It has been forever since I posted. To do a little catching up. The kids are in school and so am I. My husband and I decided to go back to school. We are in the Pathways program that is a online school through BYUI. I am loving it, but it is making our life a little crazier. My first semester ends in 5 weeks! I am a 1/3 of the way done in this year program.  Next fall I want to get my Associates degree. And maybe a Bachelors.
  In the end of April and beginning of March we were able to take a trip to Mexico to visit family there. It was a wonderful trip. Our kids got to meet the Aunts, Uncles, and cousins they never met. We stayed there for three weeks. Two in Mexico City and one in Acapulco. The kids finally got to swim in the ocean. Funny thing only one of my sister in laws with her older kids and my mother in law were going to go to the beach with us. So planning on 12 people. We ended up with 19 total! It was a wonderful fun time. I can't wait to go back again!

#weneedafarm

I'm having a hard time right now. I know this is going to sound whiny and ungrateful. But for me this is hard. Months ago (Feb 15th to be exact) Moses (finally) got the strong impression that we should really start looking and buy a farm. 

This has been my dream for so many years and hard to be patient over. So we looked. We prayed. We fasted. We looked some more. Put an offer on one and lost it. And looked some more... Figured out we have driven more than 750 miles looking at houses this year alone!

Well it's now November and still no farm. Thankfully we have been quite busy since that day in February, but on a day like today, when our neighbor yells obscenities at his wife in the yard while my kids are outside, or our taxes and city bills keep going up or the other neighbor with the registered sex offender son who is back home for the rest of the year (the neighbor let us know as a "courtesy" Thankx!) I'm done.

To @^)$#! with you all. This has to stop soon!  

I have dogs that need space, horses and goats that need to come home and chickens that we miss terribly! I know that we will find the right home in the Lord's time but right now I'm sad because we're still here and we have winter coming and no prospects. 

I'm not asking for the moon or a big house and rolling green hills, just a home that feels safe and warm. Property that is ours and enough space that we can't hear the neighbors yelling at each other.  Fully fenced and gated entry so no more stray dogs or those awful solicitors. A place for each of our animals and an orchard and garden. 

I've been going for the "field of Dreams" thing that if we have all the farm stuff then the farm will come...

So we keep waiting, and praying, and looking, and hoping and preparing!