We expanded our hobby farm with more chickens! We started breeding our chickens and tried our hand at incubating our chicks. We did well for our first year. We kept some and sold some. Our breed is a sought after chicken breed and already have pre-orders for spring hatching!
Trevor surprised me this past spring by buying me a horse! Its my first horse since the horse I had as a child/teenager. This was a very exciting for me :) She's is an ex-race horse with famous bloodlines. The famous Secretariat is her great-great-grandfather and her grandfather Something Royal was also known around the track earning a million dollars. I was working on breaking her as a western pleasure horse, but was defeated at the end of summer when I was thrown and had a nasty fall. I'm looking forward to working with her more this summer. In fall we plan to breed her.
At the end of summer, Trevor bought himself a yearling. We named her Something Bourbon, after her father Not Bourbon. Not Bourbon has done well at the track, earning himself half a million dollars. Something Bourbon will start training this spring to race in summer in Winnipeg.
Trevor became the defensive coordinator for the Sabres (Steinbach High School Football team). He was a secondary defensive coach last year. After winning the Championship last year in Division 3, the team was bumped up to Division 2 this year. The season wasn't looking too promising for the team but they made their goal of making the playoffs. They tied for first in the regular season and after an upset first playoff game, they lost 3-7. Coach Goulet has a goal of winning it all next season. They have a good shot!
I became a Landed Immigrant this year and was granted my Canadian Residency. This gives me all the rights as a resident and am able to finally live a little more "normal" again. I have the right now to work, study, and volunteer places without having to apply and pay for visas to do so. With this I was able to start working within schools again. I am enjoying being back in the classroom and teaching :)
To end the year with a bang, we moved at the end of November. We bought a house, sold our house, and moved all within a month. It was a crazy month and made the holidays that more hectic. We are starting to settle in our "new" house and are enjoying the lifestyle change. We now live just outside of the town Vassar, MB, located closer to the Canadian/US border. We bought 160 acres that has the barn set-up we need as well as a large shop for Trevor. The house is an older farm house but nicely remolded. I'm loving having an attached garage. We both still work in the Steinbach area, so commuting (about an hour drive one way) has been a change. We like having the convenience of crossing the US border into MN to do our grocery shopping and misc shopping. Trevor is also looking forward to ice fishing this winter now that we live minutes from a lake.
What we have to look forward to in the new year.... Trevor has a big birthday, as he turns 30 in a few weeks! (he's getting old in his words). We are looking to expand our hobby farm with another horse and pigs in spring. We are excited to see what this year has in store for us!
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