Pictures!!

This is the baby donkey! She looks just like her momma. The first picture was taken a couple weeks ago, and the other picture was taken this weekend.

This is one of our newest babies...we have 10 now! Our latest addition was born just a couple hours ago.

We're Finally Homeowners!!!

We finally closed on our house! After four and a half long months we finally have a home that we can call ours! We are so excited about how God has blessed us!! Uncle Peanut and Aunt Frances still have a few things to move out, but once they're finished we can start working on it. We're planning on knocking out a wall, putting up sheetrock and painting most of the rooms before we move in since we don't have to move out of his parents' house in a hurry (it's so much easier to do all that when you don't have any furniture in the way). I can't wait to get started!



This is a view of the front door. According to Steven and his parents, no one has ever used the front door, so we are planning to eventually turn that porch area into our closet/storage space, since our room will be what that door leads into. So what you're actually looking at is the back side of the house.



This is our back yard. To the left is the barn, complete with parking spaces for three cars. Look at that yard!!



This is the front of the house (what we now consider the front, anyways).

This is about half of the front yard. It extends much farther to the left, but is split up by a fence. The other side was Aunt Frances' garden, but we are going to take the fence down so the yard extends all the way to the road.

Our First Baby!

This is our first calf of the year! Isn't he cute?! I took this picture this afternoon; he's only a few hours old. Unfortunately his momma is meaner than she looks, so we can't get too close.

One down, 20 to go!

Happy Easter!!

This year Steven and I went to church and had lunch with my family on Easter Sunday, then had dinner with his family Sunday night. We had a great time and we were even able to take a family picture with the WHOLE family. I hope everyone had a great Easter!

Oh, and doesn't Steven look GREAT in his suit? ;)

Spring is here!!

Spring is finally here! I haven't had anything to post about since not much has happened. We're still in the process of buying his uncle's house, but we're finally in the "home" stretch, so we should be homeowners by the end of April!

We did get a visitor a couple weeks ago...

We call him Hound Dog (original, right?). He showed up on the back porch one day and acted like he's always lived here. He plays with Shadow and the other dogs and is very friendly. He belongs to a family that lives down the road, but every time they take him home he comes back. I have a feeling he will be a permanent addition before we know it. What's one more? :-)

Shadow's still getting a little bigger every day. We weighed him last week and he's up to 58 pounds! He's so smart, and it's always interesting to watch him. We buy him pig ears every now and then and when we give him one he will go "bury" somewhere in the house, usually in between couch cushions or under clothes or behind something. He doesn't tear up much except for the stuffed toys we buy him, but the other day we left him inside because of the weather and he got hold of one of our remote controls...

This is what Steven found when he got home from work. We have a remote controlled shock-collar (when we push a button on the remote it sends a signal to his collar which will either beep or give him a little shock to make him respond to us). We think he confused the tv remote for the other remote.

Below are a couple pictures I took around the yard. Please pray for us as we continue (and hopefully finish) the home-buying process. I will keep you posted on the progress! God bless!

Pictures of our baby!

Ok, since Steven and I don't have kids yet, our animals are kinda like our children. Here are some pictures of my baby, Shadow...Enjoy!

Spoiled Rotten!!

Oops! How did this one get in here?? Haha, I just really like her face in this pic!

Well, I guess that's all I have for now...I hope everyone had a great Valentine's Day weekend!!

Catching Up

Ok, y'all, I know it has been awhile since my last post, but the last couple of months have been CRAZY. Here we go...

Steven finally finished installing the heater about a week after my last post (until then, we used propane from those little tanks, the ones used for gas grills, to run the heaters). It's not the most beautiful wood-burning stove in the world, but it has personality and, even more important, keeps us warm for free!! Here's a picture of the finished product:

I love the way Steven laid out the bricks underneath it and that it matches the way we did the living room.

Later in December, we got to go to Myrtle Beach with my family on vacation. It was alot of fun, and it gave Steven a chance to spend some time with my family. The cold weather wasn't too beachy, but it was great getting to see everyone and relax for a few days.

When we got home from Myrtle Beach, we spent Christmas and New Years' with his family, then it was back to work. We also found out that his aunt and uncle had decided to sell their house and 18 acres...now Steven and I are in the process of becoming homeowners!! The house is right next door to where we live now (in his parents' house, the house he grew up in), and the land is adjoining to the rest of the family's, so really it is perfect for us. Our hope is that we will be able to purchase that house and then his parents can move back here and sell their house in town. It's a cute little house, about 1500 square feet, with a few barns and sheds, a place for a garden, a fence around the house for the dog, and a pasture right next to it where we can keep the horses! Oh, and it has a mud room too (absolutely necessary when you're married to a farmer)!! It was built in 1948 or '49 so it needs some work (new windows, carpets, flooring, sheetrock, etc.), but we can do the work ourselves. We've been talking to one mortgage company who so far has been very helpful, and next week someone will come out to appraise the property; we still have about another month before anything is final, but we're alot farther along then when we started early last month! We are so excited about having a place we can call our own! I'll keep you posted on the progress.
In other news, Shadow is now up to 45 pounds, and only about 3 months old! A couple weeks ago we noticed that he had a goose egg above his left eye after he ran into the cow trailer at full speed while chasing one of the other dogs. A week later we took him to the vet to have it looked at because it didn't go away, and the vet said he popped some blood vessels between his skull and the film that goes over his skull; it will go away as he gets bigger, but for now he is our not-so-little knothead.


Well, that's about it for now. Keep us in your prayers as we continue the process of buying a house; it can get a little stressful!!