Going short for the summer

Well for the summer I decided I should chop off my hair. So Katelin and I stopped off at the HAIR. Salon and told them we wanted the same hair cut. I love it being short but because of the comment I have been getting that I look like Kate (from John and Kate + 8) I think I will grow it out to a longer length.

Binky Winky Doodle Bopp was found! (Story continued from below)

Okay everyone can stop worrying! The missing calf has been found! Thanks to my cowboy Cody, it is now home safe and sound! Yesterday afternoon I got a call from Cody. He invited over a friend to help find the lost calf. It took them 8 hours but finally found it laying in the shade of an old aspen tree. What a sight! I met up with him at the tree. He had roped the little guy and was holding on for dear life! I rushed home and made it a bottle took it back to the calf and coaxed it back home with the warm milk. We had to load it into the back of the car and Cody and his friend held it so it would jump around. Good thing it was only 1/8 of a mile away from our house. When we got it out of the car Cody had to hog tie it and him and I lifted it up and into the calf pen. Something I am grateful for Kyle for. He makes it look easy! All he does is lift them without a sweat and puts them in their pen. It took Cody and I every muscle we had to lift the darn thing into it's pen. We awarded our selves with ice cream from Barb and Ann's!

Of all things to blog about...

So Kyle arrived home last night pulling a trailer behind him. I thought "Oh goodness, what does he have now". He melted my heart when he came out carrying a baby calf. It is a precious sight to see a grown man snuggling a 1 day old calf in his arms. But then he pulled out another and another. Yep 10 baby calves , at our house! Six of them are only a day old. And of course the kids all named them poor pitful names like Button Butt and Whisker Noodle Brain. The boys went to bed with smiles a mile wide on their faces thinking of how we have started to grow our little farm they have been dreaming about for quite some time now. BUT....this morning I arose this morning to make Kyle breakfast while he went out and bottle fed each calf. When I went out to tell him breakfast was ready he was handed me the bottle and told me to finish feeding the last one while he went to catch one that had gotten out. Kyle went to go grab it and the little burger took off! Kyle chased it around the yard until it ran into the neighboring pasture. So I put down the bottle and we both jumped in the Suburban and went chasing after it. We couldn't catch it...can you believe it is only a day old and faster than two adults! We went and woke up the kids and they jumped on their bikes with their ropes. We couldn't find it. It is now 10 am and we still can't find it. The boys and I have walked a good 4 square miles looking everywhere and it has just vanished! The darn PITTBULL probably got it! Anyway, so now our happy little farm is minus one calf. His name is Winky Binky Doodle Bop (Katelin's obviously) so if you see him let us know!