Bella Hope's Journal on HoofBeat Ranch

Happy...

2012-02-14T13:14:00.001-08:00

...Valentines Day!! I know that today is supposed to be looked at as "Romantic" and what-not, soooooo...for the first time in my life I have my very own Valentine! Yes, can't you believe it! He is so handsome and he loves me dearly. He's very goofy sometimes and he loves to hangout. He's cool. I love his him so much...so cute! I am so excited to finally have a Valentine for the first time ever!! Here is some more about him: if you have read my blog before you will already know him, he loves to just sit with me and look at the scenery, he absolutely adores me, his birthday is on Feb. 20th, he's smart (haha!), he's very athletic, he's brave (very much), he has brown hair with a streak of black in it, he has brown/yellow eyes, he's very talkative but can be very quiet and shy when you don't know him very well, he'll eat pretty much anything (which is very brave!) although he's kinda picky sometimes, and he has lots of energy! That only describes him a little bit. So without further ado, for you readers who have already read my blog before...can you guess who he is???

(scroll down to see my awesome Valentine :))

Yep! That's my boy! Isn't he scrumptious?

Just look at those beautiful eyes...

I love his cute ears!

He is so much fun to cuddle with... :)

Well, that's all for now. Gotta get back to muh boy, he's callin' me... :)

Linked to: Camera Critters, Photo Friday, Fresh From the Farm, Project Alicia, Simple Lives Thursday, and Scenic Sunday

Busy, busy, busy!

2012-02-06T10:10:00.000-08:00

Wow! I can't believe winter is almost over and, man, have we been busy! Well just recently we found out that our "female" cat was actually a guy!!!!!! So now it seems that Darth Vader (Vader for short, his name used to be "Jade") is much happier with us knowing who he is :). But, I will be writing another post just for that... Also, Fade has been missing for a few days, I hope he's OK...I think he is. Also we have been busy preparing for Kids! Yes, kids but not the kind your thinking of! I mean the little black and white (and other colored) kids that run around and maa! Yes, goat kids! (Hopefully) Lily and Honey are pregnant, we don't really know when they got pregnant so we don't really know the due dates!! So if we walk out there one morning and happen to see little baby goats on the ground then we'll kinda know when the due date is, now won't we? AND we have been REALLY busy cleaning outside and getting ready for our garden, which reminds me, I forgot to tell you that we are ripping up our front yard to make it into a HUGE garden, PLUS we are using some other small areas in our side and back yards, too. So just to show you some pictures for the fun of it and because I am trying to illustrate my *ahem* "story" here are some pictures of some of the happenings on our homestead and/or ~~farm~~ mini farm:

Here is "Boog" (actually Duke, but I call him Boog :), he's been very playful lately! Flannery got this funny picture of him playing.

Here is (Darth) Vader, such a cutie!

Pipi, she is such a sweetie, I love her.

Here is another picture of Boog playing, silly boy!

Yours truly :)

My mom tried to get a picture of all of us at the creek a few days ago and this is the best she could get!

From L to R: Jed, Jonah, Saoirse, Flannery, Moira, Me, and Squishy in my lap.

This is Moira's pumpkin plant and here is one of the fully bloomed flowers, very beautiful!

Yes, it's what you think it is, Lily is standing on her hind legs trying to get inside, but not quite able to!

Here, Kala and Shiloh are playing. Happy dogs!

I know it's a little blurry, but here Shiloh is happily running around after waiting a while for us to fix the fence.

Well that's all I can do for now as I have to go do some school, but sometime soon I will be writing a post for some GAPS legal toffee, Yum!

~ Bella Hope

This post is linked to the Homestead Barn Hop, FarmGirl Friday Blog Hop, A Rural Journal, Your Thriving Family, Simple Lives Thursday, Orangey Macro Monday, and Pets Forever,

aaaaaanndd ANOTHER giveaway...

2012-02-02T16:06:00.000-08:00

sorry foshks gotta d'it har it ish:
http://www.smallstepsonourjourney.com/2012/01/tropical-traditons-all-purpose-cleaner.html#comment-4134

Yet ANOTHER giveaway...

2012-02-02T15:54:00.000-08:00

...(yeah i know i bet you all are thinking...what? AGAIN?, jk!)

anyways here it is at:
http://ozarkmountainfamily.blogspot.com/2012/02/garden-bag-and-heirloom-seed-giveaway.html

Ya'll should check it out!

Homestead give-away!

2012-01-30T11:34:00.000-08:00

Hey everybody there's a free give-away at:

This place

Hope you all love it as much as we did!

DA B

Cristmas Pictures montage

2011-12-08T13:32:00.001-08:00

Here it is!

Make a video - it's fun, easy and free!
www.onetruemedia.com

Christmas Pictures...on my other blog, a sneak peek!

2011-12-08T09:43:00.000-08:00

Hey everybody! I know that all of you all know that it's Christmas time!! And so that means...Christmas Pictures with professional photogrophy! And what's even more special is it is at home!! I love Christmas...lots and lots!
Your going to have to go to my photography blog to see all the pictures but here is one and then the before picture, too:

This is the "before" picture (before all the makeup, enhancing in pse, etc.)

And here is one of the "after" pictures.

Here is the link to my other blog: http://forget-this-not.blogspot.com/

I hope you like them!! Comments are welcome!

Some Random Pictures... 9/21/11 at OneTrueMedia.com

2011-09-21T06:42:00.001-07:00

Hey Everybody, I can't upload pictures but I can upload a montage!

Bella Hope

Make a video - it's fun, easy and free!
www.onetruemedia.com

My new Photo Blog is now open and a change...

2011-09-19T13:23:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody! Just a quick note that my new Photo Blog is FINALLY open! Here is the link To My Photo Blog. And I also changed the background (FINALLY)! I made it something having to do with Fall. Anyways, I hope you like it! Let me know what you think.

Bella Hope

LONG, LONG time no write! But I'm back!!

