This post will be a different than usual, but hey, it might give you some insight into our lives that you weren't aware of! We are a family who loves the country, the ranchy life style, and with that comes country style music. As most of you know, I love southern gospel, and a lot of sg has country flare to it. But it is hard to find country music that has clean lyrics, but when you do find the odd song, we like how it tells a story and how the story often relates to our lives, past or present. Raquel enjoys Paul Brandt music and so we got her his new cd "Risk" for Christmas. The first song on the cd is called "Didn't even see the dust", which was one of the 20 most played country music songs in Canada in 2007. This song relates to our family, you see when we head out the door to go somewhere, you will hear someone yell "I call shotgun", and within a nano second you will hear "I call shotgun way home", and because we have 3 kids, someone is always left out! (If Mom & Dad both go, Mom always gets shotgun:) Normally you will hear this when the kids are headed out for a ride with their dad in the truck, but it's starting to happen when they come with me in the van. So much of this song describes us and how we like to hit the open road from time to time.
shot gun everybody getting for the long run dont know where we're going but the out come comes with a little bit of trust lets go following whatever where the wind blows flying with our hands out of the window we didnt even see the dust see how far we get driving straight ahead getting lost didnt seem to matter much all we had was time and a yellow line looking back we didnt even see the dust chorus: shot gun everybody getting for the long run dont know where we're going but the out come comes with a little bit of trust lets go following whatever where the wind blows flying with our hands out of the window we didnt even see the dust ohhhh yeah didnt even see it we had ups and downs we got spun around we held on when the going got a little tough it took love and faith and some give and take and grace no we didnt even see the dust shot gun everybody getting for the chorus: shot gun everybody getting for the long run dont know where we're going but the out come comes with a little bit of trust (ohhhhh) lets go following whatever where the wind blows flying with our hands out of the window we didnt even see the dust come on now! lets go following whatever where the wind blows flying with our hands out of the window we didnt even see the dust
Last week we were raking the lawn, wearing shorts, getting sunburnt, and enjoying the beautiful spring weather! 
Believe it or not, the kids thought this was a blast! And so did I! They made the mess and cleaned the cupboards, and I got to organize everything again, and we had it done in half the time!
One of my favorite features in my house is my pantry! I also took this picture to remind ourselves of how very blessed we are!
And sometimes tree climbers get stuck! 
These tree climbers were gracious enough to pose for a group picture! LOL...
