March 2 - Playing Music/ And Milking cows

We have been milking a couple of cows all of this week for some friends. Riley Tatum came with us today. Before we left Zach and Riley got out their guitars and played together.

Zach and Riley playing and Garrett singing.

Gabe has quite a fascination for Riley's skill with the guitar.

Kacy letting in one of the cows to milk.

March 4 - Babysitting and Lambs

 Josie came over this morning. She got here just in time to feed the lambs. I do believe it was the first time she had ever fed lambs with a bottle. We had quite a bit of fun teaching her how.

The Lambs are growing .... fast:)

After the lambs got done eating they came over to "help" the goat finish. Josie didn't think that was a very good idea.

 March 12 - Home-school Family get together

A few families from our home-school co-op came over today. We had a full day of horse back races, Lambs, and horseriding lessons. 

At lunch time all of the little girls got together to eat. The age range for these girls is from about 4-8.

 One of the reasons theses families came is one of the little girls, Daisy Payne, is going into mutton bustin'. So while they were here Daisy and some of the other kids did "Pogue Mutton Bustin". In other words we let the lambs out in a 5 acre lot and go catch them. The girls seemed to have a lot of fun doing this game. These are a few pictures of their success.

After the "mutton bustin" wore off the girls came down to help Kacy put the horses away. Jenna Carroll has been learning how to take off and put on the saddle. 

One of the most important things to learn is to carry it. 

After the horses were taken care of the girls posed for a memory remembering  picture.

It is a day we all will remember for years to come.

March 15 - New Horse

Kacy has been wanting a stallion to breed with our mare for quite a while. Well our mailman's owned a bay Quarter horse stallion, so we bought him three days ago. Today we brought him home. He still needs some training, but he is a good horse.

Shea got on him right away.

As you can see from this picture he's very gentle.

Garrett likes him as well.

Janessa, Shea, and Kacy watching Garrett's "ride".

Gabe, trying to get to know him.

Yep, he's a keeper.

 March 16 - Dance for a Wedding

The Shannons (the family who taught us how to dance) oldest daughter, Atlanta, is getting married on March 30th in Tennessee. So for all their friends in Texas they hosted a dance.  

Zach really liked this cowboy Commandments sign.

Shannon family with the future groom, Jordan Goodwin.

 Swing dancing has got to be our family's all time favorite dance.

Congratulations Atlanta and Jordan!!!