Pre-Spring

Two weeks ago, we got some new friends at the Critter Barn. In all these photos the bird, and the bunnies are all only one week old. They are a bit bigger now, but still as adorable :) I don't really have much to say today, I just wanted to post some pictures of the animals. With spring approaching the farm, everyone is getting ready for the new babies that are going to be born any time now. I can't wait! :D

There is a set of triplet lops that were born. Each one if a different color. One brown, one tan, and one multicolored. I have a picture of each somewhere on this post, and they are each so adorable + tiny. My favorite part about the baby lops are there ears. Also the fact that they just fit in the palm of my hand.

New ducks and chicks as well. They are cute when this small, but personally as they grow I believe they get uglier. Thats not the happiest thing to say about these guys, but its the truth - in my eyes at least.

This duck would NOT stop quacking, even for the picture. 

Cooper update! Look at him, he's getting so big!!!! He needs to stop growing, NOW. He had tripled his weight sense we got him, or at least that is what the vet said. He's still as curious as ever though.

The Moon

There was a full moon the other night, but when I took a picture - I found there was more than just a moon. Trick of the light I supposed, but I do wonder why this happens with just the moon. I've seen another picture like this, taken by a friend, and its just the same.

A small poem about this picture.

Two extra orbs just flouting about.
One green, one white.
Still round as can be.
Illumination in the night
The moon shining bright
Dazzling the world for all to see.
Two silent mimes
Coping the one above.
Not the same - yet they try.
Alone.
Apart.
Separate by a still black that seeps through their light.
Light & Dark.
Black and white... and green?
A hint of yellow.
The night sky.

We've been working on poems in creative writing.
I don't think I'm getting much better.
I feel like all of my poems are like this. Bits and pieces of random thoughts that sorta fit together, but not really. Not sure if thats good, or not. I do enjoy the moon picture though :) Plus it got me writing, and thats always a good thing. I challenge you to stop for just about five minutes when the next night near you rolls around, and take in the beauty or the lack of the moon. The night sky is something to behold. I don't think you will regret it.

You are Perfect.

You are Perfect.

I am perfect. Thats what I learned today, that I am perfect. A lot of the time I feel like I am always trying to improve something about myself. Mostly this refers to something about my personality. For example, I try to be funnier (yes thats a word, my spell check is not underlining it!), or less sarcastic, or just nicer all around, but in the end I'm just me. I was driving home tonight from work, and all this really just hit me out of the blue. In the Bible, God says many times that He made you unique and in his image. Also He says that he loves us just the way we are. Before I have always thought that yes, God made me the way He wanted me, but yet there were things that would make me even better like if I used less sarcasm or if I was more out going. The thing is, I don't need to do that for God to love me. When He looks at me, all He sees is perfection. I don't know if you understand, but this blows my mind. God doesn't want me to be more out going, He made me to be introverted sometimes and He loves that about me. Now I don't want to speak for God here, but look at the facts. This is what he sees in everyone, in all of us. We are all made perfectly, we don't need to change. I feel like a lot of time, Christians are put under a lot of pressure to always be improving in our faith and in ourselves. Now I have taken this more personally, and I'm sure so have others, that we need to change ourselves to grow our faith and be better for God. But what I'm saying is that you don't have too! Yes, you can grow your faith, but in the process you don't need to totally have a personality make over.
In conclusion - as cheesy as it sounds - I am perfect, just the way I am. There is no need to stress about becoming a 'better' person, it will come all in due time. God is still molding me, and shaping me into the person he wants me to be. So I will just keep being me, as best as I can.

Precious Moments

Today I went to the Boys & Girls Club again. This time we brought angora rabbits (if you have never seen one, look up a picture, they are Sweet!) and we also brought a very special surprise for the kids. We brought not even two week old baby bunnies. They were lops, and absolutely adorable.
Thats not what I really wanted to write about though. At the very end, I went back downstairs to go get the last cage of rabbits and to grab the tarp we had put down on the ground. I was folding up the tarp and this little girl runs into the room from out where she had been playing. She comes up to me and give me this giant hug, thanks me for coming and then runs off. My heart melted, to say the least. Its those precious moments in life that I live for. It honestly really hit me, how blessed I am.
Even just one small smile from a little girl, can turn my entirely awful week around. Thats one of the great things about kids.
I hope that in the future, I can see a ton more precious moments. I can't wait. :)

