Inspired

I have been following my childhood friend, Heather, on her blog for awhile.  She has truly inspired me to blog.  I love how honest she is with her posts and all the joy and reality that she captures in her life.  I love how she writes her blog for her family, so that they can have those memories to look back on.  I have thought about her often throughout the years and wondered how she was doing.  I happen to come across her blog while reading someone elses.  I have laughed, I have cried, I have related, I have been thankful.  Thank you Heather for inspiring me to begin blogging so that I can have some memories written down, and pictures to treasure.  Someday I hope to make this into a book and give it to my girls.

I am not very good at doing things like this so I hope that you will hang in there with me as I learn.  I am not computer savy...I have already wondered where my brains are as I began putting this blog together...I already feel old compared to this new techy generation.

I guess I should introduce myself.  I am a daughter, sister, wife, mom and friend.  I am a stay at home mom of two little girls, Hannah and Rebekah. I am married to a wonderful man who is seriously the best husband in the world.  Clay works so hard so that I can stay at home with my little girls.  The girls are so in love with their daddy...he can do no wrong in their eyes! 

Before I was a city girl I was a ranch girl...this is why I will always be a country girl at heart.
I had the privilege of growing up on a registered cattle and sheep ranch in South Dakota.  After living in the city for a number of years I now realize how lucky I was to have grown up there.  I grew up riding horses, working cows, caring for livestock, feeding lambs, rodeoing, showing cattle, horses and sheep, working hard, battling blizzards, drought, fires, grasshoppers and rattlers, playing hard, playing pitch and bump, eating gingerbread cookies, drinking hot chocolate, laughing, and loving life.  As a girl I learned to work hard and that things didn't come easy.  I learned to keep going through blood, sweat and tears and that when things got tough the tough kept going.  I grew up loving America and her Flag and proud to be an American.  Good values where instilled in me at a young age; I learned to have strength and face fear, and what courage and faith meant.  I felt like I could do anything because I had parents that believed in me and supported me.  I felt joy and accomplishment at the end of a long work day.  I sang at the top of my lungs.  I learn that I was depended upon and the definition of a true friend.  I learned to believe in God, pray and that God hears our prayer and that he will answer our prayers, just sometimes in a different way than we thought.  I learned to have fun, laugh and enjoy time together as a family. I learned to love and what it felt like to have a broken heart.  I learned that Attitude is everything.  I am so thankful for the way that I was raised and all that was taught to me by God, my parents, my brother, family, friends and just living life.  My childhood was a true privilege and I never want to take it for granted.