Couples Family Party

Brenton's mom and dad put on a great dinner for all the married couples each year, this year Brenton had to be in CO so it was not the same.
After dinner we have questions that we answer for money and then there is an auction for random (but often cool)things.
Wyatt was also without his spouse but the the football game made him feel better. Dave did have a spouse with him but....there was a game on .

Back to 'real' life.....

This was Moira's display at Young Women in Excellence earlier this week. She has really taken to photography and has a nature picture to correlate with each value.

This afternoon we moved the dregs of the old haystack and Moira worked on her truck skills with Hugh's supervision. He did not like it when she had to muscle it thru the mud!
The neighbor's cows were the happy recipients of said dregs from the haystack, it was a bit to 'yuck' for the pampered goats!
Hugh was reliving an "I Love Lucy" episode and wanted to stomp the hay like grapes. What smart kids to help their mother!
Hugh seeking nourishment (pop tart?) before all that work, don't you love the short t-shirt? Well off to start sewing holiday baby blankets, we picked up the first batch of flannel today. I will post about that at a later date. Happy life!!!

More Pictures!

Yep, we had fun riding in the truck but man that wind chill can be painful! We took all the pictures on our place or down the road a bit at Brance's corral. I could not resist including the picture of my "dream" truck, you know the kind that runs and is paid for! We are so blessed to live where we do, even with some of our recent challenges I don't think I would go anywhere else except a big spread in Montana, Oklahoma or anywhere with more livestock than people. Fielding is starting to get a bit overpopulated it seems. Love to all especially sweet husband!!!!

Today!

Ok so too much has happened to truly update this blog and in fact I am considering starting over what with all the format changes. But for now my main purpose is to post some pictures for my dear hubby who is hard at work on a jobsite in Colorado. We miss him tons but are hoping to get lots done so that he comes home to happy and calm in a few weeks. So we went and took some pictures yesterday but had to quit when we lost the light, I am hoping to take a few more later this weekend. These kids are great fun to take pictures of and I don't think I will ever tire of just being with them, enjoy the photos!

Yes, it has been some time since I put anything here but do not fear it is not due to lack of possible content! The top photo is one of my "baby's" senior pictures, when did my chubby little man become a good looking cowboy? Beyond pleased with what that boy is doing with his life, but he will always be a whippersnapper to me. Then we next have the baby on the other end of the line, Hugh man! He is deeply committed to his Lego engineering projects at the moment. He will get up in the night to 'check' his collection with a flashlight or he will use the light on his alarm clock! Still a whippersnapper and he still lets me get a good snuggle in now and then. The princess whippersnapper and her goat friends are next in the photo gallery. The two pigmys and Mighty Thor the Nigerian dwarf like to stand on the dear and they even fight over the good spots. Ah, Brenton sniff testing the gluten free breads Cody made for his Agriscience/FFA project...they were beyond grouse. I am so glad that the real makers of gluten free breads have developed better ideas than to just switch flours out. However he did win so the race for Nationals is on! My last whippersnapper is showing how bad the breads were in his picture as well. Liam is great! Well that covers everyone except my darling doggies, cantankerous cat, and the two bum lambs who are pretty sure we are trying to starve them to death since we cut back on their snack bottle (they are getting hat as well!). Life is good here on the wanna be a farm/ranch acre!

Fun pictures!

The boys built replicas of the Nile river but they were washed out in a major storm last weekend. Cody and Hugh have a hard time keeping sleeves or shirts on it seems. Brenton came home beyond muddy from the last few games he reffed. Liam is learning how to workout on the treadmill for when the high temperatures don't go above twenty, I don't know how he is gong to get his dog into that program though! And last but not least our amazing goalie at his last club soccer game. Too fun! Ok so the pictures are in the reverse order of my commentary. I will perfect my blogging skills at a later date. For now I am just happy to get something posted!

Too much fun!

Life here has been busy as always. Lots of life type decisions being made such as which college, which major, which photo for the yearbook. All the important things. But seriously we have been that good kind of busy that wears you out and makes you smile all at once. So here is the run down. Soccer season is over for a few months so we actually see Brenton before 9 at night, and Cody is back to working whenever he can with his Grandpa Jr. which is a huge good thing in my book. Half of the lambs have been sold (the kids had to deal with their first bad check experience but it turned out well), the ewes are off meeting with the bucks at the ranch, the other half of the lambs are eating lots and waiting to go to market soon! The two pygmy goats have been dehorned and we will never go thru that again. Don't ask even I was queasy about that ordeal and I never get queasy! Home education is rocking along though I still can't master Latin so Moira is taking that over. Cody has been accepted to Utah State and given a two year tuition scholarship, if he moves his ACT score up by one point he will get four years so we are studying! Liam is waiting to start basketball and considering a return to Irish dance as is Hugh though he refuses to even discuss playing basketball. Moira has a new project a ten day old Nigerian Dwarf goat, he is smaller than the cat! She is in love with the thing and bottle feeds it every four hours and spoils it rotten. Hugh is busy being Hugh and that is just great! Brenton is building a goat and bum lamb palace complete with insulation and wiring! He does nothing halfway that man! So life is good and we are so grateful to be a family even when there is too much laundry and not enough time. Have a happy weekend!