Birthday Girl!

Today is the Birthday Girl's special day! She is a year old! Grandma is having a hard time figuring out where the time has gone! It has been quite a busy and fun year! We started the day out by going to Limon to have lunch with her Mama and Daddy. Before lunch we visited with her Mama's co-workers at Farm Credit. Then went to Ruby's for lunch. We had to make a short stop at Alco. Can't go to Limon without visiting the Alco store!


When we got home she watched a little of the cattle sale on the internet with Grandpa. We decided since it was a nice day we should do one of her favorite things. Take a wagon ride! About half way into our ride, we found Hannah and Gabby's dog food dish. These two silly dogs take a notion to carry their dish off at times. I have even seen one of them carrying it around with dog food in it! Anyway, we decided to pick it up and take it back home.


We also made a trip to the goat barn. We usually don't have baby goats coming at this time of the year. But, several weeks ago a nanny had kids. Hmmm..that shouldn't be happening... After a little more investigating, Tony found about 40 nannies that were going to have kids. Oh.... I'll let you figure out how that happened! The last nanny of this un-scheduled kidding time, it kidding right now! We have 50-60 little baby goats running around. That is in addition to the 35 to 40 kids that were born in January for 4-H projects. I kinda got side tracked, didn't I?


I hear that Tressie's mama has made a cake for us to eat tonight after supper. She will have the "official monster bash" on Saturday.

Happy Birthday sweet baby girl! We love you more all the time!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! I have always liked Valentine's Day. It's a fun day to do a little something extra to let your loved ones know that they are special! When we were little, my sister and I always got a card and maybe a little gift or some candy from our Mom and Dad. We never expected anything big, but it was fun knowing that there would be a "little" something special for the day.

It was especially fun this year with our special little valentine, Tressie! Even though the babe has her second cold of the season, she was having fun.


Here she is "reading" her new Fancy Nancy Valentine book.


And here it's her Dora's Valentine Adventure book.


And this one, her Puppy Love book, she prefers to eat!


She got a set of little Mickey Mouse Clubhouse toys. She is pretty familiar with Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy and Pluto as she watches them every morning while she is eating her breakfast!


Happy Valentine's Day, Tressie! We love you lots!

Cold Morning!

On my last post, I was enjoying the beautiful day of temperatures in the low 70's! This morning, not so much! I am a warm weather girl, and am NOT enjoying these cold temperatures! This morning it is -7 and I am not sure of the wind chill. The Denver tv station is showing wind chill of -25 for Burlington, and -31 for Lamar. I'm sure that we are somewhere in that mix.

This is a picture outside our dining room window this morning at about 7:00 a.m.


We have a fairly large covey of quail hanging around the ranch. I enjoy watching them. However, I feel sorry for them this morning as it is obvious that they are not enjoying the morning temperatures either!



It sounds like we will have warmer temperatures this week-end. Am looking forward to that!

Beautiful Day!

What a beautiful January day in eastern Colorado! Tressie and I decided to get outside for awhile. Her mama and daddy bought her this red wagon for Christmas. She has enjoyed taking rides in it thru Grandma and Grandpa's house.


BUT...it's even more fun outside!


It looks like she is absolutely terrified of Gabby. Really she loves her! She has four golden buddies, Lucy, Lacy, Gabby and Hannah! She loves them all!


I'm pretty sure that this little red wagon will get lots of miles on it come nicer weather!

Tressie, Violet, and Her Pink Pony

For Christmas, Grandpa and I got Tressie a dog named Violet. She has little cushions on her paws that you press, and she plays music, sings and does several different things. You can hook her up to the computer and personalize her greetings, her favorite colors, her favorite foods, etc. Well, Grandma sent it home with Tressie's mama, and she customized Violet. However, the software apparently didn't recognize the name Tressie. So, Tressie's mama had to pick one of the available options. When she greets Tressie, she says, "I love you Rock Star"! Any time she is talking about Tressie, she is refered to as Rock Star! Tressie thinks it's funny!


We also got her a pink pony. She can almost make it go by herself, but her little short legs almost aren't long enough to reach the ground on both sides. Her favorite thing is to press her cheek, and make her play music and whinny. Emily was watching her the other day when she was riding her. When she was ready to get off, she couldn't get her leg over the back of the horse. After several tries, she just gave up and fell off! We will have to work on her dismount before she starts riding the real thing!

The Balloon Has Popped!

In my post a few hours ago, I mentioned that we only had one more nanny to kid and she looked like a balloon ready to pop! Well, Tony just got back from the goat barn, and she is the proud mama of triplets! Pictures to follow on another blog!

Baby Goat Up-Date

This afternoon, Tressie and I ventured down to the goat barn with Grandpa. It has been a busy 10 days! The official count is: 6 sets of triplets, 12 sets of twins, and 7 singles. Most of the first time nannies are having singles. That is a good thing. Sometimes it's all they can do to take care of one, much less two or three! Tressie was content to sit on Grandpa's lap and take it all in.


This nanny was in the barn checking on her kids. She is an exception in the group. She is a first time nanny, and she has a set of twins. Most of the nannies were out in the corral filling their bellies with hay. Most of the kids were sleeping until I got done checking them all out and then they were running all over the barn and playing. Tony has the door to the barn open out into the corral. He has a big board across the bottom so that the nannies can come in and out to feed their babies. The babies can't get out. It won't be long until they will be able to come and go with their mamas, but for now they need to stay in where it is warmer.


Isn't this guy a little cutie! We have two solid brown goats and two solid black goats. Lots of white with red heads, and lots of white with black heads.


This set of triplets are the newest addition to the barn. It's nap time!


We only have one more nanny left to kid. She looks like a balloon about to pop!