Baby Goats

Janille discovered that one of her goats had a baby on one of our coldest mornings this year. 

I took the younger two kids over to see the one baby (Penny) on a morning they didn't have school.

Penny is not supposed to have droopy ears, but they got frost bitten, and so did one of her legs and now has a little bit of gangrene so they have to worry about the leg dying. :( 

Then about an hour after we left, Janille discovered that another one of her goats had twins!

Then her other goat had twins, so she has 5 babies.

Last Sunday, I took all of the kids over so they could see the baby goats, and so that I could see the baby goats.

They are so cute!

Snow, snow, snow (January 2016)

This winter has been very different than last winter since we've been getting some healthy snow storms. We had a nice one at the end of December that was still melting and then we got another nice storm the second week of January.  

 Before the storm

The first day of the storm.

 The first day of the storm

 I spent about 3 hours shoveling snow that day and there was a lot of ice under the snow. My mom was walking from Doug and Karma's house to her house and she was talking to me while I was shoveling and said, "Oh, it looks like someone slipped and fell here!" and then she slipped and fell in the exact same spot. She didn't get hurt but we found out that Doug was the one that slipped and fell and he hit the back of his head and is now currently in the hospital battling bleeding on the brain.

 It started snowing again in the afternoon...

and we woke up to this! ☺

It was measuring close to 10" on top of the cats' house, but later on in the day I measured away from the house and it was closer to 13"-15".

 It was so pretty but I was so done with shoveling snow, so Cary went out and shoveled for a little bit, but it's a big job to shovel when there is that much snow so it was mostly creating trails to walk through instead cleaning off the entire sidewalk.

Saturday morning a few days after the big storm, the sun was coming up and shining on the mountains so I went outside to take pictures in my robe, coat, and snow boots, and then I noticed that Teresa was out there in her nightgown and boots taking pictures too. It was -5 degrees that morning too so apparently, we're both a little crazy. ☺ 

It's been over two weeks and we still have a lot of snow on the ground...but we're finally getting a few days above freezing so it's starting to melt some.

Rest, Relaxation, and a New Year!

We didn't have anything scheduled after Christmas as far as traveling anywhere, and that actually turned out to be a good thing. We got to rest, relax and get over the colds/sickness that we've been fighting for the past two months!

Just in time to start the next round of sickness after school starts again. Ha. Ugh.

 We did buy a little trampoline for indoors so that Britton and Clara have something to jump on when they get the urge (other than on my furniture!!!) It may be the best or the stupidest thing we've done...time will tell. ;) So far it's been nice. If Britton is being crazy, I tell him to jump on the trampoline for a few minutes and it wears him down (a little).

 Thanks to aunt Janille, the girls have matching Princess Sophia nightgowns and Elsa nightgowns...Clara is insistent right now that they match every night. Ella is a good sport, so far, with all of it. ☺

Photobomb by a naked Aidan. 

 Cary and I went for a drive with Clara on a gloomy day while the other kids were at Petra.

Clara needs to be potty trained, and she comes in my room in the early morning and wants a clean diaper on, so she'll bring in a dry diaper and some wipes and then takes off her full diaper. One morning she came in while I was sleeping and said, "Come on mom, change my diaper, it'll be fun!"

Right...☺

 We're predictable, but we had our New Years Eve party with some food and games. Clara had put herself to bed long before so Cary stayed home with her. I didn't get very many pictures of the kids playing games because I was helping with the food prep and then looking for a lost kitty (that wasn't ours for a change!) and then we had a stray cat show up on our doorstep.