My rooster is handsome

This is my rooster. He is onry and beautiful!!! Just had to show yeah :)

An Egg---hum weird

So I was out checking for eggs and reached in and was picking some eggs out of one of the nest boxes and discovered this

Now in the early part of the year they typically lay darker eggs so no surprise at color.. But look at the size of that egg!!! Weird huh?

Beautiful Skies this morning

Aren't these beautiful pictures of the clouds above. I took these this morning. I was sitting her and the kids just went off to school on the bus and seen these out the window and I couldn't help myself. I took my camera and was standing in the yard snapping. Matter of fact right after I put my camera away the sun started to shine right under the clouds where the bottom picture is. I knew by the time I got my camera set up, it would be gone. So left well enough alone.
Just beautiful!! Thank you Lord for this lovely day!

Good Morning

Good Morning!!!

Today is a beautiful new day that the Lord has made. Just want to say hello and I hope you have a blessed day!

My son Gabe was Abe Lincoln

Julionna and Gabe had a play called " Who wants to be President?" It was really neat to watch. It was set up like a game show, the Presidents were hid behind a wall such as you see in the second picture. Then the Presidents had to give facts about what they did etc.. and the game show guests had to guess what President it was. Gabe is fairly shy and he did very well. He is skinny like Abe and he looked so cute! Brian made his hat and beard. It was cute!!

Random Picks

(Above) Grandma and Paul
(Below) Justen

(Below) Sadie waiting for Brian to get home

(Below) Gabe

(Below) Me and Julionna

(Below) Brian and my nieces finance building our fence

A ZOO

Meet Mario and Di Vinci (above)
Meet "Beans" (Below)

Well we own a zoo of animals for sure. But all are taken very well care of and all are great!
My mom purchased 2 Llama's to help guard our goats. They are good boys and I cannot wait to sheer them and clean and card the wool. I have a wonderful lady in Washington who will spin the wool. I am excited about that. They get along great with the goats too. The lady we got them from is a sweetheart. I think we made a really good friends with her. She is great! She said these specific Llama's have awesome blood lines and of course she has all paperwork. But the point is the wool from them is suppose to be some of the best! Move out of the way yarn shops..lolol

Plus a ferret we decided to name Beans. I had a ferret when we first got this place. But did not have time to ferret proof anything and he disappeared. He was rescued by my sister Lori and she gave him to me.
This little girl made a nice addition to our family. I know we have tons of pets and most people would say I would NEVER have that many animals. But this is us and we love animals. I thought often about being a rescue place for them. I know how to hand raise birds from the egg and I know how to bottle feed about anything. Maybe one day...for now I am busy with what I got.

From my Dad

I finally heard back from my father after I wrote him a letter. His letter was well not real personal (at all) kinda like a stranger. But he sent me a treasure. In the past he gave me his bible his grandma Crawford had given to him when he was a boy. Well he just sent me his mothers bible (Lottie) inside is an even bigger treasure. It lists Lotties parents, and grandparents and her sisters and brother.
This is a treasure I am honored to have received. I was not expecting it and did not even know it existed.
Anyway the pictures

Goat Kisses

Yup these goats love to give kisses. Its so funny cause they put their nose on you and they are obsessed with people. They follow you around everywhere. There are tree's in the field and I run around them and of course the goats kick and fart and love chasing you. I play hide and seek and they are quick, no hiding on my part they are way to smart. lol

Random Pics

Julionna in her new glasses

Paul on Tractor

Will add more soon

One of my chickys

Some of my chickens....

I found one of my favorite chickens dead. It looked like she was perching and must have fallen asleep and fell and broke her neck. She hasn't been sick and the position I found her says so. Frustrating!!!! She was a sweet chicken. I know to some that sounds stupid or silly but when you spend time with them and they come up to you and talk in chicken way and they are tame and come running up to me to be petted or fed and each have their own personality you would understand. God created animals for us to take care of..having a heart for even a chicken is what we are suppose to have. lolol anyway my poor chicken is buried under a flowering tree.

