07780650889795002546noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172353699927699966.post-77118007594143256292011-09-08T12:00:00.000-06:002011-09-08T12:00:28.527-06:00Summers End<div style="text-align: center;">I have been trying to get a post together for a week and I am struggling to find my niche in the day to do it. School has started back up and I am Oh so thankful. I have however had a hard time adjusting to a "New Schedule." We have changed just a couple of things this school year and it has kinda kinked my easy flowing vibe. It's a good kink though, it will just take me time to adapt to it. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">The main kink has been school has started....cue the *YEAH* from this Mama. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Now before I get any hate mail I want to clarify that I *love* having my kids home. I enjoy them, I enjoy summer break, but things were starting to head south about the first of august when it was hot and the city pool closed (weird) and we were a little stir crazy. My kids were becoming board and catty with each other and I was running out of ideas to entertain them. Although, the hose and a bunch of plastic bowls came in very handy last weekend and they played outside for about 5 hours straight. Hmmmm new record, and why didn't I think about that sooner? </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"> I found a recipe online for sidewalk chalk paint and the idea was born. Lets make a mess, that never fails to entertain.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">It is so easy, not to mention safe, you can eat it. Not that I tried but you could.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"> So here is the recipe:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Now, when you paint with this at first it is really watery and almost transparent but let it dry and it is BRIGHT!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">See what I mean.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"> It stayed for days than it finally rained and washed away, all that work. But it was fun to come home and see a reminder of Who loves us everyday. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Note:</strong> The extra blue "I" on the top was created by Hallie. If you know her at all, blue is her favorite color and well, I didn't use the blue first so she improvised. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">We ended our last day of summer with a morning swing and a front yard picnic. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Blessings!</div>Prairie Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07780650889795002546noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172353699927699966.post-61664491191566169632011-08-17T07:07:00.000-06:002011-08-17T07:07:03.403-06:001st Blog.o.versary<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUrJYcLaw1GrZOOHEjyDCvx4jiJ8kXMRX8i10y-UvAfDHexCSMbcSpyS13v91pIY717mSSzZAQMVxSu3C24A7CGpbDdNVtEsUpVgRnajF1l8y5BLjFfZZFGMwtxFNOuSErzH3lL4qe4RO2/s1600/jeep+trip+june+180+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUrJYcLaw1GrZOOHEjyDCvx4jiJ8kXMRX8i10y-UvAfDHexCSMbcSpyS13v91pIY717mSSzZAQMVxSu3C24A7CGpbDdNVtEsUpVgRnajF1l8y5BLjFfZZFGMwtxFNOuSErzH3lL4qe4RO2/s640/jeep+trip+june+180+copy.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Today is my 1st anniversary in the blog world. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I've been thinking about this as my own personal milestone over the last week and I just don't know what you do to celebrate something like this. I mean, ten years ago most of us didn't now what a blog was, right? </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Insanity isn't it.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I am actually surprised I made it a full year. I mean It is just not something that I thought I would enjoy so much. Oh..... there have been times of inconsistency and times of silence on my end, however <strong><em>Little Mama On The Prairie</em></strong> readers have always been here waiting. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I have to scream it, I truly enjoyed blogging! </div><div style="text-align: center;">I enjoy pushing myself to compose a better photo, to write a better story, and share my life as a mother. I do this for my girls, and for myself. </div><div style="text-align: center;">I know that I serve The Creator who designed me to create. He put a passion in me to string words and pictures together that show our life weaved like a colorful piece of cloth. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Every day is marked by a different story, a different angle but when they are weaved together it is the story of our life. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">My intentions for this blog were to write down the moments that I thought I might forget. Moments that my girls might ask me about when their grown and my mind is clouded with a life fully lived. I dread the thought of not remembering when she lost her <a href="http://littlemamaontheprairie.blogspot.com/2010/10/missing-teeth.html">first tooth</a>. Or why she wore those<a href="http://littlemamaontheprairie.blogspot.com/2010/09/3-year-olds.html"> Rubber boots</a> . Or when she started <a href="http://littlemamaontheprairie.blogspot.com/2010/09/pictures-from-last-week.html">sitting up</a>. I want them to look back and see how I looked at them, loved them, dressed them. I want them to see how we lived daily life. I want them to view the progress of my decorating, and what their childhood home has evolved into over time. I desire for them to feel as if they were apart of this life that their Creator has intended for them to live.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"> I was listening to a recent podcast about raising children and the man speaking mentioned that traditions are so important to children. Traditions and memories help ground a child and give them security. It is so true, especially for little girls. The memory of traditions is so strong in my own childhood memories. I have such a passion to document my girls memories and traditions, this blog has been my avenue to do just that.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">So how do you celebrate a blog.o.versary? </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">You state the facts of why you started, rehash great memories and share your feelings with your readers. </div><div style="text-align: center;">This is how I celebrate!