14 and counting

I'm beginning to think we might become like the Duggar Family on 18 kids and counting. Although we can produce faster with so many ewes and a gestation period of only 5 months. Saturday morning Jensen went out to the barn to take care of the sheep and he discovered a new lamb. We were expecting one of the ewes to deliver first so it was a big surprise to us. It was a girl, we have named her Maggie.

We know of at least 2 more ewes that are pregnant. The one won't be for a while but she's the one I can't wait to see. She is an English Blue and has 2 small white markings under her eyes that are called tear drops. This make her pretty rare. It will be cool to see if her lamb has of the qualities. She is called an English Blue because her wool has a blue tint to it, also making her rare.

What to do with the sheep?

My friend Kelly asked what we are doing with the sheep, I thought it would be easier to answer here. One of the them with be food very soon and others will follow. Craig has contacted some local chefs at some of the nicer restaurants and they will buy both our pigs and sheep. These sheep are Navajo Cheerio Sheep, which were raised by the Navajo Indians until the US Calvary came in and wiped them out with the Indians. They are a rare breed and Craig wants to help with bring back the breed.

Their wool is great for all kinds of use. The wool comes in all colors and you never know what color a lamb will be. A couple of our sheep even have features that our rare within the breed. We will sell some of the wool and I am looking into buying a spinning wheel and a friend is giving me her loom. We will have to see what I can learn to make.

Got sheep? We've got 13!

We made the trek to MT over the week-end to get our new flock of sheep. All arrived safely and thankfully no new lambs on the way as 3 of the yews are pregnant one could be any day now.
This is Jackson(all the sheep have been names from the previous owners) He's the big pappa to many of the sheep including the 3 lambs and the ones on the way.

As I said we have 3 lambs, 2 of which are twins. They are pretty shy but we are able to pick them up.

Good-bye for 2 years

The day finally came! When Brendon got his mission call all the way back in October it seemed so far away, especially when we thought it would be at least before Christmas. It certainly not the event I want to do again and again. I've joined an email group of moms with missionaries going to Mexico so that seems to help. I do miss Brendon, Wednesday was the hardest and I'm trying not to be too emotional about the whole thing but when it your son 2 years seems even longer.

We are now waiting to hear from Brendon and see how things are at the MTC. They do have email now, we have to wait until his p-day and we have no way of knowing when that is. So we must patiently wait.

Brendon looks pretty sad in these pictures not because of emotions but because he went horse back riding with his friend the day before he left and his allergies caused some problems. When our stake pres. came over to set him apart he kept asking if had taken some benadryl. Brendon finally gave in Tuesday morning and took some so the pictures at the airport are much better.

He made it to Provo safe and sound although he said he had a hard time finding his connecting flight to SLC. Thanks to our friend Dan McGirr for picking him up, letting him spend the night, and taking him to the MTC. Dan told us that Brendon was asked to give the opening prayer in the meeting with all those other new missionaries.

All good things must come to an end.

Not that wallpaper is a good thing unless your Martha Stewart. I'm not sure who thought blue pears would be pretty on walls and for wallpaper none the less. I think my mom loved wall paper, it was in every room of the house with the exception of her bedroom and the living room. Scary thing is that if I could find some red toile either in wallpaper or fabric I might put on my walls in a small area.

My kids were great help getting it down. I got the bathroom done also. The problem happened when I started to take down the wallpaper in my bedroom. It was on only 2 walls and it came off very easy. But on the second wall they had not done texture and so the paint came with the wallpaper so we are now at a stand still till we decide what we are doing with the wall.

We still have wall paper in 2 of the upstairs room. Although one of the rooms is Brendon's so once he's gone and everything is boxed up it should be easy to get done.