2011-09-18T15:09:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody! I know it has been SO long scince I have blogged! And boy have I got stuff to write about! Well first off we have finally started soccer. :D I know I can't belive time flys so fast! It almost seemed like yesterday was the last day of soccer and I was wishing soccer would come soon again! Wow! Anyways, I'm now 14 and much different! We go to a different church now. I have LOTS more friends now, too! Runner's Camp has already passed. And that was lots of fun! I can't wait till next year! Aubrey(Squishy) is very big now! He is now crawling, laughing, pulling himself up on things, and lots more! We are also FINALLY on the GAPS diet! For all who don't know what it is, it is a special diet to help clean your gut and make it work better. We also currently have 5 goats, 2 dogs, and 32 chickens(from when I last counted) and we still live in the house we've now had for 5 years. Ummm...Mom also lately broke her knee cap, but she is MUCH better now and is currently walking without any crutches, brace, etc. which is good! But she is still going to P.T. 2 days a week and then all us girls and dad are going 4 days a week for soccer stuff, and we have church, science class, Jed's speech is comin up soon, and so much more stuff including other things that pop up suddenly. Like birthdays and bonfires and sleepovers and heck knows what! It is starting to get very cold out here, like in the middle of the day the highs are in the 60s! I know, I'm thinking: ALLREADY?! Moira and I's art classes are over but now we are doing science class, lol! And even though Moira is not doing soccer she may be doing Horseback riding. She's really excited about that! Yesterday was REALLY busy. First Moira, the boys, and I whent with mom to the Wake Forest Annual Petfest with our dwarf goats and had LOTS of fun! Then we went home to get changed and the dad came home to drop off the girls and then he took me so I could go play my soccer game, and mom took Moira to a friend's party that she was invited to. Although we did not play pick-up, we were still busy until bet-time cleaning up because our Nana was coming over, but found out that she couldn't come after all. Bummer! And plus we didn't go to church, also. So now we're all sitting at home doing stuff. Most of us wishing that this diet would end soon! At least we are doing the hard/quick route instead of the easy/long route, so at least it only lasts a year! And as soon as this diet is over I'm gonna celebrate by bringing alot of my friends with me to go get ice cream! Ha, Ha! And I have not gotten the surgery done for my hernia, yet. But sometime this month I am going for a upper GI, which is pratically a scan to see if I really DO have a hernia, but when we whent to the doctor's a while ago (also for my hernia, although they only asked questions) and the doctor said that it sound like I deffiatly have a hernia! So I'm getting surgery soon to fix it. Thank God, b/c during my game yesterday it was so painfull I was actually crying (which is very embarasing to tell). And thankfully it is going to get done before the end of this year. B/c something to the effect of a full deductable (spelling?) or something. So at least I don't have to worry about that getting done finally 3 years from now!

And I'm actually thinking of starting another photography blog, b/c I am interested in learning from my mom on how to do photogrophy(spelling?). I am thinking of naming it Forget This Not, b/c I want to take pictures and be able to look back and not forget it. Well got to go now. I will (try to) write more later!

Ta-Ta for now!!

(Isa) Bella Hope P.

Pictures

2011-06-08T10:20:00.000-07:00

Hello!!!

I'm Soooooooooooooo sorry for not getting back in like the longest time! Well there's lot's to write about but I have to make a quick post so I'm going to post some pictures I "changed" at Picnik.com:

Neon Running Horses (Cool!)

Rearing Pegasus

Well mom doesn't want me to do any more pics on Picnik.com so that's all for now b/c I've got alot to do today. So until then!!

LOVE, DA BELLA

Funny Fun

2010-11-03T12:52:00.001-07:00

Make an on-line slide show at www.OneTrueMedia.com

A Few Randome Pics

2010-11-03T12:44:00.001-07:00

Make photo slide shows at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Dragons

2010-11-03T12:41:00.001-07:00

I LOVE Dragons a lot so I thought I'd share some pictures I got off the internet.

-Bella Hope

Make video montages at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Soccer - Tornament Chapions at OneTrueMedia.com

2010-11-03T10:59:00.001-07:00

Make photo slide shows at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Soccer, baby, and more...

2010-10-26T13:51:00.000-07:00

Hello!!

          Long-time-no-write!! Mom is now 29 weeks pregnant!! Wow! So her baby is now about a foot long. We have been doing soccer now for a while. We weren't able to do the Wing-Chun or horse-back-riding. So we're just doing soccer now. We all have 2 games left for this season, then we start back up in (I think) April. So, anyways. And we're going to the zoo on Friday and having a bonfire on Saturday. We've been really busy... My schedule for the next few days is:

Today: Jed's speech, drop something off at church, Walmart, soccer practice for Flannery and Saoirse

Wednesday (Tomorrow): Moira's and I's practice

Thursday:  Preparation for zoo, Jed's speech, Walmart

Friday: Zoo

Saturday: Soccer, Walmart, Bonfire

Sunday: Church, SHOPPING DAY, Da's soccer game

Well, I gotta get goin' to practice now.

Untill then!!

Toodle-Do!!!

Birthday, Soccer, Wing Chun, horse-back riding, farm, family, busy busy busy!!

