Milking the goat....

For about 5 years Randy has been milking a goat so that our kids can have good, healthy milk. Our awesome neighbors down the street are an older couple who can't drink all the milk, so they let us have some of it, and Randy and the kids go down in the mornings to milk her. They absolutely LOVE to milk the goat, and they cry if Randy ever does it without them. And Randy truly enjoys the time that he gets to spend with his girls. He is such a great dad!

This is them leaving the goat. We live at the top of the hill.

Natalie & Naomi love to feed the animals. They are getting some of the dry leaves to feed them.

Randy has been teaching Emma how to milk. She actually does pretty good.

This is the girls feeding the baby goat some grain.

I am so glad that we can give the kids a little bit of farm experience. It is my dream to one day have a farm and raise my children the way I was raised.

My little Mozart???

The other day I was cleaning the house, and turned around, and this is what I saw.... My little 13 month old baby sitting at the bench playing the piano. It was so cute! She was even looking at the music.....hopefully she will grow to love to play the piano.

Check it out!!!

Hey everyone! My little sister Bailey is starting up a little business making bows and accessories. She is such a go-getter! She decided she wanted to do it just a couple of weeks ago, and is already up and going for the most part. And her bows are cute too. She also does FREE SHIPPING!! I just thought I would help her out by telling everyone I know. Go check it out! www.cutesybowsnthings.blogspot.com .

Naomi's new hair style

Well, after the 3rd time of Naomi finding the scissors and cutting her own hair, I got the hint that she wants short hair for now. It's not the hair cut I would have chosen, but it's not horrible either. My cute little baby. She looks just like I did when I was her age, and I actually think she looks a little like my mom's toddler pictures too.

My lovely "prickles"

Last night I was playing on the computer. Emma came in and pointed at this picture, and this is a little how our conversation went:

Emma: Mom, this is my favorite picture of you guys, I really like it.

Me: really? I like this picture too.
Emma: I can’t even see your prickles (freckles) in this picture.
Me: Nope, you can’t, huh?
Emma: Yeah, I don’t really like prickles. I wish you didn’t have them.
Me: You do?
Emma: yeah.....(thinking)..... there’s gotta be a way to get rid of them........ You would look prettier without prickles.

……..Haha! How funny. It was so hard for me to keep a straight face, and not laugh hysterically. I hope she learns to like them, cause there is a good chance she will get some too….hehe. So cute!