All Better!

Okay, so I think I've fixed the picture problem, and it's a good thing because my next post has a ton of photos!  Stay tuned!

A Little Bit Of Trouble

Hello Everyone,
I am having a little bit of trouble with uploading pictures.  I seem to have run out of free space!  So...although I have several posts running around in my head, I guess they will have to wait until I can get this thing fixed!  If any of you have been through this already with your blog, I would love to hear how you solved your picture problem!  Thanks!
-Kelsey

Random Pictures Taken on the Cell Phone

The pictures from this post were all taken from Dad's cell phone.  Several of these pictures we taken using Instagram.  It's kind of a fun program to play around with!

 

This is a picture of Billionaire Bars.  They are delicious!  In fact, as I make my grocery list this week, these ingredients might just end up on it! He, he, he!  

 

 

This picture was taken at the start of our cooler weather.  The four of us kids slept out in our tent in the front yard.  Gram, Pop, Mom and Dad joined us for roasting hot dogs and smores over the fire and it turned out to be a very enjoyable evening!

These pictures were taken at a friend's house during milking time.  They let everyone try milking their cow...at least those of us who wanted to give it a try!

 

Dad

Savannah

Me

 

This picture was taken at one of the markets that we sell at.  Ethan and I sold at this one, while Dad sold at another.  My, how grown up Ethan's getting!  Time flies!

I hope you all enjoyed that collection of photos! 

 I enjoyed looking back through them!

~Jordan & Caleb~

I thought you all might like to "see" an update on Jordan and Caleb and Little Girl Yuck!

Note: For those of you who are new to this blog, Jordan is my oldest sister, who is recently married to Caleb Yuck (pronounced like "Yuke") of Canada!

 

Jordan's pregnancy is going smoothly and we are all getting very excited as the due date approaches!  We can't wait to meet that precious little bundle of love!

 

Caleb and Jordan are thrilled with their newly married life together and are anticipating the arrival of their little blessing from God!  Don't they look so cute!

 

~LOVE~

 

Jordan also came across these pictures from Gram and Pop's trip to Canada this summer.  It looks like they had a lot of fun together!

 

Hope you all enjoyed that glimpse into Jordan and Caleb's life. 

Only a little bit longer until the wee one arrives!

White Unto Harvest Conference

 

This last weekend we attended the National Center for Family Integrated Churches (NCFIC) conference "White Unto Harvest" in the beautiful mountains of Asheville, NC.

 

 This year's topic was on missions, with men such as Paul Washer, Doug Phillips, Scott Brown, and Kevin Swanson coming in to speak.  I believe that this was my favorite conference thus far, maybe because this topic is near and dear to my heart.  It was a wonderful time of fellowship, meeting new families, catching up with old friends, and learning new things.  We always enjoy being around that many like-minded believers!  Not only does it lift ones heart, but it is also a little glimpse of what heaven must be like!  I didn't pull out my camera too much on this trip, but here is a little glimpse....

 

Momma and her boys

Noah, Savannah, me and Ethan

 

 

After the conference ended we spent Sunday afternoon at the local pizza place with the Yuck family and the Redman family!  They are both such sweet families and we thoroughly enjoyed our time with them!

 

If you would like to see more pictures of the conference, visit the NCFIC website at

www.ncfic.org/blog . 

 Note: After a week or so, you may have to look in the October 2012 archives to view the pictures.

The Farm Animals

 

 

Our meat chicken pen

 

We buy Cornish Rock crosses.  This pictures was taken last week and they have doubled in size since then.  We will be butchering them within the next week or so.

 

Meet Malachi, our third generation Great Pyrenees guard dog.  He is so sweet and he does such a good job.  He followed me around the whole time I was taking pictures. 

 

So photogenic!

 

And last but not least...Clancy! 

 

 

Our Goats: The Milkers

This is Cotton.  We bought her last year from the same farm we bought the other Saanens from.  She is our best producer so far.

Sunshine!

Amber, our Alpine milker.

 

After adding all of those goats to our herd, we needed more hay rack space, so we added onto our existing one. 

 

 

Right now we are in the middle of the second breeding season.  Our first babies should start kidding around mid January.  We are looking forward to all those babies!

Our Goats: The Toddlers

This summer we brought home three young Saanens from a farm in Virginia.  The owners brought them halfway to Asheville, NC where we picked them up!  This is a picture of Delaney.  The other two are Doby and Phoebe!

 

Judah...our young Alpine buckling!

 

Liberty, Cherish and Honour...our sweet little girls that we raised!

 

Zoe.

  Zoe is our half Nubian, half Saanen mix that we are trying. 

We are looking forward to seeing how she milks!

 

 Rebekah is the black and Lily is the brown.  Lily was supposed to be a milker this year, but she never got bred.  Oh well, maybe this year!

 

More photos to come!

Our Goats: The New Saanens

I finally got around to posting pictures of our new Saanen does that we bought.  Another dairy farmer that we know was selling his whole herd, so we were blessed to get five of them that were from the same farm and all comfortable with each other.  There were two four years olds, and three two year olds.  They are quite the curious creatures and we are getting quite a kick out of them!

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This is Flower (I believe!) who somehow got the gate of the hay rack opened and jumped in!

This is Albert on the left and Kimee on the right.  Kimee is "the boss"!  Albert is a full blooded Alpine buck who was thrown in on the deal when we bought the five Saanens!  He is a gem!

And he is so funny too!  He has the most expressive eyes and makes the funniest faces!

 

This is Bell...dear sweetheart!

 

This is Sugar....can you tell them apart yet?

 

This is Snowy!  She definitely has a mind of her own! 

I don't quite trust turning my back on this one yet! 

 

More photos to come!

Markets, Church Pictures, and Deer, Oh My!

On the last Saturday in September we attended the Herb Faire and sold our cheese, soaps and lotions.  (Was that already a month ago?!?  Time flies!)  So here are the few pictures that we took of that day! 

 

 

 

These young men are a few of the team players for our church's unofficial football team. 

Ethan and Noah love it!

Mom and Savannah at church...

Look what walked up our driveway a few weeks ago!  We were very surprised to see this deer walk right towards the dairy, stop, eat a little grass and then bound back down the driveway!  Our dog had just finished making his rounds when this deer ventured into the yard!  We took this picture of him from the house, because we didn't want to scare it away.