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| We can't help but be proud of our pretty little princess. Many Aunts and Uncles, including Grandpa and Grandma, can't wait to get a kiss on one of those fat cheeks. :) |
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| Wondering why everyone is singing happy birthday to her.. Not so sure about all this! :) |
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| Devouring her cupcake! :) |
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| Opening gifts.. |
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| Happy Birthday, Kezia! We all love and miss you!! |
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| While everyone is outside on this beautiful, 78 degree, hot, sunny day planting potatoes. I get to sit inside and post a quick post for you all. I can't figure out which I would rather be doing, cause I enjoy them both. I do like to be outside though when it is such a pretty day!! :) They have lots to plant, so I am sure that there will still be some left for me to plant! :) In the mean time, here is a quick post of our butchering last week. Someone gave us some roosters. We kept some of them cause our last roosters found their way to the freezer. They had a terrible time at getting along! Anyway, Mom put the boys to work and with some help from Jenny they got them all butchered. |
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| This is the first time that they did this pretty much all by themselves and it was a good experience for them! |
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| Dad recently got another Jersey cause Milly was going down in milk and we didn't want to have to get her bred back. |
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| It was a very sad thing to think to have to put Millie in the freezer, but sometimes its just what you got to do. She was a very good cow and gave us lots of the best milk for over around 2 years. But it was time to say good bye.... :(( |
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| The guys put her down and did all the skinning. |
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| "Great job, Jesse!!" They hung her up in the shed and we cut the meat off the bone the very next day. |
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| Got our aprons on and ready to work! |
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| Jubilee all ready to help!! :) |
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| We ground most of the meat into hamburger. |
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| Look at this handsome young man ;) |
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| With 9 roosters and close to 400 pounds of meat in the freezer... looks like we are set for a while! :) |
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| Hannah's little bundle is due the 6th of June, so we decided to throw a baby shower for her!! :) Her Mom, Sister Melissa, was also down for a few days. We decided to have it at Hannah's house and it worked great!! |
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| She wanted John Deere and a farm theme, so we went all out on green and yellow. It was a fun shower to put together. Jenny and Micah recently bought a wagon and it worked perfect for putting the gifts in. I wish I would've got a picture of it when it was full. It was pretty much buried in gifts!! :) |
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| This picture got a bit bright, but this is the banner I made. |
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| Around forty people showed up, |
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| ... and we used a onesie instead of a guest book. |
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| We had it at 11:00, so we had to make a full meal for everyone. Jenny left the decorating up to me and she took over doing the food. The main course of the meal was a salad and all the trimmings. |
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| Then we had meat balls, potatoes, stuffed eggs, carrot cupcakes and a fruit salad. We came up with an idea for the drinks and used our old wash tubs that we used years ago. It turned out to be really cute and added to the farm theme. |
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| We played four different games... |
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| Everyone showered her with gifts!! She got lots of nice things!! :) |
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| The shower went very well!! Thankfully!! ;) |
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| Look who got sleepy. :) Showers can be tiring!! :) |
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| We were all finished cleaning up when Micah decided to take Jubilee for a walk. Who knows where they would've ended up if someone hadn't of spotted them!! :) Well that's all for now everyone. Hope you enjoy and have a great week!! |
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| My little brother has turned 18!! Happy Birthday, Justin!! :) |
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| A couple weeks ago he stopped his job in the city and is working for a farmer. He is absolutely loving it! Besides working he loves hunting, volley ball and most of all talking to his girl friend. ;) May God bless you, Bro!! We all love you!! |
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| It hadn't rained here for around 3 months. It hasn't snowed all winter either. Infact this February is supposed to be the hottest February ever recorded here. In many ways it seems as though we just skipped winter.. Let's just say we needed rain!! We decided to start praying for rain. It wasn't long till the storm clouds moved in and it rained solid almost all day. We got 2" and 7 tenths. It was so amazing!! God still answers prayers!! |
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| I went out the next morning and took some pictures. It smelled so good out!! |
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| The clouds were still on the mountain and it was so pretty!! |
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| The next evening we sat down and listened to the Message Brother Branham preached on "Elijah". I have a few quotes here that we wanted to share... They sometimes say, "Brother Branham, how does healing and the miracles and signs and wonders...?" It'll work if you believe. If you'll take God at His Word, it'll produce. God let me live to prove that around the world that that's true. And so will it work tonight in a drought or anything else. If you'll meet God's condition, God will meet you on those same grounds. But you got to come to His conditions. ------------------ Stop all your meanness and everything, and get down on your knees and call out to God and watch what happens. Let the God that answers be God... ...If you people around this area here want an old fashion pouring down rain, you just get down on your knees, and all of you around here start calling out to God with a sincere heart. Burn up everything in your house, take that beer bottles out of the icebox, throw that deck of cards away. Take the children and take off to Sunday school next... And stay in prayer instead of running out and running around, and gadding about the way you do. Get on your knees and start praying, God will send you a rain. That's right, make preparation. |
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| Hope you all are having a wonderful week! :) |
