What have you done?

Got this from my madre. The ones in bold are the things I've done. You can do it too! Woohoo! :D

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight (Pillow of fire, Oh yeah!!)
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelos David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie (Does a small group movie count? ;)
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone (More like...THREE.)
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake (seen it but not swam in it)
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Read an entire book in one day

The Braidy Bunch!!!

Well I started a habit of braiding the horses manes every Sunday afternoon, but that didn't last for very long. So I haven't braided them in like, a month. Yikes. So Wednesday I braided them. I will show you the before and after pics for Missy. Then a few body shots of her. You guys haven't really been able to see all of them have you lol?






I wish my hair was as long as hers... *sigh*

I didn't get a before or after for Cat cause her mane wasn't very bad at all cause it's much shorter than Miss Missy's. Here we goo...




When I was done with Cat, I was going to clean their stalls, but this big sucker was headed in our direction...!!!

I ran and put Missy in her stall, and a minute or so after finishing with Cat, it started pouring. And can you guess what I was wearing? Shorts and a t-shirt. :D Yup. I went back inside and cleaned the stalls later when it wasn't raining. Lol. What a day.
Thanksgiving was fun. Christina and Derek, and Jerald came over. Honey befriended Christina lol.
Well I gotta go,
Love Wins,
Hayley

WOOHOO!

Let me just say...I'm SO EXCITED FOR CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love Christmas. Don't get me wrong, I love Thanksgiving too, and I can't believe it's already gone, but Christmas is my total favorite. I had a very hard time picking the background, cause I had like 5 I loved. This one and the one on my photography blog are the two that made it. :) So go check out the other one too...

Anywayz, I loved all that rain! And did you see those clouds?! I took a ton of pictures of them and of Missy and Cat, so I'll try to get some up today. :D It just takes a while :(

Love Wins,
Hayley

P.S. I'm very upset that the countdown gadget is broken. I wanted a countdown to Christmas!

My Music at the Mall Songs...

I thought I'd share the two songs I'm playing at Music at the Mall next month. They're not perfect yet lol, so this is just to give you an idea of what they're like.
Oh on the second one, please ignore my brother's annoying background noise. Grr.



And since we're talking about videos, here's the video me and Celine were going to enter into the Film Festival. Yeah, you can laugh. :D

Love Wins,
Hayley

WOWA!

These pictures I found are incredible. Enjoy!

My new blog

I have a new blog, if you haven't read my last post. It's for photography only! If you wanna see the rest of the pictures from this shoot, I dare you to check out my Photo-Holic blog. :D Hope to see you there!

Love Wins,
Hayley

Happy Birthday Bailey

Well, yesterday was Bailey's 6th(I think) birthday! She's getting so old...and stinkier. Man she has some killer breath! But I spoiled her for mom. She likes to be blow dried so when I was drying my hair yesterday I blew it on her for a while. She got extra kisses and treats, too.

Missy has got to be the silliest horse I know. I was lunging her yesterday and Cat was on the other side of the round pen grazing. Missy would be trotting around with her ears perked and a content look on her face, but when she would pass Cat, she pinned her ears back and put her head in the air with a devil of a look on her face. I just cracked up! Then, I was working on her picking up the canter from a walk. When she does it going to the left, she gets it but her right hind leg is like all off. It doesn't go with her other legs, like it's following some other pattern! It's so funny! So she has to go to a trot, and pick up the canter again, correctly. Haha, and she only does it to the left. Goober. After I lunge her, I can walk around and she'll follow me. So I started running, and she trots next to me! Then I'll walk, and she'll walk, and I stop, and she'll stop! Haha while I was petting her in the center of the pen, Cat comes over and sticks her head through the fence trying to eat the carrot that's in my grooming box. She didn't succeed though. Hah one time I was picking Missy's feet though, and Missy ate the carrot I had. Sneaky....

Ohhh, a Biggest Loser update!! Vicki's husband Brady got voted off, by Amy. They went to singles this week, but Amy and them were all on 'Bob's Team', the blue team. Vicki says, you're going to pay. And in the commercial for next week, there seems to be a lot of drama with Vicki and Amy, and stupid Heba. Geez Heba and Vicki are terrible. I'm sorry, but they need to get over themselves, lose weight, and go home.
I should probably stop now....


EDIT TO ADD: I've decided that I am going to have another blog. But it will be for specifically photography. So go to my profile and check it out!
Love Wins,
Hayley

Rain! Sweet RAIN!

So yesterday afternoon on our way home from church we went to Walmart. When we went in the sky was a bit cloudy. But when we came out it was very cloudy and there was a huge dark cloud covering alot of the sky. On our way home it started raining. It was great. When we got home it was still lightly raining. How awesome is that?!

Love Wins,
Hayley

This is a long post....

I feel so smart. NOT. So today I went out and took a ton of pictures of flowers. They weren't turning out right, and I couldn't figure out why! I sat there thinking for a bit, then was like, 'OHHH!!! It's not on the flower setting!' After I changed it to that the pictures turned out great. So click here to view them.