2010-08-16T08:59:00.000-07:00

Hello!! Today I had just a little bit of time to write down a quick post before my BIG, BUSY schedule starts up :-) ! First game of the soccer season is September 11 ( I think) I'll be in my ninth year of soccer. And my first Wing Chun (Bruce Lee's Kung Fu style) lesson is sometime soon and I'll be in my first year. And I'm starting Horse-back-riding up sometime within the next 2 months and I'll be in my seventh year. Then of course there's the farm and family and house, etc. So my schedule is really busy once everything starts up! The goat's are going to be drying up soon so we'll have to mate them again soon. I now have my own room. Fun!! I'm going to make it a soccer theme room. That will be fun too! My 13 th birthday is Wednesday. I can't wait!! And on Saturday I'm having a big party. Plus I'm going to somebody else's party earlier that same day. :-P . I'm also starting to save up money to get my own laptop. My dad and I are the only ones who have not had their birthday yet. Sooooo...Other than all that stuff I just told you about nothing much has been going on. Well, gotta go milk the goats now!! Bye :)

BELLA

THE REBELUTION

2010-07-01T10:23:00.000-07:00

This is my FAVORITE site!! I've got Alex and Brett's book "Do Hard Things" and so far I'm on page 124 and I LOVE this book and I think I'm going to read it again!! I highly recommend this book and site!! I usually don't like books that are spiritual or Christan, but I'm hog crazy over this book and site!! My mom is still trying to get me away from the book to milk the goats :-P !! Here is an article from their site:

Myth of Adolescence (Part 1)

The trained elephant of India is a perfect picture of the power of psychological captivity. Tamed and utilized for its enormous strength, the great beast stands nearly 10 feet tall and weighs up to 5 tons when fully grown. Its tasks may include uprooting full-grown trees, hauling great boulders, and carrying enormous loads on its shoulders. And yet, when the day’s work is done and this powerful beast must be kept from wandering off during the night, its owner simply takes a piece of twine, attaches it to a small branch embedded in the ground, and ties it around the elephant’s right hind leg. Reason dictates that the elephant can easily snap the twine or pull the twig from ground, and yet the owner does not worry, fully confident that when morning comes he will find the animal exactly where he left him. And he does.
I’ll admit that upon first hearing of this practice, I couldn’t decide which was harder to believe: that the owner was confident, or that his confidence proved justified. A beast that can uproot trees is suddenly unable to pull up a twig? What is it about the piece of twine and the small branch that allows them to subdue all of the elephant’s power? I soon discovered that it had little to do with the twine around the elephant’s ankle, and everything to do with invisible shackles around its mind.
My contention is simple: The young adults of our generation are the elephant. Our twine is the 20th century concept of adolescence. Our twig is societal expectations. We stand restrained as a hurting world burns around us. Yet our twine and twig are of a recent origin. Young adults of the past were not so encumbered.
David Farragut, the U.S. Navy’s first admiral, became a midshipman on the warship Essex at the age of 10. At the age of 12, a mere boy by modern standards, Farragut was given command of his first ship, sailing a capture vessel, crew, and prisoners, back to the U.S. after a successful battle. Young David was given responsibility at an early age, and he rose to the occasion.
The father of our country, George Washington, though never thought to be particularly bright by his peers, began to master geometry, trigonometry, and surveying when he would have been a 5th or 6th grader in our day and ceased his formal education at 14 years of age. At the age of 16 he was named official surveyor for Culpepper County, Virginia. For the next three years, Washington earned nearly $100,000 a year (in modern purchasing power). By the age of 21, he had leveraged his knowledge of the surrounding land, along with his income, to acquire 2,300 acres of prime Virginian land.
These examples astound us in our day and age, but this is because we view life through an extra social category called ‘adolescence’, a category that would have been completely foreign to men and women just 100 years ago. Prior to the late 1800s there were only 3 categories of age: childhood, adulthood, and old age. It was only with the coming of the early labor movement with its progressive child labor laws, coupled with new compulsory schooling laws, that a new category, called adolescence, was invented. Coined by G. Stanley Hall, who is often considered the father of American psychology, ‘adolescence’ identified the artificial zone between childhood and adulthood when young people ceased to be children, but were no longer permitted by law to assume the normal responsibilities of adulthood, such as entering into a trade or finding gainful employment. Consequently, marriage and family had to be delayed as well, and so we invented ‘the teenager’, an unfortunate creature who had all the yearnings and capabilities of an adult, but none of the freedoms or responsibilities.
Teenage life became a 4-year sentence of continuing primary education and relative idleness known as ‘high school’ (four years of schooling which would later be repeated in the first two years of college). Abolished by law were the young Farraguts and young Washingtons, who couldn’t spare the time to be children any longer than necessary. Cultivated instead was the culture we know today, where young people are allowed, encouraged, and even forced to remain quasi-children for much longer than necessary.
The effect of this seismic shift in America’s philosophy of education is not limited to students in the public schools. As homeschoolers we may feel as though we have escaped the danger, but an honest evaluation proves that, as a whole, we also fall short of realizing our potential. After reading the examples of great men of our country’s past, we should recognize that there is no reason why a 13 to 18 year old cannot behave as a responsible adult. History proves it is possible. Diverse cultures confirm its validity. The only thing holding young people back in America today is the twine of this perpetual recess called adolescence and the twig of lowered social expectations. We expect immaturity and irresponsibility, from ourselves and from one another, and that is exactly what we get.

[Go to Part Two...]

The link for the site is here... it is a 5 star, 2 thumbs up, must!! Well my mom is now ranting for me to go milk the goats, so ta, ta for now!!

And remember comments are always welcome!!

Laters!!

New baby and Soccer...

2010-05-06T13:00:00.000-07:00

Hello, hello, hello! Man, a LOT of things have been going on over here lately! First of all we just found out on Saturday that my mom is having our 7th baby! YAYYYYYY!!!!! Second, my team and I are the YAKS Soccer Tournament Champions!!!!!! We're the best team in the whole league!!!! Well, gtg now! Ttyl!! Byeee!!

-BELLA

Long time, no type!

