Ready...Set....GO!!

Okay now, for those of you that know me well this will seem pretty normal. BUT, for those of you that don't then let me explain because otherwise you might think I'm totally weird, which I am, but anyway. :P Ever since I was a little child I've always been intrigued with jumping off of things, or across things. So I guess that faciniation is still with me to this day....I've done worse, like jumped off of a 15 foot cliff, but that's another story and unfortunately I don't have pictures. :)



Micah started doing this yesterday, jumping off the stock trailer onto the round hay bales. And I'm always up for a challenge so I climbed right up and did it too. It was lots of fun, but when I came in and showed Mom the pictures...well she was rather surprised and decided it would be best not to do that anymore. :)



And Gem, yes you are totally right, there's hardly a dull moment around here!! :)



AND NOW!!! The pics! :D (I had to do about 4 jumps for Anna to get good ones). :D

Ready....

Set...

GO!!

And yes...I did make it to the hay bale. :) And am still in one piece. Hannah, I am taking care of myself see!! :D

The elevator in Okmulgee

Well, I haven't quite given up on my blog... :) I've been busy, and just haven't had alot to write about I guess. We had a goat show in Okmulgee this past weekend. It was alot of fun, on Friday, Dad, Caleb, Daniel, Elijah, Andrew and I headed down to get all the goats ready. We stayed in a hotel that night, and had a rather interesting and fun time. :D This is how it went, we headed into the hotel, got checked in and paid for our room, the lady then told us that our room was on the second floor so many doors down. Okay, we got in the elevator, and headed up, or so we thought. Doors opened and out we came, hmmmm, I wonder if there is another front desk on the second floor? This looks kind of familiar! Finally after a few moments we realized that we had not gone up at all, but simply got in the elevator and then got right back out on the first floor!! :D We laughed so hard, realizing what we had done, and I'm sure the lady at the desk probably thought that our "elevators" didn't quite go all the way to the top. :P Anyway... we had lots of fun together, and then Saturday morning the rest of the family and my Mom's parents Paps and Shirley joined us. Paps was so kind to come from Arkansas to let us use his truck to pull the trailer to the show, as ours is having transmission problems. The show was fun, although none of the goats did anything phenomenal, we made it into the top 10 several times, really big classes as usual. :)

Thursday evening we had a really big hailstorm come through, at first the hail was really small, and then it got to about quarter size or a bit larger. Anna and I were up at the barn milking when it happened, and so we just stayed up there and waited it out, of course it was like SO loud in there with that metal roof. We didn't just stay in the barn though, we had to run around in it some just for fun. :) Anna was getting hit constantly, and I was running around trying to get hit, and it was just missing me. :D Finally I got a couple of good ones, it would hurt pretty bad if it hit you square on, and I ran for shelter. :) It was really neat to watch.

Oh, one more of my "adventures. " :) Wednesday evening, Anna had mentioned to me that one of our cows (she's pregnant) udder was a bit bigger. Well, I decided I wanted to go out and see for myself, now this particular cow is like the meanest cow we have, and ours are kind of notorious for being mean. So I headed out through the pasture and saw the cows up ahead. I stayed a safe distance back but couldn't get a very good view. So the cow (Shenandoah) kind of turned around and had her head in a small oak tree and couldn't see me at all. So I went up quietly really close behind her, not evening thinking what I would do IF she turned around. Well, what would she do but turn around and look at me right in the face, I didn't like the look she gave me at all, and so I turned around and took off running, and Shenandoah came running right after me. Yikes!! Usually she'll just kind of jump at you and then leave you alone, but she was coming really fast after me, I looked back and she was STILL running! There was a tree up ahead so I was debating whether I should try to get behind the tree, or just run all the way back to the barn, looked back again and she had finally stopped. Whew...that was CLOSE!! Lol, I was just laughing at myself for going so close behind her, not very smart good thing nobody was out there to see it, would have been quite a sight! :D

