They are a very amazing family!! They have helped us w/ camps, horses, all kinds of work on the ranch, always willing to help in anyway they can!!

Mr. Vale had a time share condo at the Wisconsin Dells, and when he invited my family to go w/ them two months ago we were all elated!!! Tons of fun slides, lazy riser, wave pool w/ a roof that will give u a suntan in the middle of winter, all in-doors!! What else could be better when its 3 degrees out side!!

We were there for four days, and had tons of fun!! One of the things I enjoyed the most was getting to spend tons of time w/ my niece Kayla!! She was soo cute!!

Then besides being w/ every one, the    

“Hurricane Slide” was really awesome!!! And has to be the best slide ever!!! If u ever go to the Wisconsin Dells u have to go on that slide at least once!! There are 101 steps up to the top and then it gets dark w/ a couple scary lights and then theirs thunder sounds and lights that look like lighting. It can be a two, three, or four person ride. It’s the best when u take four people and go sideways, when u come out of the first hole into the main part of the ride u almost fill like your going to flip, but don’t worry u wont, just make sure u hold on tight!!!!

I think I went on that ride at least a 20 times but I think it was probily a lot more!!!!! Unfurchanly I dont have any pics of that slide so u will just have to go see it for ur self I'm afraid. ;)

But I do have on of the "Lazy Rizer"

The fellowship was great too!!! We cooked all our meals together, ate together, and had bible studies together. It was a great time with every one! I really enjoyed that!!

  Every one Chilling after a hard day of swimming. =)

Yahweh Bless

~~~Rachel~~~

Hii, every one!! So I’m pretty sure I failed when I said I was going to try to keep up my blog, but I hope to do better this time!! One of the reasons I haven’t been here is because of “Facebook” (besides being incredibly busy!!) but I quit my facebook, and soon found I miss writing on line and talking to friends, and quite frankly missed the homeschool blog and every one on here!! So I hope to get to talk to all of u again!

So I think its been over a year since I wrote anything on here, &  a ton of stuff had happed since then but I seem to  not be able to think of anything right now…..   

Lets see……

Well, we had our first camp this summer! It was a all girl teenage camp. Even though we had plenty of kids running around all week. It went really well and I know for a fact that all the girls can’t wait to come back next summer!! I was able to be one of the head counselors, and I really enjoyed working w/ the girls and I learned a ton of stuff too!!   

We had another camp later in October, this time it was a family day camp. And that was shorter but it went really good. All the family’s totally enjoyed it, I don’t think there was one family there that didn't tell me more than once how much they enjoyed it!!

I think one of the reasons that the parents enjoyed it so much— is with all the things family’s try to do these days, rushing here and there doing this and that,  in the end they don’t really ever get to slow down enjoy the life Yahweh has given them and enjoy their family!! The family’s totally took it easy with their family,  got to have fellowship with other Christians, and had a lot of fun at the camp!!

And how could the kids not enjoy it with hayrides, bonfires, and horse back riding!!  

I will post pics of both the camps as soon as I can, but if u would like to get to see a really good post on the All Girl camp u could go to my

~~~mom’s blog~~~ .

Thats just one of them though, I think she did nine or ten of them!! Their all great, and the pics are a lot of fun to look at even if u dont have enough time to read all of them!!!

We have also taken several trips this last fall and I hope to write about them & put some pics!!

And then there is the Tea Party I did for my sisters 11^th

Birthday, that one

will be a fun one to write about!! It was a really cute party, but I think my mom is going to beat me to that one, I’ll still write something about it!! =)

  And then we had two baby horses born early summer, my mom has also done two totally awesome post on that!!, but I’ll put some pics up on my   own blog. There’s a lot more that has happed then that, but I guess I’ll write about it as I remember. J       Ok well I’m really happy to be back on 

 ~~~~ Rachel~~~~

I don’t think I have told u about my new horse yet.  Well I got him a couple of months ago.  

He’s a Modern Haflinger colt out of one of the best Modern Haflinger stallions. His mom is a really good brood mare, she is so well tempered. She’s what u would call a bomb proof horse. So with her being so sweet that then transfers over to Magic.

He’s going to be our ranch stallion. I’m going to show him in a lot of shows and try to get himself a really good name in the Haflinger world.  I hope he will be really tall, at least as tall as my Major. Major is 15.1 which is pretty tall for Haflinger.   

Ok, well that’s my new horse that I’m pretty excited about.  If u have any suggestions for training a colt please tell. Thanks for reading!!!

Have a great day………..

Rachel

I had a very unusual and busy weekend.  I had three girl friends over Friday night. We went and got pizza then goofed around out in the horse pasture. Then I think we went to my room and started to joke around again . We fell asleep somewhere around there. 

So here is where we get to the unusual part…. 

We woke up around 6:30, got up and got dressed; we then proceed to put the cage that had all our roosters in it in the bed of the truck.  We then went to the gas station to get some donuts. We  went to a ladies house that my sister new.  We took them to her back yard and she taugh  us how to take a live chicken and put it on the table for dinner. (She  taught us how to kill them and cut them all up.) We got a lot of meat out of all of them.  So yes it was a very unusual morning.

So after that things got more normal we than went home and we put all of the cut up chickens  in a cold water.  We went to subway after that and had a great time there joking around.

We then went home went riding and had an awesome time. 

While I’m talking about horses I don’t think I told u about the horse that I’m now trying to sell.

I have been trying to sell her before she goes home in two weeks, I have been working  with her every day that I can. She is a very sweet horse and she learns really well. I also think she will get better with age.

Ok moving on we then went to pick apples.

Witch I will tell u later what we did with them Monday .  We also took a lot of fun and random pics.   So after that my two friends Miriam & Marah went home.

But my friend Savannah stayed the night again we went to Wal-Mart and Target, we got some apple cider, snacks,” Iran Man” , and a couple other things. So we went home watched the movie ate the snacks then we went to bed….  (Man was I tired!!!!)

So the next day we woke up straiten the house and got my dad out on the horses for the first time ever on our horses. That was so much fun and the Major the horse my dad rode, was really really good.  ( He use to be my bucking horse)

 (Major is the one off all four.)

We got done just in time for church. Before it started  my dad, Savannah and I ran  and got some donuts   for everyone.  We had a really good serves. After that Sav and I gave the kids a trail ride with the horses.  O and my mom served one of the big chickens for lunch it was really good.

Ok well that was my weekend but the fun dint stop there. Today we went over to my fiends house Miriam and Marah and them and their mom  taught us how to can tomatoes & apples, make apple pie, and how to make bread for pizza. We used the apples we picked sat.

So that was what we have done so far, but tomorrow I am going out to eat with a couple of my friends. The rest of the week is pretty full to but I won’t go in to that right now. 

 Ok well that was my weekend.

 Oh and one more thing, my mom and a couple other people gave all off us a nick name

 " Hoosier Girls"

Hope u have a good week!!!

Rachel

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