2010-03-25T16:53:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone! I'm sorry I haven't been continuously keeping up on my blog! We have been RELLY busy the past few months and I just haven't been getting around to blogging lately. Today I got my hair cut short and earlier (like 8 am.) our cousins came over for a few hours and we had a good time talkin'. I'll have to get some pic.s up soon. But right now I don't have any downloaded to the computer...sooooooooo... So the past few months we (we = me, Flannery, and Saoirse) started soccer back up. Moira and me played on the same team for awhile until she quit (I don't know why...). So far my team lost all of last season's games then we got better and we won 2 games in a row then lost a game (because our two best players wern't there). And we'll see how we do this Saturday. This August 18th I'll be turning 13! :-P . I can't wait! We also found a new church that we've been going to now for a few months, and I've made a lot of new friends. I've been talkin' about some good news but there is also some bad...I want to ask for all your prayer's for my step-grandfather. We just found out last night that he has a relly bad case of cancer and he only has a few (3-6) moths to live. But that's not the wort of it, my grandpa doesn't believe in Jesus. I want to ask if you could pray for his Salvation and his belief in HIM. My Pop left earlier to go see him and he's gonna be steying till tomorrow morning and he said that he's gonna try to read him parts of the Bible and talk about Salvation and Eternal Life. Soooooo... Well, I gotta go eat dinner now. Laters!

P.S. We had to get rid of Dixie and Calico because they were causing us problems. Bye!

My new site

2009-11-07T06:46:00.000-08:00

Hi Y'all! I just wanted to let you know that I have my own site at: www.rescuekennels.webs.com , please check it out! THANKS!!!

-Ella

ADOPTED!!!!!

2009-07-24T07:25:00.000-07:00

They finally got adopted by a lady named Amber who has a farm and lots of other cats!! Here are the last few pictures we took of them:

Here they are when they fell asleep once in my bed with my stuffed Horse
Caramel, aka. Tamel

Tamel

Fire, Pepper, and Tamel

Fire, Pepper, and Tamel agian, We miss you all!!

Untill next time!!!

NEW KITTENS!!!!!!!

2009-06-08T10:12:00.001-07:00

YYYYAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We have 3 kittens that are 3 days old!! We have Pepper a female calico/tiger colored kitten, Carramel another female an orange and white tabby, and Blurs of Fire (aka. Fire) a male with white with orange little "fire balls" on his body and face. On thier first day here we kept them outside, but now Kally and Kittens live inside. Here are some pictures of them:

I must be going now! Untill then....

My every day schedule

2009-04-04T06:58:00.000-07:00

Hi! I didn't really have any thing to write about so I thought I would share my every day schedule with you all. And also we recieved our 10 Buff Orpingtons and we were holding Miss Keren's ( a very nice lady that works for tractor supply co.) chicks and dad asked to have two of them and we could pay her for them, but when we whent to her house to drop off her chicks and pay her for the two we asked for and mom whent to pay her she said that we could have them for free because we had watched over her chicks for a few days and so she said we could have them for free. So here is my every day schedule:

Note: I'm in charge of livestock/animals so there's alot of feeding and watering animals.

6:00 am - Wake up

6:15 am - Time with Lord

6:45 am - Get dressed (a dress, a dress and shirt, and or shirt and skirt, and brush and set my hair)

6:50 am - Tend to Garden

7:00 am - Clean room

7:15 am - Feed and water chicks

7:30 am - Feed and water dogs and cat

8:00 am - Feed and water goats ( hay, pellets, milk, dewormer, and new bedding)

9:00 am - Train Dogs ( Kala and Shiloh are allready trained but I need to practice with them every day )

9:45 am - Have breakfast

10:00 am - Quick house clean up

11:00 am - Free time

12:00 pm - Lunch time

12:30 pm - Quick clean up again

1:30 pm - Free time

4:30 pm - Feed and Water all animals all over again and all have daily vet check by me

6:00 pm - Dinner prep.

6:30 pm - Dinner

7:30 pm - Dinner clean up

8:00 pm - History and family worship

9:00 pm - School

10:00 pm - Bed time prep.

10:30 pm - Bed time

Whew!! Thats the lot! I do that every day! I have to go now! Bye!!

In Him,

Isabella

Dixie update

2009-03-24T13:12:00.000-07:00

Dixie on a fallen tree.
Dixie running to me.

"What was that?"

Bored.

ZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzz.............

Our new puppy!!

2009-03-24T05:37:00.000-07:00

YAYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE HAVE A NEW PUPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She is a pure bred, white, female, 4 month old, Great Pyrenees. She is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Plus she barks and howls ALOT, not to mention. Her name is Dixie. Here are some pictures of her:

Dixie
Dixie

Poor Dixie

Whining to get out

Dixie, such a happy puppy!

Well, Jeds got to have a feeding now, so I have to get off.

Untill then....

Our new Chicks

2009-03-19T13:20:00.000-07:00

Yay!! We got our new chicks (only 5 out of 15)!! Last week we were all at the table talking about chicks, goats, ect, and mom decided that we would each get three chicks. We each have 1 Rodhe Island Red and two Barred Rocks. The other two chicks names are Ruby and Ruthy (all "r" names). Since I am on the back computer I'm not able to put pictures up of them. I wil try to post pictures of them up as soon as possible. Well I must be going now as we have a family from church coming over tomorrow and we need to clean.

So for now..........

Our new typ pad

2009-03-04T15:54:00.000-08:00

Hi!

Dad got home a while ago and installed our new typ pad! It lights up when you press a little button. RELLY cool!! The girls and I got done playing with goats AND dogs in the goat fence a while ago. We had LOTS of fun! Well I'd better be going now! Bye!!

-Bella

Updates (cont...)

2009-03-03T15:27:00.000-08:00

Hi Y'all!! Today all most all the snow melted and we got the goat fence done. I make a montage of the pictures we've been taking lately. Right now dad is working on the dog fence and he's all most finished putting a post in. Here is another one of my favorite sites to visit:

http://www.dailypuppy.com/

Everything lately has been going great! The goats got debudded last week (removing the horns). Well here is the montage:

Make video montages at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Untll then.....

Snow and Updates

2009-03-02T08:25:00.000-08:00

Yay we had some more snow this year! We all think it'll be our last snow of the year. And yes I did get some pictures of the snow this year but I'll have to more later because we have someone coming over and we have to clean. So for now.......

Our new baby goats!

2009-02-17T08:24:00.000-08:00

Yay we have our new baby goats! We named our two baby female goats Lily pad, aka. Lily (black one with white ears) and Honey Bun, aka. Honey (black, honey, and white one) . Here is a montage of them:

Make photo slide shows at www.OneTrueMedia.com

I have to go now! Bye!
-Bella

Buddy and more...