This morning, around 4:45, Bailey woke me up. She was standing on me and wanted to go outside. So I reluctantly got up and let her and Honey out. I was standing in the doorway watching them. So I look down, then when I look up I see a hugenormous bird flying over me and the house! Bout made me pee! I was like, 'oh crap! That was a big bird!' It was at least 6 feet tip to tip. I think it was an owl, cause a few seconds after that happened I heard hooting coming from the roof. Oh man, that just really woke me up! Lol.

I want to share something I read in literature today. It's kinda long, just to warn you. But I recommend you read it all. Lol.

The Open Sky by John Ruskin.
It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of all creation in which nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man, more, for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him and teaching him, than in any other of her works, and it is just the part in which we least attend to her. There are not many of her other works in which some more material or essential purpose than the mere pleasing of man is not answered by every part of their organization; but every essential purpose of the sky might, as far as we know, be answered, if once in three days, or thereabouts, a great, ugly black rain cloud were brought up over the blue, and everything well watered, and so all left blue again till next time, with perhaps a film of morning and evening mist for dew. And instead of this, there is not a moment of any day of our lives, when nature is not producing scene after scene, picture after picture, glory after glory, and working still upon such exquisite and constant principles of the most perfect beauty, that it is quite certain it is all done for us, and intended for our perpetual pleasure. And every man, wherever placed, however far from other sources of interest or of beauty, has this doing for him constantly. The noblest scenes of the earth can be seen and known but by few; it is not intended that man should live always in the midst of them: he injures them by his presence, he ceases to fell them if he be always with them: but the sky is for all; bright as it is, it is not “too bright, nor good, for human nature’s daily food,” it is fitted in all its functions for the perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing it and purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful, never the same for two moments together; almost human in its passions, almost spiritual in its tenderness, almost divine in its infinity, it is surely meant for the chief teacher of what is immortal in us, as it is the chief minister of chastisement or of blessing to what is mortal. And yet we never attend to it, we never make it a subject of thought, but as it has to do with our animal sensations: we look upon all by which it speaks to us more clearly than to brutes, upon all which bears witness to the intention of the Supreme that we are to receive more from the covering vault than the light and the dew which we share with the weed and the worm, only as a succession of meaningless and monotonous accidents, too common and too vain to be worthy of a moment of watchfulness or a glance of admiration. If in our moments of utter idleness and insipidity, we turn to the sky as a last resource, which of its phenomena do we speak of? One says it has been wet, and another, it has been windy; and another, it has been warm. Who, among the whole chattering crowd, can tell me of the forms of precipices of the chain of tall white mountains that filled the horizon at noon yesterday? Who saw the narrow sunbeam that came out of the south, and smote upon their summits until they melted and mouldered away in a dust of blue rain? Who saw the dance of the dead clouds, when the sunlight left them last night, and the west wind blew them before it like withered leaves? All has passed, unregretted as unseen; or if the apathy be ever shaken off, even for an instant, it is only by what is gross, or what is extraordinary; and yet it is not in the broad and fierce manifestations of the elemental energies, not in the clash of the hail, nor the drift of the whirlwind, that the highest characters of the sublime are developed. God is not in the earthquake, nor in the fire, but in the still, small voice. They are but the blunt and the low faculties of our nature, which can only be addressed through lamp-black and lightning. It is in quiet and subdued passages of unobtrusive majesty, the deep, and the calm, and the perpetual; that which must be sought ere it is seen, and loved ere it is understood; things which the angels work out for us daily, and yet vary eternally: which are never wanting, and never repeated; which are to be found always, yet each found but once; it is through these that the lesson of devotion is chiefly taught, and the blessing of beauty given.

Love Wins,
Hayley

I drink thee in honor of a friend!!

Lol well tonight our youth pastors wife, Nicole, took me to Starbucks. We had a great time. And so as I'm there, I immediately think of Lauren. She loves anything pumpkin, so I decided I would have the Pumpkin Spice hot frappucino. Wait, or was it pumpkin spice coffee? I don't remember haha, but it didn't look like the picture. It was in a red cup and just like a coffee.It was hot and YUMMMY!!!!!!!!! So I drank thee in honor of Lauren! I'm praying for you girl!

Love Wins,
Hayley

Pray for a Friend

Hey there,
Could you all pray for a friend of mine- Lauren? She's having surgery on her ankle today. If you go on the sidebar you'll see her name and on her page she has more info about what's going on. Thank you all so much!

Love Wins,
Hayley

Ghost Hunters

Fall Colors...Somewhat.

Weell the other day I went out in the wonderful afternoon light to take some pictures. I just love those pine cones! Haha here's a link to the pics. Yup. Well things are going good. Oh here's a Top Design update for Mom. Eddie went home. The final three have to design a WHOLE townhouse(the interior). I forgot to watch Amazing Race. Sorry. Ghost Hunters was live on Halloween at Fort Delaware. And they showed all seven hours of the investigation. It was cool. And no, I did not stay up for the whole seven stinkin hours. I stayed up for five. It was 11, and I had to get up at 8 to be ready for the church picnic. It was fun. haha. Baptism went for an HOUR or more straight. Awesome. Well, I'll write more later. Goodnight!

Love Wins,
Hayley