Winter Joy~

Zayne building snow castles

Busy little boy...

 

So many snowballs...so little time (until he starts to freeze!)

 

Buddies...

The girls...

Buddies...

Climbed the sledding hill...

Ready?

Frank

 

Bellah

 

Iris

Mountain Views…

Enjoying the sunshine and mountain views today…

 

 

Into Glacier Park

Wintry…

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The sheep are loving the snow!

Snow coming down…

Finally a taste of winter!

The sheep out in the snow...

 

Vaka out investigating...

 

Snow coming down…

Chores…

Graining her llama…

 Following Tori during her chores…

The sheep hoping for some crumbs….

Drizzle saying “Hi”

Rosemary and Grizzle…

Loving on Iris…

Happy girls…

45 degrees

…and it’s the end of December?  That’s what our handy-dandy weather station informed us of today, in addition to that we received .24 of an inch of rain.  Ugh!  Everything is wet and slick or muddy.  I hate weather like this.

Muddy, mucky mess…

This mucky, slick mess made Sawyer go for a real ride today.  We needed to pull Blackfoot (our biggest, tallest ram) out of his breeding group today and put him back in with the rest of the fellows.     Sawyer was straddling the big guy, his feet barely touching the ground.   We navigated the electrical fence just fine and then the ram got the idea to just try to run out from under Sawyer.  See how well that worked…

Hop, hop, hop slide…..

And…

Sliiiiiiiide….

And…

Thru two puddles and more skidding along…

I really wish I would have had my camera at the time.  Poor Sawyer by the time the ram stopped running, he was wet clear up to his knees!  The whole time I am watching not sure if I should feel horrified or fall on the ground laughing!  I kept waiting to see him get bucked off and be covered in mud and then have the ram turn on him and gore him but Sawyer stayed on until Blackfoot ran out spunk.  We eventually moved the ram back to the bachelors pen safe and sound and got chores finished up without too much else happening.

Blackfoot: 1

What a morning!

Santa Delivery…

What could it be?

 

 

Papa with Iris

 

 

Santa came a day early to the farm!

 

Much to the children's delight!

 

Teigen trying out Iris...

 

Garrett's turn...

 

Hayden's ready...

 

Zayne was a bit scared to jump on her back but once he did he sure didn't want to jump off!

 

Tori's try...

 

 

Maddie too!

 

Sawyer even gave her a go!

 

Oh what joy it is to ride...

 

Iris is a 7-year-old buckskin mare~ 1/2 mustang other half ? Sweet as can be!

 

Iris

 

Zayne’s new do….

Zayne’s sporty new hairdo….

Isn’t it just dashing?  Poor guy ran into a door at church last night before the hymn sing.  Mark and I were out talking and one of the children informed me that Zayne had hit his head pretty hard and was hiding under a pew.   Zayne getting rolled around didn’t concern me too much, being the youngest of 5 boys~it seems some one always has a war wound.  When I coaxed him out from under the pew the side of his head all red and was sporting a nice sized cut.  I took him out to have Mark look at it.  It was decided between Mark and the many onlookers that he definitely needed a stitch or two…

We were very blessed to have the best care in Kalispell and were able to have him stitched up in no-time and even made it back for the end of the hymn sing.

8 little stitches…

Zayne is a  tough little boy and only fussed when his cut was numbed up before the stitching.

Before long he was back to his mischievous ways!

Thanks for your prayers, he kind of had a rough night trying to get  and stay comfy.

We would like to extend an invitation to our friends and family whom might be in town to the Christmas Eve service at Grace Church at 5 pm and Christmas morning service at 10:30 am.   Wonderful fellowship and some of the kids and their very talented friends will be singing…

A preview :0)

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grace

Fun-day!

We had a wonderful time today at our little church homeschool group.  I should say our kids always look forward to these school days but today was extra fun!  The kids were able to make candy necklaces and build graham cracker houses….nothing like ~25 kids from 5 families making and creating their little houses!

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Thanks for the fun day P.S. M and K.D!

Sweet Dreams…

Sweet dreams…sweet memories….

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