In the playoffs

These may be the worst football pics ever, but for the first time in 13 or so years, SFT made the state playoffs!  Colin did a great job last night!  

The band sounded fabulous. Most importantly, we wrapped up the cow pie bingo fundraiser which makes me as happy as the boys are about their big win! 

Critter pics

These are yellow golden pheasants.  Quincy is fascinated by them and surely does think she needs a few.  I tried to explain how pheasants fly and we would need a better cage.  I also showed her the price!  A girl can dream!  If anyone wants to know what she desperately wants for Christmas this year.....

Johnny has really settled into the family nicely.  He is doing great with his potty training (better than Saige).   He is also getting specialty training....if this works the way I want it to, I will never have to load the dishwasher again!

The little girls are seriously in love with the little critter, and although the teenaged boys in the house would never admit it, I am convinced they like Johnny too!  

A boy and his watch calf.  

These goats will follow you anywhere if you have a cup in your hand!  It works in our favor when it's time to put them in for the night!  

It was a dream of mine (one I shared with Jim) to move our kids to the country so they could appreciate and learn something about agriculture.  The broiler project is going to be the first time we will be eating meat that we grew.  The kids are interested in how the process works. The broilers are getting really big and have exactly 2 more weeks before we will have a butcher day.  

We butchered chickens when I was growing up, but it had been long enough I had forgotten how they eat.  Wow!   There are 45 broilers.  They are going through 50 pounds of feed every 3 days. They are also getting scraps of vegetable waste from our kitchen and some corn.  They are eating machines!  

The guineas have taken a liking to eating broiler feed. If we feed the chicks without dropping a handful for them they really create quite a racket!  It amuses me.   

Pumpkin patch!

Since the kids had the day off and it was beautiful outside, we made our annual treck to Shaakes Pumpkin patch!  

Perfect pumpkins were found.  Unfortunately, Madison and Mallory couldn't join us!  

 

And the chicken girl found a couple of new breeds she had to run home and look up!  She has big plans for a kid with no job!  

Shaake's is seriously one of my favorite things about fall!  

Preston's birthday weekend extravaganza

Preston turned 10 years old today!  His one birthday request was a bonfire party with his besties.  That is a pretty easy request!  The party was a lot of fun judging from the exhausted boys I had on my hands this morning!  

Preston is a super smart, super sensitive, very perceptive kid.  We are so blessed to call him out son!  

He had to spend most of his birthday helping to clean and set up for the 4-h fall  party which we hosted tonight.  

Our boys made a haunted nature hike through the trees in the back yard.  From the level of screaming that was coming out of the trees I would say it was scary!    Harper and Saige walked through it with daddy though, and they reported to me that it was not scary it was just Colin and Cameron acting like they always do!  

I think overall, we had an excellent weekend.   I think going back to work may be nice, sitting down sounds like a most excellent idea!