May what May?

Ok, I never finished 'wrapping' up April and it is now June. I have a bad habit of not writing on this blog because I have always had a serious phobia when it comes to sharing my writing. My former students would really love to hear that I am sure. Anyway since I was last here we have done much, slept little, and even gotten a few things done around the homestead. Another 'issue' I have with posting things is that I am still trying to master my new camera and figure out how to do slideshows instead of lengthy scrolls of pictures. Back on track, May was busy with three family birthdays and numerous extended family birthdays. I celebrated 43, Brenton hit the big 39, and Moira is a glorious 15 (there will be a special post about her when I get it finished just so). Mother's Day was nice, and there were numerous dinners at goring Ranch throughout the month. Cody got his ACT scores back and is way too smart for me (I don't think I even knew the scores went as high as 31). There was an FFA banquet where Cody received an academic excellence award, there was a a soccer banquet where Cody received his varsity letter and there was lots of complaining about what a waste the last three weeks of school are. But much rejoicing in the fact that he (Cody) can take a million ag classes next year because he has been so diligent the past three years. We went to two Va'Del's competitions where Moira's group won everything in sight, one Irish dance innerschool feis (all did well, pictures soon), one dance review where the whole town darn near turns out, and one incredible Celtic Woman concert for Moira's birthday. I cried all the way thru Danny Boy and Galway Bay, I missed my dad horribly and conciously for days after. Brenton went to Jamboral for the Boy Scouts and then took Hugh and Liam to a fathers/sons camp out. Liam made Jamboral but was quite sick for the f/s camp out. He suffered admirably while I was at the dance review with Moira and the guys were camping he laid in bed and watched the Star Wars trilogy, repeatedly. What else in May? Oh yes twelve ram lambs moved in to the south pasture, 5 ewes moved in as well and delivered nine healthy lambs despite all the spring snow, hail, and rain storms. I was so grateful for no more bum lambs from that bunch. There are still seven bum lambs in that pen but they should be moving in the next week. Brenton claims that when the little darlings can rip the nipple off the bottle they NEED to go back to the ranch. We all started the branding /docking season and those 530 am starts are killing me. However, Cody and Moira always seemed to enjoy those days but man do they come home covered in blue paint and many unmentionable (and smelly) things. We put the garden in on Memorial Day and bought our very own roto tiller so now I am planning all kinds of tilling based projects. Well I now I missed a great deal of what went on, we did have school all month and Brenton and I even had a few dates that did not involve Walmart or Sam's Club. So I hope my millions of readers (mostly Becki and Carla) had great May's and that their June's are off to a rousing and sunny start.