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"> Thank you for sticking with me over the last year, for your sweet comments and encouragement. I am in awe that you find my life worth reading about, my photos worth looking at and I hope to inspire you to document your own life. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Document it, no matter how mundane you think it is, for the "mundane" is where a life is fully lived. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Blessings to you today!</div>Prairie Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07780650889795002546noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172353699927699966.post-58019667298391301412011-08-15T07:30:00.008-06:002011-08-15T07:30:03.003-06:00Bee Swarm<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4NE-_0Qjhq6AkQoneETgOs5ocScJc14knXjaCSqjgH-9XW0BniQLVNvbeVwKIiOCYE_0AzhwI0L2jsPlz5FS5jzqWiz2mftCon31k9PdHvuqpCr9Cc9X1XQFVbU6dKpJhWrnAuGADHHsH/s1600/002+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4NE-_0Qjhq6AkQoneETgOs5ocScJc14knXjaCSqjgH-9XW0BniQLVNvbeVwKIiOCYE_0AzhwI0L2jsPlz5FS5jzqWiz2mftCon31k9PdHvuqpCr9Cc9X1XQFVbU6dKpJhWrnAuGADHHsH/s640/002+copy.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />
<div align="center"><span style="color: #444444;">Isn't this just a pi</span><span style="color: #444444;">picturesque view?</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="color: #444444;">But lurking inside was a story of treason. </span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="color: #444444;">A good Queen verses an evil Queen. A story of overthrowing the thrown and taking over half the kingdom with it.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: #444444;">OK, maybe not exactly.... but this is how I explained it to my 4 and 6 year old.... </span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="color: #444444;">Within 2 days time my sweet photo worthy hive went into total chaos. </span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="color: #444444;">Hallie came in from outside to say that she saw some brown bees by the slide.....</span> </div><div align="center"><span style="color: #444444;">Hmmm..... well we do live in the country and I brushed it off as a horse fly or maybe a bee or just...nothing really.</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="color: #444444;">A little later she mentioned it one more time and I thought is was odd, she than said it scared her. Hmmm taking note....OK you were scared. Now in my defense the kid is scared of a tiny ity bity spider, so I didn't take that into account. </span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="color: #444444;">Well with a busy morning with family in town and errands I pushed it aside and said I would go look a little later. We all finished our morning routine and headed out the door. But something told me to go check the slide before I left. I ran out back to the slide to see for myself the "brown bees." </span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="color: #444444;">This is what I see.</span></div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div align="center"><span style="color: #444444;">Holy Moly!!!! Now that is a lot of "brown bees."</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="color: #444444;">My hive had swarmed.</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="color: #444444;"> Here is a great article on the reasons for a swarm and information if you encounter a <a href="http://entomology.unl.edu/beekpg/beeswarm.shtml">Bee Swarm</a></span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="color: #444444;">Since you should contact a local Beekeeper to come and handle your swarm, I called the closest one I know which happens to be my dear dad.</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="color: #444444;">Oh, the things you will do for your children....adult or child. Thanks Dad! (:</span></div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div align="center"><span style="color: #444444;">I'm just thankful the two most important men in my life...(my husband and my dad)...helped to rescue my bees.</span></div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div align="center"><span style="color: #444444;">You than suit up and with a large bee brush start sweeping the bees, while a handsome fellow holds the box close to catch them. </span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: #444444;">The guys figured there was about five pounds worth of bee weight. Yikes!</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="color: #444444;">A common misconception is that bees are dangerous when they swarm, however they are actually very docile and are more concerned with where their queen is and where they can make a new hive. </span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: #444444;">Now if you provoke them like a sugar highed 6 year old on a birthday pinata, then they will most likely sting you. We were not "sugar highed" or "six" and so it went very smoothly.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: #444444;">During the re-capture not one bee landed on my dad or husband making <span style="color: #444444;">this one of the easiest times to handle bees.</span></span></div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"><span style="color: #444444;">Fascinating isn't it!</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="color: #444444;">My cousin who is allergic to bees is itching just about now. Hi Ang!</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="color: #444444;">These photos are way over exposed but I wanted you to see them all back in the box.</span></div><div align="center"><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Waiting for the bees to settle down into the box. The queen releases a pheromone and the workers and drones will follow that into the Super. </span><br />
