All vacuums suck

This morning I was vacuuming my living room and noticed that ONCE AGAIN my vacuum was clogged. In my almost 9 years of being a house wife I've gone through 5 vacuums. And here's what they all have in common. THEY SUCK!!! Now if they actually did their job and suck adequetly I wouldn't need this rant. But as they don't do their job...ergo they suck. And this round of Vacuum I thought was better than the last 4. I spent a little more money on this one. It had cool attachments for pet hair, a self cleaning duster and more stuff I will never use but probably should. And yet it STILL doesn't clean as well and I think it should. Now I know that out there, there IS the world's best vacuum. I've seen it, I've even had the pleasure, yes pleasure of using said vacuum. It's the Dyson Animal. It's purple and this thing can suck (in a good way) So why if I have found the world's best vacuum do I not have one in my home? Well that answer is easy...they cost $550!!!!! For a VACUUM!!!! Yeah they do. Now I have $550 but my kids like to eat, I enjoy a home to live in and the car needs gas. Therefore I settle for the less cool, bright yellow, sort of works when it feels like it vacuum I own.
I'll put the Dyson on the some day when the kids are gone list. But then will I need one that big a powerful???

So we bought a horse. We thought. "Hey we live in the country, we need a horse". Now it should be said that most of my friends here in Manila DO NOT have horses. But that did not deter us from our need for a horse. Granted Ben can use her for work and it is a good idea so he can get to areas he can't in his truck so we justified the horse.

No we've all heard about a lap dog right? Well this is a lap horse. If she could climb in your lap so you could rub her nose and scratch her ears....well she would. So last week I was "riding" her. I say "riding" becasue she's green broke and basically I sit on her while Ben leads her around. Well she wanted Ben to rub her nose. She kind of pushed him a little with her head to get his attention. The problem was, Ben was trying to keep her clam and I was trying to not fall off. After being ignored to a minute Aggie (that's the horse) clocked Ben upside the head. He had the whole birdies around his head and everything!!!

I'm happy to say that Ben and Aggie are fine, and their relationship has grown from this experience. Ben has learned it's better to just endulge the 1200 lb. horse and rub her nose. And Aggie will try to not knock Ben out.

So here's the view from my front door this morning. By the way last week it was in the high 60's and now....

It's a cruel, cruel world. I was SOOOOOO ready for spring. The kids were playing outside, the birds were singing, the grass was GREEN!!!!! Oh well the end of the eternal winter will come...EVENTUALLY!! RIGHT?????

But the good news is Ben got to use his new snow blower. He even used the snow blower on the DECK!!!

P.S. I had the pleasure of this photo making it onto KSL News at 6:00 pm during the weather forecast. I didn't get to see it but I hope those that did appreciated where they lived, and the fact that they didn't have to deal with this much snow.

The first entry..

A friend of mine from High School sent me the link to his family blog. His wife writes in it almost every day and posts pictures and does a GREAT job. I wanted to try and do something like that. I think it's important to documnet what's going on in our lives. We're having so many adventures here in Manila that I don't want to miss any of them. And I know that so many of our family and friends are far away, so I want them to beable to be kept updated as well. I hope I can do a good job and keep this up to date.