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I woke up with a spring in my step today knowing we are officially one month closer to Spring! Crop planning is in full throttle at our farm and while the boys dissect numbers, acres and seeds..I am daydreaming of fields of beautiful golden wheat swaying outside my deck…I LOVE this coming season!! And because we are sloowly moving in to Spring up here, I thought it would be a perfect day to keep track of my list of currents! And here we go:

Adam & I at a luau in Hawaii
listening: to the dishwasher washing away behind me, a modern miracle in my books!:)

reading: anything I can find on raising chickens…only 1 more month! Eeek!

watching: The Mentalist….Adam is getting me in to it!

eating: Reese’s Easter Eggs..I can’t stop! Its an obsession that happens to me every year at this time!

drinking: water…I need more H20 in my life:)

wearing: my farm uniform: lulu’s and a t-shirt

feeling: nervous excitement!!

weather: a cool breeze is here today but other than that its sunny!!

playing: with stamps and paper when I should be cleaning them up!

wanting: Jake & Simon to get along

needing: my Jakey:(

missing: my late grandparents

waiting: for Spring!

enjoying: being a wife…love, love, LOVE it!

thankful: for everything..simply said

Thats my currents on this beautiful first day of March, what are you up to in your corner of the world?!? Have a great Thursday everyone!!

love,
 dawn

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Hey Everyone!!

 Happy Leap Day!!! What are you all up to on your bonus day of February?! We woke up to a foggy, frosty morning..which is really quite beautiful!! All the trees were coated with a thick frost that sparkled in the sunshine!! Since then we have been going over our plans for this years farming season, quite possibly my favorite time of year! Planning all the crops we will plant, how many acres of each and where!! Boring for some, exciting for us:)

This weekend, my best friend brought her family out to our farm for the first time, and I was ecstatic! These were to be my very first guests since I moved to the farm myself in August and I couldn’t wait to show them around. Her oldest, my god-daughter Makiya (3 1/2 years old!) asked her mommy on the drive out if we even had tv’s out on the farm!! THREE AND A HALF PEOPLE!!! She just melts my heart:)Needless to say, we had a lot of fun activities planned for the weekend and might I mention not ONCE were the tvs on 😉

Here are a few photos from our fantastic weekend:

My little sweetheart, decked in “farm gear”

Adam toting Jaelyn and playing with Makiya – this is the most estrogen he has been surrounded by..EVER!

Quad time!! Makiya especially loved this:)

Then us adults got some shooting time in! I have never, ever held a gun before (thats me above!) but Jodie was adamant that we shot off a few rounds (she had never used a gun before either) so Adam instructed us on the safety tips of using guns, stacked up some pop cans and away we went!! It actually was a lot of fun!!!!
We had a blast with our friends this weekend and it meant so much to me that they came. They truly brought a little bit of “home” to the farm for me, and I could never thank them enough!! Now tomorrow is March (already?!?!) and we are off dreaming about the Harvest we will have this year..many exciting things coming up!!
Happy Crafting Everyone!
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Hey Everyone!!

Ummm…what happened to February?! I cannot believe how long it’s been since I was more of a “regular” round here! As you can probably tell, we still do not have Internet at our place on the farm .. Adam is working on it as we speak and only a “teeny” bit frustrated, can’t blame him of course 😉

But since I now have my very own IPhone, I can rejoin society, even if I am way out in the “boonies” as some have mentioned! Only problem: how do you upload photos on to blogger thru IPhone, any tips out there??

And since it truly has been a while since I have caught you all up on my life, here is a little February in Review:

On January 29th, Adam & I were off to Hawaii for a family vacation with his parents & aunt/uncle. This was my first time to Hawaii (or anywhere tropical!) and I fell in loooove…hard!

On February 4th, I celebrated my 28th Birthday with a day of sunshine and my very first luau, very awesome!!

On this trip I learned to snorkel, which was huge for me considering I have had a fear of water for years! (2 instances of near drowning does that to a person!) I was pretty proud of myself and soo happy to be back in the water!

On Feb 10th I received “happy mail” from the editor of Paper Crafts that a couple more of my cards are being published!! Eeek! I don’t care if its your first or tenth email, it always makes me giddy!! On Feb 12th we flew home, only after I made Adam promise me we would be back next year 😉

On Valentine’s Day, we went for dinner to our favorite restaurant (Tony Romas) and saw “The Vow”..anyone else see it yet? While I did like the film, I wanted more from it. The Notebook is still my favorite though..hands down!

On Feb 15th, we brought my baby home to the farm..FINALLY!! Unfortunately though, the resident farm dog, Simon was not to keen on Jakey being here and my lil man had to go home for a few weeks til we deal with Simons aggressive behavior:(

Since then, my brother in law and his girlfriend have been down to visit us and we’re settling back in to regular farm life. I am getting ridiculously excited for Spring to arrive for farming to begin again…PLUS, I have a lot of plans of my own!! For instance: I’m getting chickens!! SO excited!! And I have been busy planning my first ever vegetable garden…I can’t wait to get my hands dirty again:)Any one else desperate for Spring to arrive??

I am so sorry for the delay in blogging but for those still checking in, thank you! I’m here and will be posting more as soon as I can!! Take care everyone…Happy Crafting everyone!!

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Aloha Everyone!!

Adam and I are currently in Hawaii, having an amazing time enjoying the sunshine:)I just wanted to pop in and let you know I haven’t disappeared, I’m just taking in the many sights this beautiful island has to offer!!

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Hey Everyone!!

Can you believe its almost February?!? I’ve hardly settled in to January!! We woke up this morning to the most beautiful sunrise, followed by a thick frost that covered the trees, making it truly a winter wonderland:)

Our morning view
The lovely frost
And, because VDay isn’t far away..I have been busy creating little love notes and greeting cards to celebrate the special day..this card is of no exception ;)

I heat embossed the lacy heart with white embossing powder, then die cut a heart out of white cardstock, stamped it with a gingham pattern and adhere it on top. Then I stamped PTI’s Bkgd Basics: Hearts sentiment in black ink, followed by some dotted flourishes and arrows in Pure Poppy ink. The final addition were these mini white hearts die cut from felt…warm & cozy!! Gotta love that 😉
Happy Crafting Everyone!
love,
 dawn

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