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</div><div align="center"><span style="color: #444444;">You can see the bees flying all over but are not landing on the white bee suit at all. I was taking these photos and wasn't wearing a suit and I didn't feel nervous at all. </span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: #444444;">Now, I am a little nervous about the old hive excepting the swarm and that has all kinds of little hurdles to cross. I'm praying that the re-introduction to the old hive goes well and I will post on that soon.</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="color: #444444;"> To close I'm extremely thankful they swarmed close to the house and not in a neighbors barn, or somewhere where we wouldn't have known where to catch them.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: #444444;"> Oh, that would have been a whole different post. One of tears and sobs and a lot of boohooing that I lost my hive, again! </span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: #444444;">I'm also very thankful that I had a little girl tell me about the "brown bees," and that I headed the Lords guiding voice that said, "listen to your 6 year old."</span><span style="color: #444444;"> </span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="color: #444444;">She was one of my three hero's that day!</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="color: #444444;">Blessings,</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div>Prairie Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07780650889795002546noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172353699927699966.post-49179074889171220372011-08-11T07:36:00.000-06:002011-08-11T07:36:21.475-06:00Grandmothers Buffet Reveal<div class="postBody" style="color: #777777; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This accidentally Posted yesterday, so those of you who were able to read my terrible spelling and grammar pitfalls before I could delete it, call yourself blessed. For everyone else, you only get to read the corrected and edited version.....enjoy!</span><br />
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I finally finished this buffet. Do you remember this one?.....<br />
I showed it way back in..um lets say.......May.</div><div class="postBody" style="color: #777777; text-align: center;"><br />
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It has only taken me three months......*Sigh*<br />
I took this out of my grandparents barn and I'm sure one of my family members will promptly inform me as to who owned this before my grandmother....<br />
It could have been something she just picked up. I don't know for sure, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. ( :) This would be a chance for one of my cousins to pipe in)<br />
My Grandmother did mention she always wanted to fix it up but just didn't get the chance.</div><div class="postBody" style="color: #777777; text-align: center;">I hope she doesn't mind that I painted it instead of refinishing....some people just scream at the thought of painting wood.....I'm obviously not one of them. *WINK*</div><div class="postBody" style="color: #777777; text-align: center;"><br />
Some fixing was in order for this one and so my Hunny replaced the door trim and rope trim by matching (as best that he could) the original at Home Depot. You will notice in the picture that I had removed what was left and it was a blank slate.<br />
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I originally wanted to stain the top a dark walnut but the veneer was too badly water damaged and chipped. So instead of pulling the veneer off I opted to paint it white and will have a piece of glass cut to protect the top from a stray water glass or set of keys.</div><div class="postBody" style="color: #777777; text-align: center;"><br />
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Before After</div><div class="postBody" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: #777777; text-align: center;"><br />
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This piece has great lines and curvy legs and is HEAVY! <br />
So heavy in fact, that I had a hard time dragging it around the garage. Wow, they just don't make them like this anymore.<br />
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I sanded her down, primed her with Kilz Original...the wax made it into this photo but is the last step...(:</div><div class="postBody" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: #777777; text-align: center;"><br />
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I used 2 coats of Behr paint in Swiss coffee....my favorite white by far.<br />
It is not a pure white but very creamy in color and has held up well on other pieces that I have painted.I'm not normally a fan of a heavy distressing but I decided to grow a brave wild hair and with a 220 grain sanding block I sanded until I got the "look" I wanted.</div><div class="postBody" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: #777777; text-align: center;"> I really wanted this to have a worn, prairie feel. Something you might find on an old homestead in the 30's so on a whim I glazed it with a chocolate glaze to show off the details and finished it off with Minwax Paste Finishing Wax.<br />
She turned out lovely, don't you think? </div><div class="postBody" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: #777777; text-align: center;"><br />
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I tried convincing my Hunny to let me put his flat screen on this and he said "no,"....... very firmly I might add!</div><div class="postBody" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: #777777; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="postBody" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: #777777; text-align: center;"> Man, I really wanted to use it as an entertainment center, but he does not, at this time apprecitate the feminine qualities of this one.<br />
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Yet!</div><div class="postBody" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: #777777; text-align: center;">*SMILE* *BLINK,BLINK*</div><div class="postBody" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: #777777; text-align: center;"><br />
I'm hoping he will change his mind...... it would look amazing in our family room.<br />
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You can see how the glaze brought out the details in this photo.</div><div class="postBody" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: #777777; text-align: center;"><br />
