More weekend fun....

Just a few more photos of our fabulous (but exhausting) weekend. The picture of Brenton lighting the charcoal with the weed burner/flame thrower has got to be some of my best work. He was so absorb in his 'work' he did not realize I was taking the picture until he caught me sharing it at the party a bit later. I love this family!

So we started our weekend early on Friday with the arrival of winter bum (orphaned) lambs, the wrapping up of the school week, and heading to our first Irish dance competition called a Feis. We also squeezed in a superbowl party with four other families at our home. The bum lambs are time consuming but mostly enjoyed by the kids, the survival rate is low in the winter. This year Moira has set up a 'lamb nicu' in the corner of 'her' rabbit shed, the particularly weak lambs get to share the heater with the rabbits. The lambs get fed four times a day so the kids are busy. The Feis was great! Hugh got a participation medal and was the youngest dancer there by four months. We were amazed at the composure he had in front of several hundred people. Liam received three medals for honorable mention and actually competed on the first level for one dance. Moira was in seven dances and was thrilled just to make it thru when we discovered she actually won one of her hard shoe dances. This means she moves on to the next level in that dance, she also placed 4th and 5th in two soft shoe dances. It was a great day and we were so proud of how well behaved our family was. Cody spent hours and hours building a fabulous lamb nursery behind the shed and did all the transporting of lambs from the ranch to our house, he even took away the unfortunate ones whom did not survive. During superbowl half time the kids went to feed the lambs and most of the kids at the party trooped out in the freezing weather to 'help', mostly to fight over whose turn it was to hold the bottles. It was a crazy 72 hours but good all the way around. More pictures to follow. By the way Moira's nearly waist length hair took almost an hour and a half to put into spike curlers, thank goodness Pride and Prejudice is on DVD!