Hog Dog techy heaven

I have a cousin of mine works for Adobe and sent me this . Adobe Design Pro! I am so excited to learn how to use it all. I know allot of it, but this has many things I have been wanting to learn and Flash is one of them. I am so excited!

Bunnies

Weakness of cute animals. My mom decided to buy some dwarf rabbits. Meaning they will never get any bigger then this. At the feed store they were in separate cages, well Gary the feed store owner a nice man. He gave us a cage to put them in to bring them home together, most of us know how rabbits are. Well on the way home my chair was well moving kinda like one of those vibrating massagers. I curiously looked back and YUP we are having babies. We were not planning on breeding them. But I guess now we will be having baby rabbits!!!

The white one with spots is the male (buck), the brown one female (doe).

Anyone want a rabbit? lolol
They are very tame rabbits and have been hand raised so they are very sweet. They have indoor cages. And are much cleaner then Genia pigs! Which is nice!

No Gifts under the tree

Yup you read it right. We had no gifts under the tree.(not on purpose, we were just to broke this year to buy gifts) Our kids didn't cry, I think they were sad but understood. We have never raised our kids to think Christmas was about gifts, but it was still hard to see them go with-out. However we had one of the most yummiest Christmas dinners ever. My hubby made 99% of it by scratch and it was so good. We invited our wonderful neighbor over and she is just a doll. She doesn't have children and we just adopted her. We like giving her gifts. My mom and myself made some knitted goodies for her and some other items and she brought over some goodies and the kids dove it. It has been one of the best Christmases ever! My sister Lori came over as well.
I love family and this was wonderful!

Beautiful Snow

Snow is so beautiful! It reminds me of good times, hot chocolate, making snow angels and snowmen.

One of my poor chickies

One of my chickens was found by some wild animal! Makes me so upset. I love my laying hens! Poor chicky

Pheasants and Scenery

This is some beautiful Christmas like tree's in the field behind our home. Frost on the ground. In person it was stunning!

This is my daughter Julionna walking on a tree log going across a creek we fell it over. It was so pretty there we left it!

This is me with Justenm Julionna and Gabe. Holding the pheasant I just caught stealing food from my chicken house.

This is my kitten precious. She is so beautiful, I had to share!

Fencing

Today was a day to work on fencing. My hubby did most of the work, but I helped some. My mom she was putting up chicken wire on some of the barn windows to keep cougars out and way from the goats. Slowly but surely the farm is coming together.

Goats on the farm

Yup we have goats. Our wonderful neighbor has lots of property right behind our house. She is not using it and has offered to let us use it with the barn. We got goats. Well my mom did so the kids can have them to play with. Goats are so fun to play with and they will be good for eating the black berry bushes down. Here is a picture of 4 of the 5 goats.

Were looking into getting some steer to raise and eat and later mom wants to buy a turkey and a few ducks to eat slugs and such.
God has truely blessed us.
We are working to finish up the show to have work parties for the charity. Not to much more to do, but it will be great once it is ready. We have some local ladies ready to help. Most of our members are online so this will be new to do hands on with people :) I admit I am nervous. Only cuz I do not hang around many people. I stay at home and work from there. Oh well I'll be ok!!

Journaling

I was reading through some of my Journals I used to write in all the time, even before my daughter Julionna was born in 1998. Anyway looking back its kind of neat. Its a history in itsself. I stopped writing when I got so busy that I put it away and eventually forgot. 4 years had passed and the other night I wrote in each Journal. Each of my kids have a personalized journal I made for them. Saying
Dear Justen,

gnjgiongjgoinmor

Love Mom

All my kids have their own. Its my love letters to them. I feel bad, so much time passed since I wrote last. Because I had so many things we went through, fun times and hard times I could have shared with them. Sometimes I wish I could turn back clocks just for times like that. But what is nice is I still have days ahead. And if I do not because non of us really know, then they will have love letters from mom. That is important for me and I hope for them. I love my kids. I also have a journal for my hubby too :)