Adventures in Ada

Wow, I've had quite the weekend. Friday morning started out with me rushing through my goat chores and then going to Stillwater which is about 35 minutes away (usually) to pick up some last minute stuff I needed for the show. I made it there and back in an hour and a half, and I also had to stop at Walmart. :) Made it back in time to get my clothes ironed and packed, (we spent the night at the Burnett's home) and get all my goat stuff together. Dad and the guys got back from work at about 12:30 and we were able to head out by 1:15 or so, I was in a hurry because I knew I was going to have ALOT to do once we got there. We stopped by the Burnett's house on the way to drop Caleb and Daniel off, because they were going to a film meeting in Dallas with John-Clay. Carinna came along with us and we made it to there at about 4:30. We got started right away getting the goats washed, Elijah washed them for me and I blow dried, we were trying to get them all washed first and then do the clipping. By 7:30 we had all 6 of them washed and went out to the "Prairie Kitchen" to get something to eat. We had went there last fall and really liked it, but this time I got a Hamburger and it wasn't good AT ALL. Tasted like it was burned. Oh well, least it was something to eat!! So we got back at about 8:00 and I put one of my doe kids on the grooming stand. She was not behaving well at all and kept getting her ear pinched, so she was really freaking out. Finally I thought I got her settled and was about to start clipping, all of a sudden she started throwing her self around, and fell off the grooming stand! I was about to pick her up and put her back on when I realized she had blood running down her face from one of her horns. Oh no!! Her horn was pretty much broken off, and just barely hanging there and it was bleeding like crazy. Now wouldn't you know that this morning when I was packing some medical supplies to bring along I picked up my blood stop powder trying to decide if I should bring it, but I didn't because I was like why in the world would I need blood stop powder?? From now on it goes in the medical box to the shows!! So I took of running and asking people if they had any and finally was able to locate some. I packed it on there and Dad was sitting on the floor holding her in his lap. It just kept coming though and I just had to keep packing the blood stop powder on. I decided to call my vet and see what he thought I should do, so thankfully I was able to talk to him, and he said I should go ahead and pull the rest of that horn off. I was having a hard enough time already and I just couldn't bring myself to do that, so my brother Elijah stepped in and did it for me. Once that was off it was easier to put pressure right on it, and after a few more minutes we were finally able to get it stopped. Oh my, it scared me SO bad though, I thought she was going to bleed to death there was so much blood. So I still had to go ahead and get the other 2 doe kids clipped, this time being extremly careful how I hooked the chain around their heads. I decided just to clip my buck kid Saturday morning since the bucks show last. we were able to get things wrapped up and head back to the Burnett's house by about 9:30, and my little kid was resting nicely.

Now our evening with the Burnett's was a story in itself!! :D Huh Abbie?? I was really tired, but once I got there and was able to get over that kid breaking her horn and get a cup of coffee, things started getting wild. :) Lots of fun though, we had tickle fights and pillows were flying hard!! :) Put Abbie and I together, and what do you get? Lots of fun and craziness!! :D We settled down finally and then Hannah and I talked in bed till about 2:30 a.m. I had so much fun though!!

Charity came with us early to the show on Saturday, and the rest of my family and more of the Burnett's got there at about 9:30. The show didn't start out too well for us, with my 3 doe kids not placing at all, as well as my 12 month old doe. So I was hanging all my hopes on my last little buck kid "Pendragon." Finally his turn came, and he acted like he had been shown all his life!! I was so proud of him, he led so well and held his head up so high, and when the judge was looking at him from the front he looked right up at his face like "look at me." I was begining to wonder though, because the judge picked the 4 very biggest buck kids in the class and then just kept going up and down looking over all the rest of us. Finally he came up to me, checked his bite and pointed me over to his "keepers," and then sent the rest out. WOW talk about close!! :) So Pendragon placed 5th, at only 6 weeks old next to those whopping almost 3 month olds. I was very happy!! The judge had some nice things to say about him as well.

We packed up and Elijah Anna and I were going to stay at the Burnett's house and wait for Caleb and Daniel to get back from Dallas later that evening and then go on home. But it ended up that they were going to be really late so we just went on home at about 6:00. We had a nice afternoon though, most of the time the Burnett girls were "styling" my hair. Had some pretty interesting "do's" but I must say they were much better than the things my sister Anna does!! :D

Happy Birthday Abbie!!

Today is a very special young lady's birthday, Abbie Burnett . Wow I can't believe she is 16 years old. We always have so much fun with each other when our families get together. Now of course Abbie would probably tell you that I always give her a really hard time, and well it's probably true. She is very special to me though, Happy Birthday Abbie!! I really do love you! :D Just come on over and help me out with my goat chores....and be sure to wear your boots!! :)

First goat show of the year!!

Okay, finally getting around to this post. :) Our first goat show of 2008 was last Saturday. We only were able to take 2 goats because I haven't gotten all the new babies registrations done. Friday was a busy day, the guys were working and trying to get a concrete job done, and I was really needing to get to Stillwater to get the goats prepared. So ended up me, Dannie, and Andrew went to the job site and picked up Elijah and came home in the truck. Got it loaded up, trailer hitched and we were off. We didn't end up getting there till about 5:30 p.m. We got started right away getting the first goat washed after saying hi to some friends. I had not done anything at all to Chisum so I knew I'd take a while on her because I had to clip. I didn't realize I'd spend 2-1/2 hours on her though!! :D I wasn't in a hurry though with only 2 to do. Finally got her a clipped and prettied up and she did look nice.