2009-02-16T10:19:00.000-08:00

Hello, I'm Buddy, I'm Bella's puppy! To

get a puppy of your own, click here.

Hello, I'm Mandy,I'm Bella's puppy! To

get a puppy of your own, click here.

Hello, I'm Othellow, I'm Bella's puppy! To

get a puppy of your own, click here.

Hello, I'm Snowy, I'm Bella's puppy! To

get a puppy of your own, click here.

Hello, I'm Ember, I'm Bella's puppy! To

get a puppy of your own, click here.

Hello, I'm Mya, I'm Bella'spuppy! To

get a puppy of your own, click here.

Hello, I'm Little Tim, I'm Bella's puppy! To

get a puppy of your own, click here.

Hello, I'm Jo, I'm Bella's puppy! To

get a puppy of your own, click here.

Hello, I'm Lily,I'm Bella's puppy! To

get a puppy of your own, click here.

Hello, I'm Ginger, I'm Bella's puppy! To

get a puppy of your own, click here.

I have to now! Bye!
-Bella

New goats

2009-02-12T05:11:00.000-08:00

Yay we own goats! We don't have them here at the house yet, tomorrow at 4:00 pm we'll have our new goats. They are two female nubian/alpine crosses. We don't have the fence up yet, but, some people from our church are going to help dad put the fence up. So for now we are going to keep them in our two dog cages. I'll post pictures as soon as we get them. We don't have names yet either. I have to start going now. Bye!

-Bella

Bebo pets...

2009-02-11T11:19:00.000-08:00

-Bella

More snow

2009-02-03T14:34:00.000-08:00

Yes we had more snow. But only aVERY little sprinkle. We didn't get any pictures. As the time we got I woke up it had all turned to slush. I'll have to post pictures later as I'm on computer # 2
witch you can't upload pictures. So it's ta ta for now folks! Bye!

-Bella

A new cat

2009-01-28T15:18:00.001-08:00

Yay! Last night we have a new kittie! No one bought her. Dad said he had to get something in the car and when he was about to go up the stairs he heard a meow and turned around and saw a cat up inside our van wheel! So he brag it inside and we kept her inside for a while untill we found her a place to sleep out side. It's a she and we named her, Calico. Here is a montage of her:

Make an on-line slideshow at www.OneTrueMedia.com

I have to start going now! I'll write more later.

-Bella

More Latin.

2009-01-24T10:22:00.000-08:00

Hi!

Latley I've been learning more Latin. Here are some more words:

Magister-Teacher (Male)(Ma-ji-ster)

Magistra-Teacher (Female) (Ma-ji-strah)

Gloria-Glory (Glor-ia)

Jesus-Jesus (Yay-zoos)

Laudo-I Praise (Louw-doh)

Clamo-I Shout (Clam-moh)

Caelum-Heaven (Chay-loom)

Sanctus-Holy (Snke-tuss)

Dominus-Lord (Dom-in-oose)

Sabbaoth-Host(s) (Sabb-a-oath)

Deus-God (Day-oos)

Well I have to start going now! I'll write more later

P.S. .......

2009-01-23T12:57:00.000-08:00

I forgot to tell you that Moira and I are learning Latin.

Here are some words:

Toga-Toga (Toe-gah)
Deus-God (Day-oos)
Ambulo-I walk (Am-bue-low)
Luna-Moon (Loo-nah)
Via-Road (Vee-ah)
Oremus-Let us pray (Oh-ray-moos)
Salve-Hello to one (Sal-vay)
Salvete-Hello to more than one (Sal-vay-tay)

There are only 25 letters in Latin aphabet not 26! Minus W.

5 Vowels still, A,E,I,O,U. Although th sound like ah,ay,ee,oh,oo.

I have to go now. Make sure to see my latest post (12/23/09)! See y' all!

-Bella

Pictures....

2009-01-23T10:29:00.000-08:00

Here is the fort the girls and I built.

Here is out front.

Out Front.

Our front porch.

Out back.
Out front. 'Aint that a pretty scene

Agian.

Snowmen. (Saoirse's in the middle, outside mine).
Baby and Mama playin'. Out Front.Baby and Mama agian.

Some pictures from last September. An Agility set.

A Collie (front) and Pit Bull mix (backround).

A Lady and her baby German Shepherd.

Grandpappy, Jonah, and Daddy. (last July).

Me with my precious Daddy doing puzzles.

Me readig poems.

Me and my precious mommy.

Mr.Bubbles (Jonah)Saoirse.
Jedidiah being just plain cute.

Me.

My Girl with glasses on!

Well that's all for now! I'll post more later. See Y' all!

-Bella

SNOW!!!!!

2009-01-20T05:32:00.000-08:00

Yay! We had 1 ft. of snow today!!!

Here are some pictures of the snow:

Out Back.

Out Front.

I'll post some more pictures later!

-Bella

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!! (and updates)...

2009-01-12T10:40:00.000-08:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!! It's finaly 2009!!! I hope every-body had a good new years day/morning!
Here are some pictures of new years day (morning) :

All of us sitting on the couch. We were watching the "Ball", as you would call it, although we didn't get to see it drop in the water because all of the suddent the computer shut down!!

Another of us all sitting on the couch. As you can see Saoirse was already asleep and Flannery was Just about to fall asleep.

Here are some presents from some of our Grandperents, Puzzles!! (I think Auntie Tracy would like this scene).

Here are some pictures of me when I was younger:

1997 Me and Dad.

1997 Me and Auntie Tracy.

Mom, Dad, and I.