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New hardware finished her off and she has found a home as a place to hold bills and cookbooks, pens and take-out menus. </div><div class="postBody" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: #777777; text-align: center;"><br />
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Blessings!</div>Prairie Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07780650889795002546noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172353699927699966.post-6675241159049352832011-08-09T15:56:00.000-06:002011-08-09T15:56:06.115-06:00Summer Happenings<div align="center">We have had a busy couple of weeks. A trip with our Youth Group, a cross-country family visit, camping, County Fair, a carnival and a bee swarm. All this in two weeks time. </div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">Wow, that's a lot of living we've done lately.</div><div align="center"><br />
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<div align="center">Lillie has decided to "try" to walk. </div><br />
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Learning to walk on uneven ground can be kinda tough on a girl.....<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">She tipped over and ended up with a mouth full of dirt and than she bawled.</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">And cue the word "Drama." </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">For the record she still is mastering her walk and prefers to crawl. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">We camped in the Big Horn Mountains which are about an hour drive from here. Oh they are wonderful! While everyone suffered back at home with 90 plus temps we were wearing sweatshirts and jeans in 60 and 70 degree weather. Oh, and the heat had to be turned on at night in the camper, 38 degrees is a little cool for this mama.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">We stayed at some good friends property and camping always includes staying up late, cooking over an open fire, and eating things that are not allowed on a normal day. Chocolate doughnuts and smores look out here we come.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">There was also a great game called "Hole-y Boards." Hallie loved it and she was always up to play and defeat someone, especially her Daddy.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Last week we had Peter's family in town from Washington. This was the first gathering of all the Grand kids together. We have more than doubled the population of Grand kids over the last year and three of these Little's were born within 8 months of each other. Oh we had memories.....</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">One day I will have a picture of all three of my girls smiling and happy, and there will be butterflies flitting by and the lighting will be perfect, and they will be clean and while wearing their coordinating outfits and will dance for joy that I'm taking their picture....</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">And then maybe I'm stuck in a fantasy world and someone needs to pinch me and cause me to jolt into reality.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Lillie was NOT into having her picture taken and her cousins just wanted her to stick around and get it over with....</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Levin, let me go....."<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">These "Little's" were great sports and I think we were able to capture some very cute mugs.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">We just couldn't resist creating a Punk Rocker baby... could you? </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">And Uncle Adam wins the "Uncle Of The Year" award for building the girls a "Contraption." They spotted this in the "I Spy" books. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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After two hours of building he had this beauty...<br />
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The aftermath was this.....and it was amazing!<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So I did mention a bee swarm at the beginning and I have pictures to show you. That is one of the craziest things I have ever seen. I will be posting soon!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Praying you are having a blessed summer?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div>Prairie Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07780650889795002546noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172353699927699966.post-47887509001911482052011-07-20T16:58:00.000-06:002011-07-20T16:58:58.462-06:00M.I.A.<div style="text-align: center;">I did not go M.I.A....</div><div style="text-align: center;">However, I have been doing a lot of things that have absolutely consumed my life....and since summer on the prairie is short and sweet, I have been making the best of it.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> I have accomplished yard work, furniture projects, swimming lessons, fishing trips, parades, doctors appointments, chicken keeping and just to prove to you that I have had my camera out, I have some photos.....lots of photos to document my M.I.A status over the last month.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"> Are you ready?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Our 4th of July started out with our community parade and Peter's Rock Crawling Club drove their Jeeps,</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Peter took some vacation time and we headed to the Black Hills for a day to fish, pick flowers and explore.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">So here is hoping that I can be better at getting my photos from my camera to the blog. I have so much to show you all. The bees, and chickens my green grass( oh yes, I have grass now.) I have a couple of furniture projects that I have finished.......</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Oh, and as the hottest part of summer starts we are ready to have a bit of a slow down before school starts back up. We have a two camping trips left and lots of family coming in from across country to finish off our break in true celebratory style. I'm praying you are taking time to enjoy relaxed schedules, warm weather and those closest to you. