A very Tiny baby

This little girl was born with her twin brother tonight. The picture just does not show how tiny she is. I am not sure if she will make it yet but Dalton is cuddling with her on the couch. Her brother is out at the barn under the heat lamp with two other new babies. In another hour or so we will go out and and try feeding them for the night. I hate late nights I get so tired. At least we are getting kidding over with. I look forward to the babies but this year the weather has just been so cold. Plus I have been sick so going out four times a night with a fever is not to much fun! We are at (I think) 14 babies.

She is a little droopy

Look at this cute face!

The last of Mom's store.

Look how we found this sign. It was kind of sad.

The fire was so intense. Very, very hot.
It has been very busy here with horrible weather. With many, many trips to the barn we have eleven babies now. They are so cute. The weather is just not cooperating with us. Miserable depressing weather. We worked on a school project my youngest son has to do for school. Hmm... I wonder if teachers have to do homework. It's not hard but it would be nice to to think school at all for a week. Off to bed talk to you soon

Miss Tanisha won two awards one for timekeeping, one for most dedicated and then she won a draw for a massage.

Hockey awards

The pictures were not very clear.

Miss Hyacinth

Dalton

Samuel
All the kids who are still playing minor hockey won awards Nish also did but I have to add her in another frame as this blog only allows me to do four at a time.
It has been very busy here with kidding nine babies now, sickness, hockey, dump trucks, falling trees... Seriously Crazy
I have some great pictures I will add tomorrow as along as time is permitted. Now I am off to bed. My night time visits to the barn can wear a person out.

Hi all just a quick note to say HI! I am off to bed. It may be only 7 pm but I have had it. I went out four times last night with a fever. I am sick. So much for eating bags and bags of oranges... Between Miss Hyacinth and I , I do not know who is more sick. We have five babies now. We are having a heck of a time keeping them warm. even with the sun this afternoon the two Little ones could not cut it. I will touch base tomorrow. Have a great night Wish me lots of sleep!!!

Baby Ice Cube
First baby of 2009. Born at -20 then dropped to -22. She was born at midnight. If you look at her ears they were frozen.
Within five minute she was covered with ice. So she was put a jacket on and brought into the house. She is now with her Mom.
We just had two more born in the ice and snow. Not in the nice warm little house or on all the hay. I think those Moms try to make it as hard as possible. Very difficult bunch of girls. Both ladies who had are Movie Stars and boy do they act like it. So my husband came home to a goat and two doves in the house. I think he is getting used to it. He does not even acknowledge them anymore.
We were at hockey awards last night. All the kids won awards. Nish went up three times. She won two awards ad a prize for an hour. massage. Miss Hyacinth won goalie for junior girls. She was the first won to go up for the night. Then Dalt he won MVP for Bantam house. Sam won ambassador for Atom Development. Tanisha won most dedicated and time keeping award. Then her prize.The coaches said really nice things about all of them. I did feel a bit awkward as I had to go up each time to take photo's. I went up nearly every group. I do believe I went up one of the most:)

These very cool mitts are made by Fresh Isle. She dyes each strand of yarn to make this wonderful water melon pattern. The yarn is from my dear goats. They are unbelievable to wear so soft and warm. On the side of my blog is the link to her web sight / blog. Go check it out. If you knit give her products a try. Amazing!!! I wear these gloves sometimes when I go walking they really are warm. I really hate to mess them though. I think I should frame them.
Our weather is still awful just miserable in fact! I am in need of SPRING. Thank goodness our goats are still waiting. I hope they hold on a litte while longer.
I just walked forty minutes on the treadmill. I am thinking of signing up for a 12km walk. I know I can do it. I have done it before. I think just fear of commitment is stopping me. I will decide this week. Well I must run talk to you all soon.

I have been having computer issues so I have had to skip the odd day blogging. However at the moment we are back in the game. We are having a full weekend of hockey but now it is winding down. Sam could not play as you know because of his stitches. It does look to be healing nicely. He went to Chase to watch and the night before he had a sleep over with his oldest sister. They watched movies until eleven and ate ice cream.

Our weather has been horrible! Snow! Snow! Snow! The roads are so slippery. I had a terrible time with the van sliding sideways not being able to stop other people sliding my way. Very scary. I refuse to drive anymore I parked in a safe spot and waited for my husband to pick me up. Then I came home and I am not leaving until it melts. My poor husband is so sick of us. I know he thought I was being dramatic with the roads. Well that was until he went to leave and he could not get up to the highway slid, spun out did a360 near the edge looking over a drop off at the river. He made it back down and turned around and had to go into to town the other way. My one stayed in town as his truck was sliding all over. Oh my gosh I need spring.
I have just received seventy pairs of 100% sheep's wool socks. Anyone intersted! they are beige in colour. We still have a few Mohair socks. The Mohair socks old quite well. Men really like to wear them for work. Okay I am off to check goats.

Waiting for babies and I hope they hold on for awhile. It is way too cold. We seem to have an never ending supply of winter it will not go away. We have our barn ready, camera on and heat lamp waiting.
Today was a full day of running around. I drove kids to school came home headed back to to town and picked up my daughter. We were to meet the telephone man but he came early. So I stayed and helped Nana put up pictures and put things away.
Tonight Sam is having a sleep over at Nana's. I bet he sleeps with her neither one of them is very brave. When they phoned they were having ice cream and watching a movie. Miss Hyacinths is in Kelowna at a tournament with her Uncle. Sam of course can not play but he is going to watch tomorrow. Dalt is in a tournament here and he is borderline snively. I think he may be getting sick. Jord is in a tournament in Ashcroft. And Nish time keeps and has a game in Logan Lake. However the good side to this is hockey is nearly over!!!!!:) I am happy however kids are not so happy. So now that I have heard from all my kids I am off to bed.

