Monday, January 10, 2011

Please, really again.

This is Harley. She is our 2nd oldest dog and a toy fox terrier. She weighs all of 11 lbs, but she acts like a great dane. I'm pretty sure she was trying to hide from me. Haha, I got you.

Beautiful Babes


These beautiful babes belong to my brother and sister-in-law. I love when they come over, cause they are so much fun. And I sleep sooo well when I go to bed at night. I love them to pieces.

Nuggent

He's such a stinker. He is our herd bull. Nuggent is a full-blooded Simmental Bull that we bought 3 yrs ago. We have several nice heifer calves that we have kept out of him.

Scotty

This is Scotty. He belongs to a very good friend of ours. Mahlia is taking lessons this summer again and would like to do horses in 4-H. So we are borrowing him for her to get started and see if she really likes it before we spend a lot of money on a horse. He's such and awesome horse.

Gentle Giant


This is the face of a beautiful creature. Elmer is a 26 year old grade gelding. This is his bad side. He is totally blind in this eye. But he is sooo sweet and both of my children learned to ride on him. Recently we found out that he is going blind in his other eye. We struggle with what to do. He know where to go to get food, water and shelter and he gets around by folling the cows. But at some point we will have to put him down. Sooo heartbreaking, especially since we saved him from the glue truck 2 years ago.

Sleeping Princess


This is me and garrett playin with the camera. He's thinking of doing photography for a new 4-H project this year. HHHMMM.

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

New Year!

Soooo, the new year is officially 4 days old. I have spent lots of time with my husband and children and have not wondered far from the farm! Marks new job is wonderful! For the first time in our 12 years together, he was home 5 days at christmas and 5 days for new years. And noone called @ 5 in the morning needing him to come to the hog farm to come fix something. Thank you Pioneer for seeing the potential in my husband and hiring him. And i'm sorry to the poor pigs who may have suffered because he is no longer there.
I keep reading how everyone is making new years resolutions. We'll this chick isn't. All I want for the new year is my family, our health and the fact that Mark and I are prosperous in all that we do.
On that note, I have made some changes and have done some upgrades. So hopefully I will have time to take all the pictures that i want and share them with you. As I say this i am reminded that my husband is working nights and our first calf of the year is due on the 28th of this month. I will be a wreck from then until april. We will be starting the search for lambs and hogs, signing up for 4-h projects, calving, school, getting ready for plantig and cattle shows! So i will try and share the crazy ride that we call our life. Peace, Love and Chicken Grease!