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Blessings over you!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Prairie Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07780650889795002546noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172353699927699966.post-1769830496102036722011-06-28T08:58:00.000-06:002011-06-28T08:58:55.917-06:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ5wFf6XlfAaEkp8Ms63RSGW8DXtorOiqmvgzGB3QMdjsjl60UOo-k4waZhMPQyMABEPFBDTfyM5wXVkNmT5OlJTZVWetTwywHUDP-rrdG9rIlWhq8bJwK8KgqeZYIsxp3skS8oRCzJTT4/s1600/Untitled-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ5wFf6XlfAaEkp8Ms63RSGW8DXtorOiqmvgzGB3QMdjsjl60UOo-k4waZhMPQyMABEPFBDTfyM5wXVkNmT5OlJTZVWetTwywHUDP-rrdG9rIlWhq8bJwK8KgqeZYIsxp3skS8oRCzJTT4/s640/Untitled-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I thought I would share my life from Instagram's point of view. If you haven't tried Instagram and you have an iPhone. You must, must do it. These were all taken with my ihone. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Instagram is Awe-May-To-The-Zing, nuff said!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Anyways, one of these picture is from a couple of weeks ago and includes a borrowed dog. "Knuckles" is my bro/sis-in-law's dog, and he made a great prop for a photo don't you think.</div><br />
<div align="center">And the reason there are lots of green grass pictures is so come January of 2012 when I'm curled up in the fetal position due to the white prairie winter, one of my family members can email this to me. It will be a documented reminder that the prairie can be an <a href="http://littlemamaontheprairie.blogspot.com/2011/06/summer-is-tease.html">old friend, not a fickle woman</a>. </div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">On another note, my big girl lost another tooth, she is the last photo and I might have almost cried about it, again. </div><div align="center">For the record the only thing that stopped me from welling up was that my husbands siblings were having dinner with us. </div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">Hope you are having a wonderful summer, ours has finally come. </div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">Blessings to you!</div><div align="center"><br />
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</div>Prairie Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07780650889795002546noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172353699927699966.post-36844920960075951522011-06-15T11:54:00.000-06:002011-06-15T11:54:57.869-06:00Rock Crawling <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<div style="text-align: center;">I wanted to share about the small adventure that we shared as a family this past weekend....</div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"> My husband has recently become an avid *Rock Crawler.* It is one of his many<u> extreme</u> hobbies and please, do not make me get into the details of all of his hobbies....it is a lengthy list that I'm OKwith. It is who he is and I like him. OK, more than like, I LOVE him...his hobbies and all.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">My Hunny has always been a Jeep Man...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyhsZ_e512aZTKec7e2ydLB8l03q_rE7NPBG4PgitXTkhLLx04Hg311_y1zVxMLaajzWwNimXTK5H9UMAvhrwaINGu6wFWfHipAspGSqoGi9dMp0PsHQ7moEiYz13qdeue7lQK-h2qmnDw/s1600/jeep+trip+june+005+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyhsZ_e512aZTKec7e2ydLB8l03q_rE7NPBG4PgitXTkhLLx04Hg311_y1zVxMLaajzWwNimXTK5H9UMAvhrwaINGu6wFWfHipAspGSqoGi9dMp0PsHQ7moEiYz13qdeue7lQK-h2qmnDw/s640/jeep+trip+june+005+copy.jpg" t8="true" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">In fact he had one all through our dating years, engagement and into our first year of marriage.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"> Jeep #1 was a thing that I loathed. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Truly....... I LOATHED it! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">My Hunny always had it in some precarious predicament such as, on a hill sideways, stuck in a snow bank in below zero temps, or floating in a 4 foot deep mud whole in the rain without the top on it. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Do you get the picture..... </div><div style="text-align: center;">Every time my Beloved picked me up for a date in Jeep #1 I would end the evening in a hysteria of tears due to the situation he had challenged himself to conquer. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">A bit of a drama queen...ummmm...perhaps, but believe me when I say PRECARIOUS. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Wow, and to think, he still married me. (:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Anyways when he started talking of getting another Jeep I was dead set against it. Refer to the paragraph above for an explanation. </div><div style="text-align: center;">However, with an agreement that he would give up Motocross....another post entirely, I begrudgingly agreed. He also backed his argument that this was something we could all do as a "family." I gave him my standard issue answer. You can ask him what my standard issue answer is for any wild hair he gets, and he will say it is this:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"> "OK Babe, why don't you pray about it."</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Well pray he did, and within a month, through some very unexpected circumstances he had a Jeep. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Fast forward one year later and I have never been able to go with him "Rock Crawling." </div><div style="text-align: center;">It is something as a nursing mother you just don't throw yourself at. </div><div style="text-align: center;">He has taken the older girls on several occasions but Lillie and I have always stayed home. </div><div style="text-align: center;">In fact I have posted about his other rock crawling adventures <a href="http://littlemamaontheprairie.blogspot.com/2010/10/missing-teeth.html">Here</a>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">This last weekend was my virgin attempt to go "Jeeping" with him and the girls. Lillie was left responsibly in my mothers care. Phew!