Many Faces

Waiting for Spring

Today Sam stayed home his knee was very sore. It should start to feel better tomorrow or at least I hope it will. He may wrap his leg tomorrow afternoon and try hockey. If he can not do it then he will not go to his tournament. It tried to warm up today but it did not melt the ice too much. In town the wind was bitter.
I do not seem to be accomplishing much lately. The days just seem to blend into one another with nothing great done.

This is Kitty Kitty Black. Look how clever he is

Resting or actually we were trying to trick a goat. We did not trick it she one.

Feeding the baby Alpacas and sheep

Today we went to Kamloops. It was an impulse trip. My husband did not have to work so we thought we would go together. I had to laugh my oldest daughter caught wind we were going so she came along. She loves a trip to Kamloops. My oldest son picked up the other kids from school and brought Sam in for hockey However we did not make it to hockey. Last night Sam ran into the wall. The wall trim with the Mosaic. He cut his leg. Tonight we took him to the doctor and he said he needed stitches. So we met him at the hospital and seven stitches later he is sewn up. Not a good week to have stitches a hand ball tournament and a hockey play off tournament. I guess Sam can decide on Thursday and Friday if he thinks he can play. If he wants to try we will wrap up his knee for him.

This is what happens when a foot of snow meets rain and sun.

Water everywhere, Flooding, Wet animals.

Right after this picture was taken he slipped in. Remember this is not clean water. This is the barn yard!

Today we did chores by six am then we drove into to school. It was raining so hard. After dropping the kids off at their schools I met up with Nana at her new home.They have it quite nice. It really is coming together nicely. We went to find some things they needed. Then we went for a walk. After our walk we came home. Checked the animals no babies. I did some house work while Nana packed up the rest of her stuff. We drove back into town I had a bank meeting. We bought Nana some groceries. While I waited for the kids to get out of the school I parked the van and went for a walk around the track. Not a smart thing to do. The ground is way too soft I sunk.
My son is in Kamloops having an interview for fire fighting. His interview was a t 10:30 am and his beep test is at eight tonight. It is quite stressful. I think he said there is around five hundred and forty interviews and only forty jobs. Pretty tough. I hope he makes it forest fire fighting last year was so good for him. Cross your fingers for him and send him some positive vibes!!!!

Looking for Spring

I am looking for Spring has anyone seen it!

Beautiful Pussy willows there is hope Spring will be found.

Today was a very full day of Hockey all day from 7am until after 6 tonight. It warmed up quite a bit and the last time I looked outside it was raining. It had better improve my babies can arrive any day. On our trips in to town we have been seeing many Eagles. They are so beautiful. Eagles really are an amazing bird. In the morning I hope to get up early do chores before I drive my kids to school. Then I will meet my daughter and we hope to go for a walk around bench. Then I will come home and go back to town for a bank appointment and to buy baking supplies for my daughter. Then pick up kids from school. Tonight I was trying to learn to do Face book by putting pictures up not easy. I actually think it is my computer. My computer is a total jerk. I think the next computer I will not put Norton on. I am having so many hassles. Over all it was a very good weekend very, very busy. I have been throwing around the idea of training for a 1/2 marathon. I would do it with walking. I just do not know if I have the staying power to stick with it or the time. I know I could do it. I just don't know if I could do it in a decent time. I will keep you mind on my decision. So far no one wants to join me. How rude not one child jumped at the offer!!! I will talk to you all tomorrow.

We were looking for the Ogopogo but we did not see it. One day we will.

My daughter is officially moved out. She is staying her second night there. It is kind of hard to believe that we have these grown up kids. Sigh... the time has really gone fast. I am down to three kids home right now. Two are at hockey. One is on route traveling home it will be a long night. We have to be at the arena by 7:30 am the we have two games and one practice. Then one game in the afternoon. At five my husband has a game. I am pretty sure that darn ice should melt soon. I really am sick of the arena. I will head off to bed talk to you all soon.

Anyone for some fun?

Today was a busy sort of day. My husband left somewhere near midnight to one am for work. He only did one load as we were off to Kelowna. Me I drove kids into to town for school came home did chores. Very cold here this morning -23 so no not much snow is being melted. Then we left at 11:45 picked up Sam and a couple of nephews and off. We had grabbed our goalies suit for him to change into. Only to realize wrong pants no shirt no tie. He had laid the wrong ones out. So we went to this new Walmart near Kelowna and bought him and new shirt, tie and pants. I think he watches Don Cherry too much....!!!! You should see the ties he likes :)
We just arrived home so now I am waited for other hockey players to arrive home. They should be here by 11:30pm then off to bed.
No a whole lot is new just a whole lot of running around. Take Care

Having Fun

Enjoying our time up top

Rolling down the hill

We just had our power come back on. It went our about 6:45pm and came back on after nine. It seems to be going out more now than it ever has. Kind of weird. We have an amazing amount of new snow. It is not fun I had to dig out gates, dig out goats and it was down to -15 last time I checked. Very crazy.

I had to go to town to pick up the kids from school. I did manage to get out of hockey. I was not driving home in the dark in a snow storm. Not too much is new just making the days. I did not walk tonight as I had no power. It is just as well my feet hurt so bad. I did sit ups Hmm not too sure what I think of those. Well of to get the day done. Take Care