Homestead

Oh, it's been a while...

I bet you were wondering what manner of fun I have been having with the Fancy Pony...

Well, I haven't.
I've been having fun of another sort!!

We bought a house!
Nothing can disrupt your comfortable life quite like closing on a house and moving in.

This is what the week looked like...

Thursday
Meet at the title company to close on the home.  Oh, by the way, hubby needs to be here, too!  (Call hubby, and he drops everything to leave work and join us)
Sign all the papers.  Let my girlfriend buy me lunch!
It's a good thing we skipped the margaritas...
Go home and call utility companies to start transferring stuff over...

Friday
Go to work like normal...
Take the night off to celebrate!  Dress up for dinner, and make hubby drive to the restaurant (and home).  This time, I did NOT skip the margaritas!

Ready to celebrate!

Set my alarm for the morning festivities...  Because we don't take possesion until Sunday...

Saturday
Wake up with the alarm.  Breakfast.  Charge to the ranch, where I pick up my dad's truck and trailer.  (Again, Dad, I know you aren't reading this, but THANK YOU SO MUCH!)  Dad workd out a much better deal than U-Haul.
Drive back to the OLD HOUSE.  Down the dead end street.  Let me tell you how well I backed that trailer into our driveway!  Let the loading begin!  All day...
Go to bed exhausted...

Sunday
My friends had asked me to coach Cricket at the show.  We made these plans before we ever bought the house.  We should have been moved in for a month...  But closing had been mushed back...  So here I am, on moving day, coaching at the horse show!  Because that is the kind of friend I am.
(Hubby, I know you probably aren't reading this, but I still want you to know how incredibly grateful I am for your patience and understanding.) 
Cricket and CG made an admirable team.  They took some purples and reds and blues...  I dunno.  It's 4H.  The colors are all messed up...

Showmanship - coming right up!

The best classes, of course, were Hunter Hack and Trail!

Look at them go!!!

They had a lovely line over the fences, but then Cricket drifted left really bad to the left and I don't think CG had her left leg ready to support her...  Or, it could be just plain weakness...  More on that later...

Ready for western pleasure

This spooky horse ROCKED IT in trail!  Once she really saw the rope for the gate, she was petrified, but she tried her best for CG...

working the gate...

They ended up pulling the standard over, but that mare didn't spin or jump...  She just gave it really big eyeballs!

360 in the box

Nevermind that they turned the wrong direction.  Claustrophobic Cricket was comfortable with it!

After the show, I rushed home, met my friends, and started moving into the new house...

Monday
Utilities fiasco ensues...  All day...
Meanwhile, we go back for one more load of stuff...  Moving, moving, etc...

Oh, yeah!  We have a swing!!

Tuesday
More of the same.  Move and clean...
You get the idea.

Now, we're to the part where we just have to unpack and settle in.  It's pretty overwhelming!
But, we get to call this homestead our own!!