Good-bye Scooter!!

We lost Scooter to the road yesterday.... The kids and I were out in the yard, we heard a loud noise come from the road. I'm not sure what made me start running towards the road except the possibility that our dog might have left the yard. And sure enough, there were some people with their dog walking down the road & he wanted to follow them. As he tried to cross, he got hit. I believe it was instantaneous. There was very little blood & I think he just died instantly. I picked him up off the road and carried him home. We lovingly buried him out in the pasture, kind of by where Robbie buried Fiona. I don't think the Keira and Keanu will ever forget him.

Scooter was by-far the best dog we've ever had. The kids cried, and cried some more. I had a long talk with them about how his spirit wasn't in his body anymore, and about Heaven, and we prayed that God would take care of Scooter until we can see him again. We also used it as an object lesson of why we don't go near the road.  What else can you do?

I believe God was preparing my kids for this to happen, because twice in the last couple months we've hit and killed an animal on VanBelle. Once a cat and once a dog. Before that happened, I don't think Keanu and Kalani (especially) understood that animals die and cars can kill anything that goes into the road. It wasn't so much of a shock as it could have been.

Roller Skating anyone?

Yesterday I learned to roller skate backwards -kind of! I took the kids to Prosser Roller Rink, where we met a friend for Roller Skating. Keanu refused to skate, opting for playing video games instead. I was able to get Kalani out on the floor a few times & he did great for a first timer! After a while both boys were pulling me all over the place on my skates. Keira had two friends that we invited to come, and she kind of hugged the wall quite a bit, but I think she had lots of fun skating with her buddies. The boys friends Ryker, Little & Christina were there. My friend Melanie is an awesome skater & she tried to teach me to skate backwards. At least I didn't fall on my face (though I did fall once on my rear end).

Sledding Trip up on White Pass - The good snow days are numbered!

We went up on White Pass for a snow day. Pulled the kids out of school and everything! My friend Melonie watched baby Kai & we took her boy Tavin. We all headed up with our snow gear & it was a gorgeous day for it! The sun was out, none of us really needed our hats or gloves it was so warm. That must mean that the snow days are numbered!  Some people up there created this huge snow fort complete with a big tunnel, turrets and towers, and two slides to slide down. We had a lot of fun throwing snowballs back and forth, sliding, sledding and climbing.   On the way home, the boys crashed hard & they looked so adorable slumbering with their heads together! It was definately picture worthy!

Back in the blogging scene - Home based business ideas anyone?

Well, here comes the end to my hiatus from blogging! Things got kind of crazy for a while trying to live my life, take care of my children, household, and run the family! But I'm going to try to get better at blogging. Its good for me to record our lives and a decent substitute for the scrapbooking hobby that I don't seem to have time or energy for.

January and March were busy. I worked really hard -hours on hours, days on end- on an unsuccessful business endeavor with Xango. I was so excited with the business model and program I was on, and I attacked it gung-ho. It didn't work, however,  because not everyone was as excited as I was upon hearing about it. And no one was willing to take the risk. So- oh well! It's not for everyone & didn't work out for me! I'd like to work out of my home though, and so I'm still playing around with the idea of some sort of home based thing. Scentsy? Melaluca? Pampered Chef? I just don't know yet. And I really don't want to invest hundreds, so it needs to be low investment & something that the people I'm friends with would be interested in.

So to my friends out there, what kind of home based business have you tried & did it work out for you? What would you suggest?