Life on the Ranch: December 2013

Last weekend we went Christmas tree hunting and it was Maubry's first year to get to go.

We went with our sweet friends Tim and Jenna.

The morning started with breakfast at our house.

We loaded up our dogs.

Stopped and got coffee.

And Maub napped all the way up the mountain.

It was a fun little adventure.

I am in LOVE with this picture!

Tim and Jenna with our dog and theirs.

She had so much fun.

Our brave leaders ;)

This year has been a little different for Chaney and I.

It is our first Christmas without either of our families. And though we are both a little sad it has been cool to see how God has filled the season with many new friends that are starting to feel like family.

So even though we won't be with our parents or siblings or grandparents or cousins we still are filled with lots of joy and laughter and love.

~All thanks to Jesus~

The past week or two weeks (I can't really remember) Maubry and I were in Oregon. We got to celebrate thanksgiving with our families and Chaney quickly headed back home to Montana. But Maubry and I stayed because my mom went to Uganda for a week so I helped take care of the kids while she was gone. It was a wild week but such a fun and blessed time! I got to spend a lot of time with my sweet cousin Ashton (I begged her mom to send her up to me from So Cal) and it was so great to hang out with her. And of course spending time with my dad and all my siblings was super great! I love getting to be with them and see how they have grown and changed and just get to pour a little bit of the love I have for them into their daily lives. Each of the kids were so helpful and all had wonderful attitudes and took care of maub a lot for me so I could care for them (I thought it was a fair trade). We also spent lots of time at Shiloh Ranch Cowboy Church. A church VERY dear to my heart. I miss it all the time so we went to lots of church :) and there were 27 baptisms in one weekend!! Most of them people I love A WHOLE LOT. Only God would see it fit to allow me to be there. I spent time catching up with a few friends as well. So overall it was a very full and fun and wild week and I was so blessed by every minute of it!

As chars put it... Maub is standing where her life began.

This is my sweet friend Tay (I haven't seen her in way too long... So we got to hang out twice) and this is her cool boyfriend Stefan.

My first day with the littlest ones at home :) oh how they can make me laugh and want to pull my hair out! All in the same moment. But GOSH DO I LOVE THESE LITTLES!