Merry Christmas Y'all!

Me and my mouse wish y'all a Merry Christmas every year....
Merry Christmas!
Thanks to all of you for all you add to our lives!
Love you all more than you know!
Love, Shawn, Carol, Blair, Raven & Emily...and the dog Dash

Girls Who Wear Boots

Girls who wear boots aren't afraid of much...not cold wet weather, not a little mud, not chill bumps...they are tough!  They are my favorite kind of kids!  The laugh hard, play hard, live well!  The Aiken girls came to visit their grandparents at Capitola for Christmas.  Most people don't even know where Capitola is but what a setting for these sisters and their dad to have pictures!  They make Houston home but their roots reach all the way back to Fisher County.  I grew up with these girls uncle and dad so I was thrilled when I got the chance to work with them.  We had fun tromping around in the muck and the mire which, in a drought is a real treat!
Thanks Kate! Thanks Ally!  Thanks Todd! for the fun on the ranch!

Snow Changes Everything....

We stop hurrying for that hour or two that the schools and our employers have delayed things...
We wake up, look out the window and smile rather than grimace...
We gladly go out into the cold...
We take a picture of things that normally we might just brush passed because for today it looks so different...
We admire white in all its purity and beauty as light touches it differently than it ever has before...
We ponder what this snow flake might look like it only we had a microscope...
We move a little slower, we look a little longer, we realize for a day or two, ever how long it stays with us that we don't have to rush around like we do...

A Hill Thanksgiving

Every year my family gathers in Sweetwater for Thanksgiving at my parents house.  Every year we get our family pictures together.  We always enjoy the process and the fellowship.  This year was no different.  Happy Thanksgiving from the Hill's, Strickland's and McCowen's.