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">For the record my girls just adore going "Jeeping" with their Daddy. This Mama, well it was an interesting adventure, one that I will not swear off yet, but it was a challenge to stifle screams. Trust Me!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyZ82xHZnZyh-NasIApUzbz0yd_Nh1wRRfhYTBYSFkKiWL3G4fzj44t6iiRYJkfeCdaLv1GVH5Xr2xSP7EKron-79dCIgUNFRbXuY-n1ailyqv-N6dvVh7-KfhmfbLBPnbLPTum6D3vuVl/s1600/jeep+trip+june+045+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyZ82xHZnZyh-NasIApUzbz0yd_Nh1wRRfhYTBYSFkKiWL3G4fzj44t6iiRYJkfeCdaLv1GVH5Xr2xSP7EKron-79dCIgUNFRbXuY-n1ailyqv-N6dvVh7-KfhmfbLBPnbLPTum6D3vuVl/s640/jeep+trip+june+045+copy.jpg" t8="true" width="426" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">These became my B.F.F. for the day and I was blessing the person that invented them.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I always wondered why he hung those there on the roll cage. "ROLL CAGE," guess I should have thought that one through. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">This was not us, it was the guy behind us and the beginning part of the trail was fun.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNPpuq27U98jVHo9u2eJqU2SOBkPXbXiNj_NK-GM4x5-8wRfzEjgmjC3THcdqznZjeEIj_fpySIEgczJFN2snxMkeJLcsx_wDho-ntY4Oxxu4FqmTzgBoh1w5gndFTWU1rGH2uPXcpWoZW/s1600/jeep+trip+june+062+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNPpuq27U98jVHo9u2eJqU2SOBkPXbXiNj_NK-GM4x5-8wRfzEjgmjC3THcdqznZjeEIj_fpySIEgczJFN2snxMkeJLcsx_wDho-ntY4Oxxu4FqmTzgBoh1w5gndFTWU1rGH2uPXcpWoZW/s640/jeep+trip+june+062+copy.jpg" t8="true" width="426" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Here we are parked at the entrance to the climb. Not so bad at all!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">We.....ummmm .....*GULP*....crawled up that same trail with the Jeep. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Look at his smile!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div align="center">I can't say I didn't have a good time, I did. </div><div align="center">It was fun! </div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">A little scary when we were stuck on a cliff-like-thingy for more than an hour. I was so freaked out I took the girls and walked down the trail while they tried to get the Jeep off of the cliff. I didn't get a picture of it, darn! The one other time that I was really scared, was when we lost our brakes on the way down. No worries, they randomly started working again...... Praise the Lord!</div><div align="center"> In fact I was praying the whole time and thinking, "this is so dumb, God is not going to help a bunch of dumb people who go looking for a way to get hurt." He did hear me though, kinda hard not to through all of the</div><div align="center"> "JESUS PLEASE SAVE US" shouts. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFjbhvVqQMNkLF8q1-J7JaQxDxQCpC9Ui8dMoY4L3Bx47wKTWaw-rbg-8hxVV-HqX6vgirzgKQKmihvm51C0d1PVDsf0NQnXwBMbKYGu3YnsfqKtoaHQaFXNLNNgj0hBdOppncM3vcDbFT/s1600/jeep+trip+june+305+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFjbhvVqQMNkLF8q1-J7JaQxDxQCpC9Ui8dMoY4L3Bx47wKTWaw-rbg-8hxVV-HqX6vgirzgKQKmihvm51C0d1PVDsf0NQnXwBMbKYGu3YnsfqKtoaHQaFXNLNNgj0hBdOppncM3vcDbFT/s640/jeep+trip+june+305+copy.jpg" t8="true" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">It was a time I will remember. </div><div style="text-align: center;">I'm sure my Hunny will too. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">As for the girls, look at them. </div><div style="text-align: center;">They love it! They are never scared, and Sophie slept in the back of the Jeep while the cliff-like-thingy happened. It was amazing, she woke up as they plummeted down the larger-than-the-Jeep cliff and she laughed that it was fun. </div><div style="text-align: center;">I was safely very far away, not photographing it. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Have a Blessed day!</div>Prairie Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07780650889795002546noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172353699927699966.post-55029041506496373872011-06-09T13:33:00.000-06:002011-06-09T13:33:58.567-06:00Summer Is A Tease.... <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">June 9th 2011<br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Oh look at that emerald green! </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">These photos are taken almost 6 months apart.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">And I'm a little partial to the first one....</span></div></td></tr>
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</tbody></table> <div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">We think Summer is here.....</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">She......Summer is her name, keeps giving us these teaser days that are warm and sunny, and than she slaps us in the face with a hefty bill payable with 4 days of wet and cold. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">How cold you say????? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">47 degrees in JUNE! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And just to give you a sense of why I'm howling, it was 90 degrees only 4 days ago. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Summer on the prairie can be as *fickle* as a woman, or so my Hunny would say.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Just because I like to give useless facts, here is the definition of the word *fickle.*</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="scnt"><span class="ssens"><span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3"><span style="color: darkgreen; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: black;">Fickle: </span><u> marked</u></span></span> by <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1"><u><span style="color: darkgreen; font-family: Verdana;">lack of</span></u></span> steadfastness, constancy, or stability <strong>:</strong> given to <a class="d_link" href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/erratic[1]">erratic</a> changeableness </span></div><div class="scnt"><span class="ssens"></span> </div><div align="center" class="scnt" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span class="ssens">Oh, I had a good laugh over this, especially since it is often used around this house and used in context and can be oh-so true!</span></div><div align="center" class="scnt" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span class="ssens"></span> </div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">They are the sweetest hens, and these ever lovin' girls will be out in high wind, rain, or sunshine. They are champion foragers and are in their prime for laying. Yeah for us! We are averaging about 8 eggs a day and it is a welcome change after going without for a couple of months. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Have you priced organic free-range eggs in the store....they can be upwards of 4.99 a dozen. I think I'm sitting on a gold mine.....or a golden egg. However you want to look at it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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The Black and White one "Martie" is her name, is a Plymouth Rock. ( I think)<br />
