More Bits...

Finishing up on a few more little things going on that make up our lives:

Our wild plum tree went crazy this year with fruit- I need to find my canner I guess and put up some plum jam. They should be ripe in another week or so.

Last Monday, Graciela, a friend from my Ward who also owns horses, and I went to Ephraim to an indoor arena where on Mondays between 4 and 6 there is a 4-H riding group that meets. The gals that run it are two really nice ladies (grandma types) that help out the kids in the area that want to learn how to ride and jump. They invited us to come check it out. We had a fun time- cute kids not bigger than 8 or 9 years jumping horses and loving it! I am going to help them out anyway I can- probably bring any of my students down to ride that want to jump, etc.

I took Annie and Frankie- Graciela rode one while I worked the other. Neither of her horses are rideable at this time. I was so pleased with Annie- to my knowledge she'd never jumped before and she offered no resistance at all when we did. She even seemed to enjoy it. I'm so excited about her foal next year by Providence- should be a good little jumping pony!

Bitsy surprised us with 2 babies- one doe and one buck! Usually they have babies in the spring.

We got 2 kittens for mousers. I just call them Blue Eyes and Green Eyes- They are sisters-even though they don't look like it.

Our little neighbors (twins, now 4 years old) saw Tom and I working in the field putting up the fencing and started yelling at us- "Hello Jerri!" "Hello Brother Fuhriman!" (Since he's the Bishopric member over Primary- they know him more from there) We hollered a "Hello, How are you?" back, which only fueled the flame and they kept saying "Hi", "How's your pony, We want to see your new kittens," etc. We were about done (more like done-in) with the fencing, so Tom yelled back to see if they wanted to come see the new baby goats. They started walking across the field (after finding their Mom) and came over to see the baby goats (just born) and the kittens. They asked what were the names for the goats- I said they had just been born and we didn't have names for them. Little Adelai and Julian decided this was no good and promptly named them Rose and Rocket Ship!

Thursday we went down to watch Kyle in his last soccer game of the year. Tom had to run an errand so he dropped me off at Cari's to help get kids ready (Cari's really feeling the difference of getting 4 kids ready to go some where vs 3!) Of course they all were happy to see me-it's been awhile. Kaylee ran to me and hugged me saying "Banma"- but after one hug she looked around and said, "Bampa" She looked and looked- while repeating several times, "Bampa." I told her he had to go somewhere but will be back in a minute- She frowned and called again "Bampa, Bampa!" All sad like. Later, when he returned, she ran to him and hugged him and wouldn't let go! Needless to say it made Tom's day to be so admired.

Kyle did great in his game- he has such unbridled enthusiasm for life-it's so fantastic to see, and so rare. He is always so quick to high five someone or say "good job!" to one of the other players. I really appreciate his wonderful attitude.

Ryan showed us how well he can bounce a ball and catch it in the air with one hand- he was so excited to show us his new tricks! And little baby Kynlee is growing! She is so adorable, cooing and smiling. And she has blue eyes and, dare I say, reddish hair? We'll have to see... I took the camera to get some pictures- but after a couple of shots the battery was dead- those were too far away to see anything- so I came home and plugged it in! Better luck (planning) next time!