Reminiscing!

Well, I am here to reminisce about the past! I was looking through some pictures on my computer today, and came across the one's from Tennessee - oh how much I miss it! There was so many beautiful things about that place. (Of course along with the ticks, fleas, and roaches!) But it was a wonderful place to live and nothing will ever replace it. I will always remember the wild freedom that seemed to surround the Boy's home, all the horses roaming through the pasture, living on a dead end road :) seeming to be far away from everything and everybody .. and those beautiful mountians! Everywhere I looked, beauty seemed to be around me! I just wanted to share some pictures with you all - so you can oh and ah with me! It really was a beautiful place to live.

The Boys home is back from Florida and school is in full swing again. So far everything has been pretty calm, so I'm hoping that it stays that way! Please pray for a few of our guys that have some hard decisions coming up. Josh, a boy that just left the program a few weeks ago - is doing well living in Ohio and attending a Christian School there. Please also pray that he will do well with the new surroundings. We all just have to remember that you never know when God will work in someone's life.

I miss you all, and hope that everyone is doing okay :) As always, I miss the Reynolds and have had a fleeting thought or two .. of just showing up on their doorstep someday! Wow, wouldn't that be a surprise! Well watch out Amy and Juli - scary Sarah might come back :)

Love ya all!

Oh how much I miss those beautiful mountians!

The sunset in our back yard.

Bethany riding our horse Stormy, w/ Victor leading.

Our pond in the winter time.

Wow, what a busy life :)

Well hello everyone!

Life has been extremely busy lately ... but hey what else is new right?!
My family and I went to Florida for a few days and actually got to relax a little bit!!! (Are you dieing of a heart attack yet?!) It was a lot of fun, we went to the beach, shopping, resting, sleeping in late, and watching Andy Griffith - which always makes everything better. :)

Bethany turned 13 on Friday, and we are bemoaning the fact that we are all now in our teenage years and older. What is this world coming too?? I can't believe that my boof is already so grown-up ... well, in years anyway! I'm not so sure about the rest of her - the crazy child, I love her to pieces though. :)

Two boys went home this past week, Josh and Sergio. Pray for them if you think of it, they'll definitely need all the prayer that they can get. Yikes! Josh had been here a full year and graduated with honors. Sergio on the other hand - weeellllll, lets just say he left :) Anyways, Josh is being missed by just about everyone -don't ask me why, since he was such a grump all the time, but hey if you spend a year with somebody, you do tend to get somewhat attached. My mom and dad were both really close to him. So just pray for both of the guys, okay? :)

There are rumors of going to Florida again on Wednesday for the blowout in Pensacola - so far I am hoping and hoping, that they are only rumors! I am ready to stay home for awhile! But I do tend to get yanked along with everyone else, bohoo! Well whatever happens, hopefully I come out on the other side ... still alive :)

Sarah, we've got a runner

Well today was very interesting to say the least!

My Dad has been sick with a 102 fever the past week, so today we finally put our feet down and made him stay in bed and rest! (Believe me, it is not a easy thing to do!) Anyways, he did manage to rest quite a bit of day, and I was just starting to pat myself on the back for being a good nurse when there was a loud bang on the door and I went to answer it.

"Sarah, we've got a hot foot" Bro. Daniel was at the door, and my heart beat picked up just hearing that!

"You mean like a runner?" I asked, just to make sure. :) Hey I was trying to be a optimist! Yeah, the new boy ran away and immediate chaos reigned! People running everywhere and boys spreading in twenty different directions. Sorry make that 15, but close enough.

My Dad, (who don't forget - has a 102 fever) of course jumps off the couch and hops into one of the vans and takes off down the road. Everyone was gone for about 20 minutes and then the van pulls back into the driveway, with a kicking and fiting ranch boy!!

Come to find out that my Dad had saw him coming out of the woods, jumped out of the van and football tackled him!!! Yeah, now that's what I'm talking about, go Dad!

My wonderful kitty, Peaches!

This post is dedicated to my wonderful and adorable cat ... Peaches. I missed her soooo much on my six week trip that it was unbelievable!! So much that we have been through together! Some people claim that she's a "devil cat" and lets just put it this way ... umm - they have walked away with a sore leg before. (Grin and more grins!) Just ask any of the ranch guys and some of the Reynolds for example! They have all experienced my defensive side a little bit :) :)

Anyway, she really is the sweetest and cutest kitty that you will find for miles around. And these pictures are evidence to that! Tonight while I was sitting at my computer desk trying to get a letter wrote, she jumped up on my lap, purring away and nozzling at my hand just wanting to be pet. And of course you can guess ... the letter didn't get written and the cat got pet, she's so spoiled rotten! And the best part of it all is - she's mine!

Okay, I know by now that you all have got bored out of your minds - so I'll stop blabbering on and on. Sorry about that, but if you had a cat as cute as mine, you would blabber on too.

We got home on Thursday night and the past few days I have just been soaking up the feeling of FINALLY being home, I love it! Just being able to have your own bathroom, your own bedroom, your own house! It's a wonderful feeling believe me :) I can run around the house looking like a hurricane just hit me and nobody cares!! Wohoo! Completely a awesome feeling!

The only bad thing about being home is missing the Reynolds house ... I can't stop thinking about and reliving it over and over in my mind! It was such a great and awesome time that I will always remember! All the escapades and late nights, great talks and crazy water wars :) Just everything I did there was a blast - even feeding and milking the cows!! If only the boys knew that I could carry so much stuff around, they wouldn't be so helpful anymore :)

Well for this post I just wanted to brag on my Peaches, isn't she a doll???!