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This Buff Brahma is "Sylvia." She is one of my favorite breeds of chicken.<br />
I love that it looks like she has bloomers on, especially when they ruffle in the wind.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong>P.S.</strong> Dear Summer, we have some dates that we would like you to show for. They include but are not limited to: the pool, picnicking, and maybe camping. Please, please be an old friend and do not stand us up. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Blessings and sunshine to you all!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Prairie Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07780650889795002546noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172353699927699966.post-81277223531829368372011-06-01T08:17:00.000-06:002011-06-01T08:17:25.480-06:00Chicks Are In<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</div><div align="center">We have Chicks!!!</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"> Lots and lots of Chicks.....</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">and Chickens!</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">I think I have 40 lady poultry in my coop.....</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">Oh goodness...</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">Someone help us!</div>Prairie Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07780650889795002546noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172353699927699966.post-14420829399775659672011-05-30T09:41:00.000-06:002011-05-30T09:41:19.685-06:00A Branding We Will Go<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCh4Es5tE9atQk_TeW5iYEXgAwdIZjgdfVP4UGSy2DW270rGL4B_ehC7L4FMM4noprvICtWsfl2TRPRLDrOVJISzQ0Y65XofZ34-81gzUdbuEllYrz_AyXawizTCGLhkcwmSEIe9J3AkNQ/s1600/Branding+2011+303+copy2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCh4Es5tE9atQk_TeW5iYEXgAwdIZjgdfVP4UGSy2DW270rGL4B_ehC7L4FMM4noprvICtWsfl2TRPRLDrOVJISzQ0Y65XofZ34-81gzUdbuEllYrz_AyXawizTCGLhkcwmSEIe9J3AkNQ/s640/Branding+2011+303+copy2.jpg" t8="true" width="640" /></a></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">My family had a branding this weekend......</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">It was the first break in the weather in two weeks....</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">It was perfect....!</div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div align="center">The last time I attended a branding, I was around eleven. </div><div align="center">Lets just say it's been a while.</div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div align="center">What to shoot, where to stand, where not to stand, get out of the way...it was a great way to exercise my skills.</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">This time of year all of the cattle ranchers are de-worming and vaccinating cows and branding calves. Rather than listen to me talk about something I do not know a whole lot about....</div><div align="center">I will just let the photos speak for themselves.......</div><div align="center"><br />
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Bringing them on into the corrals.<br />
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</div><div align="center">This was my girls' first branding.</div><div align="center"> Lillie screamed, "DOG" at the cows the entire time. We could not convince her that they were not dogs.</div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">This is my Grandpa, he is preparing the vaccinations.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My Hunny, he was on de-worming duty.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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My Dad and my cousin Skylar.....<br />
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</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">Just little taste of Wyoming life for you this memorial day.</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">Have a Blessed Memorial Day!</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Prairie Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07780650889795002546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172353699927699966.post-79491121148915326322011-05-27T09:26:00.000-06:002011-05-27T09:26:00.984-06:00Ebb and Flow...<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">In flowed the crummy this week, with soggy basement carpets, knee deep mud in the backyard that has us wadding in it to kick the sump pump on every time it rains, a lingering cold that just wont quit, dreary skies that hide the sun, you know, "flow." But with it comes the "ebb"........the gradual receding of the flow. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Oh, how I'm thankful and blessed to say we had the "ebb" too. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">My ashes this week were titled flow and my beauty named ebb.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><em>To all who mourn in Israel,<sup class="footnote" value="[<a href="#fen-NLT-18822a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]">[<a cmimpressionsent="1" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=3172353699927699966#fen-NLT-18822a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</sup><br />
he will give a crown of beauty for ashes,<br />
a joyous blessing instead of mourning,<br />
festive praise instead of despair.<br />
In their righteousness, they will be like great oaks<br />