Gauger just had to be washed and blow dried with a few clipping touchups so she didn't take very long. I took a break while Elijah washed her and Dannie blow dryed. Then some folks ended up taking advantage of some hard working guys and having Elijah, Micah and Andrew wash a bunch of their goats. :)

I think Danielle enjoyed her goat show experience, even though I had to tease her a bit and throw some "things" at her. :D

Saturday we got up at 6:00 to get the goats milked before we headed off. We were running a bit late again, but did manage to get there before it started. And then since I didn't have any younger goats it was a while before it got to mine. I was worried that Chisum wasn't going to behave very well because I have not done nothing with her since last fall, but she ended up behaving quite nicely. The one Andrew showed (Gauger) was really the one I thought would do the best, but she ended up not doing well. :( And then when it was my turn to show Chisum I made the cut and stayed in the top 12, or so and then ended up taking 8th place out of the class of 25. So, that was decent I guess. I really enjoy doing it though, even if I don't always win, I learn so much and we have alot of fun together as a family. Afterward we walked over to a different building where they were having a Home and garden show. Somehow we got in through the back door and didn't realize we were supposed to have tickets! :D

Fun Times

It's been a while since I posted....reason being I've been having so much fun I haven't wanted to be on the computer! Danielle got in last Sunday evening. She actually rode a bus here, which we decided not to EVER do again. And we were very glad that she had decided to take a airplane back to MO yesterday.

We had SO much fun talking, working together, and just being plain crazy. :D Last time she came we were not milking any goats, so this time she got to learn. :) The first time was pretty funny, took her a while to get up the nerve to actually touch "the thing." But once she started there was no going back and by the middle of the week she was milking them all by herself like a pro. AND loving to do it as well! She jumped right in with helping with everything, even the late night trips up to the barn to feed the kids. :)

Of course we had to pull out the ping pong table too, Danielle supposedly had only played a few times before, but she beat me the very first time I played her!! Not that I'm a pro at ping pong by any means though. :) We had a big tournament one evening, we had lots of fun even though both Danielle and I were out pretty early. We had some pretty fun "Rook" card games as well, for those of you that don't know it's kind of like "Spades."

We also had to take a walk out in the pasture, and climb over a HUGE pile of brush, just for fun of course. :)

We've also made the tradition of getting Blue Bell ice cream when she comes....so one evening we made a trip to town to pick that up, AND it was on sale so we came home with way too much!!

The younger ones love for Danielle to read stories to them. The "theme" book of the week was "If you Give a Mouse a Cookie." I don't know how many times they had her read that book! :) They never got tired of it though.

Wednesday was Joshua's birthday, he had an "Indian" theme. All the little ones painted their faces and made indian shirts out of old T-shirts. And somehow they convinced Danielle and I to do it too. :D We looked a little weird, but it sure wasn't as bad as something we did earlier in the week, we just claimed to be temporarily insane. :P Too embarrasing to even post pictures of.

Thursday evening we went to some friends house in Guthrie to play volley ball and fellowship. It was alot of fun.

Friday afternoon we headed to Stillwater to take some goats to a show, but I'm going to post about that in a separate post.

Saturday night was our last night together so we had to make the most of it, actually we stayed up till 2:30 in the morning! We were recording a song out in the guys studio "just for fun." Well, there were too many perfectionists in the room, (I was NOT one of them) and we ended up spending like 3 hours on one verse of "Living for Jesus!" I was getting a bit delirious, but we finally got it to where they were half way satisified, and I thought it sounded great. We also helped Dad plant our corn in the afternoon. We planted TONS of corn, hopefully God will bless it and it will be some good eating!!

Sunday, church was at the Chatham's in Blanchard. Danielle got to meet all of our homechurch families, which was neat. And then we dropped her off at the airport on our way back home. It was really sad to say goodbye, but we made so many good memories and hopefully it won't be too long before she can come visit again.

Love you so much Dannie!! ;)

Globetrotting Goats

I posted a while back about my "kids" (goats) that were born in CA, and that they would be shipped in on April 12th. Well that date ended up getting changed, and guess what?? They shipped in this afternoon!! Pretty interesting picking up goats at the airport! :D We got there at about 3:30 and their flight was scheduled to get in at 4:05.

Since we had to wait awhile we got kinda bored and Dad wanted some coffee...and he wanted me to buy it for him. I figured since he was buying these really expensive goats for me I could at least get him a cup of coffee. :) So he and Andrew got coffee, and I got a icecream sundae, which turned out to be REALLY sick!! It was not good at all and I was not very happy that I spent $4.00 on it. Oh well.

Also I ended up running in to a friend at the airport who I rarely ever see. Kind of neat, so we talked to her for a few minutes and told her we were waiting for our goats to arrive. :)

Finally the plane made it in, we were waiting in the area where the baggage comes in because they were supposed to be brought through a door in that area. All of a sudden I heard a baby goat hollor and there they were, getting carried right through the airport! We took them to the baggage claim office and signed for them, the guy in there thought it was pretty interesting having goats come through! And then we headed out. Dad had to go get the truck so Andrew, and I got them out and held them while we waited. We got a lot of looks, and had one person ask what kind of "dog" it was! :D

I'm sure I'll have some more pictures of the goats to post later, but I've been in such a rush ever since we got home trying to get all my chores taken care of. They sure do look nice, I can't wait to start showing them when they get bigger and see how they do.

Also my friend Danielle is coming to visit us tomorrow, she gets to stay for a week. I'm sure I'll have lots of stories to tell later! :)