We are here!!

Well, here we are back in Idaho! Caldwell, to be specific. We are living in the house that Melanie and Aaron so graciously let us use. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! We are in a subdivision called Montaceto Place--not sure I spelled that right. And it is just off the freeway! Very convenient and it is a great part of Caldwell.
It is sad to say, we have no more goats, sheep, chickens, or cats!! We only have a puppy--which we are very, very happy to have. Our puppy is a Chocolate Labrador. She is very cute and rambunctious! The kids love her very much. Emmy has fun laying on her (I mean mauling her) and Kaien likes to play tug-o-war with her with a sock.
I will be taking on a new job watching our little niece and nephew twice a week on Mondays and Wednesdays--and today is my first day! It has been pretty good so far--just little tussles of not wanting to share toys and other little things like that (as I am sure Melanie knows). Nothing big yet. I am grateful that Chris gets home at 4:30 now, because that will help me when I make dinner.
Well, not much else to say--I will once I have a chance to settle things here.

Moving!!

Well, the time has finally come for us to say "good-bye" to good old Beryl Utah and say "hello" again to home-sweet-home Idaho!! Sad and exciting at the same time! We will miss the animals and the land, but we will be much, much closer to family and friends!
Our arrival date will be the 20th of March--only 5 days away! We have a lot to do before we move. This is so much fun!! Actually, I hate the moving part of it, but I love the fact that we will be with family and friends again. That's it for the moving update.

News!

About the lamb--she was not a twin, it just happened that another ewe had a baby just a few days later. That made the loss a little less harsh. The two lambs that we have are doing just great!!

Now, the earliest we will be moving is mid March--even so, we are still not sure. Things are still up in the air. One good thing for all you people that want us there earlier is that the kids and I might be coming to town before the actual move. The reason being that I will be able to look for housing and schedule viewings. We are all very excited to get back to family and friends!

Well, for more animal news, one of the goats has pneumonia. She is one of the older ones, so it is not that bad of a thing, because she has lived a long life. She has been pretty resilient and showed signs of getting better these last few days, but today we found her quite a bit worse. Jill(our land-lord) said not to worry if we go out there one day and find her dead!! How sad--I don't want to find her dead, even though she is not one of my favorite. Anyway, we have to give her a shot of penicillin every morning, and I am not sure I want to do that--of course Chris knows how to give the shots from working at the dairy, so it won't be too bad.

Okay, about the children. On Sunday after church, Emmy started grunting like she needed to poo. So, I said, "Do you need to go poo in the potty?" And she went right into the bathroom and tried to take off her pants!!! Just sooo cute! Of course she knows what the potty is for, because we are trying to get Kaien to go in there. Well, I got her diaper off and sat her on the little seat, and she went poo!!! I was so happy! Anyway, from now on I always get her to the potty when she grunts like that. She hasn't gone in there since then, but I still think she will be potty trained before Kaien!

Kaien still won't go to the bathroom in his little potty--he has tried a few times, but that was more than a week ago and he hasn't tried since then. Every time he looks as though he needs to go, I ask him if he wants to go in the potty, and try and persuade him with treats!! But, to no avail!! Oh well, I guess he will do it in his own time. Silly boy!!

They both love being outside. Kaien always wanders around whenever I have to feed the animals, and lately I have been letting Emmy out of the stroller to let her wander too!! It is so cute--she never usually goes too far from where I am. They sure are CRAZY sometimes, especially Kaien!

Happy times and Sad!

Well, as you know we have one lamb; now we have 2!! We would have 3, but one of the ewe's was clogged so her milk wouldn't come out, and the lamb didn't have enough strength to stand either. Well, I had to help that little lamb eat from her mommy; that was tough--the mother wouldn't stay still!!
Anyway, just 4 days ago this little lamb died. I was so sad...I felt somewhat responsible for it. I know that just happens sometime, and it wasn't my fault, but it was still sad.
Now on to happier times!! We have another lamb born 2 days ago!! This one is doing just fine! It is really cute. It is white with black blotches, a black spot on its eye, and a little pink nose!! So we have two little lambs, and one ewe that is still pregnant!!

Now to swing into different things, we are moving to the Nampa area soon(not as soon as we would like). We were hoping for the end of this month, but now Chris' boss wants him to stay until April 1st or so, so he can have someone to replace him right away... Chris and I don't really want to, but we are asking for extra pay for the month of March and they might actually do it. If they do give Chris the extra pay, we will stay. Well, there is our news.

More on Sheep

The ram may look scary, but he is really a sweet guy. He loves to be pet and scratched. He craves the attention, and if he doesn't get it he gets mad. The only reason he rammed me was because he felt I was threatening to the mother and her baby. The lamb is okay being held, but she is still skiddish. I think it is the breed that makes them that way. The owner of the place says that she has taken lambs from the mothers to bottle feed them so they would be more friendly, but that didn't help at all--they were still afraid of people.

The ram who RAMMED!

Okay, so here is that ram. Just take a look at those horns!! You know, as I told you before, that he rammed me as I was trying to get the lamb out to the kids. Needless to say, I let out a yell of fright when he hit me! I wasn't expecting him to get me because the last I saw, he was eating the hay I had put in there for them--and, of course, Chris had just turned away just in that instant to check on the kids! Wow, what a moment!! The good thing about this (if you can call it good) is that he rammed me between the horns, so I am not as sore as I would have been otherwise. After he rammed me, I dropped the lamb and told Chris to get in there to keep him away from me. And that is how I got the lamb out. Now when we want to get the lamb out I like to have Chris there to help. I'm not sure what I will do when he can't be out there with us. Maybe I will try again and take some sort of protection with me--like a shovel or a big stick!! I guess we'll have to see what happens!

Lamb and Emmy

This one is just a good picture of the lamb. Again we missed the smile on Emmy's face.
The lamb is very different in color than its mother. I don't know if it will change and get more white when it gets older or not. I really think it is cute the way it is, and hope it stays that way. It just has a ring of white around its neck and a little white on its forehead. It is like a little lion, only not as bushy.