Mackenzie's favorite goat turned 4 years old today-

Trip down Memory Lane- wow, 4 years has gone by fast!

Enjoying watermelon and the sprinkler- life is good!

Jeff and Mackenzie went to the golf course today after church. She just completed golf lessons for the fall...

Here is a picture of Jeff's dad and Dave Ramsey- they look so much alike!

Cambrie picked out her big girl bed this morning and helped her dad put it together this evening. Mackenzie really likes it, therefore Cambrie thinks it is pretty neat too. She keeps saying, "It's my bed, not Mackenzie's bed.).

Now that it is bed time, the bed is less attractive. She is doing better than Mackenzie did her first night, but she is a little nervous about sleeping in it by herself. Dad is giving a pep talk, so we will see how the night goes.

ETA- In the time it took me to upload these pictures, she fell asleep in her bed!

Mackenzie was a guest player for the Dallas Texans this past weekend. The team took 2nd place!

Amelia and Abigail, friends, and sisters

The other day Mackenzie asked me if her sister would ever stop being mean. I told her probably not. She apparently *reflected* on my answer, because she came up with a plan today. She told me we should buy Cambrie a special bracelet (and make it really pretty so she would like and wear it) that would squeeze Cambrie's arm every time she was mean.

We are in our second week of swim lessons. Both girls are having fun. Mackenzie is learning strokes while Cambrie is really just playing. The program for the little kids isn't really teaching swimming. ISR is probably in our future.

Jeff fixed my external hard drive (wu-hu). Now have have access to all my pictures. It is amazing how fast they change. Here is a trip down memory lane...

Oh it has been a busy hot summer! Still trying to get settled. There have been a handful of technology issues and have added to the delay of posts. The hard drive issue still has to be resolved.

In the meantime, here are a few highlights...

The Roo won first place at the Parker County Peach festival for her art work. We are so proud!

The Tooth Fairy came to visit the ranch for the first time last night. Not great pictures but it was almost midnight with terrible lighting-

The Tooth Fairy paid quite well but Mackenzie said she messed her room up.

Cambrie got out bed too to show us her teeth.

Tonight Mackenzie made her acting debut in Weatherford. She did a great job! Cambrie enjoyed the show too. Every time the dancers would do a move on the floor Cambrie would yell, "Fall down! Fall down!". Then we would have to have a short dialogue on them falling and crying. We had the same conversation about 10 times. She was sure they were falling down and crying.

Here are a few pictures of the evening...

Pictures from the past week...

First the piggies... aren't they cute in an ugly sorta way? They remind me of Morph from Morph and Mindy I think. Maybe not. I can't remember the same of the old tv show- but there is an old show with a character that the piggies resemble.

They LOVE milk and eggs. Apparently, the strawberries aren't too bad either. For the record, the eggs are cracked or yuck ones, the milk is older milk, and the strawberries are the heads I cut off.

I read that milk raised pork is very tender. Yum, yum! I feel a little guilty... but I am thinking of all the cuts I want...porkchops, ribs, ham, bacon, sausage.

Oh ya, they had leftover bread too.

On to the potatoes...

We put the rest of the potatoes in the ground this past week. I made french fries and potato chips the other day out of potatoes that turned out pretty darn good, so I am inspired to follow through with the seedlings. BTW, doesn't the Roo look so old?

I think we have around 100 seedlings in the ground of Yukon Gold and Red La Soda. Wish us luck!

And what would a post be without the crinkle nose smile!

God Bless!

The Roo's pictures are up on the Extension wall. 

Tomorrow will be (another) busy day. I am working on the garden this weekend. I decided to make an Indian Village garden. I will make teepees out of pvc pipe and have my viney plants grow up the teepees. Each teepee will have a little yard that will grow a specific plant. In the middle, I am going to make a firepit out of rocks and grow my hot peppers in there. To go with this theme, we will start reading the American Girl Kaya series (Kaya is an Indian). Mackenzie is excited. I need my brothers irrigation help to get everything watered. I have started a lot of the plants in the house. Hopefully the village will turn out good.

