Here's My Monday....

Here I am on this not so balmy Monday morning, with our farrier (a person who trims and puts shoes on horses hooves) Paul Smothers. Note my winter coat..it was 35 degrees outside!! Paul is trimming Ashlee's miniature horse, Clarabelle's hooves!

Here Paul is putting hind shoes on Baron, Ashlee's friend Taylor who keeps her horse at our house. Taylor'smom (my friend) Nicolle is holding Baron!!

We were in the barn getting the horses feet done from 9am-12:00, we then hooked up our horse trailer to Nicolle's Suburban and brought it in for safety and service checks to make sure all is well for the upcoming show season, which starts May10th at the Silver Buckle Arena!! Ashlee & Taylor are VERY excited. But due to the "winter weather" we are having, Ashlee & Taylor have not had as much riding time as in previous years, so they will really have to work the next two weeks to get their horses in "show shape"!!

The rest of the day I hustled around and did my mundane household chores, laundry, cleaning, grocery shopping and picked up the kids. I did make a Martha Stewart's ham, which used to be Alex's fave, and Mike stopped and picked up the supplies necessary to turn the left over ham, which there was alot into split pea soup for tomorrow, so he has that cooking as I am blogging!

That means less mundane chores for me tomorrow!! YEAH!

I also talked to my sister Sue and Kari. Sue is doing better, but still tired from her chemo. She will not go in for more chemo (new stuff) until May 7th. It is supposed to be more gentle on her body and more cancer specific. They could not give this to her until her blood levels were normal, or almost normal. She also has to go in and have her heart checked, which is standard after treatments of the chemo she received. Please pray for her levels, especially red blood cells to be up to par and that her heart test goes well! She is doing so much better and heading in the right direction! Towards good health! Frankly, SUe has amazed me. She has faced things she has feared her whole life, with not an ounce of "why me". She has been courageous, and positive and I love her so much!!

SO tomorrow, I guess we'll see. But it is my hope no more of the white stuff, bring on spring!!

The Winter that never ended....

What is this I am hearing about "global warming"??? Bring it on...we seem to be having eternal winter here in the balmy state of Minnesota. The boys decided to go golfing this afternoon and left all warmly dressed as it was 45 degrees out, by hole number 2 they had experienced winter all over again!!




Here is Alex at Windsong GC this afternoon Hole 1 Here is Alex at Hole 2 snowing! See Alex at Hole 2, it's really starting to snow in earnest!

Hmmmm, golf and snow don't mix well....still hole 2

Still Hole 2

They set their bags down to putt and this is what happened in a matter of minutes!

Hole #3 Alex cleared a space to tee off!!

A View of Hole #3

Hole #4-now it looks like it's Jan in MN

Hole #5

Hole #5- Alex is really really tring to golf in this!!

Ashlee did GREAT Today at the Horse Expo!!

Here's a pic of Ashlee with her MN High School State Equestrian Team speakers at the MN Horse Expo speaking about the Equestrian Team.

I am so proud of her, she was chosen to speak about her Western division out of all the other students in MN. She prepared her speech and went and there were 5 other kids speaking about theirs! She did a great job and was a great opportunity to meet the people who started and run the MN Equestrian club.

I videotaped the whole thing and Mike was going to put it on YouTube for the State club to use for prospective members and teams but it was way too long!! SO we Mike made a disk and I am sending it to Ashlee's eq. Team Leader!

Ashlee of all people, felt honored and wanted to do this, so HATS OFF!!

I Like to Blog!!

Hi All!

I have decided to start my own family blog, where you can check up on our daily adventures and hear the latest news on us...The Walstad Family!! I am the BIG BLOGGER and I think I will include cool links to recipes, groups and info I pick up here and there!! I am also thinking about starting my "ask the Mgr" blog to help new managers learn how to teach and moticate their sales teams. Kind of a "Q and A" of sorts...we'll see! ANyway, I am going to have Splat Design s come up with a cool design for this and see where it goes!!