1998 Me.

1999 Moira and Me.

1999 Dziadzi, Babci, Moira, and I.

1999 Me.

1999 Moira.

1999 Moira.

1999 Sophia, Lucia, and I.

1999 Moira.

2000 Pony and I.

2001 Moira.

2001 Me.

2001 Moira.

2002 Moira and I.

2002 Moira.

2004 Moira.

2005 Moira.

2005 Moira, Lucky, and I.

2004 My puppy, Othellow.

2006 Othellow.

I have to start skaddling on now. I'll post more pictures soon!

Bella

Lacy and Shain

2008-12-27T06:01:00.000-08:00

O.K. so remember the to dogs we saved in the last post? Well we found their real owner and their real names are Lacy (Sugar) and Shain (Bear). What had happened is on Christmas eve him and his family were getting ready to go to church and there was a storm and Lacy is VERRY scared of storms and they live in a kennel so Lacy when there is a storm Lacy digs, so she dug a hole under the kennel wall and got out but Shain always follows her whever she goes so he got out too and the fat Lab was to fat to fit through the hole so the Lab (I'm going to pretend the Lab's name is Lab) started howl/whining and the man said he does that whenever they get out witch is common to them, so whenever they get out he sends Lab after them ,but whenever he gets let out he does not go far from home so he let Lab out in search of them but he did find them and they were going back but that's when dad caught them but he didn't catch Lab so Lab whent running home with out them and (the mans name is Chris) Chris thought something was wrong. So 2 days later he gets a call from somebody saying this person's got your dogs here's his 'number...... and then he calls dad and says all the information about his dogs that are on them and say yes to them all. So the guy comes over for a while and we talk he takes his dog and walks back home (his home is right behind us so he can walk) but forget trying to adopt them!
;-p I got to go now! Bye!

Bella

Bear and Sugar

2008-12-26T10:04:00.000-08:00

No, we didn't adopt 2 more dogs, mydad was on the computer and Shiloh started barking constantly and wouldn't stop so dad told me to look out the window and look and see if I can see any thing, so I whent to look out the window I see a dog going around the corner of the house(there were 3 and the I saw first was a FAT old Lab). so dad gets up gets a flashlight and getshis shoes on and is about to go the when I ask, "What are you doing?" and he says, "I'm going to see if I can catch it." , So dad goes out for about 45 minuits and comes back and asked for 2 leashes, Iget him the leashes and he goes out agian and in 20 minuits returns with 2 dogs (witch are Bear and Sugar)and tells us that there were 3 dog but the Lab we saw would not come near him but the 2, now Bear and Sugar, came near he leash them up and came back home with them and we started naming them.Funny thing is we thought that Bear was a girl and named him Sweet'ums but when we found out that he was a boy we changed his name to Bear.But the real reson I wrote this post was:

PLEASE ADOPT ONE OR BOTH OF THESE DOGS AND IF NOT PPLLEESSEE TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS!!!!

They LOVE people and children. Very gentle. Sweet. Don't try to lick you like crazy.Calm.

Bear is a Hound mix, med size. Sugar is a Golden Retriever/Great Pyranese/Corgie mix, little bit smaller than Bear. Both med-old age dogs, Sugar is older than Bear though.

I made a montage about Bear and Sugar:

I got to go now!Bye!

Bella

P.S. We got another cat but they both died after having them both for less than a month.

Bella

Photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com

A new cat!

2008-11-07T08:01:00.000-08:00

We gota new cat! It's a He! No Pics Yet Have to go now!

-Bella
P.S. His name is Max.

Update and a new montage...

2008-10-06T18:42:00.000-07:00

Hi everybody! I am so sorry about not getting back so soon! As you have probably heard about our Zoo trip as F posted on mom's blog. Walked 3 miles in 4 1/2 hours! And I have decided to change my blog template every week so as today being the new week I have changed it. School has started up again as dad let us have a week off. O.k, here is the montage of just my dog, Shiloh (one of M and Kala):

Make an on-line slideshow at www.OneTrueMedia.com

(Because M wants to get a new montage too and post it on her blog)

Have a Blessed week!
Bella

Almost the best day of my life...

2008-09-19T05:33:00.000-07:00

That is right. Yesterday was the best day of my life. Almost. First we whent to a friends house and chaced chickins. Then we whent to our FAVORITE Park . And then we whent to an K-9 demonstration where they showed all thier "tricks". We had TONS of fun today! I'll put some Pics of the domo up later. See ya' all!!

Bella

Just playing with montages...

2008-09-09T07:08:00.001-07:00

Make an on-line slide show at www.OneTrueMedia.com

No cancer!

2008-09-06T08:29:00.000-07:00

YAY!!!!! No cancer!! No cancer! HURRAY!!!!!! Dad called the vets to find out what hours their open, and they told him but then they ask him what pet we had and what was wrong with it and dad told them and they said, "The groth on her nipple is either a sist or a skin groth. Not cancer." But for some reason she is realy skinny.I thank-you VERY much for your prayer. Imust go clen now, because we are having a few families over for dinner.Have a good day!

Bella

Cancer.Mabey......

2008-09-04T15:25:00.000-07:00

Yes, Kala our 5 year old dog may have cancer. We do not know how,when,and where she might have gotten it. But we are praying that she does not have cancer. On Saturday dad is going to take her to the vets office and see what is going on with her. Unfortunately dad had been talking to someone about breeding Kala with his dog. But now will have to breed Shiloh (one of Kala's offspring's) instead of Kala.But still we had been wanting to breed Shiloh to keep Kala's bloodline going.Please pray for Kala. Thank-you.

Bella

Tresure Hunt

2008-09-02T10:02:00.001-07:00

Posing...
"Yes, we found it!"
"What?"
"In my bed?"
addition....

"Here's another"

"Hmmmm......" "Me and Sudbud found one!"

"Wow"

"And you will find...."

"In here?"

"What was that?"

"Let's see..."

"Come on ,Shiloh."

"See!See!See!"

