Farm Babies

Aren't they cute?! Latest count is 12 babies!! And still more to go!

And the Work Begins...

Uncle Peanut and Aunt Frances we finally able to get all of their stuff out of the house...let the DIY journey begin!! Here are a few pictures of what we've done in and around the house so far. First we got rid of all the bushes and trees up against the house and a few in the yard that we didn't want to mow around. Then we moved into the laundry/mud room (no house in the country should be without one). We moved the washer and dryer onto the back porch and pulled the paneling off the walls. Steven also installed some lights in the attic, and he did a great job. Our next step will be to get up under the house and make sure the floors are level and well-supported...I'm not really looking forward to that because I'm worried what I might run into down there. I guess we'll see...

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!