Time for Tea...

What a fun day we had yesterday!! Danielle, took me out for my birthday along with Anna and Hosanna to a fancy Tea room in Edmond. We picked up some funny looking hats on our way in to play around with and get pictures, Danielle just looked so cute in hers! :) We started out with some fancy little scones as appetizers along with our peach tea....which I drank WAY too much of. :D And then for our meal we had sandwiches, salad, soup and fruit. Quite the fancy looking plate I must say! And then the dessert was SO good, Brownie Cheese Cake. I'm a big fan of cheese cake and this was wonderful.


After we finished our meal we had a blast walking around in the gift shop and trying on big goofy looking bracelets and stuff. And then that's when we found the book!! A little book called "The Lady's Book of Manners." We were just dying laughing over it!! So much so that I HAD to buy it despite the price...which unfortunately was fixed....so I didn't ask for an abatement. Not to bother the cashier with such a trifling matter. :D Stuff like that in this little book originally published in the 1890's....so proper! :P Actually we were thinking about going up to the cashier and asking if the price could be "abated" just for a joke, but I couldn't bring myself to do it! We were laughing so hard just thinking about doing it though! :D But I must say we were glad that it was just us at our table, because we certainly wouldn't have been following the proper table manners for sure! :P

Afterwards we ran an errand and went in one other store and then headed home to get back in time to give a farm tour to an older couple that is interested in getting goats milk and meat.

It was a fun day, and it was great spending time together! Thanks Dannie! :)

Birthday box....

Wow what a surprising birthday morning I had!! :) I got up pretty early (for me at least) and Mom was gone getting the traditional birthday donuts. Upon arriving home, she sent me to the back room saying she had to get "something" ready. So I knew something was up, but I didn't have a clue what! Well, finally she called me back in and there was this huge box in the living room all wrapped up with dog treats tied to the ribbons....hmmmm wonder if she got Duffy a buddy?? That was my first thought....so I started opening it, and what would you know it was my dear friend Danielle from MO come 2 days early!! :) Was I ever surprised, and excited!! We've had a great morning together already...what a great birthday surprise!! I just WASN'T expecting her at all to come in a box. :P

Staying busy...

Well, there is usually one of two reasons why I don't update my blog for so long...either the fact that I just haven't had nothing to post about...or I'm so busy I don't have time to post. :) Last week there just wasn't much exciting going on, and this week has been a rather busy one. The big news is, (although I'm sure most of you have already read about it on my Mom's blog) is that my brothers were finally able to purchase them a really nice Ford F350 truck. Praise the Lord for His provision!! Actually it was kind of neat, Dad, Anna, and I found it...and from the first time I saw it I thought it just had to be THE truck, although I had no idea how we could purchase it because it was a bit out of our price range, and the guys were committed to paying cash. But after going by there and working out a trade in deal with our old truck they brought it home!! So neat! Can't wait to take it to a goat show.... :)



Wednesday Anna and I had a big day....we went clothes shopping with the Burnett ladies!! It was so much fun, and we ended up finding lots of stuff....which was nice, because finding modest clothing these days is not an easy task! Wow did we ever have a time together! After we were done shopping we tagged along with them to the Wednesday night service at church and then spent the night with them. We ended up staying up like SO super late talking....3:30 to be exact! But we had some really good conversations and it was worth it, even though I was like REALLY tired the next day of course. :D

And then Thursday evening we butchered the remaining 25 chickens we had...started at about 8:30 and were finished up at around 10:30. Not quite as fun pulling guts out in the dark....hard to see! Tomorrow we are in for a big day headed some dear friends the Fleshman's to help them out with butchering 45 chickens!

We are eagerly anticipating my friend Danielle coming for a visit on the 26th, Lord willing...can't wait to see you girl!! :)

They're Here!!

Hooray!! My Nubian kids made it in safe and sound, and they are just TOTALLY gorgeous!! They're coloring is just so pretty. :) Funny though because we were waiting in the airport waiting for them to be brought out, and pretty soon here comes a crate with a Nubian kid in it...so I was like "here they are!" But it was only one...someone else had a kid coming in on the same plane! Funny huh? They rarely ever get goats and to get 2 crates of them on the same plane was quite interesting to me. :) Mine came out soon after, everybody was getting a kick out of seeing all the goats coming through. :) They got to ride home in the truck of course...Andrew held the smallest one, (she's only like 2 weeks old) and I held the other, she's 2 months old. We stopped at a gas station on the way home and I just HAD to get a picture of the 2 babies standing in the drivers seat!! I'm sure the guy pumping gas next to us thought I was a little weird standing outside calling to the kids and trying to take pictures!! :D :D



We had a blast at the Farmers Market in Guthrie this morning as well selling produce. It was our first time and actually it was only us and one other lady selling eggs, we had the monopoly I guess! We had a wonderful time and ended up selling a lot of potatoes, green beans, and onions as well as some goats milk soap. Thank the Lord for a bountiful harvest!

Oh and just so you know...yes the pics of them in the truck were taken by me, the others by the professional....big difference huh?? :D

Another baby...

Okay, finally some good pictures of the new calf....and it is a "she" for those of you that didn't know. She is such a little cutie! And so much fun to watch her frisk around in the pasture. Now she has a buddy though....a little bull calf born this morning. :) Dad just looked out the window, and there was two little calves running around with their mama's instead of one!! He's a cute little guy too....but I think the heifer is prettier...she's a girl you know. :)

And my big news is....Lord willing I have two more Nubian doe kids getting shipped in from Minnesota on Saturday!! Can't wait!! I've had my reservations in since last October and there was a lot of complications this time...but thankfully everything finally got worked out. I haven't even seen pictures of them yet myself, but you can be sure when I have some I'll post them.

We had a big weekend butchering chickens....lots of fun and fellowship!! Mom has pictures posted on her blog, you can see them here. Now there is lots of other really gross ones...but I'm not sure if ya'll would want to see those! :D

Here's the newest guy...still a little wobbly!

Introducing....!

The newest baby at Shekinah Springs Farm!! :) A new little baby calf, he/she (haven't got close enough yet to figure out which) was born early this morning sometime. Anna found it laying out in the woods this morning with it's Mama. We were so thrilled that Shenandoah had no problems at all obviously, and she's got herself a healthy little calf. Here's about the best picture we got...I'm sure there will be more later. :)

Memorial Day!

We had a wonderful time yesterday afternoon at our friends the Chatham's home. Several other families came as well, and we had a great time of fellowship together. Lots of volleyball...croquet, and we even played a game of soccer using the volleyball. :) It was a pretty wild game, there were just so many people running around that it was almost impossible to ever get to the ball. :D Lots of fun though! I had a fun time playing croquet with some of the younger girls, we never actually quite finished the game...but it was still fun! After we ate, us girls started a game of volleyball...it wasn't going so great at first because none of us are really that good, but then some more people joined us and it started getting better. :)

We finished up the evening singing some songs together, and then we made the drive home and got in about a little after 11:00 p.m. And....I had to go up to the barn and milk my goat and feed the babies. :) Not so fun to do that late at night, especially when you can't find the flashlight.... :)