Bella

Update

2008-08-12T10:06:00.000-07:00

I am VERY sorry for not getting back so soon. We have been soooooooooooooooooo busy. Having the baby been born, My birthday coming up, shopping, Dr. apointments, Cleaning, school, ect. One of many things I like doing is scrapbooking. I am starting a scrapbook and it's coming out well. I will have to get pictures of it sometime soon.Here are some pics:

Here is Jonah,

Here are some of our friends, John Pual and Charlie in the front and Joseph in the back

Here is my beloved dog,Shiloh.

We are all blessed with the gift God gave us. Jonah. I pray that he will grow up to be a Godly man.I have to go clean now.

God with you.

Bella

Romans 13:9b

"Love your neighbor as yourself".

A fun Memorial Day

2008-05-27T05:46:00.000-07:00

We are- I mean- I am not going to have pics up here because Moira broke the camera.......so we can't have pics. Yes,yesterday was the best Memorial day picnic of my life (and the first)! I, Personally, think the Jeep rides were the best! Although the worst part of the Jeep ride was someone sat on mine knee( I said that on purpose "mine")!OUCH! They had allot of fun games. We didn't do much, just listened mostly about people talking. I must get going now. I have to eat breakfast and then we have to leave to get some onions to bring a dinner to the Tsantles (a family at our church).Have a good day!

-Bella

Prayer works!! And updates...

2008-04-10T04:29:00.000-07:00

Yes the title is true..... Here's' the story......... 4/10/08

So it was late at night, and I had to go to the bathroom. So I got done going and I started my way back to bed.....(mind you, thank God I had slippers on) and as I stepped right in the hall way and a HUGE centipede dashes out of the bottom of the cupboard and literally stops in its track an inch from my foot! Really it was this big: ________________________________!! So I just started running to Mom saying,"Mmmmmom th,th,theres aaa BIG centipede inin the baaathrooom!" "Were?"said mom "Innn tttthe baathrooomm.Hurrry!"I say. So Mom looks and tells me to go get the vacuum and she tells me to go back to bed.So I have been sitting in my room for two hours now and I just couldn't get to sleep! So I said to myself,The only thing I can do is pray...So I sat there for five minuets praying for him to help me go to sleep,(sometimes when I get REALLY scared I won't sleep)and a few mins later I'm asleep! But, when I wake up I'm still a little scared but I ask God to help me forget and it worked! Really whenever the girls would mention "bug" or I went near the bathroom I would remember but a min later I would forget!

When We Pray God Works.

Here are the updates.......

here is garden bed #1

Here is garden bed #2

Here is my best girl, Shiloh.

And here is her best and comfy place to lie down.

Well I should be off now!

Love,

Bella

A quick up-date....

2008-03-29T07:18:00.000-07:00

Hey there!

It has been such a beautiful week! Next week(saturday) our family is going to have our annual bonfire!! We are inviting the whole church over!! We are going to eat hotdogs and buns and s'mores and drink soda and water! Its going to be great! Plus Tomorrow we are having our grandparents over! WoHoo!! Jedidiah has been a mericle!! Latley he has been inhaling his food!! Today I was chef and Jed completely ate all my pancakes!! WOW!!!!!! I am not going to able to post pics 'cause I'm on computer #2!:-( . This was only a quick update 'cause I have to go help daddy with the garden now!!

Love,
Bella

Doll Making.........

2008-03-18T05:46:00.000-07:00

So there is the doll I'm making,her name is Annabelle. I just got done making her three day ago.
I have braided Annabelle's hair there you can kinda see, and I made her slip and a gown. Oops gatta get eatin' breakfast now!

Love,
Bella
P.S.,
We are not going to be here on Thursday .We are going to be going to a Easter party.
Bella

He Loves me...........................(a quick note).......

2008-03-06T06:15:00.000-08:00

O.K. you would think it a wierd post...buuutttttt its not:he truly does...I love him to.....

I took that pic yesterday,but wasen't able to post it yesterday because we were relly busy.But like I said its a quick note,and if I can remmber anything else I'll wright back later.

Love,

Bella

Making books......... part 1

2008-03-05T08:24:00.000-08:00

Here are some pics of the book i'm making:

front^

inside of front^

pg 1^

pg 2^
pg 3^

pg 4^ pg 5^

pg 6^

That is only so far,but I will have more by the end of the week.But, ta-ta for now!

Love,

Bella

A BIG birthday.........

2008-02-20T05:31:00.000-08:00

!!! HAPPY 6 BIRTHDAY FLANNERY !!!

^
^
So you saw up there ^ What it is NOT Really about. Yup, Flannery turns 6. And more good news for you "New Yorkers":

WE MIGHT BE COMING UP THIS YEAR FOR CHRISTMAS !!!

Y- oh, I have to go help Momma with Breakfast .

LOVE,

Bella

Suprise!

2008-02-19T17:00:00.000-08:00

Suprise! Suprise! Guess what! I walked 3 miles today!(but that is really not what I'm writing about).

It is actully about what I built today........

here is a pic of what I built today(it took FOREVER to build):

A long,long day.......

2008-02-16T04:08:00.000-08:00

Well you saw the title, yep A VERRY long day indeed! It ALL started yesterday's nice afternoon,

(at the doctors+they have a toy chest that has small, small toys in it) Flannery pleaded mommy to let us get a toy (mom's rule is that the toy are there for the patients NOT for people sit arround and wait untill mommy is done speaking),But mommy said no, now flannerys throwing a hissy fit! So we leave and mom says that we need to go to Walmart and get something for lunch and some bateries, so we get there and we have a few things so far, And we see Grand Mary

A quick note

2008-02-15T05:39:00.000-08:00

Ok so you saw the title "A quick note", yes verry quick note indeed. Today we ALL HAVE TO go to the doc's to watch Moira get her ear cleaned out so when we come back I'll wright a longer post.

Bella

Mostly for Mrs.Jones ,but others may follow.......

2008-02-14T07:04:00.000-08:00

Yayyyy!!! Today it Snowed agian! You say: Ahem! me:OK,OK,OK,I'm sorry, I'll get on.....

