Madi keeps reminding us that she wanted a horse for Christmas, well, she still thinks it's Christmas time and she still wants a horse. So, Saturday we went for a drive and called a guy we know to see if we could come over and see his horses. Madi loved it!! We went in the field with the horses and got to pet them and they had treats so all 11 horses were all crowded around us. They asked Madi if she wanted to sit on one and of course she was all ready for that. Then they asked if she wanted to take a couple of steps. She did really good especially since he didn't have a saddle on and she didn't really have anything to hold on to. But we are going to go back when it is warmer out and they said they would put the saddle on.

They are also breed to have their babies in late March so we are going to go back and see the babies. They had one little one left but she wasn't all that little since she is 6 months old now. That will be fun to see the new foals.

Our other fun thing to do right now is to go out and look for deer in the evenings, right before sunset. We have had two really good nights this past week. Last Sunday we went to the lake and saw 100 deer in the parks on the north side of Kanopolis Lake. It was really neat because it was like driving in the drive through zoo, they were right next to the truck and they weren't skittish and run off. They are either used to it, they know they can't get hurt in the parks, or they just found some really good food and didn't want to leave! It was pretty exciting but we are easily amused.

Saturday night we went out again and saw 75 deer within 1 1/2 miles to 2 miles from our house!! It was so cool! (I know, I'm a dork) They just need to move a little to the east. But we know there are deer out back because the tracks are everywhere and there must be at least a dozen little trees with rub marks on them. I got Chris a motion camera for Christmas. We are going to mount it back in the trees and see if we can see anything. I did take some pictures Saturday night, but they are really blurry because it was so late, but you get the jest of some of what we saw.

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It's still slow going around here. There is something about the first of the year, everything just seems more relaxed. Plus it has been so cold and windy lately, I just don't want to do anything. We did go to the shop yesterday and worked all day. Then I had TRB last night, so it made for a long day. Chris has continuing ed classes Tuesday and Thursday night this week.

Tomorrow we are going to start potty training again. I'm going the messy direction again and just going to put panties on her. We've done this before but I didn't stick to it, so this time we will try again and see if I can get her to at least sit on the potty. She doesn't even want to do that at this point.

Have a great rest of the week. Happy Anniversary Ray and Terri tomorrow!

Love, Amy