Have a great night!

God Bless!

On to the pictures...

Happy St. Patricks Day (one day late). We started the day off with some green eggs, fresh from the chicken just hours before. Yummy!

My two rock stars this morning.

Look what I made!!! I took a sewing class and made a pillow. The store happened to have the same material that my sheets are made out of, so I matched the pillow. It was fun and I am looking forward to taking another class.

We are into the goggles now. Look at all those teeth

Yep, it is frog season again. She likes you to sit and watch/ listen to her tell you all about frogs. Meanwhile, the poor frogs are croaking and wiggling. Ewww... I guess it could be worse... she could be wanting you to watch/ listen to her tell you all about her rock collection. I am thinking this is something that grandparents should have the honor of hearing- book a trip!

Meet Strawberry. I will have to get a better picture to post. She is a 5 yo milking shorthorn. Yes, I milk her (twice a day at that). She gives almost 3 gallons a day (and yes, my hands do hurt). We are pasteurizing the milk for now.

Meet #4. No close ups of this one. He is a Beefmaster steer who didn't get the memo that he isn't a bull anymore. He is wild! I guess it is a good thing that he isn't a real nice guy because we are going to eat him (at least that is the plan). I'll turn him loose on "the back 40" as soon as can look at me and not try to run through the fence.

Well, nap time is over so I gotta run. God Bless!

Happy daylight savings time!

Here is Cambrie picking out dinner (just kidding!) :)

The 4H county office is holding a photography contest for 4Hers. Mackenzie is too young to *compete* but she will get a participation ribbon and her photos will be on display.

There were different categories- we entered the people one (we submitted the one of her dad from a couple weeks ago) and the animal one.

Here is the one we entered-

Here are a few others that were under consideration-

btw, the chicken nuggets laid their first eggs. :) Have a great night- God Bless!

2 years ago at 10:13ish we were blessed with Cambrie.

We celebrated her birthday with pink cake and ice-cream. She enjoyed opening her presents- and played with each one a bit before moving on to the next. We will have to try to video her singing, "Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me". Very cute! She won't say she is two, although she can. Starting early on preferring to be younger. Oh it goes by so fast. I look at these pictures and she looks so big.

Here are pictures from the celebration...

Jeff's V-day card:

Chicken coop in progress

Hanging on every word...

Getting ready for bees...

Mackenzie took these-

Crinkle nose smile! :)

God Bless!

Enjoy the weekend!

Can you tell which one got a good nights' sleep? Hmm...

Here are a couple of pictures from today at *school*.

Funny Stories of the Week No pictures this morning but I thought I'd share two stories from this past week that made me laugh.

I should start by saying Cambrie LOVES cats. She goes crazy for them. We were in Walmart yesterday. I was pushing Cambrie in the cart and we past a woman wearing a big jacket with a fur hood. Cambrie saw her, pointed at her and started yelling, "Cat, Cat!" She thought the fur on the jacket was a cat.

This past week, I made a small booklet for Mackenzie. I wrote down her spelling words and told her make a book and use her spelling words in her story. Well of course there was a discussion (there always is) about how she was going to make the book, how she wanted to draw all the pictures first, etc. I had wanted her to do an idea spider then take each idea and make it a sentence, then write the sentence on the page, then draw the picture that went with that sentence. Well that wasn't the way she wanted to do it.....anyways... this is the book/ story she wrote...

Spelling words
boot
balloon
roof
food
loose
moon

Book Title: The Mean Mom

A mean mom called Jennifer trapped us

She lead up to a metal cage and kept us there.

She made us ride without any boots.

No balloons for us.

No fixed roofs.

Hard food so we loose tooths.

Doors open so we can't sleep because of the moon.

Guess I got my story with the spelling words.


Happy Sunday!