More pictures of our Winter! More to come!

YES, We are still here!

Okay. I am not sure why it has taken me since October to write a post. We have been through a ton of snow, then on to baby goats, lots of baby cows, lots of friends having birthday parties and even Sunni's 10th birthday has passed. We had visitors from Atlanta and Asheville and we have been enjoying it all. I am sure that I have missed something but I will try to post as many pictures as I can. I will probably start with the most recent and work my way backwards.

These are some pictures from our first big snow. We went all out and had a blast. We thought it would be our only big snow but we were very wrong. I think we ended up having 4 pretty big snows. The girls loved it. Friends came over and we used the four wheeler to get kids up the big hill after they sled down. I think the daddy's might have had more fun than the kids. I will post those pictures soon.

Pumpkin Decoration

This morning Grandpa brought over a bail of hay and went and got some square bails as well. We took our pumpkins down and set up a little decorations for the Fall season. And of course the cats were with us.....except for "Coffee", he must have been sleeping.

It is very cold here all of a sudden! We are loving that!

Llamas

Driving Again?

Well, no. Not all the time anyway. David did drive on Friday. You never know, maybe he will get to drive this season. A great picture though. Enjoy!

Pumpkin Patch

We went to the pumpkin patch on Friday and had a blast! The girls loved it and the weather was perfect.

Summer is gone!

Well, that was fast. Last time I posted was Spring and now Summer is gone. Amazing! It goes by so fast. Since my last post Sunni turned 9, Lillie turned 7 and Molly just turned 5. I can't believe how much older the girls are getting. We also received 3 kittens which are now CATS. (Milo, Coffee and Tom) There is nothing small about them. They are great mousers and we love them so much. If they could stay out of the highway we would be very excited. So far so good! We also managed to secure a miniature horse. His name is "Mr. D". I believe his papers say "Denali". So.....Mr. D it is! He is great and I will try to post a picture of him here soon. All the baby goats are big and will be momma goats next spring. We also had a baby llama over the summer. Exactly one year after she had the other baby last year. So, the llamas are Prissy (momma), Penny (1 yr) and Patty (4 mths.) They are really good and we can pet them all now. They use to not like us very much but I guess they have figured out they we are here to stay.

The girls are doing great! They are Kindergarten, 2nd and 4th grade this year. We are currently in a book club for the girls. We are reading Little House On The Prairie books this time. The girls love it. Last week they got together with friends and made butter, learned to cross stitch, and drank goats milk. (mmmmmm....good) Friday we went to the pumpkin patch. I will have to post pictures of that. The girls had so much fun. We went through a very large corn maze and had a blast!

There is so much going on so I will try to keep up. The girls want to start helping me with the blog so I am going to let them help as well.

Below are pictures from Molly's Cowgirl Party! Enjoy!

Another Sign Of Spring

I mowed my grandmothers back yard yesterday with a push mower just to clean it up before it rained last night. Well, I came up on a water moccasin. A pretty good sized poisonous snake. So, I will be watching the ground a little closer and keeping an eye out when the kids play outside. They play all over the area that I found him in. In fact, they had been running around in the yard just before I sent them in so that I could mow. Crazy! That is life on the farm I guess.

Spring Is Here

Well, I have not done this in some time. We have had more computer trouble since Christmas than I care to deal with. Maybe....just maybe....we are past some of that. Of course, that goes with living in rural Arkansas. (I guess.)

Here is what is going on now and I will update the past few months as I can. Four of our five female goats had 6 kids within a 24 hour period. It is crazy down there in the barn. We went from an infirmary several months ago to a maternity ward today. So far, all the goats are doing well. One mom is rejecting her little one but we are working on that. We shall see.

These pictured below are the first two....I will update with the others very soon.

Can you say BRRRRRRRR?

It started sleeting here around noon yesterday and continued off and on until about 6:00 this morning.


David leaving for work at 4:00am. He had to leave his car down at Dads house.


These are pictures that I just took outside. You can see the highway in the upper left of this picture. It is covered in ice.


It is so quiet outside.

The infirmary!

At this point the barn at our house is currently being used as an infirmary. We have 3 small calves that need a little extra attention. 99 was born just before we got here in May and stayed in the barn with her mom for a little while. She is still not thriving like we would expect her to so we are feeding her special in the barn. 79 is older than 99 but also not looking so good. We are trying to get her along as well. Now, #9, more effectionately known as "Scrawny".....I am not sure what is up with the 9's......"Scrawny" was born over the summer and we started calling her "Scrawny" as soon as she was born. She just looked scrawny. We are bottle feeding her to help her become...well....unscrawny. She is very sweet!


This is 99, obviously, and he is very sweet too.



Sunni giving "Scrawny" a bottle. She drinks two bottles each day.



This is #79 and she is kind of a brute. She pushes the others around. She will be back out with the heard as soon as she puts on some weight.


Sunni and Scrawny!

Then we made our own candy!

After having taken our first candy making class we decided to try it for ourselves. It was very simple and did not take very long. The girls loved making the candy and of course it did not last very long. We gave some away and ate the rest. We may have to make some more!


Chocolate covered Ritz crackers with peanut butter, bears, snowmen, spoons, flags, flowers, suckers, sea shells...you name it we made it.

Sunni, Molly and Lillie having a little taste test.

These were the best. I did not think they would taste good but they were delicious.

This was way too much fun!

Candy making class

Last Tuesday we went to a candy making class with our homeschool group. The girls loved it. We learned a lot about making chocolate candy using molds. It is simple and the girls could not wait to try it at home.

Lillie and Molly sat on the front row.

Sunni and her friend Alaina

Curls for the girls!

Well, the first one is Daddy. Then the rest are of the girls. They love having curlers put in their hair and it looks great in the morning! Very easy. (This was last Saturday Night.)

Daddy

The Christmas tree and Sunni.

Molly and Lillie

Sunni, Molly and Lillie enjoying "Movie Night" last Saturday Night.

Lillie with her curls!