Father's Day? or birthday?

Yesterday started out as a hurried, fast-paced rush to get everyone ready to head off to church. After church, brunch at Homestead Golf Course (if you have never been there for brunch, I encourage everyone to try it out. It is amazing!), after brunch, home for a relaxing Father's Day hanging out around the camp fire and ending the evening with roasting hot dogs and brats over the fire.

NOT!!!!

Instead, we noticed that one of our pregnant heifers was not with the rest of the group so we took off into the woods to go and find her. She was all alone in the corner of the woods. That is not a usual thing with cows. They like to be together in groups. We watched her for awhile and noticed that she looked to be uncomfortable. Since she is a first-time mommy, we decided to forgo church and watch her for a while. Sure enough, she was in labor! Two hours later, we had a beautiful black angus bull. He was born at 12:35.

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY, GORDON- I was going to get you a flame thrower, but how about a calf instead?

Everyone, I would like you to meet Lucas, our Black Angus bull (soon to be steer).

Girls annual tea party

Last year we started a tradition. When Grammy and Papa come up for the month of June, the girls have a tea party. Great Grandpa and Aunt Jan also come up around Father's Day, so our tea party consists of me, Sierra, Grammy, Aunt Jan and Aimee (Aunt Jan's cat). Last year we had a pink theme. This year we went with blue. It was a fun time and conversation was hilarious. Sierra mentioned testicles from the pool (she meant chemicals). Evan was our photographer for the event. Pictures turned out a little dark, but ok. We had tea (hot chocolate), blueberries (blue cereal) and cookies with blue M&M's. It was a fun time again this year.

Our conversation always starts out:

"did you hear the news?" and we go on from there. Our news this year consisted of Papa going to the woods, Grammy throwing Faith's duck in the pool, our dinner plans for the evening, and taking left over cookies to Great Grandpa.

Who knows? Next year's theme could be.......?

Motocross

Last night was Evan's motocross night again. This year he is on a bigger, faster bike. He has been practicing really hard and getting better and better. He has raced 5 times this year. The first three he came in 4th, fourth race he came in 3rd, and last night he came in 2nd. He raced so well and did a great job controlling his bike. He improves every week and it is exciting, nerve-racking, and great fun to watch him race.
If anyone wants a loud, but fun evening out, come to Hannegan Speedway on Thursday evenings. Practices start at 4, racing begins at 5:30. Evan is in race #5, my nephew Carson is in race #3. It costs $8.00 per adult to get in, $7.00 per kid over 5.
Hope to see you there!!!!

Way to go Evan!!! You are AWESOME!!!!!

My athletic kid

Evan loves all sports, and likes to keep active. Every day he wants to ride his motorcycle around the cow pasture to improve his skills. He also rides his bicycle all day long. This morning he went on a 3 1/2 mile walk with Papa. He is going to be such a strong, athletic guy!!!

Apologies

I am apologizing to all my bloggy friends. I have been so busy this past couple of weeks that I have not had the chance to blog regularly. I promise I will try to do better. The last week of school is done, Evan's last day is today. Maybe things will slow down a little next week.
I do have a few things to blog about, so stay tuned and keep checking. I will get back to it soon.
Thanks

sandwich-yummy? or not?

Yesterday I was busy cleaning and forgot to feed Sierra her lunch. She decided that she would make herself a sandwich. She does this often. Peanut butter and honey. Easy to make, easy to clean up. She was bored with the same old sandwich, so she "concocted" a new one. She told me, "Mom, this one is going to be delicious, fabulous."
I told her that if she made a "special" sandwich, she had to eat it. She was ok with that.
Here is how it went....
Take two pieces of bread and spray them with spray butter.
Then add two slices of processed american cheese. Spray a little more butter, add honey. When mom isn't looking, grab garlic salt and add. Yup, I said garlic salt! Then spread it all around and dig in!

Sierra took one bite, made a horrible face, and said,

"Oh, mom, I am a Terrible cook!!!"

Needless to say, I didn't make her eat it all.

Whatch Out Whatcom County!!!

My niece, Jessi, got her license today!!! She is so excited to finally be able to drive. She borrowed Gordon's car because she learned to drive in it and feels very comfortable with the small-ness of it, especially when it came to parallel parking!!

Way to go, Jessi!!! I remember changing your diapers, and now you are driving.