March 22 - Calves, Baby, and Science

Last night Kacy found an add on Craigslist for a Jersey heifer. We have wanted a Jersey for a long time, because their milk is very creamy. She came out of a dairy so she was very skinny. Warning: not only are there going to be a lot of posts on puppies, but now calf. Her name is Virginia (Ginny for short) and is doing good. To take her home we just loaded her into the back of our 15 passenger van.

We went to see Colton afterward. He is so cute!!! This was the first time all of the kids got to see him.

Sorry the picture is up-side-down, but that is how he was laying.

Zach is a natural.

Garrett is too...even though he didn't think so.

We also had science today with the Gillilands. Very fun, educating class. Thank you Professor Mike!!

Website!!!!

We finally have our website up and running. Thanks to my cousin for putting it together for us. Take a look at it. We will eventually sell things other than puppies, but they are the priority for right now.

March 21 - Day With Three Precious Girls

 Today we got the opportunity of taking care of three sweet little girls that go to Janessa's B.R.I.G.H.T. Lights group. They had so much fun playing on our little farm. Must say though that the puppies are the favorite of all.

Gabe and Sam.

Little Johanna didn't know what to make of the puppies for a while then they kind grew on her.

Isn't that an adorable smile?

Rachael found the biggest puppy and played with him the entire time.

March 18 - Babysitting, New Fence...and Then a Baby

Remember the baby shower that we went to in February, well God decided that it was time for this little one to come into this world. We took care of the Carroll girls so that their mom could go to the birth. As a bonus we took care of the Neufeld girls as well. The younger ones played dress-up the entire afternoon. The older Carroll girls, Kacy, and Zach built fence.

Don't they look like they are having a lot of fun? 

 These girls put in two hard days work putting up fence for our mare, who we are expecting to give birth any day. We wouldn't have done nearly as much done if they hadn't have been here. Thank you girls.

We are using telephone wire to build the fence, and if you have ever messed with telephone wire you will know that it is a pain to cut. That is the reason we are using the saws-all. 

Lexi did an excellent job of holding the wire tight without any leverage to help her.

Reacher is the best entertainment....if you aren't building fence :)

Now for the baby. They had an all natural birth, their first baby was a C-section so they had the birth in the hospital. 

Welcome to this world, William Colton Cole!!!

March...Well Most of March

God saw fit to challenge our loyalty to the place where he put us, every spring. As much as I love Texas, I am not a huge fan of the Spring dust storms. Of course it is pretty neat to watch a dust storm come in. 

March 12 - Seed

Because Dad hauls crude oil, he gets to go into all the back roads. This is a huge help to our family not only because he gets a pay check, but he also sees things that our family can use. Broken hay bales and milo seed are some of those things. Today is Dad's "Saturday" so we all went to one of his sites to pick up Milo. We ended up with 240 gallons of seed to feed the chickens and use to grow Fodder for the horses. (I'll post you on the results of the fodder)

The seed.

What are some things that you do as a family on your "Saturdays"?

March 8 - Wedding of a Good Friend

Our dear friend, Jenifer, got married today to her prince charming...in cowboy boots. It was one of the best services I have ever seen. They both were so sincere and sober during the whole wedding. Unfortunately the lighting wasn't the best to take pictures so we didn't get any good ones.

Congratulations to a wonderful couple!!