11/17 The cows have arrived

Back on August 6th, Madison and I went up to Billings to pick up a couple of heifer calves at the auction. We went in on the purchase with a neighbor. The black cow was 565 pounds and the brown cow was 735. Since then, they have been on the neighbors pasture. On 11/16, we tried to bring them down to our place. If someone had a video camera, it would have been on America's funniest videos. We were unsuccessful. We decided to put panels around their water tank. That next day, they were easily trapped and put into the trailer. Once ready, we are hoping to sell one, and keep the other for meat. Hopefully we know what we are doing.

The first day that we had them at our place Ashton asked Shannon "Are you going to cook the cows while I am at school?" I just envisioned Shannon having a cow in a pan on our stove. It was a funny picture. Our girls have not gotten used to the fact, that we eat our chickens and will eat our cow.

11/1/09 Ashton's 6th birthday

Ashton turned 6 years old today. She was very excited. She was the first one out of bed this morning. She kept on asking when her birthday could get started. I stayed home from church today to care for the two youngest; Reagan and Paiton have not been feeling good. Just like everyone, we have been hit with the flu the past couple of weeks. After church, Asthon had her birthday dinner of hotdogs and tatortots. A little while later, Paiton came crying to Shannon that she was bleeding. Shannon brushed it off...it was frosting from the cake. She was fine after that.

10/31 Halloween

We had our "Trunk or Treat" at the Church. A smaller turnout than last year. Reagan was a spider, Paiton was an indian, Ashton was a princess, Kayden was a vampire, and Jordan was pajama girl. Madison decided to not dress up. We were home by 6:30, and we had no trick or treaters come to our house...just like last year.