Friday, March 23, 2012

Early Spring Weather....

We have really been enjoying
this beautiful weather,
the last few weeks.
We really had some crazy weather
this year.
The boys only had one delay this year
and that was on the first day of school.

Last week they had half days all week.
We had such beautiful weather that
they could be outside all afternoon.














Sam was working on his disk last week 
so the tractor was in front of the house
and Gabe had so much fun playing on it.


The flowers are blooming all around the house.
We had to mow grass this week.
I really wasn't ready to start doing that.

We are really loving the beautiful spring weather.
The boys have gotten their shorts out.
Everything is very green.
The rye fields are growing,
so rye will be done early this year.


We also got another red heifer calf this week.
I don't know if we have ever had this many
red calves at once.

Saturday, March 17, 2012

She is here....

Caleb's heifer, Elime
was due to have her calf this past week.
We didn't know if she would have it while we 
were at the mountains or not.

She waited.

Tuesday morning  Sam pulled her calf.
There was a 25% chance it 
could be a red calf.
And a 90% chance it would be a heifer.

This is what he got:


a RED heifer calf.
I wasn't expecting it.
Even though there was a chance
I didn't think she would have one.
Caleb was surprised when he got home
from school Tuesday.
He didn't realize it was red at first.
He is so excited about her.


Elime & her calf
(taken by Caleb)


a few days old




Monday, March 12, 2012

Jr Youth Weekend....

This past weekend 
we took the jr youth group
from our church
to our cabin.
Only two of the kids didn't come.
We had a great time.
The weather was beautiful all weekend.
Saturday we went for a walk and
then spent a lot of time 
at Worlds End State Park.
We cooked hot dogs and smores
over the camp fire.
The kids had lots of fun playing outside,
playing games and the wii.












































Gabe & Hannah






We were getting ready to take a group shot and
Caleb slipped and fell in the ice cold water.


 youth group minus Caleb



Gabe & Mark



 While Caleb went back to the cabin to change
they had a contest, who could build the biggest
rock tower
Mike vs everyone else















climbing on the big rock