Queen Bee

Our beautiful baby Sarah Beth has been a suprise to us in SO many ways! From her unexpected beginnings to the funny things that come out of our mouth at 20 months old. She seems to have us all wrapped around her little finger! In theese pics, she has taken her rightful place on the throne...only problem is---that throne is suspended over a table 3 1/2 feet off of the ground and is held in place by a teeny tiny pink ribbon. The really scary thing is that Taylor and Raegan, who are both in contention for world record tattle tailing, must think this is normal, as they didn't even look up from their coloring!

A Day in the Life!

Just a peek into our daily life. Spent outside riding bikes, walking lambs and tending the flowers. Peter and I are so blessed with three wonderful girls who are turning into wonderfrul friends and playmates!

Home Improvement

My ever increasingly handy husband has embarked on several new projects this spring and summer. Bless his little pea pickin' heat! While being our muscles, fitter and truck/trailer driver for our various jonts acros rural Iowa, he has also been blessing us with his "inner engineer". He has built fence for our horses (they are forever greatful) and has aquired a shed for my chickens...which are ariving next week. He has to re-roof our beloved shed and build a door as to secure my cluckers at night and then they will be snug as a bug in a rug come winter time! Our lovely horses have helped him immensley by checking the integrity of our fence, thus leading us to install an electric fencer, for which they are not so greatful! We love looking out our back windows and seeing three beautiful creatures grazing on a pasture of green! We are eagerly anticipating having fresh eggs and home raised chicken to fry...hopefully by fall!

I am also enjoying a beautiful year in my flower garden! I am giving all credit to my mother, as she has an extremely green thumb and helped me early on. It also helps that it is the third year for my landscaping...time helps! I can't believe we will be starting our fifth year in Iowa on June 27! Time flies!

The Big Day!

Hello all!

We are trooping through our journey through "lambville". Today was the day Peter and I have dreamed of for atleast 6 years...maybe more. Taylor showed her first animal today! We have been working hard with them at home and had our family goal was for Taylor to not let them go while in the ring. She showed her whether (Ty) and had a very nice young man show her ewe (Rosie). She did very well and we stood middle of her class. We learned a lot, had lots of fun and Taylor is anxious for her next show. The day brought back so many memories for both Peter and I. We look forward to many years of fun times together as a family. As my mom and dad always said..."this is the REAL quality time". Some families go camping, some play sports...we go showing!

They are HERE!

The lambs have arrived...or should I say, "The grand experiment has begun!". Peter and I have been planning the first time Taylor would walk into the show ring since before she was born. We probably wouldn't have guessed it would be with lambs, however, none the less, here they are. Meet Ty (the bigger one--Short for Tiger {go MIZZOU}) and Rose (the smaller black one). Peter and Taylor welcomed them to our humble acreage last weekend. They both seem to be setteling in nicely, and are currently learning to walk on their halters. Taylor is learning lots, at the same time. Her primary concern is that they were "dirty and needed a bath" followed closely by the fact that they "were just toddlers, mom...you can never tell what they will do". Shearing and baths are in the works for this weekend. Do you use woolite on a lamb?

Easter

We had a great Easter weekend! Peter and I spend Good Friday in preparation for the busy weekend. We had a fabulous photo shoot with the girls in their Easter dresses (good news!!! Sarah Beth figured out how to pick her nose during the shoot!). We then took time to have a good ol' Iowa breakfast with the girls at a family diner. Saturday was marked with daily preparatons including the coloring of the Easter Eggs and going through the resurrection eggs. Sunday was marked by a nice church service and fried chicken lunch. The girls had a great time looking at their baskets and hunting eggs. It was topped off with the annual decorating of the bunny cake, which later had to be pitched due to the sugar ant problem in my kitchen!

Rae's new "do"

Our beautiful Raegan has a most striking face and haunting eyes...however she has not been blessed with gorgeous golden locks (yet). She doesn't even refer to her hair as "hair", but calls it her "crazies". Fortunatley for her, she has an awesome head shape and can pull off a short do. This compounded by the fact that she viamently opposes any form of "hair pretty", as we call them at our house, lead us with only one solution. We consulted our family stylist, Holly, (or as Rae calls her "Pollywood") with our delimma. She suggested a short, easy, feminine style (posh spice) that we are all ABSOLUTELY in love with for her. We don't fight over keeping hair ties or barrettes in and it takes literally 2 seconds to do in the morning. She feels very sophisticated and confident since, "Pollywood cut all my crazies off!" in her own words. We have decided that she might be our one who is on the cutting edge of fashion and who knows what else...she tends to walk to the beat of her own drum!