We had to go doctor four of our calves this afternoon, out in the pasture 2 mi from our house. Didn't realize I had my camera along, until we headed home, so these were the only two pics I got! This is Kaylee hanging out the bed of the pickup when we pulled up to the house.

Here are my two oldest cutie bugs peeking out of the pickup and trailer outfit we borrowed for our "vet" project this afternoon.

The many faces of Hopper McGee

I took these today as we were waiting in the van. Hope is really hard to photograph because, if she does smile when you tell her to, she has a cheesy grin that scrunches her face all up, but I managed to catch the progression of a good one today!

That's my girl! Boy did I have to work for that smile, but it was worth the wait! And no, her name is NOT Hopper McGee, but we do call her Hopper sometimes and Hopper McGee just seemed to fit that first expression of hers! :-)

My dear friend Michelle gave my kids this book. It's called The Gingerbread Girl and it's about the gingerbread man's sister that outsmarts the fox!! We absolutely love it and I wanted to post this pic and say "Thanks Michelle!! You are the best!"

I forgot to mention. . . I found my camera a while back. Was without it for a month or so and was absolutely LOST not having it!! So, I'm happy to have it back and have a boat load more pictures to post now!! :-)

I'm sorry y'all! I just figured out how to view all your comments and will start responding! I may not publish any - will see about that, but I just checked and I had 30 comments dating clear back to Jan!! Please keep leaving them! It's great to hear from all of you!! You just have to be patient me - I'm still learning!! :-)

Thursday was Beau's last game. Can't believe how time has flown! He caught 2 pop flies and tagged 2 others out, so he had a great game!

This hit above got him all the way to 2nd with the bases loaded so what do you call that? A double? (Mom doesn't know, she just cheers and hollers for all of it!! ;-)

Now that's some hustle - his feet aren't even touching the ground!

Here he is, right after he caught a pop fly for the final out! I of course was so excited- watching-that I forgot to snap a picture when he was catching it! Can you see his grin though?! :-) It was another fun season!!

We managed to cram 9 of us in this pool - 2 adults and 7 kids and there was still room for diving, headstands and jumping off the ladder! Oh the fun we had down at our friends 8 miles down the road! Thanks again guys! It was so fun and that cool water felt so good on such a hot day!!

I just loved this picture of the kiddos from a night earlier this week. . .

I had the neatest thing happen this morning! I was at the kitchen window when I heard a really strange noise - almost like a baby yelping for help. I was just about to go out and investigate in the trees, where my chickens like to hang out, when I heard it again! Only this time it was more clear . . . "cock-a-doodle-doooo!" One of my roosters was crowing for the very first time!!

That's him above. I was so proud! And soooo excited! And cock-a-doodle-doo doesn't really describe the sound very good, but if I typed "urr, urr, urr, urrooo!" you might not know what I meant! :-)

It was my little red bantam who was supposed to be a hen, so has the unfortunate name of Latifa! But I have to say, even being such a petite little thing, with such a girlie name. . . he knows how to crow! He crowed about 6 times and then hasn't done it since. I can't wait for tomorrow to hear it again! Maybe we will have to call him Lattie or something a little more manly to make it up to him!

The other chicken that Beau named Power-Up, we are pretty sure is a rooster too, but we are still waiting for him to crow! :-)  He's a big one as you can see below. . . and I think he just looks like a guy! (Sorry about it, if you are really a girl, Power-Up!)

Here is Hope holding one of our Rhode Island Red hens. They are so sweet tempered!

 

Here are my 2 baseball guys! Rod is playing semi-pro and Beau is playing Little League. Fun stuff to watch! I don't have my pics yet from Beau's games so will post those as soon as I do!

Beau is the bat boy for the Knights. All the guys think he's a pretty cool kid!