that the L<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">ord</span> has planted for his own glory.</em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><em>Isaiah 61:3</em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"> I was reminded of this verse this week. While I prayed for the people of this country that have suffered from the disastrous "flow". </div><div style="text-align: center;">People are finding themselves without homes, jobs and family members.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Ashes = Flow. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">It has made my "flow" seem non-existent and nothing to complain about. It has made me search for the beauty in my "ebb."</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Ebb = Beauty</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">The beauty came in moments of small celebrations throughout the week.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Look at that Cat In The Hat cake, made by one of the moms.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Prairie Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07780650889795002546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172353699927699966.post-62019834192285461352011-05-25T16:30:00.000-06:002011-05-25T16:30:29.310-06:00Gallery Wall....<div align="center">I have been very busy the last week and I have some photos to prove it. </div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">I also have a basement that was full of water...and a wreck of a house to prove it.</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"> I will choose not to prove it to you and spare you the gory photos....(:</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">If you have been following me for a while than you would remember <a href="http://littlemamaontheprairie.blogspot.com/2011/01/house-goals-for-2011.html">this post</a> that I shared in January. I created a list of home goals for 2011 and I would have to say, a very wet spring has allowed me to accomplish quite a few of those items.</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">I have been frothing-at-the-mouth (that is a prairie term for "Dying-to" but I don't like to use the word Die) to get my living room decorated. This was a photo I posted in January...</div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div align="center">I'm really into monograms right now and since my first and last name begin with an A, I have them all over. I also have a monogram for every person in my family. I used the $7.00 frame that I found on my <a href="http://littlemamaontheprairie.blogspot.com/2011/03/balancing-act.html">Birthday Get-A-Way</a> and inside I placed our engagement photo. My grandparents wedding photo from 1953(one of my cousins will correct me if I'm wrong) and a picture of my girls and their feet. The black and white baby photos are all three of my girls at 3 weeks exactly, and a few other photos that I've taken. Oh, and the Marriage Creed given to us by my Hunny's grandparents as a wedding gift. </div><div align="center">I love how it turned out and I really like how this wall needed more than just the TV on it. </div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">You will also notice that I finally purchased the bookshelves that I wanted. After searching craigslist and all kinds of online stores I found my bookcases at <a href="http://www.csnstores.com/">CSN Stores</a> online. </div><div align="center">Shout out to <a href="http://4storytime.blogspot.com/">Melissa at Storytime</a>, this is what your CSN giveaway went toward.</div><div align="center"> A big thank you to Miss Melissa for that!(Woot! Woot!)</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">Oh, and one more thing I'm working on and would love to finish painting if it would ever stop raining and creep above 60 degrees.....</div><div align="center"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Next, you take the queen out....You can't see her because she is in a little mesh box that is covered with workers.</div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">This is the<u> Most Important step</u> to a successful hive.....</div><div style="text-align: center;">You must, I repeat, must play Macho Man and show how you let bees crawl all over you....</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Just sayin'....</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I did not get a picture of <strike>my macho Dad</strike> us pulling the cork out of the queen's little box and exposing a little gum drop plug that the workers will eat until they have an opening for her to get out of....it got a little harry for me at that moment and I might have dropped my camera and ran away screaming like a girl....</div><div style="text-align: center;">Oh yeah, I am a girl. </div><div style="text-align: center;">No explanation needed. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">We put the Queenie down in the box and proceeded to DUMP the bees into the hive. Yes, you dump them. Very technical here.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">After dumping them we put the lid on and a very heavy rock to hold the top down.....</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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It has been an unusually cold, and windy spring here on the prairie and as of yesterday morning we still had frost on the ground...so my poor bees have had nothing until these were in full bloom....<br />
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</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">They are one of their favorite foods by the way......</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">Dandelions are no longer hated, but needed here.</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">And come winter, I should have quarts and quarts of yummy honey to sweeten my morning Java. </div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">Oh it is the best.....</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">All from our alfalfa hay field. </div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">Mmmmmm....Sorry I just drooling on my keyboard. </div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Blessings today! </div>Prairie Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07780650889795002546noreply@blogger.com5