Soooo the cowboy search is taking a backseat to my farmhouse search (still searching Christian Mingle though).  I found this house for sale about 40 min. north of me. Soooo cute, built in 1915, actually smaller inside than it looks and it’s on 1/2 acre.  I’m afraid it needs a bit more work $$$ than I’m willing to put into it, but sooooo cute right!!!!

Sooooo couldn’t find ANY pink camo caps . . . sooooo I opted for the fleece, adorable jacket with gray accents!

Today is the 1 year anniversary of my “Country Girl Blog”.  This is my 158th post . . . and in the past year you’ve made 257 comments . . . there have been 3,944 views of which 346 came from Facebook & over 65  from Pinterest.  Most of you have been from the U.S. but I have also had visitors from Canada, France, Italy, Brazil, Romania, Japan . . . (those are the ones I remember).  The post that has gotten the most views and they’re still coming is my “Cowgirl Punch with a Kick” LOL – 87 views.

I would love to grow my blog audience so if you haven’t submitted your email address to “follow me”, please consider it – if you know of anyone that might be interested in my blog – please send them my link – gettinmycountryon.com – if you have any input, ideas, suggestions that you’d like to see, please feel free to submit them here on this post as a “comment”.

Some of you I know, and some of you, I’ve never met. Thank you for looking, thank you for your encouragement, thank you for keeping me accountable to getting stuff done, thank you for sharing your thoughts and THANK YOU for letting me share with you my life joys and struggles!!  This blogging experience has been so much fun and I hope that this next year will bring ALL of us great joy, new experiences & grand adventures!!

Thank you! Ronda

I haven’t had a chance to check in for awhile.  All is good.  I had a follow-up appointment this week with my radiation oncologist and everything looks great.  I’ll just need to check in with him again in a year.  Working on pulling my “Heart & Breast Health” event together.  If you are local and you know anyone that needs a mammogram and she doesn’t have health insurance, I still have a few open appointments for Feb. 2nd.

The Broncos are playing in the playoffs this Saturday and we’re all excited.  Tomorrow is Denver’s “Wear Orange Day” . . . . . . I have to say, watching football is wayyyy more fun when you have a team to “root” for.  Last year we had Tebow and that was a ton of fun . . . now we have Peyton and he is just phenomenal!! He is like the Maestro of the Bronco Symphony and is so much fun to watch.  Peyton is “water cooler” talk and we are all excited.  I’m only hoping for some time this weekend to get my stinkin’ Christmas stuff put away!! Seriously my tree is still decorated . . . not lit . . . but still decorated!

I’m looking forward to this year.  January always brings a sense of “new” . . . “second chances” . . . “do-overs” . . . 365 days to do it different . . . try something new . . . and yes . . . decorate another room in my house! Yes I’m hoping to have some before and after pics of my bedroom redo, just don’t hold your breath, LOL.

For all of my “local” followers . . .  Please “Save the Date” for Saturday, February 2, 2013.  After my experience with Breast Cancer last summer I felt God prompting me to do something, there was so much I didn’t know.  He opened the doors and I’ve walked through them . . . .  it’s called the  “Heart & Breast Health Event – Empowering Women with Knowlege”.  February is Heart Health Month so we thought we’d tie the two together.  From 10am-12pm there will be speakers from St. Joseph’s Hospital here to talk to us and from 9am-2pm we will have the “Mammogram Mobile Van” here offering a FREE Mammogram to women without insurance. The event is being held at Crossroads Church – Northglenn Campus.  You must register for both events. Please come & invite a friend . . . you can call me at work 303-962-5698 or sign up online at crossroadsabc.com, just click on the scrolling artwork “iheartyou”!!

Thanks Sherry for sending me my Minnie ears!!! Happy Halloween!

Why is it that we pray for God to open doors for us and when He does we are afraid to step through them.  I’m laughing with one of my girlfriends.  We just had that conversation this morning.  She and her husband currently live in So. Carolina and were planning on moving back to Colorado.  Through prayer this summer, it looked like they were moving back.  God closed the door to Colorado but opened a door in Texas.  One of  her daughter’s and her family is now moving to Texas.  She told me she got a job offer last night from the Dallas office.  Wow!!  Would totally seem like a “no-brainer”, and yet she told me about the fear she went through last night thinking about it (she’s back on track this morning – she has great faith).

I think back about my move to Colorado from California.  God opened EVERY door for me to make that move 17 years ago. It WAS a “no-brainer”.  It was totally scary but after seeing how “present” He was in my life there was no way that I couldn’t step through those doors in faith, trusting Him.  We pray for job opportunities, relationships, health concerns . . . He opens the doors and it’s up to us to walk through them.  Fear is not something that comes from God.  He really does love us!  He really does want the best for us! So, if you have prayed and there is a door that’s been opened . . . walk through it . . . what do you have to lose?

Hey girl . . .  got my cowboy boots . . . can’t wait to come visit!!!!