Flower Pots

So in my journeys of blog hoping and reading about all the pretty flowers everyone is planting, I came across this blog. What an adorable idea. Since my dogs have takin over my flower bed I decided I wanted something different. I was finally able to get them all done and put together on Thursday night with the help of my hubby.

My girls birthday!

My oldest cowgirl turned 12 yesterday! I can' believe how the time flys. It seems like yesterday she was an only child. I do have to say that I am rather proud of her she is maturing into a nice young lady. About a month ago she went to state TSA (Technology Students Association), it was held about 2 and half hours north of where we live. She was gone for 3 day. Se had never gone on a trip with out a family member with her, so I was nervous about sending her off. She had projects in digital photography, graphic design, and she had built a CO2 car to compete with. Of course she had a wonderful time and did quite well by her self, sniff, sniff. SHe managed to place 3rd in digital photography and 1st in the Co2 car. Having the 1st place automatic sends her to Nationals in Baltimore Maryland. She will be gone for 9 days. I am going to have a hard time then too. But, I am so proud and excited for her. It will be a great learning experience.

So here are a few pictures from a recent photoshoot I did with her and some friends. They are not the greatest but, we are going back to do another one soon. We have some more ideas for props and some other cool locations!!!





For the kids birthdays we always try to let them pick where they want to eat and then they have a party on the weekend. She picked the Genghi's grill for her dinner location. It is a Mongolian stir fry. We had a great time at dinner with family then managed to run to the mall for a few minutes to do a little shopping!

New Baby!!

Okay so no not me but, my mare. We left her out with our roan stud last year, I wasn't to sure about the whole thing but Cowboy was all for it. She has slowly been getting bigger and bigger. Well I was out on Friday and noticed she was starting to bag up just a little but, really figured we had a little more time. Then on Saturday the weather her was horrible and I sat in a class all day for one of the classes I am taking. So, by the time I got home Sat late afternoon I can right in the house and relaxed. Cowboy went out to feed and I stayed in as he said he didn't need any help. So Sunday I get up at the crack of dawn and head back to my boring class for an all day lab. Promptly I get a text early in the morning that says " Sugar is having her baby". WHAT? I text him back wanting to know details and such but the reply I got was something like we are going to breakfast and what time does Alco open. Alco is our little Wal-mart in the next town over. Are you serious? I go about blowing his phone up with texts, I can't believe that he just left my mare in labor. He tells me nature will take it's course. I understand that but, didn't you want to watch and what if something would have gone wrong? No, he didn't want to watch and nothing was going to go wrong, he just wanted to eat his breakfast. So, once he gets home he finally sends me a picture.



I am blowing up his phone again asking boy or girl? Remember I am in a class that is why I am texting. He finally sends back that it is a boy.

Well that stinks I am stuck in class for the day and I have a new baby to play with and love on at home.

I finally get home around 3 or 4 in the afternoon and get to run out to see him. I didn't even stop at the house I already had my camera with me so I drove right out to the pens and hurried along. What was funny was when I got there my SIL and Cowboy are standing out at the fence, momma and baby were over in the ban. I thought to myself I wonder why they are out here and not in there seeing the baby. I get out of the burban and she says to me I haven' gone in yet to see him, I wanted to wait and let you see him first. How sweet was that!

So here are a few of my photos, I am still editing more.










Oh I just love him!

Where have I been.

So about 2 weeks ago I was browsing along on the internet minding my own business when I get a pop up window. This particular pop up said that it was a anti virus software warning me that I had viruses. I knew right away that it was virus. It was not my virus protection that I had on my computer as I currently had Nortons. So I clicked out of it quickly ran a scan with Nortons. Nortons found one virus and removed it. Done deal or so I thought. About 30 minutes later the same pop up window showed up. I again clicked out of it and ran a scan. Nortons found another virus and removed it. This time I noticed on my desktop there was an icon for the fake antivirus software. I then went to my control panel to try and uninstall the software. About that time is when my computer kicked me out and restarted. Once it restarted I then had just a black screen with my white mouse cursor. I quickly started researching from my phone, which is real fun let me tell you. The pop up window that I had been getting was for " Internet Security 2010". It was a scam to get people who don't realize it is a scam to put in there credit card information. People think that they are paying for an upgraded full version of this so called antivirus program. Here is the kicker, I thought that by clicking out of it I was doing the right thing. This virus I am told is smart. Anytime you click on any part of your screen once the pop up window has appeared it gives the virus permission to worm its way into your registries and updates. So Nortons did find the initial worm but the rest was hiding laying dormant in the updates. Once your computer does one of it automatic updates the virus is put back to life. I found out that if this pop up window comes up that you need to hold down the power button on your computer and turn it off. Turn it back on and then run your antivirus software to get rid of the initial worm since you turned it off you never gave the virus permission to invade your computer. I will say that the pop up window does look legit and I can see how people who don't know anything about viruses can get pulled in.

Here is what one of the pop up windows that it may give you looks like

SO I have been reinstalling my operating system, all my programs and finding the rest of my stuff. I was very good about backing up, certain things I have on dvds, others I have saved on my external hard drive and I also have an online back up account. The online back up account is awesome cause it automatically back up every so many hours so, I think the only thing I "lost" is a few pictures that I had uploaded 30 minutes before all the mess.
My hopes with the long post is that it might help someone else from all the headache that I have had to deal with. I think things are almost back to normal on the computer so I should be back to posting now.

Technical Difficulties...

Okay I am having technical difficulties with my computer right now. I am hoping to be back up and running at 100% by Saturday. I will let everyone know of the mess, I have stumbled onto when I get back up and running.