Now you must know this post is about me and a little about my life.(Now remember folks this mostly for Mrs.Jones,whom I have not seen for 3 years.).

(1):I am 10 years old.

(2):My birthday is 8/18/97.

(3): My hight is 4' 11".

(4):We go to a church that is all of 15 mins away!

(5):I have my own Dog:

and here is a little about my dog:

Gender: Girl

Breed: she is a European Strain German Shepherd.

Age: going to be two on 8/18/08
Name: Shiloh

And is still in training!

Here is a Pic. of me and Shiloh:

Gotta go help moma clean(the therapist is coming over soon for Jed)!

Bella

A quick note

2008-01-08T15:56:00.000-08:00

Everyone needs to scroll down to the very bottom of my blog to check out my new feature. We couldn't get it to go higher on the blog, so for now it has to be down there.
Bella

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

2008-01-08T04:45:00.000-08:00

Hello!

So how is evrybody doing? We still have a little of the flu left :-( .No, it has not snowed yet,but one time it was relly sunny out,but below freezing still,you could see a itty bitty little something falling ,but not sticking to the ground.I heard that in New York there was a snow storm!I bet that was fun!I would also like for everybody to PRAISE the the Lord for our new baby!(due late june early july frame time). Mom has 6 more months to go!I am so happy!I have to get going now!

Love,
Bella

Hi there!

2007-11-23T17:30:00.000-08:00

Hello,

Hi folks,guess what we did today! We put our tree up today!Welll......we didn't REALY finish it.....well first we didn't have enough lights soooo....we weren't able to put on all the ornaments. But Flannery and Daddy went to special time so they're going to get some more lights.We have the bottom half done.And the Angle is on the top,and we made some homemade ornaments with that.I will try to send a pic. of the tree when it is done.

Have any of you folks got some trees up? We even have stalkings,a jessie tree,and a manger scene,and some wreaths.And even a "Ho,ho,ho" hat! Lots Of stuff there! And daddy is still not home,he'll probably home soon.he is not getting any lights for the porch this year.This year we have some folks coming,Nana,Grandpa,AND My Great Aunt and Uncle.Do any of you folks have any poeple coming over? It's not snowing yet but its below 30! I have to go now!

Bella

AAAAAHHHHHH BEAR !!!!! ...

2007-07-16T11:26:00.000-07:00

Hey Folks,

Sorry I have'nt wirtin back so soon... I'm going to try to write more OFTEN then I use to.
OH! What been going on? OOOOOHHHHHH OK.Well..... last night (and dads at the back door)(we have a book named:Spring With The Moodys.) Mom and us Kids were siting in M and Ses room Reading the Moody book... So we were reading and all of the suddent you hear,"GET OUTA HERE, GET!!!!!"
so dad goes out of the room (for all of two mins!)and comes back with his GUN! And is YELLING and YELLING! I mean "WHAT ON EARTH IS HE DOING!!?".So we go over there and dads yelling at the dogs to come in side,you hear all this growling and barking so I tilted my head to the right, and all of the suddent you see this HUGE! Pit Bull, so finely we got the dogs in and dad SLAMS! the door closed. But we have"t seen him so far....

But thats all for now....

Bella.

Fashion Plates????

2007-01-25T17:35:00.000-08:00

Hi,
Can some one give me some sites or sites to buy Fashion Plates? I reeeeellllllyyyyyy want some Fashion Plates. I love to color so mom thout I could buy some Fashion Plates. so I was going to ask some of you1900s
poeple. please write back sooooonnnn.

Isabella.

"Field Dressing a Deer"

2007-01-18T17:27:00.000-08:00

Hi,

I(and my dad)have learned how to "Field Dress a "DEER."(it's a little yucky.)
I'll teach you how to dress a deer, it's just 7 EASY steps. (Deer are my most favorite animal in NC.)

1. First you lay the deer on it's back.
You tie some ropes on to the deers legs, and then tie the ropes on to some trees.(etc.)

2. You get a knife and you at the private parts and start cutting down. And when you get to the end you will find this hole, and you put your hand into the hole, and at the same time you put your knife in the hole too, and then you start to cut upwards and when you get to the rib cage you stop.

3. Then you reach up into the deer's stomache and you start pulling down the organs(do you know what the white stuff is?)(scroll down to see awnser.)

The stomache.

Yes pretty amazing. But yucky.

4. But you HAVE to be careful about one part. (my dad won't let me tell you, but we found out on line so you will have to look it up your self.)

5. (You have to shoot the deer in the lower body.) Now when you shoot the deer there is a BIG bubble of blood ,yes you have to cut it open. (sorry.) And when you cut it open the blood will come gushing out.(it looks like a "RED" pond) then you pour it out.

6.Then you take a hose and wash it out,then you pour out the water.

7.Then you take the deer and hang it upside down (on rope) and you have to put some news paper and lay it under the deer.(here is how you hang a deer:
you take your car and drive it into the grage and tie some rope to the door handle and tie rope to the deer's two back legs, but first you take the rope and hang it over a limb and then tie the deer to it.) And there you have it!Tada!

Have to go now ,

Isabella.

Hi!

2006-11-14T11:23:00.000-08:00

Hi,

I’m just doing a small letter now.

Did my mom tell you about that we have a creek by our house and every day we play in water , today we got our swimsuits on and went in the water , yesterday we went in the water with our every day cloths on. I have a book called THE PERFECT PONY and I’m almost done reading the whole book.

(It’s a great book.)I have to go now.

Love,

Isabella.

My first post

2006-11-08T17:11:00.000-08:00

Hi,

It has been a long time since I have wrote a letter or an e-mail.(: / Moira, Flannery and I play soccer. Next Saturday is our last game of the season, and I am inviting some friends over to watch me. And tomorrow I am going to see the people that are going to be watching me at soccer. How is everybody doing? I hope everybody is good. Moira and I are going to be doing horse-back riding some day. I just got a new jumper in from the mail. I like a lot.

I have to get going now.

Love,
Isabella.