2/22/13

Today I switched out os spanish!
       *WAHOO*
The thing is, I'm not so sure about it right now... *sigh*
I honestly really miss my old lunch table, like a lot. I mean my new people are great too, but it doesn't mean I don't miss my old one. I'm not sure if I'm just having second thoughts now for no reason, maybe its just because its the first day so everything is different, or because I honestly made the wrong choice. I don't think I can switch back now though, it has to be too late for that. Maybe I'm just having a bad moment right now... Hopefully it will get better :)
Now I'm in study hall instead of spanish. Gosh, what am I going to do with all this time? Blog apparently, or watch youtube, or read. Thats what I can do! I can read! Sorry random, but I've been reading the hobbit and I'm at a super intense part - near the end - so I want to read. Too bad I thought of this now.... Now that class is almost over. Oh well, there is always next time, or this weekend. I can't wait for this weekend, even though I only had three days of school this week.
I feel like its been like this a lot lately, I'm just constantly tired. Not exactly physically, but especially emotionally. I'm not really sure why, but I do hope that it gets better soon.
Well those are all my random thoughts of the moment I guess. So I hope you have a wonderful day, and I shall post again soon. Ciao!

TwoSinksFarm

On Tuesday, my creative writing class went on a field trip! We went out to TwoSinks Pony Farm, which is right near out school. When I was younger, in elementary school, we used to go here to ride the ponies, find our way in the hay maze, and ride in the horse drawn wagon. So this place had many memories, yet it had been a long time sense I had been back. No one was really there when we went, besides our class and two workers who were feeding the animals. Most of the group was following our teacher around, but my friends Kendra + Carly went with me on our own adventure. We were allowed to of course, but we went on our own - away from the class. I'll describe what we did with the pictures bellow. I find it easier to understand what we were doing when you can see it all.

The first thing we saw when we arrived were these two.  They were hiding in a little shelter away from the cold + snow that was blowing. I don't blame them, it was cold - and icy. A few people slipped XD But these are halflinger horses, which just happen to be my favorite type of horse, like ever! They are the ones that pull the carts and wagons.

The thing that gets me about this horse we saw, is how he stands. Just look at that! I have like five pictures of this horse just standing like that. Carly said that it looked like it away about to dance or something. He also has a beautiful colored coat, in my opinion at least. 

The horses bellow are the same halflingers again. After it stopped blowing so much, they came out for a snack. :) 

This was one of the abandoned stalls in the barn that we saw, for some reason they really stuck me. They were a bit eery in my opinion, yet they looked really sweet. Its almost as if a ghost could live here - haunted barn!

The picture on the left is a tree that we found while walking way back in the woods. The snow looked like little cotton balls on them :) For a second we even thought they were real cotton balls, then we realized it was just snow... The picture of a door is just another fascinating picture that I took of the barn. Once again, I know the barn is sorta old, but it almost looks like it could be haunted.

This is the stream that we found, once again way back in the woods. If you notice the ice that is starting to form, it was neat to watch the water just run under it. So the water was still running, bu there was ice on top. Good thing no one fell in, it looked pretty cold.

Twine bucket! Now this is important to me because I understand! At the Critter Barn we have a twin bucket like this, so I felt sorta a connection. Odd, yes. 

To the left we have a beautiful tree that someone cared into, and on the left we have my friend chasing after a duck. I pick the best of friends :) - and no, that was not sarcastic. 

Speaking of ducks... ducks... and even MORE ducks!!! There. Were. So. Many.



This little pygmy was adorable :) I LOVE the markings on his face.




















We got to watch the sheep eat!

This is officially the SWEETEST looking ram I have EVER seen! I mean come on, just look at him! 

After the farm, we went over to out teachers house to have hot chocolate....

...and to see her PUPPIES! There are three of them, and they are all very tiny yorkies. They were adorable  absolutely adorable, and thats to say the least. We all sat there and held them and just watched them play for a while. They were ADORABLE!

Look at how cute they are :) For a while we watched them all play tug-a-war with this little toy. One of them, the one on my lap there - whose name is little red - would go off and play with himself while his two brothers fought over the toy. We also got to watch them eat.
So overall, it was a really amazing day with some wonderful friends. :)

Bulling

This isn't an easy subjet - Bulling. Neither is this an easy video to watch.
To be honest to you all, I cried through most of this.
I want to dare you to watch it, not because I want you all to feel bad, but because I want you to learn. Learn what? I have no clue, but please - you should still watch it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ltun92DfnPY#!