Thursday, December 18, 2008

Catchin Up

Well, it seems like a lot has happened since I last posted, probably because it was like four months ago. Anyways, here is a semi-quick recap of the last few months....

Bailey was a bunny for Halloween. Her costume was a little small for her but we made it work.
We started building our shop. In these pictures we are putting the floor heat in. Bailey thought it was a real fun jungle gym.

We got a new milk cow. Our holstein, Daisy Duke, tried to trample John to death one night.
So I talked John into trading her in for a jersey. This is Lori Darlin and she is much sweeter than Daisy. John also got the automatic milker set up so we are in business. If you want to take a step back in time just come over to our place. We drink A LOT of milk and we also figured a milk cow could be considered a form of food storage.
This is the fridge in the barn. The neighbors just take a gallon and leave a buck.
We got our shop framed and John started putting the tin on the roof...
then he fell off and crushed his heel bone. He had to have surgery a couple of weeks ago. They put three plates and nine screws in it. He is doing pretty good considering. It drives him nuts that he can't go outside and work though. Bailey drags books to him all day to read to her.
Our ward, neighbors, and friends have been so helpful. They milk the cow, feed the cows and horses, pack the wood in (the mutual also had an activity and chopped and stacked all of our firewood), and finished putting the roof on our shop. We really couldn't live in a better area and we are so grateful.

Bailey also celebrated her first birthday a couple weeks ago. She got real spoiled.
She was really proud of her new pink boots.
Just a few more pictures I thought were cute.
Merry Christmas!!