A fun afternoon...

Saturday Anna and I took the younger ones over to our neighbors house to go horse back riding. We had a great time doing it, and the horses were nice (for the most part) except for a slight incident when I was riding. :) Of course it would have to happen to me, but I'm sure glad it was me and not one of the younger ones. What happened was, I was just trotting along on Chick a little black pony, and I wanted to see if I could get her into a gallop so I gave her another little kick...and instead of going faster she kind of started bucking!! :D I managed to hang on, and then looked over at Anna and she had quite a horrified look on her face!! :P I must have looked rather weird. It scared Anna worse than it did me though, I actually rather enjoyed it. :)


Jeremiah got to take a ride on the donkey, "Penelope." It was her first time to have anybody on her back and she did really great. Pretty cute too!

Water Balloons!

Okay...it's been awhile since I've updated....again. :) (Thanks for the reminder Danielle). But the thing is, we've had major computer problems, still not worked out, but hopefully it will last long enough to get this post up. And there's just not been alot to blog about. :D I mean, lots of things happen, but this blog would be totally filled up with craziness if I blogged everytime something weird happened to me. :) So we'll just pass over my swim in the mud hole...the swing breaking with me on it...and all that. :P

I must say though, that I'm just lovin this warm weather we've had. Monday was in the 90's and it was great! And the whole rest of the week is supposed to stay mostly in the 80's. My kind of weather for sure. :) So today, it was planned to do water balloons outside, and there was alot of rumors that I was going to be the one that would be picked on. So after lunch was over, and I was able to make a run to the post office, everybody was ready. :) Now since I was a little late going out there some of the younger ones had already used up theirs, but Micah was still saving some just for me. :D Got mine all filled up, and we started at it. I'm a terrible aim with water balloons though, but did manage to get Micah a couple of good ones right in the face. :) I just barely escaped getting a direct hit in the head myself though. It wasn't long before we ran out of balloons, and we were still going after each other, so Micah started getting the 2 gallon buckets that we had our balloons in and dumping water on people. :D Everybody caught on pretty quick and it wasn't long before I was TOTALLY drenched!! Jeremiah is super good and sneaking up behind you and soaking you before you can do anything about it. :P And then I could hardly run because the skirt I had on does not do well at all when it's wet. :D It was lots of fun though!

There's actually not been very many goat pictures on here lately! Can you believe it?? I think it's about time though, Anna got some today that were pretty neat. Oh, and I guess I haven't posted a picture of the new goat stand I got, it's really nice and makes it so easy to work with the goats. Even with my whoppin Boer buck!





And my Lab Symphony....isn't she cute? :)

Mom has some gorgeous roses on her bushes...





Have a blessed week everyone!

~Bethany

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